I used to live in Chingford and late parents used to know Tebbit. IDS was his election agent. I am amazed that Faiza has got the majority down so low in a natural Tory seat on the edge of Epping Forest. It is by sheer hard work and personality. She should not be robbed of standing for Labour this time now able to win, probably by miles.

Seeing a politician genuinely dejected because they can't deliver change is so hard to see. After years of money grabbing lobbyists being our country's representation I wish we could have the more genuine folk like her. I hope she finds her place in politics. She's left a very good impression

this woman's removal is frankly terrifying. what is it that starmer plans that he fears her causing problems? i can only assume its extremely shady stuff, particularly with all his loyalists he's put in place

The fact the interviewer has to ask her about other socialists in the party, and that she was told off for talking about corporate greed in the Labour Party shows just how far from any semblance of a party that represents the working class it has drifted.

After experiencing the same treatment and having had similar feelings I fully support you Faiza. I was only a minor officer and had been a member for 50 years. I felt so hurt and abused. My solace was that I hadn`t done anything wrong and that I was in company with so many others. I cried for days at the injustice of it all and the way my appeal was just blocked. They didn`t even acknowledge my registered post. I guess it just went in the bin.

She's been slapped by the dross of what was the labour party. Go Independent. Or be questioned 'why follow a genocider' you are that party.

After the callous, cowardly, illegal way that Dr Fazia Shaheen was treated, we in Chingford BEG her to stand as an Independent so we can all vote for her come 4th July. When Sir Keir/ NEC discarded Fazia, in actual fact they are discarding us and the CHOICE we made through vote - in 2018 and 2022. We were volunteers - hundreds of us - in 2019. We saw how effective Fazia was at the doorstep with her fierce intelligence, her solid knowledge of local issues, her empathy, her warmth. Fazia was also courageous (consistent) when she chose to stand for Chingford, the seat where she lived (lives) and grew up... She would have been aware that the odds were HUGE: Chingford had been sort of "hijacked" by the mediocre IDS for decades and by the "nice' man IDS had replaced: Norman Tebbit. Huge odds or nor, Fazia chose this Tory Chingford/ Woodford Green seat and through relentless, passionate work day after day after day (I witnessed it, being a volunteer) nearly ousted IDS in December 2019, short of 1,262 votes. After Dr Shaheen' s deselection on Wednesday 29 May, "Sir" Iain must be smiling from ear to ear, relieved and looking forward to winning by a great deal more than just 1,262 votes! Dr Shaheen must run as an Independent. Our CHOICE - in 2018 and in 2022 - must be honoured and she must represent us, rather than some female Brent councillor we don't know or voted for in proper 'trigger ballots' carried out in 2022. This woman - whoever she may be - was parachuted and IMPOSED on us forcefully by Sir Keir and his clique at the NEC. This is NOT accepable. Dr Shaheen must stand as an Independent and finish what we in Chingford started in 2019. Period.

As someone from Scotland, with some falling standards from the SNP and looking for an alternative, this just cements it in place for me that Labour, under Keir Stamer will never be a party I can trust. All of his policies reak of David Cameron and this is the final straw. Id trust a shaky SNP over a labour whos forgotten who the stand for.

She should stand as an Independent

Nice reporting Joe! This lady Deserves the light of truth! Shame on you Keir! You don't deserve leadership if this is a example of your labour!!!!????

A decent person, who has been treated terribly by despicable people.

Hearing Faiza so articulately speak in interviews and given her area of expertise, she should be at the top of the Labour party not thrown aside! Disgraceful from Labour. One of the reasons I've quit the party is this callous behaviour. I hope she does well in whatever life brings her next.

Labour Party is not a nice place to be in, my wife found that out with death threat from ex councillor Jim Crabtree, being assaulted by another councillor in a meeting then senior Wirral cllrs choose to say thy seen nothing, then loads of made up documents saying she stole money from a charity nothing was stolen after police investigation. The Merseyside police wouldn’t investigate the people who made false documents to do with the investigation, then Wirral cllr made a kangaroo court blaming my wife for bullying the same people who said she stole money who had keys to the charities office nd when the documents where changed my wife had had a heart attack and was in hospital 🤷🏼‍♂️, The icing on cake she was named in frank fields resignation letter who was an absolute bully, then was suspended in 2022 when she was in intensive and final kicked out the party in 2023or early 24. But since she stopped being in the Labour Party health is 100% better 👍🏻

Faiza must stand as an independent ..

And Luke Akehurst and his tweets have parachuted him in. Labour party are the pits

This is my daughters constituency and I'm convinced there's something at play here behind closed doors . It's like labour have deliberately blown their chances of getting rid of IDS who is a truly horrible and awful man .

Nothing she said was anti-Semitic. Israel cannot and does not represent all Jewish people. Like any powerful western government, Israel has lobbying groups in allied countries. This isn't unusual or weird. If people refer to an Israel lobby they are, unless there's other reasons to suspect them, making a factual statement. It's as simple as that. Labour Friends of Israel is a very active group with plenty of Labour MPs signed up to it. The idea that their active subscription to a group that openly and actively supports Israel is totally irrelevant to their stance on Israel is moronic and borders on gaslighting. "Yes we like and support this country. Yes we are part of professional organisations that exist to push for that nation. But you're not allowed to ever suggest that that's actually the case. Because... it's anti-Semitism!"

Your constituents want you to stand. Whether its for labour, greens or as an independant. Dont deny them the right to vote for someone that lives there and is a valuable member of their community

I'm voting Green or Lib Dems over this nonsense. Kier is preventing freedom-of-speach in a party which is supposed to advocate it.

Don't give Labour a big majority. In Labour lib dem battle sits, vote lib democracy or green..

Unless we get lobbyists out of our government we will never have a democracy which represents the needs of the working class voters.

This is what worries me about Labour.. I don’t want the Tories in power but I’m struggling to see any difference between the Tories and Labour now.. Labour have been acting in a very shady manner.. Forcing people I like out of the party and purging the left. Then welcoming far right politicians in.. They cannot be trusted.. They do not represent the true values of Labour what so ever.. In my constituency I have to vote Labour as it’s a massive Tory majority here.. But il be doing so begrudgingly and in the hope that things possibly change from being quite so toxic once they are in power.. Which I doubt..

Labour really shooting themselves in the foot on this. An intelligent, articulate, principled woman that is embedded in her community and would be a massive asset for a Labour government. Madness.

Every single former labour candidate that has been disgarded by Kier like Faiza, Diane and Jeremy should band together with Andrew Feinstein and hold some kind of unified campaign. Not as a party necessarily, but as independents who are trying to highlight what is wrong with politics and how we can work together to reform it.

Faiza you had my vote last time, and if you go independent I'll support you again, go for it sis.

It's so sad what's happened to all the people who fought so hard under the real Labour Party. I have voted Labour all my life but will be voting independent this election.

My heart goes out to Faiza, who has done nothing wrong, and certainly nothing to justify her last-minute deselection as an electoral candidate for Labour. She is a stonkingly good candidate and the reasons for her deselection had everything to do with factionalism, racism and Islamophobia, and nothing to do with any lack of ability or integrity on her part. But perhaps in the long term this may turn out to be a better situation for her, bitter though her disappointment must be for her. Labour is no longer a 'Broad Church.' Under Starmer Labour has become a centre-right party, not a progressive party. Both before and especailly since the brief period under Corbyn's leadership, there has been a concerted effort to turn Labour into a centre-right party, a push coming both from within the more right-wing factions of Labour, and from various vested commercial interests outside the party. This push is for the party to both accept and to embrace the Neoliberal (Free Market Capitalist) economic system which every government since Thatcher has followed seemingy wihout question. This effort has meant that the left within Labour needed to be either squeezed out, or encouraged to leave, or sidelined, demoted or deselected. This process has been ruthless, unfair, cruel and blatantly factional. The 'genius' (according to the instigators) of this plan is that the British electorate remain almost universally unaware of what's really going on. Faiza is a victim of this relentless push to ensure that the UK remains a Neoliberal economy. As a more progressive candidate, she was always going to do her best to combat Neoliberalism, and the ever rising levels of inequality and poverty which result in adhering to the Neoliberal agenda. If Faiza did decide to run as an independent candidate, I suspect she'd get a lot of support from her local community. But I can understand that this could be a daunting prospect, without the support and backing of a major political party. I wonder if it's only a matter of time before the likes of John McDonnell, RLB, Barry Gardiner, Dawn Butler, Clive Lewis and Zarah Sultana are also expelled or deselected. In Faiza's position I would seriously consider joining the Green Party, regardless of her decision.

She must stand as an independent socialist

I mean I wasn’t voting Labour anyway after Starmer broke every pledge and outed himself as a right-wing authoritarian, they are a disgrace.

Support ' we deserve better' if you can . They are raising funding for decent independents like Faiza.

Zara Sultana is next…….

I as a70yr old Brit socialist, am Angry, I grew up believing, That as, a citizen of a Nation, who was born and bred, by and for that, Nations Benefit, I earned the title Citizen once I joined, the Tax paying public, I was ever told as a young man back in the 70's you haven't earned enough tax credits, you can't get State relief, I excepted that , But NOW this is just billionaires, wanting us under their RULE,

My heart goes out to Dr. Shaheen and her young family. I hope she runs independently and has built some alliances here in the USA with like-minded politicians. Our politics are currently in the same depraved space.

Had the people in the Labour Party supported the Corbyn Project instead of conspiring to stab them in the heart we would be in a very different place. I am done with Labour for ever, and only hope the unions stand up confront the leadership and bring them to task.

Thanks for keeping us updated! I feel sympathy and empathy for our country. low income people are suffering to survive, and I appreciate Deborah. You've helped my family with your advice. imagine investing $30,000 and receiving $95,460 after 28 days of trading.

It comes to something, doesn't it, when Sir Keith Stalin's New Labour WMD v2.0 Party would rather keep IDS as the constituency MP over Ms Shaheen.

They are terrified of you. You would be more powerful as an independent.

Go independent

Could Faiza join the Green party? Imagine how brilliant that would be for showing that there is a genuine democratic alternative... I worry that independents will split the vote, when we need a united left coalition

Faiza it isnt the labour party , be independent and fight for the causes of people in communitues , thats the idea politicians should be doing , starmer isnt getting my vote ✌️

I feel so awful for Faiza. I had a similar experience for the company I was working with. Worked really hard. Once the company started doing really well, I was let go. It was not really explained why. Later I found out the individual who had taken my job was the owner’s nephew!

She is still so fearful of them a what they might do. So traumatised.

This doesn't feel much like a labour party more like a "Tory lite" party, I'm really starting to not like Kier Starmer

Musn't offend the gammonry with left-wing, brown candidates......

israel was apparently such a good idea we decided to allow them to run our country too.

What is the problem with liking a tweet/video clip that talks about Israeli lobby? Books have been written about it. The shutting down of anything anti Israel is getting ridiculous.

The positioning of the book: “Know Your Place” Faiza and the left within the Labour Party have definitely been told where their place is.

We are with you

This is the exact frustration we have with the Democrats in the States. We want progressive candidates, not centrists.

Some Starmer supporters don't seem to like it if you politely and respectfully disagree with them in KZfaq's comments section. I've found that some of them get rather aggressive and use insults and capital letters - like Trump supporters. I'm not sure if that is representative of Starmer supporters in general or if they are just random thugs looking for a cause? Corbyn / Momentum supporters used to get flak for being crazies, but I don't remember them being aggressive like that. My local Labour MP has also just been replaced by a non local parachuted candidate from head office. I will be voting Green as this replacement is not local and I don't know who they are. Also, I want proportional representation, and my understanding is that Starmer won't allow it even though his party members do. I also don't like this purging business and have concerns over Starmer's moral consistency.

I voted Green in the Norwich Local and Norfolk County Council Elections, they got in. Letting that Tory Dover MP into the Labour party sums up Starmer. You do not have to vote for the Labour party!!! You can change the system. Vote Green. Brits Start the Ball Rolling.❎❎❎❎❎

The people of her constituency want her. They elected her. This just shows how much the Labour Party cares about ordinary people and democracy.

I think Faiza would have been a viable leadership challenger to Keir and was deselected because of it

Faiza should run as an independent. She should also take the Labour Party and Kieth to court. Will never ever vote Labour, utterly disgraceful party.

I find it absolutely disgusting what they have done I left the labour party when they got rid of Jeremy Corbyn I will never ever work for labour again I do condemn them for they are doing

AS A LIFLONG LABOUR VOTER, I WONT BE VOTING LABOUR IN THIS ELECTION CYCLE... THANKS KIER FOR SPOILING MY BALLOT...

Know your place. Now she knows it's not in the Labour Party 😂😂😂

Keir starmer is taking advice from Peter maddison Alistair Campbell and Tony Blair

I do not get it, blaming a Jewish person for Israeli government actions is called antisemitic, but criticizing Israel is also called antisemitic because it endangering every Jewish person safety! Which one it is then?

she's brown and nice. not the combination required for UK politics these days.

What the new labour centrists do in labour's good name should always be called out. Its exaclty this behaviour that have allowed us all to tippy toe away from our core values toward those other sorts of values none of us wanted.

I resigned for Labour after Starmer sacked Rebecca Long Bailey from his shadow cabinet on spurious grounds in 2020 and many genuine Socialists quit the party or have been purged since that period. Traditional Labour supporters see the party a right wing neoliberal party and won’t vote for them, the Independents and the Greens will get their votes. Stand as an Independent Candidate !

Unless you’re an independent or a non-corporate party member you ain’t “left.” Get out while you can save face.

Why the shock!? - How cant these people see what has been happening for the last 6 years!?? i.e. Forde Report

Starmer is throwing this away. He's trying to get the tory vote but is losing the core voters like myself. Im thinking more and more of the lib dems

Faiza is spot on in saying she'll rock the boat, and that's why she's been blocked. Starmer fears anyone who has the potential to inspire people away from his top-down efforts

Which means I was correct in saying Starmer would continue with tory policies.

This is evidence that nothing will actually change under a new Labour government. Starmer doesn't need candidates who have links to local neighbourhoods, who represent people they actually know, who understand the needs of their communities. He needs party functionaries who will not move away from the authodoxy or question his authority. More of the same then...he might as well select Ian Duncan bloody Smith!

There will be a fair few Liebour candidates who wont be working so hard if they're thinking 'it may be me next'.

We need PR and for Labour socialists and centrists to form their own parties.

It's about time for a new socialist party that is a straight replacement for Starmer's mess. There are enough ex-Labour politicians knocking about who are angry enough to go along with it, I suspect.

Thank you so much for this video. It was very beneficial. Keep up the Great Work! Much appreciated!

Labour is losing the plot at this point. Starmer is not the leader this party needed.

I have lost all faith ins Labour. The treatment of Faiza Shaheen is deplorable.

In order to stop a backbench rebellion Keir starmer is kicking out all the socialis and left ring members of his party

Keir Starmer is the pits. He'll make a dreadful PM. I really feel bad for Faiza xx

Labour isn't Labour anymore... The Workers Party of GB will win more seats due to the Labour Party's inability to represent the people.

No sympathy for her she ousted a very good candidate in Bilal Mamhood who gained 15% on the conservatives in 2017. He did all the hard work.

Same way they treated Dian Abbott, l dont trust that Angel Rainier ether

She is unlikely to stand under own steam.

we don't want any anti semitism in the Labour Party. so faiza should stand as independent.

Labour is the party of change Labour into the tory Party.

Love the "Know Your Place" book in the background 😂

I'm trying to get clear on what she did "wrong". Opposing Israeli policy?

Should stand for the greens and lose her deposit

The labour is doomed 😳

all the partys wil do the same

i like how we only see faiza in the video, it makes it completely about her, which what this moment is for.

I don't want the Tories in again, but I just can't vote for Labour this time. Starmer is indeed purging the left. Blue Labour born again. It's so sad.

Electoral reform would allow more diversity of political parties. It's obvious there should be a progressive left-wing party in this country. In a country with proportional representation that's what would happen.

Still not quite as insane as US politics, but damn this “Labour party” sounds shit

Faiza is a credible woman. But I support keir starmer on his decision to ban her from standing. Party discipline is important.

I don't agree with Faiza's politics, or indeed I was not happy about certain events that occurred in the past, but to give it to her, she did work hard for position and she is cleaver. I hope this is not the end for politics for her. Great interview by the way.

Health versus psychopathy

Any members, councillors etc went through exactly the same thing up and down the country.

LABOUR IS NEW TORY. VOTE FOR GREEN PARTY .

Advanced strategy: If you want to stand for a political party, its probably best not to publicly post negative things about them. Crazy huh.

I once saw this lady be very rude to Jack Straw on Newsnight purely for pronouncing her name incorrectly. The hatred and resentment towards him was awful to witness. It’s kind of satisfactory to see her humbled on the very same show (check KZfaq video) On that show, she mentioned her baby five times. She’s not the first person to be working whilst having a child - keep it professional. And playing the race card too - all the usual victim mentality tropes. Perhaps she’s just not good enough rather than being a ‘strong voice’ or being bullied as she thinks she is. She made a mistake and should accept the responsibility. No doubt she would be trying to get someone else cancelled for doing what she did if it suited her agenda. Furthermore, what’s a ‘par’y’? What’s ‘fightin’? Who is Ian Duncan ‘Smiff’? I would want someone who can act with grace and be able to speak articulately representing me. She has this snide, snarky way of speaking - an MP needs to be professional and have gravitas. She is definitely not the person.

Labour are now where the tories were, right of centre.

Wishing you all the Very best Faiza. Keep up the good fight ✌️❤️