6. The ‘Black’ Vote

This episode is POWER-PACKED with a compelling range of voices about WHY Black British voters are saying they will Not give Labour their vote on the 4th July Polling day for the General Election. You’ll hear from a range of Black British voters, and a former aspiring Labour parliamentary candidate who was blocked from standing in 2019 for apparently being ‘far left’) – all of whom are disgusted with the few weeks’ events. Also I went on the road to a Black Voter registration event and spoke to a co-founder of Operation Black Vote, and the chairman of the Windrush National Organisation. Black British voters usually vote Labour in their droves, right? Well NOT for this Election it might seem. How does TTWP know that? Because the treatment of Diane Abbott has caused many to turn their back on the party. Leading Black authors, celebrities and influencers wrote a letter to the party calling her treatment 'disgraceful'). The impact of the way Sir Keir Starmer and the party on Black voters' allegiances has warranted little or no investigation by many mainstream news outlets. So we decided to do the work for them. HUGE THANKS TO ALL THE VOTERS WHO SENT IN VOICE NOTES WHICH ARE INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE TTWP POD APPRECIATES YOU! FURTHER READING Operation Black Vote: https://www.obv.org.uk/ Black Equity Organisation : https://blackequityorg.com/ Windrush National Organisation: https://windrushnationalorganisation.com/ Bishop Des Jadoo: https://www.desjaddoo.org.uk/ Open letter to Labour signed by 100 Black : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/leading-black-figures-criticise-labour-diane-abbott Maurice McLeod's November 2022 comment piece in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/01/blocked-standing-labour-mp-party-candidates-left Who is Al Carns, Labour candidate for Birmingham Selly Oak constituency: https://www.forces.net/politics/former-royal-marines-colonel-quits-military-stand-labour-candidate-general-election ELECTORAL COMMISSION DATA ON ETHNIC MINORITY VOTE in 2019 GENERAL ELECTION https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/ge2019-how-did-demographics-affect-the-result/ DIANE ABBOTT https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott FAIZA SHAHEEN https://twitter.com/faizashaheen REGISTER TO VOTE https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote Do your research on all the party manifestos which are being released soon https://www.conservatives.com/ https://labour.org.uk/ https://www.libdems.org.uk/ https://greenparty.org.uk/ https://workerspartybritain.org/ https://www.reformparty.uk/ https://www.trueandfairparty.uk/ LOWER INCOME VOTE: https://www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/news-and-media/latest-news/who-do-the-working-classes-vote-for Lower income voters https://www.johnsmithcentre.com/research/briefing-low-income-voters-the-2019-general-election-and-the-future-of-british-politics/