Starmer picks Evans to step down as Labour general secretary – SKWAWKBOX

Concerns from anonymous voters, large-scale data leak and Evans’ role in cover-up of ‘sadistic and criminal’ abuse of Muslim women are not expected to be an obstacle to nobility

Keir Starmer’s handpicked Labour General Secretary David Evans, who infamously said that “representative democracy should be abolished as much as possible in the party”will step down at Labour’s annual conference this month. Evans was previously an aide to Blair and the owner of a Croydon campaign company that Labour paid, under Evans, to produce reports – Evans gave his share in the company to his wife, Aline Delawa, to “avoid a conflict of interest”. Before taking a controlling stake in the campaign company, Delawa was secretary of the company and also a staffer who ran party selections – with The Campaign Company promoting candidates in those selections.

As general secretary, Evans oversaw a massive data breach in which members’ details were lost in a criminal ‘ransomware’ attack on the company to which he had outsourced membership management. The ‘Anonyvoter’ system, operated by his staff and used by the party during Evans’ tenure, is widely regarded as having been rigged to manipulate candidate selections and other party votes. The party awarded the contract to Anonyvoter without a competitive bidding process. The then deputy leader of Croydon Council, Alison Butler, has a child with Evans. Croydon Council awarded contracts worth almost £200,000 to Evans’ company over four years. None of these concerns deterred Starmer from his determination to impose Evans as general secretary.

Most notoriously – or it would be, if it had not been ignored by the so-called ‘mainstream’ media – Evans and his boss covered up the ‘criminal’ and ‘sadistic’ exploitation and sexual abuse of Muslim victims of domestic abuse by the staffer and alleged lover of a right-wing member of Starmer’s front bench, Khalid Mahmood. The pair repeatedly ignored the attempts of a whistleblower to get them to take action to protect the women. Mahmood, who sacked whistleblower Elaina Cohen, did not challenge the evidence of one of the many victims when she gave evidence at the subsequent and successful employment tribunal for unfair dismissal.

Insiders do not expect this to pose a barrier to Starmer’s appointment of Evans to the Lords, as happened with the previous and equally controversial right-wing general secretary, Iain McNicol.

Evans’ departure does not inspire hope for improvement. In the sick and manipulated Labour machine under Keir Starmer that punishes dissent, even when it involves hungry children, it would be foolish to expect his successor to be different in any meaningfully positive way.

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