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Sultana makes a new statement responding to the allegations against her (bsky.app)

submitted 4 weeks ago by flamingos@feddit.uk to c/uk_politics@feddit.uk

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Over the last 24 hours, a number of false and defamatory statements have been published about me concerning the launch of Your Party’s membership portal.

The portal was properly launched in accordance with the party’s roadmap.

At no point was members’ data misused or put at risk.

All funds received from members were ringfenced and protected in the appropriate manner.

These baseless attacks on my character are politically-motivated and I intend to hold to account those responsible for making them.

To that end, I have this evening instructed specialist defamation lawyers.

To avoid prejudicing or complicating any future legal process, I will not be making any further comment about this matter at this time.

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[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

There is no real membership yet. Paid membership is still in the pipeline. You need a structure. Rules. When you procure a membership system it has to respect privacy and provide the required functionality.

You cannot just grab any system. Is it even safe.

It's also vague what sexism she is referring to. If there are 6 men and 1 woman and she feels her views should weigh 50% because she is a woman, that's not sexism, that's using sexism to further her agenda. In another breath, she complained about power in the hands of JCs allies, such a Karie Murphy. She's complaining about women (her) not getting a say, but Karie shouldn't because her being a woman is irrelevant because she's a JC ally.

It seems you have taken every word she said is in good faith, and none of JCs and the other 5 MPs are. It's a skewed perspective.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Sultana may have lacked authorization. But 20000+ members were defiantly valid in thinking that is what they signed up to.

Any court would side with them. So refusing to consider them members would be f*&^ing dangerous to the progress of this party.

[–] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If the DD hasn't come out, the membership isn't active. 20k people have been mislead and scammed to sign up to an unofficial system. Over 600k people signed up, many because of JC, if 20k got duped, it doesn't mean anything in terms of legality. You haven't even seen the terms, so you're speculating in a way that catastrophises this.

It's pretty clear you dislike JC and anything that could make him look bad is true to you. If it helps you feel better, OK, but it's irrelevant to the 600k people that are keen for a left party that they can call home.

[–] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 0 points 3 weeks ago

The membership was paid by card not DD.

And came out. Maybe actually find the facts before expressing an opinion.