Labour’s anti-racism talk looks very thin when black women councillors are pushed out and Starmer’s family ends up on the safe-seat slate. Right, so here we are with another set of local elections coming up and as sure as night follows day, we have a classic Starmerroid candidate rigging story, only this one is a biggie, which is probably why all the mainstream media are too busy slapping Zack Polanski over a retweet to notice. Two sitting black women councillors in Bensham Manor ward, Croydon, Eunice O’Dame and Enid Mollyneux, have been blocked from standing again, local members are saying the selection was not properly conducted, and the new Labour slate includes a young lady called Ellie Sandover, who just happens to be Keir Starmer’s niece. Labour’s hierarchy of racism meets nepotism now it seems as Labour’s selection process has now produced an outcome where black women are out, Starmer’s family is in, and the party that never stops talking about standards, anti-racism and clean politics now really needs to answer some questions about all of this, though obviously they’ll just say everything was conducted properly, even though ordinary members have said otherwise. Very normal. Very democratic. Absolutely nothing to see, provided you have recently misplaced your eyesight and all sense of political smell. Bensham Manor is not some hopeless paper candidacy where Labour just throws anyone on the ballot for the sake of it either, this is considered one of the safest Labour wards in all of Croydon.