Episode #26
The Nadia Whittome MP Interview - Rise with your class and community not above them
On the latest episode of the Labour Left Podcast Bryn Griffiths interviews one of the best of the Labour 2019 intake the Socialist Campaign Group member Nadia Whittome. Veteran Labour Lefties will recognise Nottingham East as the seat where back in 1987 Labour Leader Neil Kinnock prevented Sharon Atkin, who was instrumental in the establishment of the Labour Party Black Sections, from becoming the Labour candidate. When you listen to the podcast you’ll be left in no doubt Nottingham East Labour members got their socialist representative in the end! Nadia entered Parliament in 2019 and she’s already making an impact. Pink News made her Politician of the Year and Diva Magazine’s Unsung Hero of the Year. When Nadia Whittome stood for Labour in 2019 she said “’Rise with your class and community not above them”. Everything she has done since has demonstrated she really meant it. The podcast starts with an assessment of the mood in the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP). As Andy Burnham starts his Labour Party Leadership we ask can we beat Nigel Farage? Continuing the discussion from the last episode with Sandy Martin, the Chair of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform, we consider whether Andy will deliver on his long-term support for proportional representation. The podcast focuses on the issues that Nadia has made her own namely climate change, trans rights in the face of the Supreme Court Ruling and a consistent socialist internationalism that stretches from Gaza to Ukraine. You can watch the podcast on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Substack and listen to it on Spotify. You can even ask Alexa to play the Labour Left Podcast. If your favourite podcast site isn’t listed, just search for the Labour Left Podcast and it should be there. If you enjoy the Nadia Whittome interview, take a look at the Labour Left Podcast back catalogue to hear guests such as Sandy Martin of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform; anti-fascist historian David Renton looking at today’s extreme right; Rachel Shabi explaining the truth about antisemitism; Jeremy Gilbert on Stuart Hall’s analysis of Thatcherism; Bernard Regan, of Palestine Solidarity, on Netanyahu’s genocide; Corinne Fowler talking about Britain’s history of slavery and colonialism; and Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP telling us about the fight against racism in Parliament. If you appreciate what we are doing, please give us a like and a follow. Every comment draws the podcast to a wider potential audience. Please, please, please share it with your friends as it gets the podcast to a wider audience. Bryn Griffiths is an activist in Colchester Labour Party and North Essex World Transformed. He is the Vice-Chair of Momentum and sits on the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy’s Executive. Bryn hosts Labour Hub’s spin off – the Labour Left Podcast. You can find all the episodes of the podcast on You Tube or if you prefer audio platforms (for example Amazon, Audible Spotify, Apple, etc,) go to your favourite podcast provider and just search for the Labour Left Podcast. You can also follow Bryn on Substack just search for Bryn H Griffiths @LabourLeftPodcast.
