Warren Morgan - LABOUR
Hove Park and Westdene
Warren Morgan, formerly a Labour Cllr for the East Brighton ward in Kemptown CLP. He left Labour in 2019 to stand as a candidate for Change UK but lost his election bid. He's since returned to Labour and is now trying his hand in Hove where his antics are less well known.
- Warren Morgan, a student supporter/member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was eventually convinced to join the Labour Party in 1993 by Tom Watson, his long-time friend and predecessor as president of Hull University Students’ Union.
- In the Blair years, he climbed the greasy pole working as an MP and then being elected a councillor in the safe seat of East Brighton from 2003, before quickly giving up his job as a call-handler with Sussex Police.
- His three years as leader of Brighton and Hove City Council included a proposal to increase council tax by 67% for the 15,000 poorest households in the city. Under pressure from anti-poverty campaigners, he relented and increased it by only 33%!
- Morgan – along with Kyle - was a prominent member of Progress, the Blairite “party within a party” funded by billionaire Lord Sainsbury, founder of the SDP.
- Morgan had to apologise for libelling a party member, who was Jewish, as a “Holocaust-denier”. In 2017, he even threatened to ban Labour from holding conferences in Brighton amid fabricated claims of anti-Semitism.
- Eventually, in February 2019, Morgan showed his true colours and quit the Labour Party, to become an “independent” councillor, supporting another ex-Labour, anti-Corbyn “independent” candidate – against his former Labour Party colleagues in East Brighton - in the city council elections.
- Soon afterwards, he joined the short-lived Change UK Party to stand in the European Elections in May 2019.
- Now back in Labour he has been imposed on Westdene and Hove Park.
Morgan has got to make a living somehow
Hove Park and Westdene
Warren Morgan, formerly a Labour Cllr for the East Brighton ward in Kemptown CLP. He left Labour in 2019 to stand as a candidate for Change UK but lost his election bid. He's since returned to Labour and is now trying his hand in Hove where his antics are less well known.
- Warren Morgan, a student supporter/member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was eventually convinced to join the Labour Party in 1993 by Tom Watson, his long-time friend and predecessor as president of Hull University Students’ Union.
- In the Blair years, he climbed the greasy pole working as an MP and then being elected a councillor in the safe seat of East Brighton from 2003, before quickly giving up his job as a call-handler with Sussex Police.
- His three years as leader of Brighton and Hove City Council included a proposal to increase council tax by 67% for the 15,000 poorest households in the city. Under pressure from anti-poverty campaigners, he relented and increased it by only 33%!
- Morgan – along with Kyle - was a prominent member of Progress, the Blairite “party within a party” funded by billionaire Lord Sainsbury, founder of the SDP.
- Morgan had to apologise for libelling a party member, who was Jewish, as a “Holocaust-denier”. In 2017, he even threatened to ban Labour from holding conferences in Brighton amid fabricated claims of anti-Semitism.
- Eventually, in February 2019, Morgan showed his true colours and quit the Labour Party, to become an “independent” councillor, supporting another ex-Labour, anti-Corbyn “independent” candidate – against his former Labour Party colleagues in East Brighton - in the city council elections.
- Soon afterwards, he joined the short-lived Change UK Party to stand in the European Elections in May 2019.
- Now back in Labour he has been imposed on Westdene and Hove Park.
Morgan has got to make a living somehow
Hove Park and Westdene
Warren Morgan, formerly a Labour Cllr for the East Brighton ward in Kemptown CLP. He left Labour in 2019 to stand as a candidate for Change UK but lost his election bid. He's since returned to Labour and is now trying his hand in Hove where his antics are less well known.
- Warren Morgan, a student supporter/member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), was eventually convinced to join the Labour Party in 1993 by Tom Watson, his long-time friend and predecessor as president of Hull University Students’ Union.
- In the Blair years, he climbed the greasy pole working as an MP and then being elected a councillor in the safe seat of East Brighton from 2003, before quickly giving up his job as a call-handler with Sussex Police.
- His three years as leader of Brighton and Hove City Council included a proposal to increase council tax by 67% for the 15,000 poorest households in the city. Under pressure from anti-poverty campaigners, he relented and increased it by only 33%!
- Morgan – along with Kyle - was a prominent member of Progress, the Blairite “party within a party” funded by billionaire Lord Sainsbury, founder of the SDP.
- Morgan had to apologise for libelling a party member, who was Jewish, as a “Holocaust-denier”. In 2017, he even threatened to ban Labour from holding conferences in Brighton amid fabricated claims of anti-Semitism.
- Eventually, in February 2019, Morgan showed his true colours and quit the Labour Party, to become an “independent” councillor, supporting another ex-Labour, anti-Corbyn “independent” candidate – against his former Labour Party colleagues in East Brighton - in the city council elections.
- Soon afterwards, he joined the short-lived Change UK Party to stand in the European Elections in May 2019.
- Now back in Labour he has been imposed on Westdene and Hove Park.
Morgan has got to make a living somehow
Julie Cattell - Labour
WESTBOURNE & POET'S CORNER
Julie Cattell was formerly a Labour Councillor for Preston Park in Pavilion CLP. She lost her seat in 2019. Now trying her hand in Hove where her previous antics are less well known. A picture says a thousand words.
- Elected in May 2015, as one of two Labour councillors in her home ward of Preston Park (in Brighton Pavilion)
- As director of her own planning consultancy, Cllr Cattell raised eyebrows by being appointed chair of the council’s planning committee. She finally resigned her directorship when her company was dissolved in in May 2016.
- By then, Cllr Cattell was an unhinged anti-Corbyn activist who initiated and propagated fake allegations of “antisemitism”.
- For such reasons, Cattell became a footnote in Labour Party history. Or rather, in the leaked Labour report of March 2020. In the report, she was named as one of eight supporters of the self-styled "Labour Against Anti-Semitism" who coordinated to make multiple, similarly-worded complaints against party members they targeted.
- Since then, she has been found guilty of using an antisemitic trope when targeting Jewish members in her own branch – for which she received only a slap on the wrist and a “reminder” of Labour values.
- Having lost her seat in 2019 – a defeat she did not take well (hence the infamous photograph of her sticking her tongue out at the election count) – she has been imposed in Westbourne and Poets’ Corner, a safe Labour ward.
Cattell is currently suing the the Labour Party she hopes to represent