As much as its heartbreaking to read about @uklabour staffers willing us to lose, it's not at all surprising. From my own (short) experience working for the party during #ge2019 it felt like we were being set up for failure. I worked for @yorkshirelabour, in Sheffield Hallam 1/?

Early on, Regional fobbed off all responsibility for access to campaign tech to National. They were also meant to provide a laptop and phone, which it took them until halfway through the GE to deliver (I started working 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 the GE was announced).

When they arrived the laptop hadn't set up so I wasn't able to log into, and they didn't give me a sim card for the phone.

Luckily I had my own laptop and phone, which I'd been using up until then, and could continue to do so.

It felt particularly galling when, at one point I was called and asked to get a train out to Wakefield to pick up said laptop and phone, only to be told when I arrived that it wasn't actually there, as though a campaign organiser in a marginal seat had nothing better to do.

One evening stood out in particular, around a week before 12th December, as what working with Party officials was like—around 40 volunteers and I had to take refuge in a pub because it was raining so much. We were all entirely sodden, and our leaflets had become paper mache

Even then, with the worst weather to that point, no one wanted to cancel the session and after a warm up the groups went straight back out into the rain.

That same night the permanent staff from the Yorkshire office (except the COU) took themselves out for a curry in Leeds.

How it felt from working alongside some of them, and which as this report makes clear, is that not only did many party staffers not care about winning the election, or how much time and energy our activists devoted trying to win in both of those general elections

But that they were also absolutely willing to actively sabotage our chances to ensure we couldn't.

It's truly abhorrent that those ghouls, who worked tirelessly to ensure we lost, are still being paid comfortable salaries from the labour movement, have made a living out of this

I'm not really sure what the message of this thread was - other than to say that they did nothing to help, and everything to hinder, and are probably laughing as we lie here feeling broken