Pam Bromley

Pam Bromley

Pam Bromley is a local councillor in the Whitewell Ward of Rossendale Borough Council who was suspended in April 2018 by the Labour Party after being accused of posting anti-Semitic remarks on social media.

Readmitted

In April 2019, Pam Bromley was readmitted to the Labour Party:

Leaked emails reveal that Corbyn’s team had oversight of Bromley’s case, despite claims that the disciplinary process was free of political interference.

In an email sent on April 4 last year, one Corbyn adviser wrote:

“Agree with the recommendation to suspend and investigate. Considering she does not have elections coming this May, she has a bit more leeway to apologise and make amends.”

However, Bromley did not apologise and told party officials that she used “Jewish as a blanket term of description without any racist connotations”.”

A leaked document obtained by The Sunday Times reveals she also defended the claim May was behind the Manchester bombing, which killed 22 innocent people. She said: “If Theresa May was prepared to use methods as unscrupulous as bribing the Democratic Unionist Party to support her minority government, it proves she is no democrat, so I think those fears were not entirely baseless.”

However, Bromley was readmitted after a disciplinary hearing this year. She has since celebrated the decision and said those who make complaints about anti-semitism should be jailed:

“The vicious thugs who make some of these allegations . . . should be prosecuted,” she wrote last week. “We need to go on the offensive.”

Nor has she stopped making controversial posts. Last week, she said Corbyn’s close ally, Emily Thornberry, would not be an appropriate Labour deputy leader, writing:

“No! She’s a member and promoter of LFI (Labour Friends of Israel).”

Instead, she said it should be the MP Chris Williamson, who was suspended from Labour in February, having said anti-semitism complaints were “positively sinister” and the party was “too apologetic” on the issue.

Bromley would not discuss her suspension but said:

“I’ve been cleared of that now.”

Expelled

The EHRC examined the case of Pam Bromley, a Labour councillor in Rossendale, Lancashire. She made “numerous statements” on Facebook between April 2018 and December 2019 that the EHRC said amounted to “unwanted conduct related to Jewish ethnicity” and “had the effect of harassing Labour Party members”.

On 15 December 2019, she posted on Facebook about Jeremy Corbyn:

“My major criticism of him – his failure to repel the fake accusations of antisemitism in the LP (Labour Party) – may not be repeated as the accusations may probably now magically disappear, now capitalism has got what it wanted.”

Bromley, who had been suspended from the party in April 2018, was expelled by Labour in February 2020.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:EHRC discredits itself again even as it settles with Livingstone and Bromley	blog post	15 September 2023	Editor	Pam Bromley and Ken Livingstone said: “Rather than fighting this case for potentially another year or more, we believe we need to refocus our resources on tackling the Israel lobby’s current efforts to stifle pro-Palestine speech in schools, universities and other sectors.”
Document:The EHRC’s report into Labour antisemitism is the real ‘political interference’	blog post	7 November 2020	Jonathan Cook	It is instructive to compare the certainty with which the EHRC treats Councillor Pam Bromley’s ambiguous remarks as irrefutable proof of antisemitism in Labour with its complete disregard for unmistakably antisemitic comments from Boris Johnson, the man actually running the country. That lack of concern is shared, of course, by the establishment media and Jewish leadership organisations.
Document:The attack on Jeremy Corbyn is baseless – there is nothing to support it in the EHRC report	Article	29 October 2020	Chris Nineham	Jeremy Corbyn has a record of opposing antisemitism and all forms of racism that are second to none. It was in fact precisely his campaigning and principled approach to politics that got him elected as leader of the party in the first place.
Document:The shortcomings of the EHRC Report	Statement	6 November 2020	Jewish Voice for Labour	There are just 12 mentions of Jeremy Corbyn in the EHRC report, of which only two concern actions taken by him. It is reprehensible not to distinguish between actions taken by individuals supportive of Corbyn and those taken by people hostile to him – such an omission leads to the impression that all failings were Corbyn’s responsibility.

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