Labour’s Woodcock pilloried for showing support for Amber Rudd. Where’s HIS resignation?
John Woodcock: He was threatening to quit Labour a short while ago – now he might be leaving with the party’s collective boot up his backside.
John Woodcock is still – allegedly – a Labour MP. But he has been reported to the Parliamentary whips by his own constituency party, apparently over his opposition to party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of the Salisbury poisoning affair.
He has also earned harsh criticism for supporting fellow MP Ruth Smeeth in her unjustified persecution of anti-racism activist Marc Wadsworth with a fake claim of anti-Semitism which shockingly led to Mr Wadsworth being expelled from Labour by the party’s National Constitutional Committee.
Now this:
Amber Rudd has screwed up big time, no question. And there is now clearly a significant question mark over her competence. But Labour has more common ground with her than so many of her potential successors – we should be careful what we wish for.
— Lord Walney (@LordWalney) April 27, 2018
For the record: Labour has no common ground with any member of the Conservative government. Anybody making such a suggestion, even if they are an MP, is acting against the interests of the party. In effect, they are advocating support for political opponents, which is an expulsion offence.
Mr Woodcock’s ill-advised outburst has achieved exactly the response it deserved:
The Labour Party I know & belong to has NO “common ground” with anyone who would preside over, promote, implement or enforce policies which have inflicted inhumane treatment on its citizens, denied them medical treatment, imprisoned them & deported them https://t.co/TtI9jk5Yn0
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) April 28, 2018
What a disgrace of a tweet. Amber Rudd is 300 votes away from a Labour MP which Hastings so desperately needs, we don’t need to be “careful what we wish for” when we say #RuddOut https://t.co/y2k3biAAvy
— Lara McNeill (@lara_eleanor) April 27, 2018
How can labour have more in common with Rudd, which labour are you referring to? Please clarify because I cannot for the life of me see Corbyn's labour having anything in common with a nationalist Xenophobia immigration policy and then lie about it.
— Norrienon no nonsense (@Norrienon) April 27, 2018
https://twitter.com/cutanddried/status/989978973936418816
He has more in common with Rudd than his own party leader! Time to cross the floor Woodcock.
— AngelaKelly (@ARealSocialist) April 28, 2018
https://twitter.com/JamieCanavan/status/990118920169447424
Yup, nailed it. this is how these self identifying 'centrist' extremists facilitate the right. Given the choice, they do this every time.
— Left (@nisoc66555) April 28, 2018
Exactly so. Agree totally. Bugger those who have been deported by this woman & her boss. "It doesn't affect me, just move along nothing to see here!" Sickening.
— NOT VOTING SERIAL LIAR STARMER (@xpressanny) April 28, 2018
All of these people make good points.
But Mr Woodcock remains a Labour MP.
Isn’t it time for the National Executive Committee and NCC to do their job and – if he won’t resign – expel him?
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John Woodcock what a waste of space a true Blairit should be given the boot and de- selected ASAP
Please allow him to continue “mouthing off” and proving how much of a Tory he really is so that the evidence is eventually irrefutable.
Like most right whingers, he is simply judging others by his own standards.
John Woodentop more like! How come he is in the Labour Party if he has views like that? Even some Tories are aghast at Rudd’s behaviour. So Woodentop is so anti-Corbyn that he would sell his soul to the devil rather than accept that big changes are in the way IN and that he will be in the way OUT come Election time.
He should have had the whip removed and been suspended in November 2017 due to sex pest allegations against him that met the threshold to be sent to the NCC for investigation. Kept that 1 quiet amongst his self righteous ranting at JC didn’t he !
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-mp-john-woodcock-facing-12446534
John Woodcock is being investigated for sexual harassment https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-mp-john-woodcock-facing-12446534 .
These ‘new tory-lite centrists’ or whatever they call themselves this week are as difficult to lever out of their bolt-holes as the current tory front bench prove. What is it with the ‘blue’ rosette that imbues these fanatics with such natural contempt and makes them think they have the ‘job’ as right for life as though ordained divinely?