Tories have raised questions over Labour attitudes after Andrew Gwynne was suspended from the party and sacked as a Health Minister over abusive WhatsApp messages.
It seems he suggested that he hoped a 72-year-old woman would soon be dead after she complained about rubbish collections, and joked about a constituent being “mown down” by a truck.
He is also said to have made sexist comments about Angela Rayner, and racist comments about Diane Abbott – both fellow Labour MPs.
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Whatever the remarks, they seem to have been toxic to Gwynne, at least, because Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook told Sky News they were “completely unacceptable”, despite the fact that he has not even read them.
How does he know? Hearsay?
That’s not a good way to judge anybody’s behaviour. He should have clammed up and kept to the party line that an investigation will happen according to Labour rules.
Meanwhile the Tories are having fun saying the messages show a “rot” within the Labour Party – having conveniently forgotten about the way their own former prime minister, Boris Johnson, deliberately and unforgivably withheld messages he had sent from a mobile phone from the Partygate inquiry.
Pot, kettle, black.
Tory co-chair Nigel Huddleston said Labour MPs had a “clear contempt for pensioners”, and Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart questioned whether other members of the WhatsApp group – called Trigger Me Timbers – had raised any objections.
He wants those who did not – and he said it’s a big group – to face investigation as well.
Did anyone who had received Boris Johnson’s messages face investigation?
Pot, kettle, black.
If the allegations are true, then it is good that Gwynne has been suspended. But we have no need to put up with any sanctimonious comments from the Tories.
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Questions over Labour attitudes after Andrew Gwynne was suspended
Tories have raised questions over Labour attitudes after Andrew Gwynne was suspended from the party and sacked as a Health Minister over abusive WhatsApp messages.
It seems he suggested that he hoped a 72-year-old woman would soon be dead after she complained about rubbish collections, and joked about a constituent being “mown down” by a truck.
He is also said to have made sexist comments about Angela Rayner, and racist comments about Diane Abbott – both fellow Labour MPs.
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Whatever the remarks, they seem to have been toxic to Gwynne, at least, because Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook told Sky News they were “completely unacceptable”, despite the fact that he has not even read them.
How does he know? Hearsay?
That’s not a good way to judge anybody’s behaviour. He should have clammed up and kept to the party line that an investigation will happen according to Labour rules.
Meanwhile the Tories are having fun saying the messages show a “rot” within the Labour Party – having conveniently forgotten about the way their own former prime minister, Boris Johnson, deliberately and unforgivably withheld messages he had sent from a mobile phone from the Partygate inquiry.
Pot, kettle, black.
Tory co-chair Nigel Huddleston said Labour MPs had a “clear contempt for pensioners”, and Shadow Cabinet Office Minister Alex Burghart questioned whether other members of the WhatsApp group – called Trigger Me Timbers – had raised any objections.
He wants those who did not – and he said it’s a big group – to face investigation as well.
Did anyone who had received Boris Johnson’s messages face investigation?
Pot, kettle, black.
If the allegations are true, then it is good that Gwynne has been suspended. But we have no need to put up with any sanctimonious comments from the Tories.
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