Someone has called out Home Secretary Suella Braverman over her “inflammatory language” against British Pakistani men and people who cross the Channel in small boats to seek asylum here.
Professor Tim Wilson has details:
Braverman was scheduled to address the National Conservative conference on the need to cut migration.
It’s a match made in heaven: a xenophobe preaching race hate to the Nat-Cs.
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An MP who was believed to have co-ordinated a series of resignations from Jeremy Corbyn’s shadow cabinet in 2016, in an effort to undermine the then-Labour leader, is now facing disciplinary proceedings under new rules.
The new procedures were brought in by current leader Keir Starmer to make Labour seem more responsive to complaints, after the party was criticised for apparently being unresponsive to allegations of anti-Semitism during Mr Corbyn’s time as leader.
It is ironic, because any lack of response had been shown to be due to foot-dragging by right-wing factionalists at Labour’s head office who were trying to drag Mr Corbyn down. Now the procedures their actions hustled in may bring down a right-wing factionalist.
It was significant because at that time he was one of Mr Corbyn’s Whips – tasked with ensuring party discipline.
Some might say he had been an unsafe choice for Mr Corbyn because he was part of a network of Blairite Labour politicians who had opposed Corbyn’s leadership of the party from the beginning.
Despite his role in the so-called ‘Chicken Coup’, McGinn did not resign for another four months, finally leaving his Corbyn-appointed role in October 2016, after a couple more very odd incidents, as described by This Site at the time:
This is the man who, in an article on PoliticsHome titled I can no longer tolerate Jeremy Corbyn’s hypocrisy, claimed fellow whips had told him the Labour leader had threatened to telephone his father, a former Sinn Fein councillor, over comments made by Mr McGinn (Jr) in an interview.
It very quickly transpired that none of his allegations are substantiated by factual evidence. There is no record of the content of the call he allegedly received from the Whips’ Office and he does not say how “it transpired” that Mr Corbyn was going to phone his dad.
Shortly afterwards, Mr McGinn was embroiled in a row with his own Constituency Labour Party members, after a group of women was excluded from a meeting to discuss a vote of confidence in Mr Corbyn.
It would appear that this group of members had been fed incorrect information about the venue for a CLP meeting; that McGinn and local councillors/delegates had conducted the meeting behind locked doors, and when questioned shrugged off members’ genuine concerns.
But in his report to the police – yes, the police – about the incident, and in a subsequent article on PoliticsHome, it seems Mr McGinn claimed that a group of thugs had ransacked his office and threatened him so severely that he required police protection.
What? I mean, that last claim was bizarre in the extreme.
Details of the allegation against McGinn have not been provided.
As he has lost the Labour whip, he will sit as an Independent MP – although one doubts that he will choose to seat himself next to fellow Independent and former Labour MP… Jeremy Corbyn.
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Dominic Raab: This site once said there was nothing at all behind that vacant smile. Was this inaccurate? Was it hiding a bully?
A third formal complaint about bullying by Dominic Raab has been added to the official investigation, by request of prime minister Rishi Sunak.
It relates to Raab’s behaviour as Brexit secretary in 2018.
Raab denies the allegations and has said he’s looking forward to dealing with the complaints “transparently rather than dealing with anonymous comments in the media”.
But the BBC report of the latest development says the Ministry of Justice, which Raab is now heading, has been “inundated” with complaints of alleged bullying.
These are not being investigated, it seems, because they aren’t “formal” complaints.
Some – like Labour’s Angela Rayner – say restricting the investigation in this way is a “stitch up” that “will fool no one”.
There is an answer to that, which is for everybody who has made informal complaints to formalise them. If they’re worried about further bullying as a result of doing so, perhaps they could group together to form a ‘class action’-style complaint.
Obviously nothing has been proved yet.
But if the allegations are true, then isn’t it in the interests of justice to do everything possible to make sure they are proved?
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It seems Matt Hancock’s bid to be seen as a real person by going on I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here may backfire on him as soon as he gets home.
Residents in his Parliamentary constituency aren’t happy:
And Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards Kathryn Stone reckons she has received dozens of complaints about Hancock’s decision to go to the jungle.
She said she couldn’t investigate because appearing on the show doesn’t breach the Commons Code of Conduct.
But she added: “It raises really important questions about members’ proper activities while they’re supposed to be fulfilling their parliamentary duties and representing their constituents.
“One member of the public contrasted the dignity of veterans on Remembrance Sunday with a former secretary of state… waiting for a buffet of animal genitalia and they wondered what had happened to the dignity of public office.”
So it seems he’ll come back from the rainforest into a storm.
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Sue Gray: she’s the investigator appointed by Boris Johnson. But shouldn’t she actually be investigatED?
After a lockdown-busting drinks party in the garden of 10 Downing Street in May 2020, the cleaners lodged a complaint about the state in which it had been left, it has been revealed.
Worse: according to the iNews report, it is apparently not clear which May 2020 party they were complaining about.
We know there were booze-ups on May 15 and 20 that year. Who knows what other events took place?
With parties known to have been taking place between May 2020 and April 2021 at least – for all we know, they were happening right up until the first revelation last month – it seems entirely possible that the complaint relates to a previously-unreported event.
source told the paper No 10 staff had been unhappy with the state the garden was left in.
“They’d had to clean up the morning after,” the source said. “They weren’t happy.”
But the insider did caution that this may have been after a different social event.
Nothing was said about it in public at the time – even though the entire country was in a lockdown that separated families from their relatives as they died of Covid-19, as has been reported at great length since the revelations started coming out last month.
It seems to This Writer that questions should be asked about why this information – which is important to our understanding of the way the UK is being run – was withheld from the public.
Were these cleaners pressurised to keep quiet about it?
Were there moves within the Downing Street administration to hush it up?
Considering the revelation earlier this week that staff there have been told to erase details of Downing Street parties from their mobile phones – a criminal offence – this seems likely.
It would suggest – strongly – that the people running Downing Street need to be part of Sue Gray’s investigation.
But Sue Gray is a civil servant and one of the people running Downing Street. Doesn’t this show that she is compromised and should investigated, rather than the investigator?
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You’ll be aware that the Tories had been planning to pass private details of your mental and sexual health, criminal records, smoking and drinking habits to profiteers without telling you.
They had created a scam scheme in which they would hand over the medical histories of more than 55 million NHS England patients to profit-making organisations – unless the patients opted out.
But they never actually bothered to tell anybody what they were doing.
Instead, people found out through sites like this one – and kicked up such an outcry that the government announced it was delaying the data upload from the beginning of July to the beginning of September.
Announcing the delay, Health Minister Jo Churchill said ministers would use the extra time to “talk to doctors, patients and charities to strengthen the plan… and ensure data is accessed securely”.
I have no idea whether any of this has actually happened.
The message to Mr Thomas makes it clear that the government hasn’t been talking to patients, despite the assurance that it would.
It also suggests very strongly that whatever the government has been doing, it has made a liar of Ms Churchill.
So the action taken by his GP practice to opt all patients out seems entirely appropriate and I would urge anybody in England who has not received any communication about the plan from the government to contact your own GP practice and ask for it to do the same.
It’s what I’d be doing if I lived in England.
Friendly advice: This is important. Do it now – and don’t rely on anyone else to do it for you.
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This is a victory for social media campaigners like This Site.
The Tories had been planning to pass private details of your mental and sexual health, criminal records, smoking and drinking habits to profiteers without telling you.
They had created a scam scheme in which they would hand over the medical histories of more than 55 million NHS England patients to profit-making organisations – unless the patients opted out.
But they never actually bothered to tell anybody what they were doing.
I mean: if you’re in England, did you see the national advertising campaign on TV, the social media and in the newspapers? Did you catch the news spots with NHS and government representatives debating it with some of the many organisations who oppose it?
I didn’t think so.
Yet Health Minister Jo Churchill, announcing the “delay” in Parliament, had the bare-faced cheek to say the government was “absolutely determined to take people with us”.
The impression I get is that hardly anybody knew a single thing about it until Vox Political – along with a few other social media organisations – publicised it on June 2.
By then, less than three weeks were left before the original June 23 deadline for opting out.
So it was risible when Churchill told Parliament “patients own their own data”.
If that’s an admission that the Tories don’t own patient data, then why have they been trying to sell it ever since they formed their government in 2010? Isn’t that, you know, theft?
The good news is that This Site’s article – and those of the other social media sites that took an interest – caught the public interest and the government had to step back.
The Tories wouldn’t have announced this delay if they had not received significant resistance to their plan.
And the really good news is that the delay means more people can opt out of the scheme.
You can do this by providing this online form to your GP – or by using this website. I strongly urge you to do so.
Be sure to enjoy the “mythbusting” section of the website in which the Tories say it’s all perfectly innocent. And then ignore it.
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Remember when This Site told you complaints to the DWP about the company the Tory government hired to assess claimants’ eligibility for certain benefits had multiplied nearly 15 times since 2013?
Well, it turns out that if you complain to the Independent Case Examiner (ICE) about the DWP or any organisation working for it, you’ll be waiting more than a year.
In response to a parliamentary question last week, the Tory government admitted:
“In the first six months of 2019 (January to June 2019) it took the Independent Case Examiner’s Office an average of: 59 weeks to commence an investigation (from the point at which the complaint was accepted for examination); and 23 weeks to complete an investigation (from the point at which it was allocated to an investigation case manager).”
So you’ll be waiting a year and a half for compensation that totals a maximum of £200.
Did you ever get the impression that somebody wants you to think it isn’t worth bothering?
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