Rosena Allin-Khan: she has been instrumental in exposing the Tory government’s Covid-19 failures so of course Labour leader Keir Starmer is penalising her.
And you still think Starmer’s not racist?
(Not you; the above is what you could say to anyone trying to justify this.)
Labour row as two Asian women in shadow cabinet lose advisers.
Rosena Allin-Khan and Preet Gill told they must fundraise for personal aides after Keir Starmer’s reshuffle, as the party grapples with insecure finances. #StarmerOut#FordeReporthttps://t.co/P3ysllhveM
But what happened to Labour’s short money? This is the cash given to Opposition parties in Parliament to help them with their costs. There was an attempt to take it away from Labour (Tories are like that – they try to screw the other side any way they can) but it failed, I thought.
So there should be cash for these two MPs to hire all the help they need.
That’s unless Starmer is using the cash for other purposes. I wonder what they are?
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Sajid Javid (left) and Rosena Allin-Khan (right): he’s the Health Secretary but she’s the doctor. And he’s still got the cheek to lecture her.
Tories never learn, do they?
It comes of being rich, entitled (or so they think) and devastatingly ignorant.
So it should come as no surprise that, after an incident in which failure to wear masks in the House of Commons led to a Covid-19 scare, many Tories have gone back to lounging around the Chamber without masks on (presumably on the basis of the Rees-Mogg principle: that you can’t catch Covid-19 from other people if you know them personally).
And when a Labour MP who is a serving NHS doctor pointed this out and asked when Tory backbenchers would start wearing their masks…
We support the re-introduction of mask wearing, but for it to work effectively, the Prime Minister needs to follow suit. Unless this leadership is shown from the very top – Covid will continue to spread. pic.twitter.com/LtDoFcyuRy
And who was the first person to tell Dr Allin-Khan to watch her tone, again?
Enraging to see @sajidjavid telling a woman MP (@DrRosena – who has worked as a doctor through the pandemic) to watch her tone, as did @MattHancock. I doubt he would have said that to a man. These powerful men do not like being challenged by women. #EverydaySexism
Here’s my full question to the Health Secretary today.
Undoubtedly it made for difficult listening and the hostile response reflects that, but it’s the truth, it’s fair to ask questions and frontline workers need their voices heard. pic.twitter.com/3hZBJT3YFx
Hancock was a useless Health Secretary. He knew nothing about his subject and spent the whole of his tenure handing out fat contracts to friends of the Conservative Party and getting nothing in return while the Covid-19 death toll became the worst in the world.
He was kicked out of office for snogging a former college friend he had nepotistically installed as his adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care – possibly for the purpose of snogging her – in contravention of social distancing requirements.
And Javid? As David Osland states above, he’s an investment banker. In addition to suggesting that Dr Allin-Khan’s tone was wrong, he showed that, like Hancock, he doesn’t know how to keep the UK safe from Covid-19:
This morning Javid couldn't explain why Netherlands managed to hold back 2 plane loads of passengers from S Africa & test them all. Whereas the UK allowed all passengers on even more planes that arrived from SA to travel to their homes by any means of transport, without testing
He’s incompetent and the country is not in a mood to tolerate that right now. He’s on borrowed time.
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Dr Allin-Khan is referring to a letter by Holly Lynch, signed by more than 60 Labour MPs, deploring Priti Patel’s decision to deport more people including, it was said, at least one person who was of the Windrush generation or descended from it.
I've written an urgent letter to the Immigration Minister. There are serious concerns that the injustices of Windrush could be repeated. We've asked for answers to a series of urgent questions. pic.twitter.com/5QDNln0y3U
“As a member of the Labour Shadow Cabinet, my role is to intervene in matters related to mental health (because I am the Shadow Minister for Mental Health). Members of the Shadow Cabinet do not speak in debates, sign letters, sign EDMs or intervene in matters which are not related to their role. This rule has been in place for as long as I know, it was the same when Jeremy Corbyn was leader.
“I have noticed that my name was put on a list along with 12 colleagues, suggesting we were the only people not to sign this letter. No member of the Labour Shadow Cabinet signed the letter, indeed, almost three quarters of Labour MPs didn’t sign the letter. Does that mean that they don’t care? No, of course not. Sometimes they miss the deadline to sign, sometimes they can’t sign, sometimes they make representations in different ways. It’s very disappointing that some would single out me and 12 other colleagues, suggesting we were the only ones not to sign – simply to fit their political agenda.
“My background has seen me work in war torn countries, disaster zones and refugee camps helping the world’s most marginalised and vulnerable people. I always care deeply about these issues and to suggest otherwise is incorrect. I’ll continue to liaise with my colleagues in the Home Affairs team with regards to this, and other important issues.”
My recollection is that Dr Allin-Khan is distorting the issue. Shadow Cabinet members weren’t criticised for being the only Labour MPs not to sign and it seems to me that she was deliberately creating a “straw man” argument with a ready-made response (that other Labour MPs also failed to sign).
As for her claim about Shadow Cabinet members:
Maybe that is true.
Perhaps it should change.
It seems Shadow Cabinet members are using their position to avoid expressing opinions on the most important matters of the day – the actions of the Tory government – abrogating their responsibilities as members of Her Majesty’s Opposition.
Meanwhile they line up to vilify members of their own party when they are accused – falsely, as we learned in the case of Jeremy Corbyn – of breaking party rules that are so badly-written that they can be made to mean whatever the current leader desires.
Isn’t that, you know… wrong?
Some people seem to think so:
“As a Shadow Cabinet member, I wasn't able to sign it…”
Oh, and it seems Shad Cab members like Dr Allin-Khan can’t even face the responses their protests attract:
Cowards in the shadow cabinet now avoiding all accountability by muting replies. These people are living in an amoral bubble, and they know it. All Labour MPs should have signed this, as all should have opposed this legislation. How do they sleep at night? @DrRosenahttps://t.co/IV9BwRLrz7
Meanwhile, Home Secretary Priti Patel has taken the opportunity provided by this failure of opposition to attack critics of the flight, saying it involved the deportation of “vile criminals” and was nothing to do with the Windrush scandal.
In that case, why did the flight contain only 13 people after last-minute legal challenges succeeded in gaining a reprieve for 23 others?
Oh, that’s right. As Ms Patel said, it was all the fault of “do-gooders” and “lefty lawyers”.
She comes across as a bad Scooby-Doo villain, after the mask has come off: “I would have got away with it too, if it hadn’t been for you pesky lefty lawyers!”
Sadly, in her case, the significance of the mask is reversed. In Scooby-Doo it was always a fright mask being replaced by the villain’s rather ordinary face. With Ms Patel, it is the genuine, hate-filled, face that is the horror.
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The health minister who is so stupid she said the November lockdown in England could only have been predicted with a crystal ball has struck again.
There’s a reason we call Nadine Dorries “Mad Nad”.
Over the weekend, the woman widely considered to be the stupidist Tory MP – against stiff competition! – admitted that she did not understand the information being received and used by her own department of government; SAGE had demanded a lockdown in September.
Now she has demonstrated that she does not understand that her government’s failure to get to grips with the Covid crisis in any meaningful way over a period of nearly a year is having a devastating effect on the mental health of people working in the NHS and in the care sector.
Labour MP Doctor Rosena Allin-Khan does – and appealed to Dorries no fewer than eight times to join with her in devising a mental health package that has cross-party support. Dorries rejected it in a manner that belittled not only herself but her entire miserable government:
I asked Nadine Dorries 8 times last night, if she would meet me and work cross-party, to discuss a mental health support package for frontline NHS and Care staff.
Given how many times the Government have asked for cross-party support – her response is completely shocking. pic.twitter.com/RJRWrYsiz8
We have a cabinet full of cocksure, deluded amateurs instead of brains, integrity or expertise. And that’s because the likes of the phenomenally f**king thick Nadine Dorries were taken on in the first place for one reason & one reason alone: their rabid fetish for a hard Brexit. https://t.co/9tyPuN2WhQ
This video actually made me feel a bit sick. @DrRosena trying to arrange a cross party consultation to discuss the best way to support thr #mentalhealth of NHS workers & Nadine Dorries (Minister for Mental Health) playing to the gallery for cheap laughs. https://t.co/yI0N5wFGV2
I say that not because the Johnson government has a huge Parliamentary majority – granted to it by a population that was desperate to resolve the Brexit crisis that the Tories had created and gulled by rabidly right-wing mass media into thinking the Tories were the only party that could provide a solution (which is lunacy, if you think about it for just one moment).
The reason condemnation won’t work on Tories like Dorries can be summed up in a simple, well-known saying:
No sense, no feeling.
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