Warburton: he’s accused of sexual improprieties and drug abuse – as apparently suggested by this image (although what the white lines really were has yet to be determined).
I wouldn’t want to cast suspicion on a person who has been admitted to hospital, allegedly suffering from stress.
That’s what we’re being told about David Warburton, after he was suspended from the Parliamentary Conservative Party amid a torrent of allegations about inappropriate sexual behaviour and cocaine abuse:
On Sunday, he was admitted to hospital suffering from “severe shock and stress”, according to his wife Harriet, who is also his office manager.
Government whips … have told the MP to stay away from Westminster while the investigation is ongoing, although they have no power to ban him from the parliamentary estate.
But isn’t that exactly what a person accused of such offences might do, if he was trying to curry sympathy?
We mustn’t pre-judge – especially not with Warburton’s Somerton and Frome constituency being a key battleground in next months local government elections, with elections for every seat on the county council.
No, we mustn’t pre-judge.
But we can ask why we were told he’s gone into hospital. He could have simply stepped back from politics until the investigation was completed – whether in hospital or not. Why tell us this?
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Photographic evidence? Suspended Tory MP David Warburton is pictured next to what appears to be lines of cocaine. If all is as it seems, he could be in serious trouble.
Did the people of Somerton and Frome elect a sex-crazed drugs beast to be their MP?
Well, we don’t know yet because an investigation has yet to happen.
Here’s what we’re all hearing, though:
David Warburton… is understood to be facing allegations from three women, while a photo has emerged of the MP allegedly sitting alongside lines of cocaine. The picture of Warburton… is said to date from February. It is claimed it was taken at the home of a younger woman who he met through politics.
Accusations from two other women have been handed to the new parliamentary harassment watchdog, the Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS). A spokesperson on behalf of the whips’ office said: “David Warburton MP has had the Conservative party whip removed while the investigation is ongoing.”
Warburton, 56, is a married father of two and former businessman. It is alleged … that he asked for the drug to be purchased, before saying the price was “quite good actually”. The woman involved claimed she had been drunk, but began to feel uncomfortable about being alone with the MP as she became less intoxicated. She said that she retreated to her bedroom, but that he climbed into bed with her, naked.
She said she did not ask him to leave or push him away because she was fearful about how he might react. She said she gave repeated warnings that she did not want to have sex with him, but alleged that he ground his body against her and groped her breasts. The woman is said not to have made a complaint to the police or any other authority, saying she wanted to forget about the incident.
The MP has previously condemned the exploitation of young people involved in the drugs trade, including the “intimidation, violence and criminal incentives” involved.
It must be remembered that these are only allegations.
If they turn out to be accurate, though, we may be looking at another by-election to replace a disgraced Tory.
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Russian connection: while we’re panning David Cameron for his shameless exploitation of the food banks whose use exploded under his premiership, let’s remember that he was also a close friend of Vladimir Putin’s Russian government.
The politician most closely associated with the surge in UK foodbank use has actually had the nerve to fanfare his volunteer work in one.
David Cameron’s harsh anti-social policies pushed foodbank use up by 2,612 per cent while he was prime minister.
No wonder people rushed to condemn his ill-advised attempt at self-publicity:
Foodbank use went up 2,612% while David Cameron was Prime Minister.
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You may remember that Keir Starmer ordered members of the Labour Party’s Socialist Campaign Group of MPs to withdraw their names from a Stop the War Coalition statement on the Russia-Ukraine crisis that criticised Nato – in the late afternoon of February 24.
It seems that, while the decision to threaten them with the loss of the Labour whip was his, the idea came from former Conservative MP David Gauke – as former Labour MP Chris Williamson has highlighted:
Just seen this tweet from Tory MP David Gauke. It seems Sir Keir Starmer is even closer to the Tories than I realised and is taking instructions directly from the Conservative Party.@UKLabour is finished, there really is no basis to be a member or to vote for this party. https://t.co/ZxhwIpKw4e
Check the time on it: 3.51pm. Around an hour and a half later, right-wing columnist Dan Hodges tweeted to say that the Labour whips had done exactly as Gauke had suggested:
Understand the Labour chief whip has written to those Labour MPs who signed the Stop The War letter on the Ukraine, instructing them to withdraw their names.
Confirmation came from LabourList an hour after that:
11 Labour MPs pull their signatures from a Stop the War statement criticising NATO after being urged to do so by the chief whip: https://t.co/1HLN5xYOCB
So it seems Mr Williamson is right and Labour leader Keir Starmer takes orders from Tories. This could devastate Labour’s credibility with voters.
Gauke has tried to distance himself from the revelation – and insulted Mr Williamson in the process by saying Labour was becoming respectable again. The response is scathing:
My apologies David, I meant to say 'former' Tory MP.
However, I'm not sure an endorsement by a prominent Conservative will persuade many erstwhile and current Labour supporters about @UKLabour's "respectability".
We are days away from a by-election in Erdington, Birmingham, where Labour has struggled to attract campaigners while the left-wing candidate, Dave Nellist, has enjoyed huge support on the streets.
How will this damning revelation affect public opinion and – more importantly – the vote?
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Let’s be clear about something. Jimmy Carr’s joke about the Nazi Holocaust against gypsies (as he calls them in the video) is not okay. In a previous article I discussed how it presented the deaths of many thousands of people as acceptable; indeed, desirable.
He also told it in a show that’s available at a time when the UK government is preparing to pass a new law that will persecute the GRT (Gypsy/Roma/Traveller) community in ways similar to some of the measures imposed on them in Nazi Germany.
In 1930s Germany, Hitler ramped up already-existing anti-gypsy laws to establish the pre-supposition that they were a “nuisance”, that they were criminal by their nature (so it follows that the authorities were allowed to assume they were criminals without them actually having to commit a crime), and that they should be moved on from encampments that were considered to cause a disturbance to the rest of the German population (in Hitler’s Germany, they were moved on into concentration camps where they were murdered in a holocaust that was every bit as brutal as the attempted genocide of the Jews).
Boris Johnson has been stealing policies from Hitler, it seems.
Then I quoted someone else, who said:
Previously, police could take action against Gypsies and Travellers if they had done something wrong. They had to have “caused damage to the land or to property on the land or used threatening, abusive or insulting words”.
Alternately, they could take action if they had six or more vehicles on the land. But the new bill allows police to take action if they have just one vehicle.
And they do not need to have done anything at all. The police officer just needs to suspect that significant damage or disruption “is likely to be caused”.
Similarly, if they suspect that “significant distress… as a result of offensive conduct” – defined as “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour” – is likely to be caused, they can also take action.
In other words: You do not actually need to have done anything. All that is required is that the police *suspect* you will do something.
If the police do suspect this, they can “seize and remove any relevant property”. This includes the vehicle. But for these communities, it is not just a vehicle. It is their home.
Put yourself in these people’s place. At a time when they are facing the possibility that the police will confiscate everything they own, if an officer doesn’t like the way they look, here’s a popular comedian saying the attempted genocide of all their race is a “positive”.
It doesn’t make a difference whether it was only meant in jest. There’s many a true word spoken that way, as the saying goes, and there are people in the world who will accept what Carr said, simply because he’s the one who said it; people laugh at comedians’ jokes because they agree with the sentiment behind them.
I read an attempt to justify Carr that said if we put a stop to jokes like this, we should stop horror or war movies, because they show characters doing vile things, or Nazis. But the whole point of those films is to present the horrific or Nazi characters as abhorrent – not sympathetic. So the argument falls flat.
And obviously there’s the disparity between the fact that he felt fine talking about the gypsy (in fact, the Roma/Sinti) Holocaust in a way that he would never refer to the Jewish Holocaust. The simple fact is that it is unacceptable to talk about any Holocaust in that way.
And yet, here come Carr’s celebrity friends to support him. This one – the first I saw – was particularly shocking for me, considering who it is. The response is entirely appropriate, I think:
How hard is it? If your aunty said something blatently racist, you would say "Come on, aunty. That's not right", wouldn't you? Why can't you say the same to your friends?
— CrémantCommunarde #Breakthrough 🌍 🧡🌤 (@0Calamity) February 6, 2022
This makes it worse:
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I really can’t believe this – she might be clever but this really quite disturbing pic.twitter.com/rgA2dw5hP3
— ℹ️ Not The Torygraph 💙 #SaveOurNHS #ScrapNHSBill (@TweetForTheMany) February 5, 2022
That’s right. Victoria Coren Mitchell said she would have defended Carr if he had made a joke defending the murder of Jews in the Holocaust because “it’s not about the joke”.
Would she be saying that if someone who wasn’t a blue-tick celebrity and a personal friend of hers had told that joke? I doubt it. I can’t be sure but it seems unlikely. No doubt someone will trawl through her Twitter feed and find out if she’s being a hypocrite or not.
So, taking this in line with Rachel Riley’s response to the show in which Carr told his joke, there seems to be a clear message coming from the blue-tick crusaders: Supporting the Holocaust is fine as long as it’s done by one of their friends.
Or – tying in with current developments in politics: It’s one rule for us, and no rules for them.
I should add that Ms Coren Mitchell and Riley aren’t the only ones who’ve supported Carr. If you visit the Twitter feeds of the usual anti-Semitism crusader mob, I’m reliably informed that they’ve come out for him as well.
In contrast, though, there’s this:
I’m deleting a tweet from 2010 which could be disrespectful to the GRT community.
I’ve always believed anti-racism is a process. I’ve made many mistakes in the past and will no doubt make more. But I’ll continue to try my best to support communities under attack and fight racism
The Twitter user who brought this to my attention pointed out the fact that Mr Schneider had been able to search his own history at leisure, in stark contrast to those of us of the Left (and/or who supported Jeremy Corbyn when he was Labour leader), who have had their social media postings pored over in excruciating detail over the past six years or so, by people trying to find anything even remotely objectionable. From personal experience, I can confirm that this happens.
“Shows who has been doing the witch hunting,” they said.
It is a valid point. But…
Yes, and I've said I applaud it, and I do. It's never easy to admit you've made a mistake.
(For the record: the comment about David Baddiel in my tweet was not entirely accurate and I corrected it later on the thread. That said, while he deplored the joke, he still spoke in support of Carr as a personal friend. I’m not sure how he can reconcile that friendship with the fact that Carr told a joke that he himself has decried as “cruel and inhumane and mean-spirited and racist”. It seems these people are tying themselves in knots to justify their association with someone capable of such behaviour. But I digress.)
The bottom line?
People who haven’t said anything close to being as bad as Carr’s joke have suffered serious disruption to their lives and careers because blue-tick celebrities like those named above have denounced them. Again, I refer to personal interference.
If the same people suddenly want to give a free pass to someone who has actually said something genuinely appalling, then they need to start issuing apologies to everyone they have wronged by supporting the false accusations.
Sadly, I don’t see that happening, because: one rule for us – no rules for them.
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All by herself: Tory Anna Firth has won the Southend West Parliamentary seat that was left vacant after David Amess was killed. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party did not contest the seat.
Another Conservative has been voted in as MP for Southend West, after the fatal stabbing of former incumbent David Amess.
The previous MP was fatally stabbed during a constituency surgery on October 15. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, of Kentish Town in London, is to stand trial for his murder next month.
It wasn’t much of a contest. With Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party not contesting the seat because of the way it fell vacant, Anna Firth won with 12,792 votes.
But only 24 per cent of the electorate bothered to turn out for it and the second most popular thing to do with ballot papers was to spoil them with messages of disgust with Boris Johnson.
According to PA Media, one stated: “Boris do a Brexit – get out”, while another said: “Get Boris out”.
But Firth – a Johnson loyalist – said she would not take those messages back to Westminster with her. Instead – in an early display of ignorance – she said she would “focus on local priorities”.
Weren’t those anti-Boris messages a display of local priorities, then? It seems this new Tory is just more of the same – an ignorant rich kid who will ignore anything she doesn’t want to see.
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Laughing at us: Boris Johnson grinned inanely and bobbed about on his bench while MPs attacked his contempt for the rules and denials of guilt.
What an apocalyptic performance.
Prime Minister’s Questions could hardly have gone worse for Boris Johnson. It is hard to tell which moment was more damaging for him.
Was it this, in which senior Tory MP – and himself a former leadership contender – David Davis quoted (among others) Oliver Cromwell?
I was one of many to comment on it…
The @DavidDavisMP intervention changes everything. People have been saying the Tories don't have anyone with whom to replace @BorisJohnson so won't replace him, but this suggests that the grandees don't care and just want him out. #PMQs#PoliticsLive
Alternatively, was the tipping-point this moment, in which Johnson himself laughed at criticisms of his rule-breaking?
I had something to say about this as well:
It's a sharp contrast to last week's show of contrition, with @BorisJohnson smirking, pulling faces and bobbing about on his bench like a naughty schoolboy. Does he not know how bad it looks when he has been caught rule-breaking – like a naughty schoolboy? #PMQs#PoliticsLive
And now we’re all waiting to see if Graham Brady, chairman of the Tory backbench 1922 Committee, will come out and say he’s received enough ‘no confidence’ letters to trigger a leadership challenge against Johnson.
After today’s performance it seems that, for many of us – Tories and Opposition alike – that moment can’t come soon enough.
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Political influence: Christine Lee has been donating money to the Conservatives for many years, and has been seen with David Cameron (pictured), Theresa May and Boris Johnson.
Remember this sideshow from last week?
Iain Duncan Smith tells the Commons that Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has written to MPs saying the Speaker "has been contacted by MI5 and is warning MPs there has been an agent of the Chinese government acting here in Parliament, working with an MP, to subvert the processes here"
The claim was that Christine Lee had been influencing Labour MP Barry Gardiner with donations, while her son was working in his office – but Mr Gardiner swiftly and efficiently killed the allegation:
NEW: Barry Gardiner says he's been liaising with British intelligence "for a number of years about Christine Lee"
He says he took steps to ensure Lee had no role in appointing or managing staff she funded
So all the donations were legitimate, MI5 knew about Lee and was kept informed about her by Mr Gardiner’s office, and there is no evidence to suggest that her son had anything to do with the matter.
MI5 appears to have confirmed this:
MI5 ‘have known for years’ about Christine Lee. Are the establishment distracting the public from Boris Johnson? The Establishment take us ALL for foolshttps://t.co/1tXxKDvIBZ
— Dorset Eye (Independent Citizen Community Media) (@dorset_eye) January 13, 2022
MI5 must have known about Christine Lee for years. Any reason why it only issued a security alert today?
Times has corker of a tale about Chinese "agent" named by MI5 and Patel, Christine Lee, gave £65,000 to Tories after being a fund raiser with Johnson. Tories did not record Chinese "gift" says Times
And it's not "antisemitic", because Zionists are using #BeijingBarry to describe Barry Gardiner.
Unlike Gardiner, Starmer hasn't just employed the son of a foreign spy in his office. He's employed an actual foreign spy. From Israel.
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸 (@WarmongerHodges) January 15, 2022
So we see that a tactic intended to smear the Labour Party with allegations of corruption and possible treason, to distract from the Downing Street parties scandal, has backfired in Boris Johnson’s face – and now it is his Tories who must face the same claims.
I look forward to seeing them explain their way out of this one.
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Janus Lammy: January is named after the famous two-faced god, but now it’s been suggested that the month should be renamed Lammy, after the Labour MP.
This Site has praised David Lammy in the past – particularly over his defence of the Windrush generation of UK citizens the Tories tried to deny and deport.
But his latest outburst deserves no support at all. It shows that he is a two-faced fairweather friend who says only what he thinks will help him. We already have a Boris Johnson for that kind of behaviour – and it belongs in the Tory Party, not Labour.
'I so wish Bernie (Grant, former Labour MP) had been alive to see his great friend Jeremy Corbyn become leader of the Labour party'
Now David Lammy apologises for nominating Corbyn. There’s a reason the public don’t trust politicians. pic.twitter.com/SCDdtW2YQr
Lammy sucked up to Corbyn when he was leader, just as much as he sucks up to Starmer now. The kind of fair weather friend you want nowhere near you in a foxhole.
And commenters have been quick to point out the flaws in Lammy’s behaviour:
January is named after Janus, the two faced Greek and Roman god. I think to better reflect modern Britain, that month should be renamed Lammy. Happy to support a petition to do that! pic.twitter.com/xgDDOTQtZB
Every time I have a half-thought about voting Labour to stick it to Johnson et al, someone like Lammy comes along to remind me they're all the same bunch of slimy opportunists
I’ve mentioned the possibility that the voters of Tottenham will turn their collective back on Lammy, now he has revealed himself to be untrustworthy. It doesn’t stop there:
Time for all #TradeUnions to turn their back on Labour. With the latest spite spewed out by Jewish News and David Lammy, nobody can say that they aren't enabling hate or trying to divide us. Please stop funding the hate.
Black British media need to be asking Lammy what he is doing to get the Forde inquiry on anti-black racism in Labour published instead of distancing himself from JC a politician that was widely popular in the Black community!
I hope he gets exactly what he deserves from the public, which is nothing – ever again.
I certainly hope his decision to betray Jeremy Corbyn in such an underhand way harms Labour’s electoral chances with Starmer as party leader.
And I absolutely hope that it helps prod the wider party membership to wake up and demand representatives who stand for genuine Labour Party values as laid out by the party’s founders, rather than for their own selfishness.
What can I say? I’m an optimist.
I know there are figures in the mass media that will continue to provide Lammy with a platform, while – I believe the word is “cancelling” – his critics. Consider The Guardian and the way it has refused to allow any mention of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s opposition of Israeli apartheid in order to present him as a wholly praiseworthy figure.
(Strange that opposition to apartheid is now frowned upon by the UK media that tries so hard to present itself as reasonable.)
The responsibility, as it has always been, is personal.
It is up to all of us to remember that Lammy is not worth our time, and to switch him off or block him out. He has nothing to say that anyone could possibly want to hear.
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A question that needs to be asked is: How does #Eton convince its pupils, no matter how incompetent and useless, that they are up to holding the highest offices in the land and, worse still, that holding those offices is their birthright? pic.twitter.com/jSJHHrBMF8
• about fires than fireman • law than 11 Supreme Court judges • about trading across the EU frontier than people who do it • about viral control than epidemiologists.
— Suffolk 🔶 🇪🇺 #FBPE #BrexitHasFailed (@TimInSuffolk) December 22, 2021
Educated at Eton! Now do you understand where his loyalties sit? This man is a Tory! An Eton education provides the key to every 'seat of power' even in the clergy! https://t.co/luGOf29MPc
In 2021, quite a few footballers and ex-footballers showed more moral courage and moral clarity than, say, most church leaders, politicians, cricketers, actors or journalists
In 2021, former pupils of Eton brought disaster and disgrace on this country
It would be fair to say that Eton produces high-flyers who are both arrogant and ignorant, and only ever gain positions of power because of the Old Boy Network.
Maybe once it educated genuinely great and good people. But even that is debatable. And those days – if they ever existed – are long gone.
As a private school, providing education to those who can pay its exorbitant fees, Eton does not take the most intelligent people; it takes those whose parents have the most money.
Teachers there may do their best to implant an education into this stony ground but the evidence suggests that the best way Eton equips its alumni for success is by allowing them to say they were “Eton-educated”, even though (in some cases), it would have been more rewarding to educate a brick. It would do less damage, even if it were used only to break windows.
Former Eton pupils help each other into the plum jobs and deny those jobs to more deserving people who went to other schools.
And that’s why the United Kingdom has flushed itself down the toilet.
The quality of the education provided may be excellent. I don’t think anybody is denying it.
But if Eton’s current owners and staff really want to maintain their school’s reputation, that is being trashed by former pupils including Boris Johnson, David Cameron, Jacob Rees-Mogg and, yes, Justin Welby, there’s something they need potential pupils to do before they take any money:
An intelligence test.
Of course, it’s possible that Eton does actually get potential pupils to take such a test.
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