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Commons Speaker should resign after hypocrisy over Diane Abbott

Diane Abbott: the latest insult against her has been delivered by Parliament itself.

Prime Minister’s Questions this week (Wednesday, March 13, 2024) was unsurprisingly dominated by one issue: the racist comments by the Conservative Party’s biggest donor – Frank Hester – against a black, female member of Parliament who is currently under suspension from the Labour Party – Diane Abbott.

Questioner after questioner was called to discuss Hester’s transgression with Rishi Sunak, with one notable exception – Diane Abbott.

According to Sky News, she stood up no fewer than 46 times:

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Watch this compilation video, which shows Ms Abbott – in an eye-catching red coat at the back of the Opposition benches – standing in the hope of catching Speaker Lyndsay Hoyle’s attention, so that she could take part in the discussion of her own safety… and being ignored, every time. I include Colin Patton’s remark so you can read it:

Did Hoyle and the others staining the House of Commons think nobody would notice this extreme – and extended – act of disrespect to a woman who has already suffered enough disrespect over this issue – and more disrespect, simply because she is a black, female MP, than everybody else in the building put together?

If they did, they were wrong:

What a shame that Ms Abbott did not follow the example of former MP Bernadette Devlin, in similar circumstances:

Ms Abbott’s response was more dignified:

The decision to ignore Parliamentary tradition has led to an obvious demand – here presented by possibly the most visible person able to make it. Looking at Ms Abbott’s comment, it is entirely possible that she supports this:

Lyndsay Hoyle has, of course, ignored Parliamentary traditions and conventions before. I refer specifically to the moment he allowed a Labour amendment to the SNP’s motion for a ceasefire in Gaza to be discussed, in breach of convention, saying it was because MPs had received threats (I’ve never understood how allowing the Labour amendment that favours Israel negated the alleged threat from “Islamists”).

He said – well, hear it for yourself:

Isn’t it odd that, the other time, he said he was “looking after members”, whereas this time he  was deliberately disrespecting one of them?

Stephen Flynn, Westminster leader of the SNP, said as much in a TV interview after PMQs finished – and echoed calls for Hoyle to be removed:

It’s the hypocrisy that leads This Writer to agree that it is time for Hoyle to go. He has disgraced the Speaker’s Chair, and the office of the Speaker, once too often.

(He won’t, of course, because these people have no shame.)

What’s the result? Well, there’s this on the Tory side of the story:

Worse – and you’re forgiven if you didn’t think that was possible – is Labour’s response, which is to try to make a bit of money off of it, despite the fact that Ms Abbott’s membership of the Parliamentary Labour Party has been suspended for nearly a year:

Here is what This Writer considers to be an almost supernaturally reasonable response to this wave of hypocrisy from the Labour Party:

(Pamela Fitzpatrick is, by the way, standing as an Independent candidate in the currently Labour-held constituency of Harrow West. If you live there, please support her with your vote.)

And in case anybody has forgotten what kind of person she is, let’s give the last word to Ms Abbott’s long-term left-wing Labour colleague – and former party leader – Jeremy Corbyn:


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Ceasefire motion fiasco triggers calls for Commons Speaker to be removed

Blood on his hands: if Keir Starmer really interfered in Parliamentary procedure to water down the SNP’s Gaza ceasefire motion, then people may justifiably be concerned that he has prolonged Israel’s genocide.

If Lyndsay Hoyle really did think he was safeguarding his job as Commons Speaker by allowing Labour’s amendment to the SNP’s ceasefire motion to be debated, he’s thinking twice now.

After he allowed the amendment onto the agenda, in defiance of convention and against the advice of his clerk…

… it was suggested that he had been blackmailed into taking it by Keir Starmer (possibly via his chief of staff, Sue Gray), with a threat that he would not be re-elected as Speaker after the general election if he didn’t toe the line:

Hoyle denied being pressured by anybody from the Labour Party.

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Instead, after holding meetings with representatives from all sides of the House of Commons, Hoyle came up with a fantastical story that he had been presented with “frightening” threats to MPs’ safety.

He said he

“never, ever wanted to go through a situation where I pick up a phone to find a friend of whatever side has been murdered by a terrorist”.

He added: “I also don’t want another attack on this House. I was in the chair on that day. I have seen, I have witnessed.

“I won’t share the details but the details of the things that have been brought to me are absolutely frightening on all members of this House, on all sides. I have a duty of care and I say that and if my mistake is looking after members, I am guilty. I am guilty because… I have a duty of care that I will carry out to protect people. It is the protection that led me to make a wrong decision.”

Do you believe that? Tom Smith, who runs Another Angry Voice, doesn’t.

He wrote:

Here’s just some of the stuff that’s wrong with this absurd Starmerite narrative that Hoyle had to bin parliamentary procedure and side with Starmer in order to protect MPs from potential harm.

Labour MPs bragged to their mates in the media that they made Hoyle do what he did by threatening his position as speaker.

Hoyle himself stated that he was doing it for ‘procedural reasons’, rather than for the safety of MPs.

The implication that MPs lives would be in danger were they to have debated a motion that referenced Israeli “collective punishment” of Palestinian civilians rather than one that didn’t is downright absurd.

It’s beyond depraved to invoke the horrific killings of MPs by a far-right extremist (Jo Cox) and an Islamist terrorist (David Amess) to portray overwhelmingly peaceful Palestinian solidarity campaigners as a threat to the safety of politicians.

Citing potential terrorist violence in order to rip up established procedures sets an extremely dangerous precedent that clearly incentivises violent threats against MPs from people who expect they can influence political processes through threats and intimidation.

MPs have a long proven track record of fabricating threats and abuse.

MPs centring themselves as the primary victims in all of this is utterly obscene.

I agree with him.

At the time of writing, 67 MPs – mostly from the Conservative Party and the SNP – have signed a motion of ‘no confidence’ in the Speaker.

He should resign; he made a terrible mistake – possibly under pressure from the Labour leadership – and now he has tried to justify himself in a way that is not credible.

And then there is Keir Starmer’s role in this.

If he did pressurise the Speaker – in any way – then he has disgraced his position, the Labour Party, Parliament and the UK (because this was a debate about this country’s role in international affairs).

In such circumstances, he certainly would not deserve to become a prime minister of the UK. Until the questions about this fiasco are answered in full, he should not be allowed the opportunity.


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​Tory minister quit as he ‘couldn’t afford mortgage hike’. How does he think WE feel?

George Freeman MP: has it not occurred to him that, if he can’t make ends meet because of high mortgage interest rates, people on lower pay might be in an even worse situation?

Can anything demonstrate how out-of-touch the Tories in government are, as well as this?

A senior Tory MP has admitted resigning from Government because he couldn’t afford a hike in his mortgage payments on his £118,000 salary.

George Freeman quit as Science Minister in November saying “the time has come for me to focus on my health, family wellbeing and life beyond the frontbench”. But writing on his blog just days ago he complained that his monthly mortgage repayments had more than doubled.

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Millions of people have been hit with higher mortgage costs after the economic carnage caused by Liz Truss’s mini-Budget sent interest rates soaring. Around 1.6 million homeowners are due to come off fixed-rate deals this year and face considerable hikes in their monthly repayments.

From what form of insanity are Tories like Freeman suffering?

They know their policies – intentionally or not – pushed interest rates through the roof, and that included interest on mortgages.

So they knew that people were going to be paying more – including, if they had mortgages, them.

If they can’t shoulder the extra burden on a ministerial salary of more than £100,000, how do they expect people on average pay of around £30,000 to cope?

Now that Freeman has felt the pinch, though, one might hope that he would have used his position to lobby for more to be done to help mortgage-holders cope.

Alas, no. Freeman has simply cleared off to the back benches – and possibly to a second, third, fourth (or whatever) job, which he maytake because he can. The rest of us don’t have the same options.

We have to conclude that MPs like Freeman just don’t care – and we need to remember that when the next election comes around.

Source: ​Tory MP quit as minister as he ‘couldn’t afford mortgage hike on £118,000 salary’ – Mirror Online


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Israeli spokesman demands UK reporter lose her job. Will Sky News cave in?

Heated: the interview was tense, but now Danny Danon (right) thinks he can bully Sky News into sacking Belle Donati (left) – or forcing her to resign.

A prominent member of the Israeli government has demanded the resignation of Sky News anchor Belle Donati after she apparently compared Israel’s genocide in Gaza with the Nazi Holocaust.

Here’s his post on ‘X’, containing his letter to David Rhodes, Executive Chairman of Sky News:

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Here’s the segment of Ms Donati’s interview with him to which Danon objected. In it, he was heard to suggest that Palestinians may “voluntarily” migrate to another country, outside Gaza, and she responded that such migration was voluntary in the same way that any migration of Jews under Nazi rule during the Holocaust may have been:

That’s the anti-Semitism to which Danon was referring – a legitimate comparison between the forced removal of Palestinians from their homes in Gaza after Israel’s invasion and the forced removal of Jews from their homes in Germany and other countries invaded by the Nazis.

The parallel is not inappropriate; it makes sense. In fact, before Nazi Germany started murdering Jews, it encouraged them to leave the country. Many went to what was then known as British Mandate Palestine. The Israeli government simply started murdering Palestinians before suggesting their fellow Gazans should leave.

Fahad Ansari posted on ‘X’:

“If you don’t want Israeli policies to be compared to those of the Nazis, stop replicating them. It’s those who are promoting the current genocide in Gaza that need to be held to account, not the few courageous journalists who try to hold the perpetrators and propagandists to account.”

So Danon’s demand is unfair on a factual basis. It is also unfair on a political basis, as Novara Media‘s Aaron Bastani posted on ‘X’:

“An absolutely extraordinary intervention. It’s not for overseas political figures to determine legitimate politicians and journalists in this country. That’s something quite a lot of our establishment (in both politics & the media) appears to have forgotten (when it suits them).”

And what’s Sky News going to do?

Well, we all know what should happen, right?

To Sky News: please do the decent thing and give these Israeli bully-boys the finger.


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Resigning Sunak spad says Tories are heading for ‘most almighty of defeats’

You know that shot This Site uses of Keir Starmer in a BBC TV studio with his lips compressed in that ‘I’ve done something wrong’ expression? This is the Rishi Sunak version of that.

This Writer can’t recall ever hearing of Will Dry before, so I’m reluctant to take any words of his at face value.

That said, this is pleasant to read – although the thought of Labour under Keir Starmer running the country for 10 years strikes me as optimism by his cheerleaders and a potential disaster for the UK if it happens:

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If Labour members are turning from Starmer over Gaza, what will VOTERS do?

Voting booth: would either of these people vote for Labour or, indeed, the Tories, knowing that both these parties support the mass murder of innocent people – people like them, perhaps?

This man makes a very strong point in a very strong way.

Keir Starmer and his cronies may be calling for a ceasefire when they face the public, but whenever they have had a chance to make a real difference, they have always toed the pro-Israel, pro-genocide line.

The lives of innocent people in Gaza have nothing to do with it, of course. Starmer is in lock-step with Rishi Sunak, who is in lock-step with Joe Biden – and they are all in cahoots with the military/industrial complex that is making a fortune from Israel’s genocide.

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If I were a member of the Labour Party before this happened, I would not be a member of it now. Nor would I return until the party had been cleared – root and branch, as Starmer liked to say when he was running his fake campaign against anti-Semitism – of anybody who supported this new holocaust in any way.

And if I were the kind of voter who supported the Labour Party before this happened, I would certainly not vote for it again until Starmer and all his bloodthirsty cronies were long gone from any role in politics – of any kind.

Here’s the clip:


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Tory deputy chairmen resign to support rebel amendments to Rwanda Bill

Lee Anderson with his idol, Boris Johnson: it seems he may now try to remove one of Johnson’s successors as prime minister.

Has Rishi Sunak lost control?

It would seem so, after Tory Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson and Brendan Clarke-Smith resigned in order to support rebel amendments to Sunak’s Rwanda Bill.

And Jane Stevenson, a parliamentary private secretary in the Department for Business and Trade, also confirmed she had offered her resignation after voting for the rebel amendments.

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This Site discussed the amendments and the reasons behind them here.

As far as This Writer can tell, the amendments they supported failed.

This suggests to me that they will want to vote the Bill down today (Wednesday, January 17, 2024) – as urged by former Home Secretary Suella Braverman. She, together with Robert Jenrick, who proposed the rebel amendments, has said she is prepared to vote against the bill if it is not improved.

More could join them and it has been reported that only 30 Tories need to join the Opposition for the Bill to be voted down.

If that happens, it could be treated as a ‘no confidence’ vote in Sunak’s leadership.

And that could mean the end of him. What then?


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Tory MP Skidmore quits Parliament over new oil and gas licences

Chris Skidmore: He once said austerity wasn’t so bad because people weren’t dying in the streets. Good riddance?

This is self-explanatory: yet another Tory MP has quit Parliament, triggering a by-election.

Conservative Chris Skidmore is quitting as an MP over the government’s energy plans, triggering a by-election to replace him.

The former minister said he could not continue as a Tory MP ahead of a vote on a bill on Monday to guarantee annual oil and gas licensing rounds.

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The Kingswood MP added his “personal decision” meant his constituents deserved the chance to elect a new MP.

He had already announced plans to leave Parliament at the next election.

His seat near Bristol has a Conservative majority of 11,220, but was previously held by Labour from 1992 to 2010.

It will present another headache for Prime Minster Rishi Sunak, who already faces a by-election in Wellingborough after local voters ousted scandal-hit Peter Bone.

This Tory Parliament is suffering the death of a thousand quits.

When will Rishi Sunak make it easier on us all and call a general election?


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Tory minister’s inappropriate response to challenge means he should resign

Johnny Mercer: he’ll be grinning on the other side of his face if voters in his Plymouth Moor View constituency demand a higher standard from their representative.

It’s time to demand a restoration of standards among our politicians – and Johnny Mercer simply doesn’t rise to mine.

This Site covered his inappropriate behaviour towards media personality Carol Vorderman earlier, after he denigrated her support for former Royal Marine Fred Thomas’s bid to unseat him in the next general election.

He suggested she has a “shit lonely life” (his words), that “no one normal really cares” about her support for Mr Thomas, that “they think you’re mad”, and finished with a series of “puking” emojis.

This is a breach of at least the seventh Nolan principle of public life – that he should treat others with respect.

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Today, we learn that Mercer – who is Minister for Veterans, remember – doubled down on his attack by turning his attention to Mr Thomas himself. Here’s Vorders again:

Again: no respect.

And if he’s not going to respect a fellow politician and former serviceman who rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Marines, then I think we can be sure he has never respected any of the other former servicepeople his job title suggests he should represent.

In the past, when ministers’ behaviour crossed a line beyond what is acceptable, they either chose, or were made, to do the decent thing and resign their position.

Recently, they have scorned the voters by choosing to brazen it out – keeping their jobs and ministerial paycheques in spite of outrage at their behaviour. Bear in mind that James Cleverly remains Home Secretary, nearly a week after his offensive comments about the date-rape drug Rohypnol.

As voters, we need to re-establish our boundaries – and make it clear to politicians that we expect the highest standards from them.

If they won’t commit to those standards voluntarily, then we should enforce them at the ballot box, by removing them from public life the hard way.

Mercer and Cleverly’s inappropriate behaviour make them entirely appropriate candidates for such treatment.


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Calls mount for the removal of ‘Rohypnol Jimmy’

James Cleverly: I’ve used this old image of him from 2018 because in it, he looks like he himself has been drugged.

This is the career of a Tory Cabinet member these days: each successive post is occupied for exponentially shorter time until they’re booted to the back benches.

James Cleverly has hardly had time to let his posterior warm the chair in the Home Secretary’s office, and people are clamouring for it to get a good kicking.

And it’s his own fault for making a stupid attempt at humour about using the Class C date-rape drug Rohypnol to keep his wife faithful.

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Comments like the following are justified and, in the opinion of many, accurate:

And of course, people who have suffered from having their drinks (or whatever) spiked with Rohypnol or similar chemicals have had something to say about him:

[Gina Miller, who heads the True and Fair Party,] who said she had been a victim of the drug during an abusive relationship more than a decade ago, said: “This ruins a woman’s life, or a young girl’s life, when this happens to you. It’s not something you wake up and you get over. It literally ruins your life.

“You can’t escape it. It is like this ghost on your shoulder that lives with you forever… and then you see somebody in a position of power, not just a teacher or headmaster, this was a Home Secretary here we’re talking about, somebody in a position of power, playing it down as a joke.”

Describing the impact of drugging, Ms Miller, 58, said: “You have no memory, you have memory loss. You have the pain and you know something happened, but you are in no way in control of telling anybody because you can’t remember.

“So it absolutely robs you of everything – your memory, your ability to speak out, your ability to complain, your inability to go to the police. You’re robbed of everything. You feel as though you’re drowning because you instinctively know something that happened, that you have absolutely no recollection of it.”

Anti-Brexit campaigner Ms Miller added: “As a survivor, and as a woman, I have no confidence. I don’t see how any woman in the UK can have confidence in him as a Home Secretary representing them and looking after their safety.”

So it’s looking bad for Mr Stupidly.

Still, we can have fun with it.

Make your predictions, folks! When do you think Rishi Sunak will sack this man? Or will they both try to weather this storm?


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