Should Corbyn remain as Labour leader?

[Section_31]

Haha brilliant 

[Rico1304]

On 14/10/2018 at 17:44, Strontium Dog™ said:

All the Labour supporters who ridiculed me for suggesting it in the past will no doubt be livid, but here's a policy I can really get behind

 

https://www.politicshome.com/news/uk/political-parties/labour-party/news/98665/labour-considering-four-day-working-week-amid

 

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57724779
@Strontium Dog™

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57724779
@Strontium Dog™

Fuckers in this country couldn’t even get behind 4 extra Bank Holidays; no way are they going to support an extra day off every week. 

 

Here's how it's done. 

 

[Strontium]

4 hours ago, Rico1304 said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-57724779
@Strontium Dog™

 

Haha, I already mentioned this in the Inequality thread.

 

I was going to put it here, but this thread gives me the heebie-jeebies.

[Numero Veinticinco]

1 minute ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Haha, I already mentioned this in the Inequality thread.

 

I was going to put it here, but this thread gives me the heebie-jeebies.

Just don’t open it three times whilst looking into the mirror. 

[Strontium]

Jeremy Corbyn Investigated for Alleged Failure to Declare Legal Support (businessinsider.com)

 

Jeremy Corbyn is under investigation by parliament's sleaze watchdog over his alleged failure to declare legal support

The former leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn MP, is under investigation by Parliament's sleaze watchdog over allegations he failed to properly declare financial support he receieved towards legal costs.

Corbyn has appeared on the list of allegations under investigation by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, with the matter under investigation being a "registration of an interest under the Guide to the Rules".

Corbyn currently sits as an independent in the House of Commons after he was suspended from the Labour party, for comments he made last year following the publication of a report into antisemitism in the party. Corbyn did not appear to accept the findings of the report and insisted that anti-Semitism within the party was "dramatically overstated" by his political opponents, Insider reported.

The new probe was opened following an allegation made by Labour MP Neil Coyle, a long-time critic of Corbyn.

In a letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards earlier this year, Coyle claimed Corbyn may have benefitted from support to cover legal costs which he has not properly declared, Sky News reported in May.

Coyle told Sky News: "All MPs are expected to follow certain rules and some people seem to think they're above it.

"We expect it from Boris Johnson with flat refurbishments, childcare and foreign holidays. But we cannot attack the Tories if we don't equally take action when someone who seeks to be a Labour MP is receiving significant financial support and contributions, and not declaring it."

Corbyn told Sky News: "I will be liaising with the commissioner in response to Neil Coyle's correspondence."

Corbyn is currently being sued for defamation by the blogger Richard Millett. He could also face legal action from the BBC Panorama reporter John Ware.

Corbyn's entry on the register of members' interests notes he is "likely to benefit from a legal fund managed by JBC Defence Ltd which was set up on 16 October 2020 to help meet any legal costs which I or my supporters incur in relation to allegations of defamation."

One crowdfunding legal fund linked to JBC Defence Ltd has raised more than £370,000 since being set up in July 2020.

Insider has contacted Corbyn's office for comment.

[Bjornebye]

"Corbyn being sued for defamation" just wow. 

[Section_31]

Not enough that he's not leader any more, he has to be destroyed.

[sir roger]

Neil Coyle eh ? Shocked I am.

[Jack the Sipper]

The shit that members of this government get up to and get away with on an almost weekly basis, and Parliament's own 'sleaze watchdog' is going after Corbyn! On the back of claims made by a Labour MP!

 

Politics in this country really has gone to the fucking dogs of late.

[Strontium]

23 minutes ago, Jack the Sipper said:

The shit that members of this government get up to and get away with on an almost weekly basis, and Parliament's own 'sleaze watchdog' is going after Corbyn! On the back of claims made by a Labour MP!

 

Politics in this country really has gone to the fucking dogs of late.

 

They're going after a whole bunch of Tories too, if that makes things easier. 

[Jack the Sipper]

20 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

They're going after a whole bunch of Tories too, if that makes things easier. 

Given the Tories, have been in power for over a decade and getting up to fuck knows what shit with bribes, contracts and the rest,  how many have been judged to have acted improperly by this watchdog, and what punishments were imposed?

[Anubis]

 

 

[Arniepie]

Thats weeks old that corbyn investigation ismt it.?

[Strontium]

5 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

Thats weeks old that corbyn investigation ismt it.?

 

Investigation began 25th June, only being reported today

 

https://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-financial-interests/parliamentary-commissioner-for-standards/complaints-and-investigations/allegations-currently-under-investigation-by-the-commissioner/

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Obviously, the correct thing for him to do is to misappropriate those funds to bail out the party that withdrew the whip from him.

 

 

[Stickman]

3 hours ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Obviously, the correct thing for him to do is to misappropriate those funds to bail out the party that withdrew the whip from him.

 

 

What would he know about decent ?

 

 

When the rewards for treachery is to be given a peerage it shows the entire system stinks

News that Ian Botham will receive a peerage is splashed across the broadsheets, why not, Sir Ian Botham is a former England cricket captain he helped raise £10m for leukaemia charities, he was knighted in 2007 by the Queen he played a massive 102 Tests for England from 1974 to 1993. He is politically aware and also happens to be a Brexiter and a Tory.

Sir Ian Botham getting a peerage is what you would expect from a Boris Johnson Tory Government.

But what you do not expect is two former Labour MPs, John Woodcock and Ian Austin both to be honoured for their treachery. 

It’s clear the entire system stinks and its corruption is transparently seen in the rewards former MP’s receive for their dirty deeds. 

The value of patronage power for Prime Ministers and party leaders means that the Lords has increased hugely in size.

Although outside peerage appointments are scrutinised by a weak regulator (the House of Lords Appointments Commission), party nominations of peers seem to be only lightly and inadequately appraised, and HOLAC’s remit is very constrained.

Many citizens and commentators believe that major party donors can still effectively ‘buy’ peerages.

Corruption and misbehaviour allegations against peers highlight the openness to abuse that inevitably follows when legislators are accountable to no one and lack any effective oversight.

Ministers from the Lords are not held accountable to the same degree as their counterparts in the Commons.

 

Traitors to the Party and the People

Woodcock and Austin were both elected by the public, standing on Corbyn’s 2017 manifesto platform.

Austin walked out of the Labour Party in Feb 2019 and was later appointed by the then Prime Minister Theresa May as a trade envoy to Israel.

At Labour’s 2019 Party Conference, he drove along the seafront with a large mobile billboard saying Jeremy Corbyn was unfit for office. Days before the general election, he called for a Tory vote and actively campaigned against the Labour Party.

John Woodcock’s peerage is more shocking. The former MP for Barrow and Furness lost the Labour whip in 2018 following allegations of sexual harassment.

In January 2019, Woodcock abstained in a parliamentary vote of no confidence against May’s government and in November called for a Conservative vote. His peerage also looks like a pay-off from Johnson.

Their betrayal was not only to the Labour Party but to the very voters that made Woodcock and Austin members of parliament in the first place, along with all the hard-working supporters that campaigned to get them elected using Labour Party resources and money. No matter how you dress it up it stinks but more so this practice of rewarding MP’s for betraying their Partys and voters will come back and bite and bite really hard.

Woodcock and Austin are not the first to be rewarded for undermining their own Party and more so Party leader at the time, Jeremy Corbyn.

John Mann the former Labour MP for Bassetlaw was rewarded for his constant attacks on Corbyn and exasperating the narrative that Antisemitism was Labour Party issue while ever Jeremy Corbyn was the leader.

In July 2019, Mann was appointed by outgoing PM Theresa May to head a government inquiry on tackling anti-Semitism. Mann was nominated to the House of Lords in Theresa May’s resignation honour’s list, despite having previously called for the House of Lord to be abolished.

 

Rewarding treachery by peerage is filling the other chamber with characters that do nothing to advance our democracy. They cannot be relied upon to have an unbiased opinion or to work within a Party structure. Have no doubt that the past actions of some MPs now being rewarded with life peerages in this unelected chamber is the reward for ensuring the Labour Party and particularly Jeremy Corbyn did not obtain power. Woodcocks and Austin past actions other than scandal show had little notoriety, they have not been outstanding legislators or represented their constituents in any outstanding way.

 

https://labourheartlands.com/when-the-rewards-for-treachery-is-to-be-given-a-peerage-it-shows-the-entire-system-stinks/

 

 

 

 

 

[Red Phoenix]

 

[Dr Nowt]

Ian Austin is a Lord. 
 

‘Siri, how irredeemably fucked is our political system?’

[Jairzinho]

 

This is Ian Austin. What a guy.

[Anubis]

3 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

This is Ian Austin. What a shut stain on humanity.

Apologies but I felt it required a slight alteration.

[skend04]

2 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

 

This is Ian Austin. What a guy.

Wow. So is he saying everyone in Gaza is a terrorist?

 

Isn't that the same as saying the Israeli government and Jews are the same?

 

Isn't this racist? 

[Jairzinho]

This is his job now. Being a racist.

[Strontium]

5 minutes ago, skend04 said:

Wow. So is he saying everyone in Gaza is a terrorist?

 

Pretty sure it's just Hamas. The word "Hamas" is a dead giveaway.

[Creator Supreme]

3 minutes ago, Strontium Dog™ said:

 

Pretty sure it's just Hamas. The word "Hamas" is a dead giveaway.

Afternoon Ian!