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Make Imperialism Great Again
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Yeah, that worked out well.
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Well, this explains your whole rant about the âextreme leftâ.
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For those who donât want to read the Daily Heil:
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He should do the honourable thing and resign and have a by election. Labour will no doubt be in danger of Reform taking the seatâŚso maybe wonât welcome it.
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As far as I know it doesnât work like you seem to be suggesting. He is effectively no longer a Labour MP.
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He can still resign as an MP thoughâŚhe is unlikely ever to be accepted back into the party given his sexist and racist comments.
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You implied it was up to Labour which I donât think is correct.
You should change your post to indicate this as itâs false news.
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In other words, to do the honorable thing. Although he has been kicked out for being dishonorable.
There is a mechanism for constituents to call for a recall, although that requires the MP to have been convicted of an offence or suspended from parliament.
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Although a harsh review, I must reflect and state how privileged I am to have my very own in house âpost reviewerâ, you are like my little Mark Kermode.
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I mean, obviously there are other ones. He isnât going to be in a Whatsapp group on his own.
Surely the biggest scandal here is why they are discussing government business on Whatsapp in the first place. Although, I suspect that boat sailed with the Johnson government. They normalised that kind of behaviour.
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There are so many problematic issues here. But itâs interesting that the article contextualises it more by pointing out that this was prior to the 2024 elections. Iâm not going to rush to judgement, and the meme was tongue-in-cheek.
But itâs interesting that this is the big scandal for Labour so far, and yet when you think about how that maps onto the previous governments, it would barely register at all.
And more importantly, itâs a big distraction from the governmentâs failure to deliver the change that voters wanted, instead delivering more of the same austerity and victim-blaming mindset demonising immigrants, the EU, and now welfare claimants.
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I appreciate that many people wanted this government to be more left wing but I think a lot of these accusations are a bit OTT, particularly as we are only just in the 8th month of its term.
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You may be right about the austerity needed and the financial constraints perhaps.
But the rest of that, the âvictim-blaming mindset demonising immigrants, the EU, and now welfare claimantsâ is absolutely unenforced, except from complete lack of conviction in their own beliefs.
But I donât think this is what is actually happening thoughâŚI agree some of the language theyâve chosen to use is disappointing but I think it only covers a small % of what they are actually saying and doing.
And thatâs precisely the problem I have. They have a choice to avoid all language like that altogether and present themselves as a breath of fresh air, contrasting themselves with previous administrations and their attitudes towards those groups. Yet theyâre choosing to pander to the right-wing tabloids, perpetuating the rhetoric and the idea.
The cowards donât seem to want to learn that you canât go fascist-lite, people would just vote for the fascists anyway.
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No, theyâre not. We know there are people that try to abuse the welfare and immigration systems. The government acknowledging that they exist and they are doing something about it is not pandering to the right/ fascists - unless that was the only message they were putting out there.
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