Bombshell tweets BATTER Starmer!

Right, so the chickens of Keir Starmer’s authoritarian imposition of Labour parliamentary candidates are now coming home to roost, as the conduct of some of those supposedly highest quality candidates, old tweets begin to emerge in relation to the newest intake of MPs and actually some not so old tweets besides are right up there with the worst of twitter trolls and given how heavily Starmer used social media conduct against left wing candidates as an excuse to pass them over, the fact such vileness has passed must, makes a complete mockery of the exercise being about getting high quality candidates when the truth was, he just wanted loyalty to him, and it actually didn’t matter how downright nasty some of the opinions of now currently serving Labour MPs might be, now in positions to help make the laws we must all live by, but now that much if it is coming out, this conduct must be scrutinised and where Starmer and the Labour Party National Executive appears to have ignored all accountability over some of these candidates, that must be brought to bear now at parliamentary level. We need trust that our politicians are not ableist, and bigoted and racist and that abhorrent views like that are not placed in positions of power and it doesn’t look like Keir Starmer’s Labour are capable of doing that for themselves, at least not whilst Starmer remains leader anyway, because it seems instead of tackling racism and racists, he makes them MPs instead.
Right, so that was Keir Starmer there, telling us that he was only going to have the highest quality candidates standing for Labour, whilst at that point defending desperately trying to keep Diane Abbott out, something he eventually relented on by the sheer weight of public opinion around the country over that. Well as it turns out, some of the people selected, couldn’t possibly have been worse candidates if they tried and one in particular continues to be the gift that keeps on giving, because where many Labour candidates got rid of a great many of their past tweets that could haver come back to haunt them, Luke Akehurst was a prime example, Mr Israel Lobby himself, now also an MP, some didn’t and they’re past comments are coming back to bite them now and indeed Starmer and his claim about quality MPs, because it fundamentally exposes them as being anything but and actually their selection being an entirely factional decision having nothing to do with quality at all.
The most prominent account being discussed right now, though not the only one undoubtedly has to be Lauren Edwards, the new intake Labour MP for Rochester and Strood, who beat Tory Kelly Tolhurst by just over 2000 votes and this isn’t without ample reason.
Tweets of hers have come to light where she has been abusive of foreigners, from being apparently appalled at the idea of attending a Pakistani run restaurant, to referring to ‘effing Estonians’ in a manner that implies they have some kind of mental disability, to bragging of elbowing out of her way a homeless man who barged into her drunk, to implying former Tory leader William Hague speaking of his wife’s miscarriages was only done to see off apparent claims accusing him of being gay. Ableism, xenophobia, homophobia, Islamophobia and that is just 4 of her tweets, frankly quoting them would probably get this video censored, hence why I haven’t done it in this case. As for being a representative of the party of ordinary working people, the elbowing of the homeless man brought to mind images of The Rock performing the people’s elbow in the WWE, though this definitely wasn’t giving the people what they want. However there is one tweet she put out, which is worth quoting, but only because it has nothing to do with her abusiveness, having a pop at former Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg:
‘A national economy isn’t run like a bloody household budget or credit card Nick Clegg, you soon-to-be vanquished muppet.’
Just prior to Clegg indeed losing his seat, but perhaps she’d care to have a chat with Rachel Reeves, she seems to be of the opinion the national economy has no money but as you rightly point out, it doesn’t work like a household budget, you ought to set her straight maybe?
It’s not like Labour shouldn’t have seen her behaviour and dealt with it frankly. The tweets dated back to around 2011 and between 2008 and 2013, Edwards was working as a parliamentary researcher, having worked in that time for Labour MPs Barbara Keeley, Teresa Pearce and Lisa Nandy.
Edwards issued a short statement on the matter on the 8th August stating:
‘‘I have recently been made aware of a small number of tweets that I posted on Twitter from over a decade ago, which I now deeply regret.
They were a significant error of judgement on my part, and I apologise wholeheartedly.
Since becoming a local councillor and more recently an MP, I have seen first-hand the importance of bringing communities together and working with tolerance and respect for all in our society.
I pledge to use my platform to continue that important work and dedicate myself to serving all residents of Rochester and Strood.’
Her twitter account has now been deleted entirely, so that’s one way I suppose of making sure none of your old tweets surface again, rather than undertake a clean up operation.
Speaking of clean up operations however, the fact she still has the party whip in light of all of that emerging appears to show that the entire affair – and as I said earlier, she’s not the only offender – hasn’t sufficiently shamed Keir Starmer to act and remove the whip. He acted fast enough to strip 5 MPs of the whip who voted against keeping a million kids in poverty, but being racially and socially abusive, by attacking those identified by protected characteristics under the Equality Act and being caught out for it isn’t enough it seems. Bigotry and racism is welcome in Labour but not progressive, left wing policies, not that stopping kids starving should even BE a political position to have to take. Nasty Party just doesn’t quite cut it.
It doesn’t even have to be older tweets that count either, consider current conduct as well, such as that by the new Solicitor General and also brand new 2024 intake Labour MP Sarah Sackman, who decided to both sides the recent riots and when you also realise she happens to be vice-chair of the Jewish Labour Movement, the right wing body that these days opines on all things antisemitic, you can probably guess where she went with it:
‘Concerned residents have shared posts with my office relating to so called “anti-fascist” groups in Finchley which are clearly antisemitic. I will not amplify or platform those voices. Instead I have reported them to the police and CST. I advise others to do the same.
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Whether it’s the far right or far left there can be zero tolerance for antisemitism, Islamophobia or racism in any form. There is no place for such hate in our community.’
Of course there is no place for bigotry and racism, antisemitism or Islamophobia. You haven’t I’ve noticed called out your colleague Lauren Edwards or supported, as an example, Zarah Sultana after she got basically lynched by Ed Balls and the rest on Good Morning Britain the other day.
As for attacking those standing up against fascists as being anti-semitic themselves, based on what proof? They were the people standing up to rioters, not Labour, it was people from the community and you tar them as antisemites, because that accusation comes like a reflex these days and becomes increasingly more and more meaningless each time it does. The only thing worse than a racist is someone weaponising racism on false pretences. Might I suggest in which case you stop hiding behind lines like ‘concerned residents’ which is basically the narrative equivalent to anonymous sources in political discourse, and explain exactly what was done, what was said and who by because otherwise those standing against fascism are being labelled as just as bad as the fascists themselves, do you not think?
Reporting them to the police is all well and good, reporting them to the CST is a joke, but Starmer himself jumped on that bandwagon as well I noticed, saying:
‘The rise of antisemitic incidents in the UK is deeply concerning. Jewish people, and all those from faith communities, deserve to feel safe on our streets. I'd like to thank the CST for their action. We will work together to eradicate discrimination of any kind.’
The CST conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism for one, that is part of their own definition of antisemitism, so their stats are always going to be highly suspect and their just published report is full of this, I may well do a vid on that yet, so I’ll go no further into that here, but by all means look up the report and see for yourself.
Starmer’s Labour has it’s priorities all over the place, protecting abusive MPs whilst suspending good ones who have their priorities straight, taking their cues from highly questionable arbiters of what counts as racism, while ignoring abuse handed out on anything other than antisemitism it seems. The high quality candidates get punished, whist the worst get a free pass. Starmer’s Labour. Did you vote for this?
And while Starmer gives the conduct of some of his MPs a free pass still, it seems the same can be said of rioters given some of the sentences being handed out right now, there’s a big discrepancy and once more priorities and what makes for a worse crime is comes under question in respect of that as well. Check out this video recommendation here for Starmer’s woeful handling of that too – I thought as a former Director of Public Prosecutions he’d be on familiar and solid ground there, perhaps he was as lousy there as he’s proving to be as PM? And I’ll hopefully catch you on the next vid. Cheers folks.