What’s up with the Labour Party?
I’m thinking that perhaps members of Keir’s party, and in particular his front bench, don’t actually understand the meaning of integrity.
To lose one minister is badly enough, but to lose three in as many months and just after seven is a very bad taste.
Andrew Gwynne, Labour MP for Gordon and Denton and Health Minister, is the third minister to leave Sir Keir’s cabinet in disgrace.
Nana Akua addresses the latest Labour MP to lose their job, Andrew Gwynne
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He made racist, sexist and offensive comments in a WhatsApp chat group.
Possibly the worst comment, although there was serious competition for that spot, was a response to a letter from a 72-year-old woman who said that she had not voted Labour, but wanted to enquire about bin collections.
In the letter, she wrote: “As you have been re-elected, I thought it would be an appropriate time to contact you with regard to the bin collections.”
Andrew sent the letter in the group chat and proposed this response: “Dear resident – f your bins. I’m re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. P.S. hopefully you’ll have croaked it by the all outs, which are local elections to you and I.”
It was also reported that he wrote this about another constituent who rides a bike: “I have positive visions of him getting mown down by an Elsa Waste HGV whilst he’s cycling to the Fallowfield Loop. We couldn’t be that lucky!”
Perhaps he’s taking lessons from Wes Streeting, who tweeted for Jan Moir to be run over by a train. Admittedly, West has since apologised and it was before he became an MP.
But seriously, what kind of people think it’s a good idea to write this down, let alone think it?
Labour ministers are dropping like flies. First it was Louise Haigh, an ex-Transport Minister, after a spent conviction resurfaced. Louise claimed her mobile phone was stolen in a mugging whilst she was working for insurer Aviva. That was about ten years ago, however, Louise found the phone and never alerted her employer. She pleaded guilty to fraud.
Keir Starmer apparently knew everything, or so we were told, but her position was untenable. Louise had previously echoed Keir’s sentiments that you can’t be a lawmaker and a law breaker. She had to go.
Then there was Tulip Siddiq, the anti-corruption minister, sadly for Tulip. Historic problems, including a property that she accepted from a developer who had links with her aunt – her aunt happens to be an ex-dictator in Bangladesh. Tulip was being investigated by the authorities there for corruption. The irony? Well, of course she had to resign before she was pushed.
And now it’s Andrew Gwynne. How can he possibly be allowed to continue as an MP in any capacity when he denigrates his own constituents?
Andrew has been stripped of his ministerial role and suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation.
In a statement, Andrew said: “I deeply regret my badly misjudged comments and apologise for any offence I’ve caused. I’ve served the Labour Party all my life and it was a huge honour to be appointed a minister by Sir Keir Starmer.”
Well, let’s see if Sir Keir has enough integrity to report him to the Parliamentary Standards Committee, which could potentially trigger a by-election, leaving the door open to the Tories or Reform.
