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My past two posts on how the Middle East conflict is affecting the UK can be found here and here.
Today’s post continues and concludes the long, sorry saga of last week’s events.
Wednesday, November 15 (cont’d)
Last Wednesday, the House of Commons voted on an SNP amendment to the King’s Speech of November 7 proposing that legislation regarding a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza be added to the parliamentary agenda. Not surprisingly, the Conservatives either voted against or abstained.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer urged his MPs not to support it. Although Hansard does not have a record of the debate, I watched some of it. A few Labour MPs accused the SNP of ‘political opportunism’, which upset the Scottish MPs.
However, other Labour MPs did vote to approve the amendment.
The Guardian reported (purple emphases mine):
Eight Labour frontbenchers including Jess Phillips have resigned as Keir Starmer was hit by a major rebellion over a vote for a ceasefire in Gaza.
Overall, 56 Labour MPs voted for an amendment to the king’s speech brought by the Scottish National party, a major blow to the Labour leader’s attempts to keep unity over the Israel-Hamas war.
Labour officials had said in advance that any frontbencher doing so would be sacked for backing the amendment, which called explicitly for a ceasefire.
Phillips, Afzal Khan, Yasmin Qureshi and Paula Barker quit their frontbench roles on Wednesday night after voting for the amendment and defying the whip.
Rachel Hopkins, Sarah Owen, Naz Shah, and Andy Slaughter were sacked by the Labour leader after the vote. Mary Foy, Angela Rayner’s parliamentary private secretary (PPS), and Dan Carden, another PPS, have also left the frontbench.
As votes closed, Starmer said he regretted that party colleagues had not backed his position …
The Labour leader had hoped to avert a rebellion with a separate amendment criticising Israel’s military actions but stopping short of calling for a ceasefire, and instructed his members to abstain on the SNP motion. Many chose to vote for both, however, amid anger among Labour members over how Starmer has handled the issue.
MPs voted 293 to 125, a majority of 168, to reject the SNP’s amendment, with Qureshi, Khan and Barker quitting before the vote.
Phillips, the most high-profile frontbencher, said it was with a “heavy heart” that she was quitting.
“This week has been one of the toughest weeks in politics since I entered parliament,” the Birmingham Yardley MP said in her resignation letter …
Shah (Bradford West) and Khan (Manchester Gorton) told fellow MPs in the Commons of their intention to vote for an immediate ceasefire. Helen Hayes (Dulwich and West Norwood) said she was going to vote for the amendment but decided to abstain.
Starmer has faced a growing backlash over his position on the conflict since he gave an interview last month in which he appeared to suggest Israel had the right to withhold water and power from civilians in Gaza.
He attempted to heal those divisions in a recent speech at the Chatham House thinktank, in which he urged Israel to adhere to international law but stopped short of calling for a ceasefire.
Starmer spent much of Wednesday locked in meetings with his shadow ministers as he attempted to minimise the expected rebellion.
The Guardian also has a list of how each MP voted.
Pro-Palestinian protests took place outside the Houses of Parliament around voting time. More on that in a moment.
From there, the protesters moved to Hyde Park Corner where a few of them had the effrontery to scale a war monument, the Royal Artillery Memorial, which is dedicated to fallen soldiers.
Veterans Minister Johnny Mercer, himself a veteran, posted the video:
Britons looking at social media or watching GB News’s coverage of the appalling incident were incensed that the Metropolitan Police maintained their perceived two-tier policing system.
One X (Twitter) user posted the Met’s statement as to the lack of action and his or her account of the situation accompanied by a photo of policemen idly standing by:
Note that the final paragraph of the Met’s statement says there is no law forbidding climbing on a war memorial, ergo no arrests could ‘automatically’ take place.
Yet, such a law was passed — the Desecration of War Memorials Act 2010.
Hansard has the full text of the legislation, which amends the Criminal Damage Act 1971.
Barrister Steven Barrett, who appears regularly on GB News and writes for The Spectator, expressed his displeasure at the police not enforcing the law. He thinks they are ‘political’:
The Met managed to rough up one man (video here), but he was not pro-Palestinian.
The BBC issued an apology that day for their highly inaccurate reporting of the conflict in the Middle East:
The BBC should be ashamed of themselves, especially because every Briton is obliged by law to pay the annual licence fee of £159 to keep it going.
Thursday, November 16
The Mail had a report on the incident at the Royal Artillery Memorial:
MPs vented their fury today after police stood by as pro-Palestinian protesters scaled a war memorial following Parliament’s vote against a ceasefire in Gaza – as the Met apologised for ‘not being able to respond quickly enough’.
Footage shows a mob of flag-waving demonstrators climbing on the Royal Artillery Memorial at Hyde Park Corner, which was covered with poppy wreaths from remembrance weekend.
A group of officers appeared to simply watch on as the offensive scenes unfolded, despite a dispersal order being in place. Today, the Met expressed its ‘regret’ for the way officers handled the incident but insisted no laws had been broken.
Home Secretary James Cleverly, who served in the Royal Artillery, called the demonstration as ‘deeply disrespectful’ and suggested laws could be changed to give police powers to prevent protesters clambering over war memorials.
James Cleverly should check legislation first.
The article also had the history of the memorial, excerpted below:
The Royal Artillery Memorial commemorates the 49,076 soldiers of the Royal Artillery killed in the First World War.
The static nature of trench combat meant heavy guns played a significant role in ‘softening up’ enemy positions before troops moved in.
Designed by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Lionel Pearson, the memorial was funded largely by public donations and unveiled in 1925.
It consists of a Portland stone base supporting a one-third over-lifesize sculpture of a howitzer – which Jagger based on one in the Imperial War Museum.
Later that morning in the Commons, Leader of the House Penny Mordaunt took Business Questions.
The long-serving Conservative MP Sir Julian Lewis expressed his concern over security issues during the previous day’s vote on the ceasefire amendment:
About 40 years ago I had an unlikely campaigning role that involved organising counter-demonstrations to certain mass marches, but one area we never had to worry about was the vicinity of Parliament, because no demonstrations were allowed in Parliament Square. The reason given for that was that Members must not be impeded in entering or leaving the Houses of Parliament. Even if demonstrations continue to be allowed in Parliament Square, it should be a common concern to those on both sides of the House that Members find themselves getting advice from their Whips on which exits they cannot use for fear of being mobbed by an unauthorised demonstration that comes right up to the gates of Parliament. This really has gone too far. Sooner or later there will be an incident, unless security on entering and leaving the Houses of Parliament is restored.
Mordaunt replied:
I thank my right hon. Friend for raising this important matter. It is quite right that Members of Parliament and their staff should be able to go about their business in safety and security, and should not be disrupted in doing so. Mr Speaker was particularly concerned about this even prior to yesterday’s incidents, and has been working with Palace security and other organisations to ensure the safety of Members of Parliament in particular. Since the Deputy Speaker is in the Chair, I shall make sure that Mr Speaker has heard my right hon. Friend’s concerns, and I will ask that my right hon. Friend be kept informed of progress on such matters.
Whatever part of the law allowing protests to take place in Parliament Square should be repealed. I realise that protests have been taking place there for at least ten or 15 years. That should not happen.
Guido Fawkes posted a list of Labour frontbenchers who had to resign either before or after the previous day’s vote and wrote (red emphases below are his):
10 of Starmer’s frontbenchers resigned last night to vote in favour of a ceasefire in a symbolic vote organised by the SNP. The King’s Speech amendment calling for “all parties to agree to an immediate ceasefire” was defeated by a majority of 168. Performative, pointless…
On Thursday, pro-Palestinian activists encouraged parents to allow their children to skip school to protest instead. Here is one photo from London, however, this went on around England:
I’m happy that Andy Ngô was able to settle in London and pursue his fine investigative photographic and video evidence of what is happening on our streets. Granted, Adam Brooks took the above video, but Andy took one of the protest that happened outside the local Labour MP’s office. Dr Rushanara Ali did not vote for a ceasefire:
Elsewhere, Labour councillors were resigning in protest over Sir Keir Starmer’s stance on the Middle East conflict — but there was more to the story in the East Midlands town of Walsall.
GB News‘s Charlie Peters, one of the channel’s investigative journalists, reported:
Walsall Labour group has lost several councillors today in a mass resignation amid recent probes into alleged antisemitic social media posts by senior colleagues.
The quitting councillors include Aftab Nawaz, the group’s leader, and Cllr Sabina Ditta, Cllr Naheed Gultasib, Cllr Abdus Nazir, Cllr Saiqa Nasreen and Cllr Farhana Hassan.
They have blamed Labour’s position on the Israel-Hamas war for their quitting the party.
In a lengthy joint statement, the six councillors said: “We are saddened to inform you that we will be resigning from the Labour Party immediately due to Keir Starmer refusing to back and vote for a ceasefire in Gaza” …
But a source close to Walsall Council told GB News: “Two local Labour Councillors have resigned after being suspended by their Party in the past few weeks. Now this group, some of whom are under investigation by Labour, have decided to resign too.
“I don’t believe this has anything to do with their principles. I think it has everything to do with wanting to say what they like, how they like and without the fear of being held to account.”
Aftab Nawaz has quit amid a Labour Party investigation after GB News exposed his alleged sectarian chanting against a minority Muslim group in the West Midlands town earlier this year.
The fresh resignations come after deputy leader Khizar Hussain and shadow cabinet member Hajran Bashir both quit following GB News reports into their social media conduct.
This broadcaster revealed highly controversial social media posts made by the pair, which the Campaign Against Antisemitism described as “abhorrent.”
Hussain allegedly compared Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Hitler; Bashir allegedly drew links between Israel’s foundation and actions with those of Nazi Germany.
Both posts breached Labour’s antisemitism policy.
Bashir and Hussain both quit the party hours after they were administratively suspended for investigation.
That afternoon, Guido had his gimlet eye firmly on the BBC’s parlous reporting of the conflict — including clips from BBC Verify, their much-vaunted fact-checking unit. The nation’s broadcaster could not even report the ceasefire vote result correctly:
The BBC has been forced to update its latest “counter-disinformation” piece on how fatality figures are calculated in Gaza. Puzzled readers pointed out the story made no reference to the fact the Gaza health ministry is run by Hamas until the last paragraph, where the BBC deigned to quote the IDF who “said the health ministry was a branch of Hamas and that any information provided by it should be ‘viewed with caution‘”. This was after directly quoting figures from the Hamas-run health ministry nine times without caveat. You’d have thought they would have learned by now…
Anything connected to the Israel/Hamas War seems to be fair game for BBC misreporting. Last night’s article on Labour’s ceasefire rebellion got the outcome of the vote the wrong way round. Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity…
Guido asks:
Are unpaid interns running BBC reporting?
It would seem so.
Meanwhile, in Germany, police continued to crack down on anti-Semitism. Would that we were doing the same in the UK.
EuroNews reported:
Authorities are cracking down on supporters of Islamist groups after a rise in public antisemitism.
Several hundred German police officers carried out searches across the country on Thursday targeting an Islamist association suspected of supporting the Iran-aligned Islamist movement Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry announced.
“At a time when many Jews feel particularly threatened, we do not tolerate Islamist propaganda or anti-Semitic and anti-Israel campaigns”, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said in a statement.
The police operation targeted the Islamic Centre of Hamburg (IZH) and five other organisations suspected of being linked to it. All are suspected of supporting Hezbollah, which Germany officially banned as a terrorist organisation in April 2020.
Searches were carried out at 54 properties in seven regions of Germany.
According to a statement from the Interior Ministry, the IZH’s activities are aimed at disseminating the theocratic Iranian regime’s “revolutionary concept”, which is “suspected of being contrary to the constitutional order in Germany” …
Well done, Germany!
In The Telegraph that day, the conservative pundit Douglas Murray wrote, ‘Britain is the new capital of anti-Israel hate’:
I have spent recent weeks in Israel, and goodness knows this is a country that has plenty of challenges. But one question I have been asked a lot by an alarmingly wide array of Israelis is: “What happened to Britain?” …
It amazes most Israelis – as it amazes me – that Britain has seen some of the worst scenes of all the anti-Israel marches across the world. And I say “anti-Israel” for a reason. The first protests in London happened before Israel had even begun its military response to October 7. Rallies were held within hours of the massacres. To most Israelis this is nearly unfeasible.
What other country would see 1,400 of its citizens slaughtered, 240 kidnapped and countless more wounded for life, and not be allowed even a day to mourn? What other country, having suffered a set of atrocities hardly superseded in the whole history of violence wouldn’t get even one day of sympathy?
Only the Jewish state. And everybody in Israel knows as much. Pakistan is currently in the process of forcibly deporting two million Afghans. Nobody cares. Bashar al-Assad is in his twelfth year of killing Muslims in Syria and the world’s cameras turned away long ago. Only Israel, when involved in any military action, or even when it is simply on the receiving end of extreme violence, cannot rely even on the world’s understanding.
And it is in this light that Israel notices the British politicians calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The ignorance of a large number of figures in British political life, from Humza Yousaf to Jess Phillips, can hardly be exaggerated. As it happens, a ceasefire of a kind existed in Gaza. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally, and very painfully, in 2005 – removing every Jew from the strip. They handed over the land and got rockets in return.
Everyone around the Gaza border and across wider Israel was used to running from rockets to the shelters. But despite various exchanges over the years, nobody ever foresaw the battalion-sized terrorist attack of October 7. It was Hamas who broke what ceasefire existed that day when its legions gunned down young people at a music festival, went door to door in small communities, and burned people alive in their homes …
To call for a ceasefire now shows an astonishing lack of military understanding but also a horrific lack of decency. I have watched the Israeli Defence Force manage the evacuation of Gazans from the north of the strip to the south, so that the IDF can try to isolate Hamas and destroy them. It is a righteous mission, though one that is likely to prove incredibly hard.
I have also met many of the parents of the children and others stolen into Gaza. They want their children back. Why has there been no mass movement of MPs – from Labour, say – demanding that there be no ceasefire until Hamas hand back the hostages? Such a move seems to have never been on the cards.
Anti-Israel Labour MPs and others only ever campaign and condemn when they attack Israel. Perhaps because they know that Hamas would never listen to them anyway. These MPs are internationalist eunuchs. But my, do they talk a big game. Especially while they whip along the sectarian politics, which are the real driver of the protests on our streets …
But as I watch hooligans clamber over our war memorials and statues and hold our city centres hostage, I wonder whether it isn’t Britain that is the one in real trouble here.
The Guardian had a chilling article on the subject, ‘Why is antisemitism so rife in UK academic settings? I have never found student life more difficult’. Shockingly, it was written by an anonymous student from — wait for it — Oxford University:
When I woke in my student house on Saturday 7 October, my stomach turned at the news from Israel. As fellow Jewish students and I checked on our loved ones there, one replied on WhatsApp: “Do not go to synagogue today.” In their moment of terror they knew that here, in the UK, antisemitism would erupt; racism would jeopardise our safety.
There have been more reported incidents of antisemitism on British university campuses in a month than there were in all of 2022. At Oxford University, where I am an undergraduate, acts of hatred, misinformation and a lack of empathy when we are vulnerable have turned student spaces into places of hostility.
Our Jewish Society president had the mezuzah (a protective Jewish prayer scroll) ripped from his door. At a freshers’ event, one Jewish friend told me that she was called a “coloniser” and “race traitor” (the latter by virtue of her non-European descent). I know male students who have removed their kippot (skullcaps) and others who have hidden their Stars of David. On Instagram, I saw students posting pictures of paragliders, celebrating Hamas’s massacre. I waited five long days for my university to condemn “appalling attacks by Hamas” and stress “that there is no place for antisemitism or hate of any faith at Oxford”. An Israeli student whose relatives were murdered at the Nova festival has returned home, telling me she felt safer there than on campus.
In the days after 7 October, I walked Oxford’s streets, my home away from home, overwhelmed with grief and despair …
While I was concerned with the plight of civilians, I encountered protests and chants: “From Oxford to Gaza / Long live the intifada” – words that sustain the violence and too often lead to violence against Jews in the UK, not just in Israel.
As I struggled to work, I wrote to my tutors, explaining my distress. They replied privately, expressing sympathy. But as I appeared at tutorials and seminars, sleepless and broken, I did not feel safe to raise my most pressing thoughts in public. A climate in which we feel fearful to address what we’re going through leaves space for others to dehumanise us and contribute to environments in which antisemitism is allowed to fester.
The silence we encounter stands in stark contrast to the sensitivity and outspoken support displayed by staff and students to those touched by other events, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine …
When I see faces I know call “From the river to the sea” or students sign off emails with the same chant, the phrase feels like something that goes far beyond a demand for freedom: a call to get rid of Israel and a dog-whistle for getting rid of Jews. When someone shouts “Free Palestine” at a Jew walking around Oxford wearing his kippah, as happened to a friend of mine, they are weaponising that idea against him. In these moments, where anti-Zionism implies, even indirectly, an outcome that entails violence against Jews, it shelters antisemitism; universities must seek to understand why it is so ferocious in academic settings. They also must address why here, of all places, misinformation is disseminated so readily …
TaxiPoint featured a story on a black cab driver who kicked out a passenger voicing anti-Semitic sentiments:
A taxi driver in London took a firm stance against racism by asking a passenger to leave the cab after she went on a rant about the ‘Jewish machine’.
The incident was caught on camera and has since garnered attention for highlighting the prevalence of hate crimes.
… The driver’s response has been praised by Tom Tugendhat MP, who commended him for his stand against racism …
WARNING: Strong language heard in video
As the day came to a close, The Guardian reported that the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) discovered a dead hostage in Gaza City:
The Israeli military has recovered the body of an Israeli hostage from a building near al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City, as soldiers continued to search the hospital complex after Wednesday’s early morning raid.
Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman, was abducted from the Be’eri kibbutz by Hamas militants during their attack on southern Israel on 7 October, in which at least 1,200 people were killed and more than 240 taken hostage. She had been undergoing cancer treatment.
“The body of Yehudit Weiss, who was abducted by the Hamas terrorist organisation, was extracted by IDF troops from a structure adjacent to the Shifa hospital in the Gaza Strip and was transferred to Israeli territory,” a spokesperson for the Israel Defense Forces said late on Thursday.
“In the structure in which Yehudit was located, military equipment including Kalashnikov rifles and RPGs were also found,” the spokesperson added.
Weiss’s husband, Shmulik, was killed during the Hamas attack.
The IDF also said it had uncovered a Hamas tunnel shaft and a vehicle with weapons at the Dar al-Shifa hospital complex.
“In the Shifa hospital, IDF troops found an operational tunnel shaft and a vehicle containing a large number of weapons,” the military said. It made public videos and photographs of the tunnel shaft and weapons, though no independent verification was possible.
Israel dropped leaflets into southern Gaza, telling Palestinian civilians to leave four towns on the eastern edge of Khan Younis, fuelling fears that its offensive would spread south …
Earlier, the IDF managed to find and fatally wound the man responsible for parading the young dead woman on the back of a pickup truck on October 7.
Friday, November 17
GB News’s Patrick Christys had a hard-hitting editorial on the protesters. He went to two protests, asking participants why they continued to demonstrate but was met with verbal aggression both times. In his editorial, he expressed his disdain for the anti-Semitism we have all been seeing, reading or hearing through media outlets and social media. Finally, he took strong exception to encouraging children to take time off school to march.
Go to the 7:00 mark (21:05 on the GB News clock):
Saturday, November 18
More pro-Palestinian protests took place on Saturday, some outside Labour constituency offices, including one near Keir Starmer’s.
Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of “supporting genocide” by hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who barracked his constituency offices on Saturday.
Around 500 activists holding banners shouted: “Keir Starmer you can’t hide, you’re supporting genocide”, after marching from outside Chalk Farm station in north London …
Passers-by beeped car horns in support of the marchers, who were kept back from the constituency offices by police barriers.
It came as hundreds of people staged protests in towns and cities across Britain on Saturday calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
Around 100 pro-Palestinian rallies were held at locations around the UK, including Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth and Stevenage.
In London, there were 10 rallies held in boroughs across the capital, including Islington, Redbridge, Lewisham and Tower Hamlets.
Many of the protests targeted Labour MPs who had voted against or abstained in the vote last week on the SNP amendment to the King’s Speech calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
In Birmingham, pro-Palestinian activists barracked the offices of Labour MP Shabana Mahmood, who abstained. Here they chanted accusations of supporting genocide against Sir Keir. There were also protests outside the office of Harrow East’s Conservative MP, Bob Blackman, who voted against a ceasefire call.
The localised demonstrations were held instead of a large march in central London, where national protests involving hundreds of thousands of people had been staged every Saturday since the outbreak of the conflict …
Another newspaper reported that Starmer fears for his family’s safety:
This is not the way to win hearts and minds.
Sunday, November 19
Shadow (Labour) chancellor Rachel Reeves appeared on Laura Kuenssberg’s BBC news show to discuss the protesters’ intimidation of MPs:
In other BBC news, war correspondent Jeremy Bowen said that the arms cache at al-Shaifa Hospital was for hospital security! Amazingly awful reporting:
The IDF made public their video of the 55-meter-long terrorist tunnel, 10 meters underneath al-Shifa Hospital. This is a must-watch:
Monday, November 20
Labour MP Zara Sultana gave an interview to left-leaning Novara Media claiming that her party is Islamophobic:
The Mail carried the story:
Sultana was elected to the House of Commons in December 2019.
One month before the election that year, the Jewish Chronicle reported on her social media posts that LBC (radio) had come across:
Labour’s election candidate for Coventry South, who previously apologised for saying she would “celebrate” the deaths of Tony Blair and Benjamin Nentanayu, has been forced to apologise again after it was revealed she had told someone who was pro-Israel “jump off a cliff”.
Zarah Sultana, a 26-year-old paid Labour staffer and West Midlands regional campaigner, was selected last week as the candidate for the seat from a shortlist of just two candidates.
The article has several of her quotes, all equally distasteful.
It also includes this tweet, which sums up the content:
Of course, she apologised:
In a statement published to Twitter, she said: “I am sorry that I posted these offensive comments on social media as a teenager. I was young and immature and the language I used was wrong.
“Through my political activism I have been on a journey which has included working closely with Jewish comrades who have taught me about the language and history of antisemitism.”
She said she had visited Auschwitz in 2013 and the trip had left her determined to “never to minimise the suffering of Jewish people.”
But — and it’s a big BUT:
… further tweets uncovered this week show that she went on to make offensive remarks in 2015.
Again, you can read the article to see the content.
Let’s not forget another fact about her:
She has no business being an MP.
Meanwhile, Mr Fafo — an actor whose real name is Saleh al-Jafarawi — is still around:
That afternoon, Speaker of the House Sir Lindsay Hoyle told MPs that, as a security measure, they could use taxis on expenses getting to and from Parliament. Furthermore, the independent expenses body, IPSA, said that it would keep all information confidential.
Guido has the story and Hoyle’s letter.
Let us hope that MPs do not abuse the privilege.
In a shocking development that Guido uncovered — and one that surely must be illegal — two councillors from Kingston in south west London have emailed every councillor in the UK to tell them to support a ceasefire, or else:
James Giles and Jamal Ch[o]han have organised the effort, giving their 19,102 fellow UK councillors until Friday this week to sign on. Otherwise, they will publish “the names of those who have been invited to sign but choose not to, in the interest of accountability”. Councillors across the country are reacting pretty angrily to the threatening letter…
Giles is left-wing and a supporter of former MP George Galloway:
running various campaigns for him including Batley & Spen’s by-election in 2021. Giles previously hosted Galloway’s programme for Russia-owned SputnikTV and Galloway’s The Mother of All Talk Shows when it was aired by the now-banned RT. He also ran his grandmother’s campaign in a by-election for the same council, which the LibDems and Conservatives denounced as “dirty” for attacking their LibDem rival for being an Ahmadiyya Muslim. A pleasant character no doubt…
Jamal’s father is a Conservative Party donor.
Politics makes for strange bedfellows.
Guido tells us:
Conservative councillor Jamal Ch[o]han is the son of Tory donor and PPE provider Ashraf Chohan. Guido hears he’s on his way through the candidate process to become a Tory PCC. Guido wonders what local Conservative associations will make of that…
Fortunately, the threat appears to be a damp squib:
UPDATE: A CCHQ source tells Guido:
The councillor in question has now been kicked out of the Tory group. He’s also not a party member, so any applications from him won’t be going very far….
Swift action from the new chairman. Not seeing the same from Sir Keir with his own elected MPs…
UPDATE II: The Local Government Association has expelled the pair and sacked them from all positions.
Guido posted a screenshot of the letter from The Royal Borough of Kingston which states that the Metropolitan Police have been informed.
Conclusion
We are at a crossroads here in the United Kingdom over this conflict.
I probably won’t report much more on this because of its base and appalling nature. However, these posts are testament to what has been happening here on our streets and in our Parliament.
However, I will have one more post on the conflict in general so that we can see how people either forget or misinterpret recent history.
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