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[Jebus_lives]

Boris would have made her minister for justice or something

She'd have been in the Lords

 

[Jebus_lives]

The aftermath of the Haigh resignation in the media will be to ask Starmer why - if he knew about Haigh's fraudulent claim for a new phone - did he make her a Cabinet member.

But the real story here is Starmer laying down the law to his Cabinet members and the back benchers that he wont tolerate any dissension, which Haigh did when carrying on criticism of the P&O deal a month or so back after it became Starmer's view that their union busting conduct should be ignored for the sake of investment.

This is all about internal 'Labour' Party discipline and Starmer is prepared to ride out any embarrassment over what he knew about Haigh's misdeemeanour to secure it.

Poor decision I think. Haigh had signalled intention to make broad changes and hold companies to account for their actions.

The winners from this are the old boys networks running the transport industry.

 

[ChesterBlue]

Bold of Badenoch to call for Starmer’s resignation given she’s a xenophobic knobhead who just caused the government to lose a court case herself like

Kneecap: Belfast rap group wins case against UK government

A funding award of £15,000 to the band was blocked by former Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Eggs]

Do tend to think there must be a bit more to it, usually start of campaign...

Myself suspect there's plenty who have reported items being stolen only for them to turn up and then not inform the authorities. I doubt many have been prosecuted for it. So why her, no personal gain as its reported as "work phone", employer at material loss surely?

Indeed not sure why it's a resigning matter as it appears she hadn't hidden the incident or conviction and had let the Labour Party know about it from onset..

I'm also wondering how the story has emerged now. Wonder if someone has an axe to grind? Guess we will see if more emerges over weekend...

…..I doubt the police ever find out but with a mobile phone the insurance company get an alert as soon as it’s switched on. She switched it on so the police got to know she still had it.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Of course……

 

[davek]

Poor decision I think. Haigh had signalled intention to make broad changes and hold companies to account for their actions.

The winners from this are the old boys networks running the transport industry.

The winner is Starmer: micro-managing the whole party and reinforcing his dominance.

He'll have stored up a lot of enemies by the time his leadership hits the first real crisis.

I wouldn't rule out Rayner forcing a challenge sometime in this parliament if the conditions are there for it. She is very ambitious and she's about the only high ranking woman (or any other member of the party for that matter) that cant be forced out by Starmer without causing a major factional dispute.

 

[Harryflashman]

Seems to be rumours there may be more to come out , that labour have acted quickly knowing this . Seems to be a number of work phones that have gone missing previously

 

[peteblue]

Seems to be rumours there may be more to come out , that labour have acted quickly knowing this . Seems to be a number of work phones that have gone missing previously

No.10 are in full throw anyone under a bus but insist Starmer knew nothing about it. It’s amazing how much stuff, from his CPS days and right up to today, that he ‘didn’t know about’. I have some sympathy for the lady involved but Snake Charmer Starmer needs to start answering some questions. You can only imagine his feigned pious horror had this been done by anyone else…….

 

[Jebus_lives]

No.10 are in full throw anyone under a bus but insist Starmer knew nothing about it. It’s amazing how much stuff, from his CPS days and right up to today, that he ‘didn’t know about’. I have some sympathy for the lady involved but Snake Charmer Starmer needs to start answering some questions. You can only imagine his feigned pious horror had this been done by anyone else…….

I thought all the snakes were in the Tory party kicking Boris out.

 

[Xizor]

I'm not following 'snake charmer' as much of an insult. It implies the other people around him are the snakes (problem) but he's managing to deal with them.

 

[Harryflashman]

No.10 are in full throw anyone under a bus but insist Starmer knew nothing about it. It’s amazing how much stuff, from his CPS days and right up to today, that he ‘didn’t know about’. I have some sympathy for the lady involved but Snake Charmer Starmer needs to start answering some questions. You can only imagine his feigned pious horror had this been done by anyone else…….

Are they saying he didn’t know ? Seems a bit of an odd statement if that’s the line they’re running . Puzzling really , it might be totally to protect himself & his government or maybe like discussed more is coming .

I understand you’d be shocked with someone getting sacked from a cabinet position, I bet you were waiting for them to change the rules like with Patterson or like with pincher pretend if didn’t happen , joke about it , throw some junior members ‘under the bus ‘ and then lie a bit .

 

[Jebus_lives]

I'm not following 'snake charmer' as much of an insult. It implies the other people around him are the snakes (problem) but he's managing to deal with them.

He's like a modern say St Patrick.

 

[Brigadier2]

Just to get this straight the tories didn't think fraud was worth putting in the national crime statistics and the 20 billion in fraud during covid is a waste public funds to investigate but now a minor fraud should bring down the government , what a load of scum

 

[Xizor]

Socialism in action. Kick the toffs to the kerb!

 

[davek]

Socialism in action. Kick the toffs to the kerb!

I couldn't care less where they were educated as long as they were decent people trying to work toward an egalitarian society. This lot are scum who want to double down on austerity and target immigrants.