multitool
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"rent free"
Former Labour MP arrested on suspicion of child grooming offence
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"rent free"
monkers
Squire
Are you referring to this?
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/pol...-keir-starmer-green-party-green-b1091435.html
multitool
Guest
She is but, typically, she is being a bit disingenuous.
The man wasn't expelled. He was written to and asked to account for expressing support for a rival political party. He chose not to reply so a threat was made.
theclaud
Reading around the chip
"A threat was made." Well, that's alright then. Completely normal, healthy behaviour for a supposedly progressive, democratic party towards someone who literally ran an organisation that campaigned openly for non-partisan co-operation.
I wasn't specifically referring to Lawson, as it happens, because many people have been suspended or expelled for equally disingenuous or idiotic reasons, including several for agreeing with utterances of the Green Party. But it's as good an example as any, because it demonstrated (for anyone dozy enough not to have noticed already) how deeply vacuous and unserious these people are, about anything except maintaining their own status.
multitool
Guest
It is alright if it's a decimated and fractured party trying to recover from the most disastrous period in its recent history and the biggest defeat in the best part of a century. If that recovery necessitated strict party discipline including messaging then so be it. Result: they won the election.
Now, we all realise you didn't want them to win, would have preferred the disinterred corpse of Michael Foot, can't shut up about it (Keir Starmer rent free in your head) and will take any opportunity for a swipe, no matter how obtuse the angle and even if it involves diverting a thread about an oleaginous horny paedo.
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monkers
Squire
To be fair Michael Foot was clever and had a certain integrity, more than can be said than many parliamentarians these days. He wasn't my cup of tea back in 1973 when he was advocating voting against remaining in the run-up to the UK's first ever never-end-dumb; but his arguments with Heath were memorable. And he didn't wear a donkey jacket to the Cenotaph, shows that even then the evil Tory spin machine was revving away.
multitool
Guest
He wasn't just clever, he was a proper academic. That rarely seems to translate into being an effective leader, whether of party or country.
monkers
Squire
I agree. I was just turned 18 when I got to use my vote in 1975, which was not a GE but the first ever UK referendum. I remember watching the two debates with Heath on TV. It was powerful stuff. I took the side of Heath on that debate and voted to remain in the EC, but was nonetheless impressed by Foot's acumen. In the following GE I voted for Labour. I've never voted Conservative, but there have been Conservatives that I have admired.
winjim
Welcome yourself into the new modern crisis
What's the Jewish word for chutzpah? I very rarely go on twitter these days but I just did and the first thing I saw was Ivor Caplin still very much at it. Another person might have deleted their account, stopped tweeting, or at least stopped quite so publicly trying to get bottomed by twinks. Not our Ivor, he's doubling down and even retweeting some of his earlier attempts, as well as criticism of the erstwhile Home Secretary's response to the CSA report...
AuroraSaab
Shaman
Yes, he's posted 'Nice pic' under a photo of shirtless young men, having just been arrested for trying to meet a 15 year old boy.
I do wonder if his account has been hacked because the police would surely be keeping his phone for a while to look into his online activities and would have suggested he stay off line. Or he really is incredibly stupid.
I do wonder if his account has been hacked because the police would surely be keeping his phone for a while to look into his online activities and would have suggested he stay off line. Or he really is incredibly stupid.
OP
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glasgowcyclist
Über Member
He could easily be accessing the account from another device. I have three, aside from my mobile.
And his follow count has gone up by 500 since his arrest. I wonder how many are curious onlookers and how many are of like mind to him? 😯
multitool
Guest
Paedos by association if you believe Claude*
*Weird how people who spend a lot of time on the Internet think that so must everyone else.
C R
Veteran
Paedos by association if you believe Claude*
*Weird how people who spend a lot of time on the Internet think that so must everyone else.
Eh?
AuroraSaab
Shaman
Another MP arrested for sexual offences, Dan Norris, Labour Somerset North East. Not worth a new thread. Doubt he'll be stupid enough to keep posting on social media like the other one.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rested-suspicion-rape-child-sex-offences.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...rested-suspicion-rape-child-sex-offences.html
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OP
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glasgowcyclist
Über Member
Alternative link here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx48gq0y77o
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx48gq0y77o
Norris, 65, was elected as the MP for North East Somerset and Hanham in 2024, defeating the Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.
He had previously been in Parliament from 1997 to 2010 representing the seat of Wansdyke.
The MP was a junior minister under Gordon Brown and was an assistant whip under Tony Blair.
Norris has also served as the Mayor of the West of England since 2021 but is due to step down ahead of May's local elections.
According to the West of England Combined Authority website, Norris previously worked as an NSPCC-trained child protection officer.
In a statement, Avon and Somerset Police said: "In December 2024, we received a referral from another police force relating to alleged non-recent child sex offences having been committed against a girl.
"Most of the offences are alleged to have occurred in the 2000s but we're also investigating an alleged offence of rape from the 2020s.
"An investigation, led by officers within Operation Bluestone, our dedicated rape and serious sexual assault investigation team, remains ongoing and at an early stage.
