Mark Menzies: is UK politics full of scandal?
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- This week on The Political Fourcast, another scandal hits the Tories - Mark Menzies MP loses the whip as the Conservative Party investigates claims that he misused campaign funds. He allegedly made a late night call to ask for money to pay off "bad people". He disputes the allegations and senior Tory MPs are telling voters not to rush to judgement. With upcoming local elections and a looming general election, the allegations risk damaging the party in government.
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But is today’s story just another example in a long line of MPs from all parties flouting the rules?
Since 2019, there have been at least 10 cases of Conservative MPs that have either been suspended or quit over allegations of misconduct. Similarly, across the same time period, there have been at least four Labour MPs accused of misconduct, along with one from the SNP and one from Plaid Cymru.
This week, we speak to the SNP’s deputy leader in the Commons Mhairi Black, who’s announced she will stand down at the next election. And former Education Secretary Justine Greening, who had the Tory whip withdrawn after opposing Boris Johnson over Brexit in 2019. They talk to us about mistrust in politics, and why this “jaw dropping” scandal could be a “plague” on politics at large, and confirm what voters think of Westminster’s politicians.
Produced by Silvia Maresca, Shaheen Sattar, Rob Thomson, Calum Fraser, Nick Jackson.
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Now it makes sense why they were going after Angela Rayner days before
No Rayners a scum bag and deserves all she gets complete hipercrite laber sum
Is there a stronger sign of guilt than the phrase "Tory MP strongly denies these allegations"?
“Tory MP found breathing” is normally evidence enough of guilt.
Just reminds me of that Little Britain character.
@@IainFrameor the politician Sir Geoffrey Norman MP from the fast show! 😂
@@justin6378 Ha - both! 🔥
...and when they finally get around to doing their jobs Dickens & Orwell step in 😢
Sounds like someone didn't want to pay his dealer. About time MPs were drugs tested I think.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Waste of a drug test. Just get them paying from their own pocket. The problem at the root of it all is this: those that contribute the least to the upkeep and future needs of our nation have the major influence over the important decisions. Until this fundamental injustice is rectified the pain and poverty will continue
First up... Gove.
And who would enforce that law? The Lapdog Police?
@@brianbell3836 should be mandatory
Why have the Tory party kept this from the police? I thought failing to report a crime is a criminal offence.
The plod pick and choose which crimes they want to investigate thats why!!!
Political police commissioners ensure the police are looking the other way.
Why was the police investigation into party-gate so gentle to Tories?
And then that piece of work Holden demands that the police investigate... again...£1500 allegedly not paid by a Labour MP. Backed up by the Mail.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Known for… 3 months. They’d be monumentally stupid to be having a pop at Angela Rayner. Except they are utterly desperate.
I used to think Tories were competent but evil, but its worse, they're incompetent and evil.
Raynor may have been naive - we've yet to see but it is a ridiculous accusation compared with Hunt and his Luxury flats....
Twice, very publicly on Sky News and the BBC, Mark Menzies has been asked what his allegations against Angela Ranger are. On both occasions he blustered and obfuscated and ultimately refused to say what they were, falsely claiming he couldn't due to a 'live police investigation'. The real reason is because he knows his allegations are false and he'd be laying himself wide open to a prosecution for slander by Rayner if he was to state them publicly. Something he cannot afford, particularly as he's going to lose his seat in the upcoming general election.
@@Titus9508 ...and all the other massive tax dodgers.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Private Schoolboys, emotionally stunted, running riot in the dorm. Lord of the Flies stuff they learned very young.
Emotionally stunted or lacking in empathy, intelligence and respect for the general public
Boarding school syndrome
@@SassySlater..... who elect them (let's not forget).
Its called rape.@Coelacanth1
@@howardrisby9621 all GE’s are rigged
What planet are these people on? Take a look at what MPs have done to this country and dont forget their fantastic pensions.
I think they are tremendous, our MP's.
What might be questionable - there is no suggestion this is happening - is taking a 40/60ths pension immediately accessible from day one - then increasing it with as much AVC's as you want to make or 3 parties consulting with you might pay you to make.
@@peterbalchin9077 really? This country has been destroyed over the last 14 years. Greening supported every cut to public services the bedroom tax trashing the police and the military. Do you really think these creatures are great? Are you in the UK? I assume the answer is no.
@@peterbalchin9077love the sarcasm
They are implementing Agenda 2030 on behalf of some Billionaires, and our whole system is onboard including Starmer.
Do the majority of Conservatives need to go on the register????
Yes
Probably.
they prob are already.
Who's he been fiddling with besides the money😂
They will make it compulsory!!
The usual reason the “Bad Men” come at 3 in the morning is that Piggy Malone hasn’t paid for his Charley Farley.
"Bad Men"= rent boys
Exactly !!!
Spot on. (cool tag, by the way)
@@turk3287 Nah, = unpaid drug dealer. TBF, they could be one and the same.
Showing your age with the Two Ronnies reference!
Integrity, accountability and professionalism.
The tories knew about this months ago, yet he didn't lose the whip until it became public knowledge.
To become a dictator you need corrupt people around you and sunak keeps them close
There's only one reason someone would call at that time of night asking for money and it's almost certainly south American in origin. Another Tory MP with a taste for the devil's dandruff, nothing if not predictable.
Obviously a crackhead.
I heard the male prostitute was Brazilian, allegedly. Not sure about the marching powder.
Why else be an "unpaid trade advisor" (yes that's what he was) to Colombia (& Peru, Chile, Argentina)?
@@dwdei8815 we're talking Bolivia! Probably got a connection from Gideon!😳😂
No. This is even harder stuff. This is meth psychosis. Meth is almost unheard of in the UK outside of the gay community, but it is destroying gay communities in major cities like London and Manchester.
He said he fell in with a a bad crowd,THE TORY PARTY 😂😂😂
LoL good shout..
Could have been labour party though. They seem not to be squeaky clean either😄. I like to think Blair would have cleaned up a lot while he was in office, he had plenty of time to clean things up but all we seem to seem is a strange suntan that even Trump may be proud of, and many unanswered questions about illegal wars that left many people dead.
"Take Me to My Cocaine Dealer" Mark Menzies cos Taxpayers will cough up involuntarily.
Only £5,000? That's not very much for a ransom, surely?
@gerrylast But it wasn't so don't fall for the "they're all the same" shtick which the Tories want us to believe.
I don't think this story is jaw dropping or bizarre, it's what I've come to expect from Tory MPs.
Have you asked the obvious question: who got the £5k?
Why not?
Who paid whom?
And what about a police investigation? None as usual?
They’re too busy investigating Angela Raynor for err ummm hmmm ahhhh something? Ask Daly he wants her prosecuted! Oh I forgot, he doesn’t know either😂😂😂😂😂😂
Will there be a forensic tent in his garden like Nicola sturgeon? I very much doubt it.
When nippy is in jail will she be sharing a cell with her pal in the wig a leggings she tried to get put in a female prison?
And when was she charged with anything 😮
@@erictaylor2831tick tock
Is there anyone left in the UK who hasn't yet woken up to who & what the Tory Party are & what they represent.
Its not just the torys they are all the same.
@@markhilbert6573 All those on the right & far right yes definitely.
@@markhilbert6573 No, *all* politicians are *not* the same.
They are a public school debating club formed to take our money off us.
I wonder if there is anyone who remembers when the Labour Party didn't despise the working class? Trust me, none of them represent you.
Parliament is a difficult place for a compassionate, articulate person from a working class background in particular. Interesting discussion. 👍
If this sort of malarkey was going on elsewhere in another country it would be called out as being a "Banana Republic"!
If we didn't uphold a monarchy we could very well be called a Banana republic
@@Coelacanth1It is beginning to become possible to grow bananas outdoors in the UK.
Typical of Westminster. Typical of the Tories.
all politicians are unsafe to trust they should be whiter than white alas they're NOT.
The tory party is one sick puppy . Always has been.
Both the major parties are.
Politicians do know what goes on in Westminster, just like BBC staff knew about Saville.
Which means the only way to make it in politics, is to turn a blind eye, because if you speak up you become a target.
Sick, the swamp needs draining.
@@dlmdee No
@@kyecypress labour not as much. Best we can get atm
Sick puppy? More like Old Yeller!
Brilliant conversation. Channel 4 has been leading the way with investigative journalism and now with longer format reasoned discussion.
The common denominator of all these scandals seems to be private schooling. 😮
And Coke
@@stephfoxwell4620Anyone can become a "coke addict" (😂) but education in entitlement is only available at a price ordinary people can't pay. 😊
They believe they are untouchable that's what privelage does to you
GREED
@@stephfoxwell4620 Rishi has admitted on camera to being a "coke addict" (the drink I think) but "education on entitlement" is only on the curriculum at a price that ordinary people cannot pay (let's see if THIS one passes moderation) 🤔.
And Tories are on about Angela Rayner, typical Tory Gaslighting,
Lol you are funny, would you trust her over any of them? I will give you a clue, the political class despise you and discount your vote.
And you support what’s happening in Gaza. Captain gammon.
Am I misunderstanding, or do you feel calling someone Gammon is not racist, and said to dismiss them as less?
how fast did Sunak move on the Chris Pinscher case ?? he now seems to turn a blind eye to all sorts of hideous goings on! A man of such principle!! Unelected cabinet and overseeing dismal behaviour as they are on the way out of power.
Yes, an opinion poll rating of just 19% focuses the mind wonderfully.
That was on johnsons watch. He was RELUCTANTLY sacked.
Interestingly sunnaks.respnse to this is attack people who's Dr's gave signed them off work.
Disgusting
@@williamevans9426 If there is one thing the English could be said to stand for, it is fair play. Sunak doomed the Tories the moment he had his globalist mates do a Hatchet job on Truss (who wasn't smart enough to do the job anyway) you don't get to behave like that and stand a chance of reelection. So we are paying the most tax in 70 years and as usual the public services deteriorate and the next election will see a Labour government and the inevitable tax rises while services deteriorate with a side serving of authoritarian attacks on thought, speech and assembly.
Its laughable how they use Rayner as a distraction
She has done that herself.
Distractions are all they have left...and *more* scandals to come.
Distractions is all they have left...and *more* scandals.
She's done nothing lol... Bozo gave tax payers money to his squeeze £100 k it's a joke how the working class hate Labour and Rayner... Irony a working class girl dies good and the gammon hate her
@@stevehall6299 Of course Labour has some form. Keith Vaz, Dawn Butler, Fiona Onasanya, Claudia Webbe, to mention just a few.
Love Love Mhaire Black, now that will be a loss. She just tells it like it is, no gobbledegook just plain talking.
I agree, she is a fresh voice of honesty and logic in a sea of sewage, but she keeps her integrity and dignity.
You love a dangerous misogynist thats politics comes from woke teen Americans?
@@billpugh58 integrity and snp are u for real
Totally agree. Mhaire Black is one of the very few mps with commitment, honesty and integrity.
Hope she becomes an msp.
oh come on, it's not "public service" that attracts people to politics.
The Bullington club ....if you've voted for them you get what you deserve
The Selfservatives know what they're in it for
It's the blow!
they rarely ever speak about what's best for the country or indeed the electorate...they are just interested in developing policies that benefit them and their rich mates
In the Menzies case, it appears that he was more interested in members of the public - especially the Brazilian public - servicing him!
I'm starting to think the Tory selection process is based on a casting couch in a young boys school.
Trade envoy to Colombia, you couldnt make this stuff up. With Benton in Blackpool & Menzies in neighbouring Fylde its fair to say the top drawer talent the tory party attracts is second to none.
That red wall's going well eh?
@@steveholmes11 Just imagine if labour did anything for Scotland except count on their vote. Perhaps the SNP would have remained a fringe party. Just imagine if labour did anything for the red wall except ignore child rape gangs and count on their vote....
Mhairi Black's departure is a MASSIVE LOSS to British democracy 😢.
sorry UK are no longer democratic country but dangerous regime exactly the same like Russia China Iran and North Korea and this is facts forever
Agree love marie black
Indeed, I remember her stunning maiden speech. Can't remember any other MP's equivalent.
It is an indictment of the whole system. She will be missed.
She Should have joined us Corbyn supporters ✌🏻🏴🇮🇪
Naked in a basement, I thought Tory MPs paid good money for that...but six and half grand, FFFS(to quote a senior Tory)!
Miss Black, a sad loss to politics. All the best in your future life.
Agreed...
Yes she was brilliant 👏.
I hope this was sarcasm
@@alexanderfarquharson539 Not at all. She was the one speaker in the HoC who could guarantee a good laugh.
@@alexanderfarquharson539no it was not
if someone did that to me at 3am i would call police and do a welfare check on him.
Can't tell me any party is any better.Tories Labour SNP all the same pockets filled with tax payers cash
Not a “ Honourable “ one amongst them , all out to get what they can !!
There’s more than a thousand of them including the lords. The only way all of them are only out for themselves is if we assume the human race itself is intrinsically selfish
Mini , Let us assume then !
Remind me about Anthony Blair and how he amassed a £350M fortune since leaving politics? Never told a lie, or did a deal. Then there was Kinnock and his entire family jumping on the EEC/EU gravy train to uphold his good socialist values. There was a time the left lied and the right stole (except of course when they did both) now it's a case of trying to work out who will sell you out the slowest....
This rather puts the Rayner non story in perspective. Menzies could do time for this. He exploited vulnerable lady as well as robbing cash....but more serious than that is that the tory party knew about this is January but have only come clean after a newspaper got hold of it...
GENERAL ELECTION NOW!!
What difference would that make?
why ? what difference will it make.. the entirety of british politics and westminster is a sewer.. you actually want to vote for these rats ?
@@fionagregory9147none
Yes please!!!
There all rigged
Fairly obviously both The Lords and Commons need root and branch reform.
No one seems to question the deterioration of community in Britain. Closure of youth centres , post offices , banks , public toilets , libraries, and many other entities , all contribute to societal breakdown. Many European countries do everything they can to devolve power to small towns and villages , whose interest is in supporting and improving their local facilities.
Not to mention that in most countries it is family first , and job second. The UK is now like the US .....job first and much of this is derived from pure necessity.
It's meant to be singapore now but.... The peope doesn't want it.
They seem to be genuinely supprised that politics is full of people whos only real interest is to gratify their own greed and perversions. 😂😂😂
Suspected misappropriation of party funds in the SNP? Police pounces. Supposed irregularities with Rayner (and previously Starmer)? Police pounces. This time accused misappropriation of party funds? The police looks up the party's name and could not be bothered.
Exactly!
The SNP should all be arrested for corruption and theft absolutely disgusting party that has ruined Scotland.
Mandy rice davies.....Christine Keebler. Honey traps for perverted mp.s..who are they going to blame???
So explain the Met..... Could it be political policing? I think the nothing to see here response to Rayner defeats the argument. The police were literally shamed into doing their job. That isn't really the point, though she has form for calling for resignations without any proof of wrongdoing. Should she be held to different standards?
@@simanothername3035 Investigating something that has its statuary limitation already past, i.e. zero possibility of prosecution, is a waste of public funds.
Totally changed my mind about Mhairi Black. She talks so much sense.
She always has. Maybe you weren't listening.
She promotes drag queen story hour so shes not even bright.
She always did, every word. Has given some of the best speeches in the commons too.
Where were you FHS? Probably one of the most honest and straight talking MPs Westminster has seen for a good while. Her speeches have repeatedly nailed Tory hypocrisy over and over.
@@davebox588 Calm down.
I can work out what the Tories have done but the SNP seem to be endlessly investigated but no one gets charged with a crime !
Maybe it's like the Angela Rayner thing. The media making a bigger deal of the smaller stuff to divert attention from what the Tories get up to
Salmond was charged and found not guilty. Other investigations are ongoing, if there is evidence of criminal behaviour, they will be charged too. If they're not charged, there isn't compelling evidence to take it to court. That's how the legal system works. In fact, Murrell has just been re-arrested. Politicians are all the same, all out for themselves.
Mr Murrel has just been arrested again. Perhaps Police Scotland are approaching a charge sheet
Not yet but it's coming.
@@robertawallace9817 what you mean is after more than three years of a ridiculous amount of investigations they will produce some absolutely innocuous at the time of the general election in an attempt to discredit the SNP. As it is, the fair minded Scottish electorate is wise to this nonsense by the British establishment. Only this time they’ve overplayed their hand with the ridiculous blue tents.
Any one from Eton,,,,in fact any public school barred from standing for MP,,,,,,
Power does NOT corrupt. The corrupt seek power
Valid point
That's a whole lot of BS.
Why not both?
I hate it when everybody makes sweeping generalizations 😂
@@niamcd6604well it’s not exactly a lot. Don’t get so triggered. I don’t even remember who said that. Some philosopher. But seriously. Chill. It’s just a quote. No need to get all bent out of shape about it
The UK system is fkd. It needs a complete rethink. Westminster has too much autonomy and needs taken down. Local devolved communities can handle better what Westminster has failed to do. We need a total change. Conventions are needed urgently.
Yes, vote Reform Party!
to right we do and not Reform , same people under a different name
Devolution in this country seems to have meant more opportunities for dodgy deals/ backhanders, with little to no oversight.
@@greenandpleasant5523 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@greenandpleasant5523 They're just the conservatives but worse.
Not the politics, darling. Just the Tories.
This is the goal of the Rayner smear attempt, to create voter apathy about 'all sides are the same', when one side is objectively much worse.
The Politics and the Tories
The politics and the Tories
He was explaining conservative policy to a young Brazilian man when he slipped on a cherry and happened to end up inside him, the £5k was a way of saying thank you, no, sorry, I mean it was a way of saying sorry.
Like that little britain skit haha
The Tories are in melt down. Watched Question Time last night and cabinet minister David TC Davies, the Welsh secretary, came across as condescending, odious, ignorant and rude. He was unhinged, attacking Bridget Phillipson, Fiona Bruce and putting the audience down. If this is the Tory version of "standards in public life", no wonder they have so much sleaze and scandal to deal with.
He had the Columbian trade job
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Can't believe a tory mp didnt have 5k. Bizzare.
We don't know where he was, though. 'Probably didn't carry quite that amount on his person (unless he has VERY expensive tastes). On the other hand...!
Cocaine... Cocaine
Seems a common factor in a lot of our delinquent representatives.
Excellent as always Mhairi 👏👏👏
Time to get rid of this laughing stock of tory hypocrites no wonder they get ignored around the World.
The red team are just as swampy as the blue.
@@giddy9052Objectively false.
@@giddy9052 Can you name a Labour government that turned out scandals every week? I do get that bad apples are in every party, but the Tory barrel is overflowing. Let's be honest.
@@giddy9052Keep supporting the the utterly corrupt Tories, we don’t care😂
@@giddy9052please give evidence for that monumentally stupid remark!
No, the Tories are. They knew about this months ago.
'Quite the marmalade dropper,' Great line to open up discussion on this debacle.
But Angela… now we know why they tried to get that in the media before this came out.
I have sympathy, but for goodness sake he’s been here before and must have a JCB rather than a shovel to dig such a hole for himself.
Sleaze and scandal are synonyms for the tories
Keith Vaz…Cyril Smith..the list goes on from all the parties
A person, or persons, kidnapped a Tory MP, and released him upon payment of Stg6,500?
Does ANYONE believe that people are willing to risk VERY LONG jail sentences for that trivial sum?
This is nonsense, on stilts!
Utterly incredible, aka unbelievable.
WTAF is going on in the UK?
The Tory party is going on that’s what. There has not been so much sleaze and corruption in the country for centuries but the past 14 years has done it on stilts.
Those across the aisle are your opposition. Your enemies are in the seats behind you.
Refreshing to see politicians talking without personal political agendas.
This debate outshines the BBC,s somewhat ' Chimpanzee's tea party Question Time .
QT certainly is these days.
@@stevehall6299I think zoos have been banned from holding chimpanzees' tea parties for about the last 50 years, on the grounds that they undermine the dignity of the chimpanzees.
They keep saying‘Westminster’ when they really mean ‘Conservative Party’ … these are mainly Tory problems NOT all Westminster problems.
Great chat without BBC or MSM bias. Love it!
All tories should get back in the bin they got out of
This lady hit the nail on the head , half the MPs went to a few top universities often the same Private Schools.
I’m sorry but they are excusing a little too much the behaviour of this MP. How about you don’t get yourself into a situation where you could be blackmailed in the first place? How about you have some decency and a working moral compass.
It's taken until 2024.to ask this question?
Justine Greening actually helped me,yes a tory helping.I am a pensioner with rheumitoid arthritis,since I was 38yrs old.I had to be assessed every 3 yrs,she changed mine to about 10yrs before I need to be reassessed,because she knew,you dont get better over time,you get worse,so ONE tory caring.
If she was caring she wouldn't have joined the tory party. Likely she wanted to keep her seat by doing things in her constituency
She left the education secretary post because she refused to enact May's policy of pushing through more grammar schools. The only Tory education secretary I had any respect for
Everyone should go out and vote for your local 'Workers party' candidate and help George Galloway ruffle some feathers in the house. 🙏🕊️
MPs/parliament has to have a broader acceptance. It's still a rich boys' club full of privilege tossers (or maybe that's mainly the conservatives). It's time for reform, where everyone feels comfortable participating in positive change.
It isn't a good look for the Tories if they have to counter all their sleaze with the possibility that Rayner may not have paid the right amount of tax before she was an MP.
This scandal pales in comparison to someone potentially not filling out a form correctly in 2015 and maybe avoiding £1500 in CGT.
These "bad people" ? I guess his first port of call would have been the "old bill" unless he had no confidence in them right?
British politics isn’t full of scandal, it just appears to be populated by scandalous people and it’s easy to conflate the two.
And the Tufton St fascist enablers will already have booked airtime with Kuennsberg and her fellow bingo callers for this weekend
I think he had already snorted the "devil's dandruff " and was off his ties when he called
We need to get Angela Merkle out of retirement to run the country, These utterly corrupt things vote themselves bigger pay and pensions for failing spectacularly, then still want more,
Haven’t they been paying attention? 🤦♀️
Poor Mark In real danger kidnapped gets nan to cough up 6500 from the biscuit tin and gets him released nothing to see here Guv albeit he has some prevoius
The ‘Spreadsheet’ = the blackmail sheet.
Such a travesty that she’s leaving parliament, someone that ACTUALLY represents the people
Corporate HR departments do not exist for the benefit of employees....
Rotten to the core.
RENT boyz wanting £££££
UK politicians, along with the Royals, and along with media will continue to coverup the deaths of orphans in care #RIP ❤️
Establishment pee dohs!!
MPs should get drug tested
That, and a psychiatric evaluation.😂
Nope. Just the Tory side.
cyril smith lord janner
@@marksavage1108and the reason you can name them proves the point that there have been monumentally fewer wrong doers in all the other political parties combined. Nice try though.
@@Lynnefromlyn we will never know how many perverts there are/ were in westminster after theresa may deleted the file. fewer wrong doers???? labour actively ignored the many many reports about their child rape squad grooming gang perverts. those hundreds of gang rapists bumps labour right up the SLEAZE indicator, and should we stay quiet about labour having the most MPs sent to prison? the tories are scum, labour are worse.
Well done Channel 4 keep up your great journalism. . The only mainstream channel on British TV investigating the truth . . 👍
This, unbelievably, isn’t the worst bit…
A Tory MP was quizzed by police over allegations he got a dog drunk and had a brawl with a friend.
Mark Menzies, who represents the Lancashire constituency of Fylde, was accused of locking himself in his friend’s house, drunkenly feeding the dog alcohol and then starting a booze-fuelled brawl when the friend confronted him about it.
Mr Menzies was interviewed by police but not charged, and strongly denies any wrongdoing.
The incident took place in August 2015, with the homeowner reportedly calling police from a neighbour’s house after the fight spilled out on to the street.
The two men, who according to the Daily Mirror been drinking all day, each told police that the other had attacked them.
Documents seen by the paper show an emergency vet’s bill of nearly £500 for treating the dog for “intoxication” and “poisoning”.
Mr Menzies claims the police dropped their investigation after he showed them pictures of his friend plying the dog with alcoholic drinks.
Ridiculous lies (allegedly)
It's a tory thing
Mhairi Black's maiden speech was the best ever....an AMAZING WOMAN
"In 2012 reports confirmed 243 (43%) of Parliamentary MPs out of 650, had criminal records over a wide range of offences and included "prison terms" in some cases." FOI request.
More recent freedom of information requests have been deliberately delayed and not answered.
This is the first one of these I've watched. It's really good.
Jesus wept what a mess, problem is (me speaking as a lifelong Socialist) is terrified of the prospect Starmer represents, a typica; One Nation Conservative by ANY definition offering zero political change and the fact he has been radicalised by Zionism being anywhere Britain's policies for the Middle East. Apart from his still appalling record on Gaza, he is the only Labour leader to suspend Jews who disagree with Netenyahu.
That's bull💩 and clearly you're either a tory or reform votevoter and not a socialist
Really? When every action has been covered including his justifications for breaking Party rules. in various media He describes himself as 'A Zionist without Qualification', he refused to release his backers during the election and only revealed afterwards he is supported by backers linked directly to Israeli promotional enterprises, not to mention millionaires who made their wealth under Apartheid South Africa. There are dozens of Court cases still in the offing from suspended left leaning Jews. Scuppering the SNP day motion was one of the lowest acts in recent political history - it would be easy to go on.
Here's a bit of education for your childish accusations. Socialism is a movement, not a product of the Labour Party, sometimes the two align and we have get the post war Labour Government - many times it does not and very feeble brains find that difficult to understand.
It must be tosh.
I mean, Starmers leadership campaign wasn't secretly funded by Zionist millionaire and supporter of west bank settlement development Trevor Chinn was he?
I mean, Keir Starmer didn't employ an 'ex' mossad propagandist into his communications team did he?
It's not as if Keir Starmer claimed that Israel is not an apartheid state did he?
It's not as if Keir Starmer abandoned the decades long Labour pledge to recognise Palestinian statehood did he?
It's not as if Martin Forde KC claimed that there is a hierarchy of racism in the party or that antisemitism is used as a factional tool by weaponising disciplinary mechanisms did he?
It must be tosh.
I mean, Starmers leadership campaign wasn't secretly funded by Zionist millionaire and supporter of west bank settlement development Trevor Chinn was he?
I mean, Keir Starmer didn't employ an 'ex' mossad propagandist into his communications team did he?
It's not as if Keir Starmer claimed that Israel is not an apartheid state did he?
It's not as if Keir Starmer abandoned the decades long Labour pledge to recognise Palestinian statehood did he?
It must be tosh.
I mean, Stsrmers leadership campaign wasn't secretly funded by Zionist millionaire and supporter of west bank settlement development Trevor Chinn was he?
I mean, Keir Starmer didn't employ an 'ex' mossad propagandist into his communications team did he?
It's not as if Keir Starmer claimed that Israel is not an apartheid state did he?
It's not as if Keir Starmer abandoned the decades long Labour pledge to recognise Palestinian statehood did he?
Mari Black - a left wing Lesbian and Justine Greening - a right wing Lesbian. Fight!
Dear me, Justine Greening talking sense? Have I shifted into a parallel universe?!
Locked in a flat with bad people at 3.00 am. Something you do not want your wife and kids to hear.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂
And now the SNP is in deep trouble, emezzlement.
Makes you wonder why the police are not involved with Mark Menzies since that is also alleged embezzlement... 🤔
Yeah we all know! What’s your point?
@@billpugh58 That parties seem to keep fucking up.
@@billpugh58oh dear,would you rather no one mentioned that?