🚜🌾🇬🇧Claire B 🐄No Farmers No Food 🇬🇧🐔🐑
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Conservative, Brexiteer. Thank you Boris.
My Labour Party will always be on the side of pensioners let down by the Tories.
Polanski apologises over houseboat council tax bbc.in/42tv1Ci
Starmer's new "special envoy" already hard at work, handing out peerages. Message since deleted, but this was sent to Labour's defeated leader in Oldham. They never change.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz just called the EU a "complete failure" in front of global elites by stating, "Germany & Europe have wasted incredible potential. We have become the world champion of over-regulation & zero growth."
HARMAN LOBBIES FOR LORDS SEAT FOR COUNCILLOR WHO BLOCKED GANG RAPE INQUIRY Baroness Harriet Harman is lobbying to place Arooj Shah in the House of Lords. Harman, a Labour peer and former deputy leader of the party, posted a public reply to Shah’s X account. The message was short. “Hi. Hope all good with you. For next Lords list? H.” She is a sitting member of the second chamber. She is using that position to bring into the same house the woman who spent years blocking a government investigation into the cover-up of the gang rape of children in Oldham. SHAH BLOCKED THE INQUIRY Arooj Shah is the leader of Oldham Council. She is despised across the town for a specific and documented reason. She repeatedly blocked attempts to call in the government to investigate how the rape of young White girls by Pakistani rape gangs was buried by the very institutions she now leads. She is regularly seen in the company of a convicted heroin dealer who was the getaway driver for a cop killer. Her brother is a convicted money launderer. She celebrates election victories alongside a man convicted for kidnap and torture. These are not allegations. They are matters of record. HARMAN KNOWS Labour’s exposure on grooming gangs is severe. The national inquiry exists because journalists and campaigners forced it into being against the resistance of MPs like her colleagues. Harman knows what Oldham represents in that story. She sent the tweet anyway. The Joint Committee on Human Rights cannot be chaired by a politician privately advancing the Lords prospects of a council leader implicated in blocking accountability for child sexual exploitation. Harman’s mandate and her conduct are irreconcilable. She has made her choice visible. A PEERAGE ENDS THE QUESTION A Lords appointment would place Shah beyond the reach of any future local election. It would insulate her from the political consequences of everything documented above and give her a platform no Oldham voter could remove. Nobody proposes a peerage in a two-line tweet without having run the conversation already. Harman is not acting alone. Somewhere in the Labour leadership, someone looked at Arooj Shah’s record and decided she deserved elevation to the second chamber of the British Parliament. They looked at everything above and concluded she was the right choice. That decision was made. It was made deliberately. And it was made by people who believe they will never be held to account for it. THE COUNCIL MOTION Reform UK councillors in Oldham will be asked to table a motion at the next full council meeting calling on the council to write formally to the House of Lords Appointments Commission opposing any nomination for Arooj Shah. A letter from Oldham Council itself carries a different weight than letters from individuals. It is the institution she leads, on record, telling the body responsible for vetting her that her own town objects. HOLAC cannot ignore a formal submission from the council whose leader is under consideration. It becomes part of the file. Labour councillors do not have the numbers to vote it down. Should any other councillor try, they will have voted to suppress Oldham’s objection to the woman who blocked the rape gang inquiry being handed a life peerage. Their vote will also be on record. _________ I’m Raja Miah MBE. For seven years, I led a campaign that exposed how senior Labour politicians helped protect Pakistani rape gangs. The people of my town helped force the national inquiry. My work is free. No paywalls. No gatekeeping. No exclusions. Because the truth shouldn’t belong only to those who can afford it. If you can afford to do so, supporting me costs as little as 75p a week (£30 a year). Sign up here; 👉 redwallandtherabble.co.uk If you can’t commit to a regular subscription, a one-off contribution genuinely helps keep this alive. You can support me using one of these links; 👉 BuyMeACoffee.com/recusantnine 👉 paypal.me/RecusantNine
EXC: Lisa Nandy tells @cathynewman there will be no return to single market or free movement with the EU (raising the question of how far Keir Starmer's EU reset announced this AM can actually go) “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate. We had a referendum. That referendum was won by leave. "The majority of people voted for it…. there's no appetite, either from the government, from Europe, or from the public, I think, to start getting into renegotiating things like free movement, single market access. "We went around that track for years during the Brexit wars. This country doesn't need any more division."
Another half-dozen PPSs expected to quit tonight
