Natalie Elphicke ...
Steven Swinford, political editor of the Murdoch Times, was the first to carry out his instructions. “Natalie Elphicke has never publicly addressed her decision to defend her former husband Charlie Elphicke after he was convicted of two counts of sexual assault … She said in The Sun that he was 'attractive' and 'attracted to' women”. Is there a point to all this? But do go on.
“She castigated his victims, saying they were obsessed with him. She said he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice … The Court of Appeal found that he was not and upheld the conviction, describing him as a sexual predator … Elphicke has to this day still [not?] said whether she still thinks her former husband is innocent. Nor has she apologised for her comments or her decision to stand by a convicted sex offender”. But here a problem entered.
Ms Elphicke was elected, under the Tory banner, to Parliament in 2019. The press has therefore had four and a half years to put their questions to her. It has failed to do so. Nor has the Tory Party, and its chairmen, let the world know of its disquiet about her. Until she defected to Labour.
So now she has been forced to offer an apology. “My decision to join the Labour Party is not one I have taken lightly but one I made because I am convinced that this country needs a new government led by Keir Starmer to fix the problems we see from housing to small boats”. Oh aye. Do go on.
... being given her BA cabin crew Employee of the Month award
“I have previously, and do, condemn his behaviour towards other women and towards me. It was right that he was prosecuted and I'm sorry for the comments that I made about his victims … It is vital that women can have confidence in the criminal justice system and our rates of prosecution and conviction are far too low as a country”. The Murdoch goons approved.
Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor for the Murdoch Sunday Times, clearly approved of Ms Elphicke’s display of contrition. His Tweet/X/Whatever was Retweeted/Reposted/Whatevered by the odious flannelled fool Master Harry Cole, still pretending to be a real journalist by succeeding the non-bullying Tom Newton Dunn as political editor of the Murdoch Sun.
None of this is offered in approval of Ms Elphicke, who has supported a whole series of cruel and callous policies in her time as a Tory MP, and whose arrival on the Labour benches merely confirms that Team Starmer is playing the same kind of cynical Westminster Village game as the Tories, and indeed the deeply unpleasant convocation of Leave campaigners.
What it is about is the press’ ability to go after politicians of whose actions they disapprove, force them to repent, remind them that they have dirt on those politicians, kick those defecting for not giving said press an exclusive, and to deflect from bad behaviour not by politicians, but that same press - including phone hacking and other illegal acts happening well after it was claimed they had stopped. Ms Elphicke will not be standing for election again.
Had she been so inclined, the punishment would have been rather harsher.
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14 comments:
The grotesque Anneliese Dodds of Quisling "Labour" has said Elphicke is "a perfect fit" for Quisling "Labour".
How Right she is.
And so, there they were, Starmer and Elphicke far right racist buddies together with the Butchers Apron as backdrop.
And to think there are some utter mugs and suckers who deluded themselves matters wouldn't get worse.
Just wait until the Quislings get into Downing Street to collect their thirty pieces of silver.
Not sure why New Labour are 'quislings'? You 'could've have levelled that accusation at Blair, but that was a long time ago, and the majority of the party's mps were still moderately left wing. That though is no longer the case, as Corbyn found out - Labour is a right wing party at core. Indeed the Corbyn affair, had it been assessed by a true free press as it panned out, would have illustrated that Labour is a lost cause for the centre left, and has been since Blair altered Clause 4 to taste. So what exactly are Labour traitors to? Not themselves, they 'are' a right wing party. Not to those that support them, as their cry during the Corbyn years, was, without a hint of irony, 'I want my party back'. Touche indeed. To the voters then? Only the blind on the centre left vote Labour in the belief that they are the party of pre 1983. No, the vast majority that vote Labour do so because they 'are' right wing, just 'not as nasty as the Tories', while others do so because there is no credible alternative. At the moment. If you're on the left, Labour is just as much the enemy as the Tories, and the Left needs a new home, but until they find one, wasting time on being embittered about Labours forty year long conversion to the right, is a waste of energy.
This is desperation on the part of Keith Starmer... It's a clear pattern and he fails at it miserably. Since elected, he tried very to look like he tried very to win while constantly self sabotaging. Each time Labour made gains, Keith straight away did something stupid, flip flopped on key popular policies, made himself as beige as possible. Each time, he got outwitted by the Tories who engaged in more reckless self destruction. And after the Labour victories at local elections showing that Tory annihilation is almost certain, Keith go for a last act of desperation: poaching a disliked MP who embodies all the worst aspects to 21st century conservatism of which everyone is fed up. Everyone but John Rentoul is disgusted.
Yet, this will fail again and Labour will win.
14:29.
That claim has no more validity now than it did when proposed in the wake of the forged Zinoviev Letter in 1924.
You can find the reasons in detail in Origins Of The Labour Party by Henry Pilling and A Party With Socialists In It by Simon Hannah.
You can find full descriptions of the more recent Quisling manifestation in The Unfinished Revolution by Philip Gould, one of its perpetrators, and The End Of The Party by Andrew Rawnsley, a far right tory.
The Labour Party was founded on the basis of Socialist moral principles. As even Harold Wilson said, "The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing". When it drifts from those principles or is sabotaged through lies, as it is now, it is nothing.
Its present condition is no more permanent than before 1945.... in which year openly espoused Socialist principles led to an election landslide in its favour. The 2017 election proved that, even in the face of far right propaganda hysteria. Which is why the propaganda was redoubled in 2019 and then reinforced by proven internal sabotage......hence Quisling, a process instigated in the corrupt Bliar/Brown years and now intensified by Starmer/Reeves - if anyone should leave the party, it is them.
It is utter nonsense to claim why "the vast majority....vote Labour" in a country so desperately divided and even on the verge of constitutional disintegration.
Which is why Quisling "Labour" is for a time.......but not all time. Sooner or later the political invoice will fall due. As it did in 1945. The only question is how many more millions of innocent lives will be destroyed in the interim.
Which changes nothing from what I said. There is no party currently in existence that is true to it's original principles, including the Conservatives, so merely repeating what Hardy wanted from Labour, and what even Wilson felt it should be aiming to be is meaningless.
You can argue, rightly, that Labour has undergone swings in the past, even teetering on the brink of collapse in the 1930's, but the Kinnock and Blair regimes were different to past ebb and flow. They fundamentally altered what Labour 'does' stand for, and socialism it is not. Even Corbyn understood, once he led the party what had happened. Hence he made no attempt to roll back the Blairite alterations that are now the party's guiding principles. And socialist they are not.
Everyone knows what happened to Labour, you don't need books yo tell you what i experienced as a member of some twenty years. The film that exposes what happened to Corbyn, merely revealed what happened from top to bottom of the party.
That party, which I was once proud to be a member of, is lost. The party hierarchy is right wing. Its leadership is right wing. The vast majority of its mps - are right wing.
Yes, 2017 showed there still is a stomach for progressive govt, but 2019 showed no-one believes Labour can deliver it any more. And how. Yes, the country is divided, but sadly the progressive vote has very few options. In our area its the Greens. They are slowly but surely eating away at Labours vote in the local elections. But will the same people vote in a Green mp? Not going on the last two elections, no.
Observations of voting patterns in the UK even blew Marx and Engels minds, so no matter how Dave Spart you want to be, slogans won't change how people have voted, and will vote, time and again.
As for Labour, forget it. It would take a complete electoral wipe out by the Greens and Libdems for a progressive leadership to win the day, and that will happen the day I see satan going about his business on skates..
12:59.
It's irrelevant whether you've been a party member for twenty years or twenty minutes. Waving a white flag doesn't change historical truth or contemporary corruption. Anymore than the proclamation of a thousand year Reich could avoid its inevitable fate.
At the present rate Quisling "Labour" will go the same way as the old Liberal Party and its laughable failed successor short-lived "Social Democrats".
Last time it took the horror of fascism, two world wars and deliberately inflicted mass poverty for the truth to dawn. Only postwar Socialist policies prevented an immediate return to that previous misery by providing a life chance for millions. Once that went it was a return to the same far right organised thievery, racism and warmongering. Quisling "Labour" is merely the latest tool. Kinnock, Bliar/Brown and Starmer/Reeves are merely the latest frontspeople, petty gauleiters opposed to progressive policies. There will be other Quislings, as there always are.
Cowardice is no substitute for genuine democracy and decent human progress. It never will be. As events show, it is a dry rot of the soul. Which is why the Quislings will eventually fail. And they will deserve to, as did their fascist predecessors. No matter how long it takes.
Good luck to this anti-Quisling candidate:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2024/05/starmer-smashed-in-blackburn/
Oh dearie me... 'Waving a white flag'. That did crack me up. I've met others with same views as you, indeed one of them successfully managed to put me off joining the Union at that business.
All the same I'm afraid. Wooly jumped (and scarved) middle class ex uni students, banging on about the victory of a proletariat to which they never belonged nor ever will. Standing around in town centres that are real hotbeds of socialism, like Guildford, Weston Super Mare or Tunbridge Wells, urging horrified shoppers to join the fight for the soul of Labour, or better still join the SWP!
All cushioned by mummy and daddy's money, no idea about the World, but knowing all about the fight against fascism and able to quote Marx off the cuff. Hoo-bloody-ray.
Sorry, heard it all before, and if I choose to carry on fighting for a more just society outside Labour, and voting for party's that actually do have socialist principles, that's my business.
20:18.
Good grief. More than a bit of an erratic Grauniad ramble, that. More like outraged Micawber Tendency after an afternoon on ale and muffins.
U R still not OK R U, Hun.
1/10. Regressed. More home study recommended.
What Dorset thinks of Elphicke and Starmer, two cheeks of the same arse:
https://youtu.be/_7H4yoXYPss?si=JEbcDHYBn2O6C_vZ
It was based on real people, who I really had the misfortune to cross paths with. That's what comes of moving outside the pages of books, and living in the real World. What the far left fails to realise, is that cutting back on the late 19th, early 20th century rhetoric, and occasionally making contact with the real World, in the 21st century, pays dividends.
17:07.
That's not reality. It's Micawber Tendency propaganda.
0/10. Must revise Year One.
17:07.
The REALITY of Britain.
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:c1138858-f927-439e-8b2a-6966618d65ec
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