#apsana begum

[ladymazzy]

In case anyone hadn't noticed (it's been about 500 years or so, but it's easy to miss if you're not looking I guess...), the UK is institutionally, constitutionally racist

The certainly individuals who are actively anti-racist, and who understand just how insidious white supremacy is. But the best you can hope for most of the time is that weak-willed, obtuse 'colour-blind' acknowledgement that 'Racism Is Bad Because It's Rude' - and that's when you get the so-called progressive political party (Labour), ritually humiliating, deselecting and silencing Black and Asian women MPs/candidates as if it was their primary goal in life

To say keith has trashed Labour is an understatement. And Bernie Grant must be spinning in his grave at the thought Lammy - the craven bozo - has inherited his seat

[insidecroydon]

The fundamental dishonesty around this dog-whistle election

With Labour seeming certain to form the next government, with one week to go before the General Election, our columnist ANDREW FISHER argues that political engagement after July 4 is going to be even more important If this was a boxing match, the referee would have stepped in by now to stop Rishi Sunak and his supporters suffering more damage. Several Tories have already thrown in the towel. Time…

[collapsedsquid]

Just seven out of 411 Labour MPs voted on Tuesday to scrap the punitive two-child limit on welfare benefits introduced by Britain’s Conservative government in 2015. In total, 363 Labour MPs voted to keep 1.6 million children and 400,000 households in poverty. The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says removing the cap on benefits, which costs affected UK households up to £3,455 a year, would make a “significant difference” to one million children in poverty, and would lift 300,000 children out of poverty altogether. [...] But Labour’s victory was deemed insufficient by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, who moved within hours to suspend all seven Labour MPs—Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana—who voted for the SNP amendment.

Look do you fucking want to solve the demographic crisis or not?

[convertgrapeling]

Watching British politicians suddenly rushing to condemn Islamophobia after the last 9 years, the constant false accusations of antisemitism thrown at Muslims for no good reason, the demonisation of pro-Palestine protesters, the dehumanisation of Muslims in Palestine, the resounding silence when Apsana Begum begged her party for help, the constant whispering about "Islamist plots," the moral panic about Starmer possibly being in the same room as someone who boycotts Israeli dates, the shrugging about Boris Johnson's letterbox comments, the dehumanisation of Shamima Begum and her baby, the scapegoating over grooming scandals, the refusal to condemn Islamophobia within Hindutva fascism, the comments about Labour "shaking off the fleas" as they lost Muslim voters... it makes me wonder if someone has crunched some numbers and realised that neither party can afford to lose any more support after all. Because this is a funny time to suddenly start giving a shit otherwise.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Driven by both ideology and resentment at having their political careers disrupted, the current Labour leadership and party machinery are taking pains to ensure that the next set of MPs are selected from the same professional-managerial backgrounds that most of the PLP come from. Prospective candidates are those which are unlikely to rock the boat and demand substantial reform, with swathes of London-based councillors in comms jobs now returning to the ‘red wall’ seats they left decades ago, lured by the promise of a £80k a year job (plus expenses). The leadership has engaged in what must be one of the largest membership purges ever seen in a nominally democratic political party.

The liberal press have supported this project with an astonishing omertà. From 2015-19, the pages of the Daily Mirror, the Guardian and the Huffington Post were packed to the brim with stories about internal Labour Party processes and detailed analysis of the Facebook posts liked by local branch officers. Today, similar stories are largely ignored by the same outlets, with seemingly only Michael Crick taking an interest in how future members of the legislature are selected. Even when an independent report, led by Martin Forde KC, identified deliberate electoral sabotage attempts committed by the party and its officials, as well as a deeply racist party culture, the findings barely generated a day’s worth of coverage. MPs who claim to be anti-racists and feminists have suddenly lost their voices, as exemplified by the deathly silence over the treatment of Apsana Begum MP, who is being deliberately targeted by her former abuser through the internal procedures of the Labour Party.

Internally then, the last three years have seen the inheritors to the New Labour project re-establish their positions within the party. These MPs and officials were the people who fought a bitter internal war within the party under Corbyn’s leadership, and the entrenching of these factional positions has allowed them to avoid any reflection on the popularity or viability of their own deeply neoliberal ideological positions. Their years in the wilderness were not spent developing any new ideas. Far from it. When you listen to Rachel Reeves or Wes Streeting speak, they explicitly recycle the terms and logics from the era when they cut their political teeth: ‘magic money tree’, ‘tough on the causes of crime’, etc. Their policy programme, to the extent that we know what it is, picks up where New Labour left off: re-regulating energy, expanding home ownership, increasing private involvement in healthcare, reviving Mandelson’s ‘partnership with business’, and attempting to roll out a corporate-friendly industrial strategy focused on doing, at most, the bare minimum required by the ecological crisis, which they failed to do last time they were in office. Labour’s pitch is that they are best placed to revive the comatose neoliberal patient, to improve economic growth and professionalism in government. Positioning themselves in such a way has won them support from the sections of the professional-managerial class which deserted Labour in 2019. What remains to be seen is if their approach can cohere popular support, or even just sufficient votes from a beleaguered working-age public to get them over the line in the next election.

Gareth Fearn, Neoliberalism in a Coma

[wankerwatch]

Commons Vote

On: Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment Regulations 2024 (SI, 2024, No. 869): motion to annul

Ayes: 228 (49.3% Con, 31.7% LD, 4.4% Ind, 4.0% SNP, 2.2% DUP, 2.2% RUK, 1.8% PC, 1.8% Green, 0.9% SDLP, 0.4% Lab, 0.4% APNI, 0.4% UUP, 0.4% TUV) Noes: 348 (100.0% Lab) Absent: ~74

Day's business papers: 2024-09-10

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Conservative (112 votes)

Alan Mak Alberto Costa Alec Shelbrooke Alicia Kearns Alison Griffiths Andrew Bowie Andrew Griffith Andrew Mitchell Andrew Murrison Andrew Snowden Aphra Brandreth Ashley Fox Ben Obese-Jecty Ben Spencer Bernard Jenkin Blake Stephenson Bob Blackman Bradley Thomas Caroline Dinenage Caroline Johnson Charlie Dewhirst Chris Philp Christopher Chope Claire Coutinho Damian Hinds Danny Kruger David Davis David Mundell David Reed David Simmonds Desmond Swayne Edward Argar Edward Leigh Esther McVey Gagan Mohindra Gareth Bacon Gareth Davies Gavin Williamson Geoffrey Clifton-Brown George Freeman Graham Stuart Greg Smith Gregory Stafford Harriet Cross Harriett Baldwin Helen Grant Helen Whately Iain Duncan Smith Jack Rankin James Cartlidge James Cleverly James Wild Jeremy Hunt Jeremy Wright Jerome Mayhew Jesse Norman Joe Robertson John Cooper John Glen John Hayes John Lamont John Whittingdale Joy Morrissey Julia Lopez Julian Lewis Julian Smith Karen Bradley Katie Lam Kemi Badenoch Kevin Hollinrake Kieran Mullan Kit Malthouse Laura Trott Lewis Cocking Lincoln Jopp Luke Evans Mark Francois Mark Garnier Matt Vickers Mel Stride Mike Wood Mims Davies Neil Hudson Neil O'Brien Neil Shastri-Hurst Nick Timothy Nigel Huddleston Oliver Dowden Patrick Spencer Paul Holmes Peter Bedford Peter Fortune Priti Patel Rebecca Paul Rebecca Smith Richard Fuller Richard Holden Rishi Sunak Robbie Moore Robert Jenrick Roger Gale Saqib Bhatti Sarah Bool Shivani Raja Simon Hoare Steve Barclay Stuart Anderson Stuart Andrew Suella Braverman Tom Tugendhat Victoria Atkins Wendy Morton

Liberal Democrat (72 votes)

Adam Dance Al Pinkerton Alex Brewer Alison Bennett Alistair Carmichael Andrew George Angus MacDonald Anna Sabine Ben Maguire Bobby Dean Brian Mathew Calum Miller Cameron Thomas Caroline Voaden Charlie Maynard Charlotte Cane Chris Coghlan Christine Jardine Claire Young Clive Jones Daisy Cooper Danny Chambers David Chadwick Ed Davey Edward Morello Freddie van Mierlo Gideon Amos Helen Maguire Helen Morgan Ian Roome Ian Sollom James MacCleary Jamie Stone Jess Brown-Fuller John Milne Josh Babarinde Joshua Reynolds Layla Moran Lee Dillon Lisa Smart Liz Jarvis Luke Taylor Manuela Perteghella Marie Goldman Martin Wrigley Max Wilkinson Mike Martin Monica Harding Munira Wilson Olly Glover Paul Kohler Pippa Heylings Rachel Gilmour Richard Foord Roz Savage Sarah Dyke Sarah Gibson Sarah Green Sarah Olney Steff Aquarone Steve Darling Susan Murray Tessa Munt Tim Farron Tom Gordon Tom Morrison Victoria Collins Vikki Slade Wendy Chamberlain Wera Hobhouse Will Forster Zöe Franklin

Independent (10 votes)

Adnan Hussain Apsana Begum Ayoub Khan Ian Byrne Iqbal Mohamed Jeremy Corbyn John McDonnell Richard Burgon Shockat Adam Zarah Sultana

Scottish National Party (9 votes)

Brendan O'Hara Chris Law Dave Doogan Graham Leadbitter Kirsty Blackman Pete Wishart Seamus Logan Stephen Flynn Stephen Gethins

Democratic Unionist Party (5 votes)

Carla Lockhart Gavin Robinson Gregory Campbell Jim Shannon Sammy Wilson

Reform UK (5 votes)

James McMurdock Lee Anderson Nigel Farage Richard Tice Rupert Lowe

Plaid Cymru (4 votes)

Ann Davies Ben Lake Liz Saville Roberts Llinos Medi

Green Party (4 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)

Claire Hanna Colum Eastwood

Labour (1 vote)

Jon Trickett

Alliance (1 vote)

Sorcha Eastwood

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)

Jim Allister

Noes

Labour (348 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Al Carns Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Davies-Jones Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alex Sobel Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alison Taylor Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Angela Rayner Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna Turley Anneliese Dodds Anneliese Midgley Antonia Bance Ashley Dalton Baggy Shanker Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Bridget Phillipson Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Bryant Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Ward Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Connor Naismith Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Carden Dan Jarvis Dan Norris Dan Tomlinson Daniel Francis Danny Beales Darren Jones Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Lammy David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor David Williams Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Ed Miliband Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Emily Darlington Emily Thornberry Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Reynolds Fabian Hamilton Feryal Clark Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Fred Thomas Gareth Snell Gareth Thomas Gen Kitchen Georgia Gould Gerald Jones Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Gregor Poynton Gurinder Singh Josan Hamish Falconer Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Ian Murray Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Janet Daby Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jess Asato Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Healey John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Jonathan Reynolds Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Dearden Katie White Katrina Murray Keir Mather Keir Starmer Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Laurence Turner Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Lisa Nandy Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Louise Haigh Louise Jones Lucy Powell Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Luke Pollard Margaret Mullane Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Hendrick Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Creagh Mary Glindon Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Scrogham Michelle Welsh Mike Amesbury Mike Kane Mike Reader Mike Tapp Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Navendu Mishra Neil Coyle Nesil Caliskan Nia Griffith Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Noah Law Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Pat McFadden Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Davies Paul Foster Paul Waugh Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Rachel Reeves Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rosie Wrighting Rupa Huq Rushanara Ali Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon

Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Hall Sarah Jones Sarah Owen Sarah Russell Sarah Sackman Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Seema Malhotra Shabana Mahmood Shaun Davies Simon Lightwood Simon Opher Siobhain McDonagh Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephanie Peacock Stephen Kinnock Stephen Morgan Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Reed Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Taiwo Owatemi Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Terry Jermy Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Tulip Siddiq Uma Kumaran Valerie Vaz Vicky Foxcroft Warinder Juss Wes Streeting Will Stone Yasmin Qureshi Yuan Yang Yvette Cooper Zubir Ahmed

[d2kvirus]

Dickheads of the Month: July 2024

As it seems that there are people who say or do things that are remarkably dickheaded yet somehow people try to make excuses for them or pretend it never happened, here is a collection of some of the dickheaded actions we saw in the month of July 2024 to make sure that they are never forgotten.  

Nothing terrifying about the Supreme Court of the USA coming to the decision that Richard Nixon was right all along and that, if Donald Trump a President does something, it is not as illegal - but if one of the lower orders did the same thing is still illegal, because different laws apply to them compared to their God King

Nobody told Marine Le Pen at any point in the past four years that perhaps getting a new script would be a good idea, since her blubbering about "vote rigging" after losing the French election was about as elegant as her performers yelling "Le fix!" in the most blatant Trump pantomime possible

Unifying force for good Keir Starmer thought he'd been midwifed into Downing Street a day early when he randomly said he would work with Marine le Pen to stop small boats, because nothing says "Labour leader" quite like casually saying they'd work with the far-right to maintain a Tory policy, especially given Le Pen didn't win

...though it seems that Yvette Cooper didn't quite get the memo about Le pen not winning, or notice the word "change" being plastered all over the election manifesto, as she couldn't start planning mass deportations fast enough, which is a definite change from the mass deportation-obsessed Theresa May, Priti Patel or Suella Braverman who were Home Secretary before her...

...and the next day Keir Starmer said he was "proud" to have his bid to be Prime Minister endorsed by The Sun. This would be the same Sun which Starmer said he would never give an interview to when on the trail to be Labour leader, before giving numerous interviews to and also writing columns for. But don't you dare suggest that Keir Starmer has a truth-telling problem

Nobody seemed to tell Wes Streeting that the oft-repeated buzzword for Keir Starmer's Labour Party is "Change" given he'd been in the job a week and decided to stick with Victoria Adkins' ban on puberty blockers for trans kids (and only trans kids) which even the widely-discredited Cass Review said not to do, so we can all guess what those meetings with JK Rowling prior to the election were telling him he had to do

Nobody told Keir Starmer's Labour Party that they were supposed to move leftwards once they were in government to prevent their biggest cheerleaders looking like gullible marks, hence they did things like scrap Levinson II to get favours from Rupert Murdoch, then they voted to keep the two-child benefit cap and withdrew the whip from Zarah Sultana, Apsana Begum, Ian Byrne, Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell, Richard Bugon and Imran Hussein for voting against it, which doesn't look at all authoritarian...

...which was then followed by Rachel Reeves making another decision she didn't want to make, apparently forgetting that as Chancellor she has the option to not actually make it, when cutting Winter Fuel Allowance from the elderly

Totally normal for the Knesset to debate whether or not rape should be illegal in Israel after Israeli soldiers gangraped a Palestinian prisoner to the point of him needing to be hospitalised and saw the IDF detain the ten troops - which only saw mass demonstrations by Zionism-pilled gangs defending the IDF's right to gangrape prisoners

Utterly pathetic for Jonathan Ashworth to tweet a few days after losing his seat to Shockat Adam's that he condemn one of his campaigners after they were arrested on suspicion of counter-terrorism offences which definitely did not look like prejudicing an ongoing investigation to score a few points - and this is after Ashworth failed upwards into a cushy position in Labour Together almost as soon as he'd cleared his constituency office desk

It took a week for Reform PLC to degenerate into self-interest and infighting when Richard Tice decided that he wanted to be deputy leader of the "party" which meant that Ben Habib should sod off - and when Habib publicly responded to that he was immediately booted out of the "party", reducing their MPs by 20%

A rare sighting of Thangam Debbonaire in Bristol Central a couple of days before the election served as a timely reminder why she has been hidden in a cupboard for the past four years, as she spent the entire hustings either shouting at members of the audience for daring question her (when she was lying through her teeth) or repeatedly claiming the Greens lied on their manifesto when, a.) They hadn't, and b.) Would you like to tell us about Starmer's leadership pledges?

Questions have been raised about Reform Ltd fielding candidates during the General Election who only exist on paper, questions further raised by their candidate Mark Matlock having an AI generated photo on his Twitter profile and never being seen in Clapham & Brixton Hill for increasingly spurious reasons, and it says a lot that when Richard Tice was asked this question on Peston he failed to provide proof that these candidates were real people and instead started ranting and threatening legal action

...and when "Mark Matlock" posted a video online proving they were a really real person that only posed further questions, starting with how he catfished the voting public given he was at least 10lbs and certainly balder than his AI generated picture, and that's before how he seemed to be hale and hearty for somebody who was in hospital with pneumonia (though the staff had all gone home before he got there, apparently...) four days prior

Totally normal for billionaire manchild Elon Musk to respond to pushback against the SAVE Act by branding those who oppose it "TRAITORS" (his emphasis, not mine) who should be executed - which would be a significant percentage of the US population

...equally normal was billionaire manchild Elon Musk ranting about how advertising executives needed to be imprisoned due him (and only him...) seeing "evidence" of a "racket" that stopped them advertising on the platform once racism, homophobia, transphobia and fucking Holocaust denial started to become rampant, which just so happened to have the fucking moron who owns the platform tell those advertisers to "Go fuck yourself" rather than admit he made a bad decision, was too dumb to back away from it when he had the chance, so decided to make countless bad decisions afterwards that killed the platform

...and could billionaire manchild Elon Musk explain why tens of thousands of tweets about registered sex offender Donald Trump raping kids with and without Jeffrey Epstein seem to disappear off his platform every day?

...and because billionaire manchild Elon Musk cannot stand other people getting attention instead of him, his response to registered sex offender Donald trump getting a grazed ear was to immediately tweet about how two people have tried to kill in in the past eight months, yes they did honest

...soon followed by billionaire manchild Elon Musk forgetting all his hot air about being "apolitical" by announcing he would donate $45m a month to the presidential campaign of fellow child sex offender Donald Trump, all because he hates his trans daughter that much - which looked like money well spent within days when registered sex offender Donald Trump announced the electric car mandate would be torn up - and within a week Musk did a u-turn on that

...and for his next trick billionaire manchild Elon Musk responded to Kamala Harris being the Democrat candidate for the upcoming Presidential election by being an antisemitic twunt when he suggested the Alexander Soros was behind the whole thing

...but because billionaire manchild Elon Musk has an opening his mouth problem, next up he was talking about how his son was "killed" by the spaghetti carbonara mind virus - which was certainly news to his very much alive trans daughter

...before it emerged billionaire manchild Elon Musk has a whitelist that allows the likes of End Wokeness and Andrew Tate to use any slur they wish to use without fear of having Twitter's admin bots nuke their tweet from orbit. But you know what did get nuked from orbit? The account which exposed this, because FREEXE PEACH

...and then billionaire manchild Elon Musk spent waaaaay too long pissing his pants about the Plympics opening ceremony, showing a starling lack of knowledge about history, art, or art history. Or maybe he just got frightened at the reminder of the French beheading the idle rich en masse...

...soon followed by billionaire manchild Elon Musk banning the White Dudes 4 Harris account after it raised $4m for Kamala Harris' campaign in a matter of days, which is definitely a fine example of protecting Freeze Peach

Every now and then Candace Owens likes to remind the world what an absolute fucking moron she is, and this time she decided to do so by suggesting that it was American and the Allied nations who committed ethnic cleansing in WWII, and certainly not the Nazis

It slipped the mind of Channel 3 News that they were an Indian Twitter feed pretending to be an American news channel when they started pumping out patently Islamophobic misinformation about the the very British Southport stabbing which, of course, was seized upon by brainless gammon who thought they were a real news channel because it confirmed their prejudices

...and surprise surprise, this led to the gammonati descending upon Southport looking to smash up the local mosque because they were really concerned about what happened to the three girls who were killed in the attack and definitely not looking to get destructive due to having fuck all to do on their summer holidays - apart from getting beaned in the nards with a house brick, that is

Non-political party Reform PLC were caught using photos of dead pensioners stolen from news sites and passing them off as people pledging to vote for them. I'm going to guess that, as the Electoral Commission won't do a damn thing about this before the Rapture, either the photo agency who had their photos stolen or the relatives of the people whose photos were used might be having a few things to say about that...

Perhaps if Kemi Badenoch wanted to clamp down on things said in Tory party meetings being leaked to the press, she could start with not leaking to the press the comments made in a meeting where she slagged off Rishi Sunak while also telling Tory MPs not to leak things to the press

Plastic surgery disaster Kimberly Guilfoyle somehow managed to look even more stupid than the RNC attendees with Maxipads handing off their ears in solidarity with registered sex offender Donald Trump when she said that Allied stormed the beaches of Normandy to fight Communism. No, Kim, they were storming the beaches of Normandy to combat fascism

Once again Luke Akehurst tried to appeal to the hearts and minds of Durham North by posing for a photo four miles away from the Durham miner's Gala suggesting he was invited - that would be the Durham Miner's Gala which quite specifically did not invite him

Totally normal behaviour from Stuart Roden in standing in front of a pro-Palestine rally and yelling at them to attack him in public, which definitely isn't attention-seeking nor an example of a bizarre victim complex. The fact that he donated £500,000 to Keir Starmer's Labour Party mere days before this stunt begs more questions...

Congratulations to Johnny Mercer for being the sorest loser on Election Night, with his sour grapes on full display when he stormed off the stage - which somehow wasn't even the least dignified display by a Mercer that week, given that Felicity Mercer spent the day before the election haranguing ex-servicemen who were peacefully protesting by asking to speak to the manager of the police

...though after Jonathan Ashworth and Thangam Debbonaire spent weeks kvetching to anyone who would give them a microphone about how unfair it was that they lost their MP's salaries due to the other candidates "cheating" (which is a euphemism for giving voters a reason to actually vote for them) Mercer is at best the bronze medallist for Election Night's sorest loser

Do you think registered sex offender Donald Trump called the family of the person killed when he was having his ear pierced, or the families of those injured? Of course he didn't: instead he wore a microscopic pillow on his ear that he made sure to wear at the rally in his honour the next day which he fell asleep during, before he started fondling and kissing a fireman's uniform which wasn't that of Corey Comperatore while his cultists also started wearing Maxipads on their ear and think that didn't make them look completely mental

Attention-seeker par excellence Jess Phillips bemoaned the toxicity in modern politics after she clung onto her seat by just 700 votes. This would be the same Jess Phillips who said she would gladly stab Jeremy Corbyn in the front, claims she told Diane Abbott to "fuck off" (which Abbott denies ever happening) and laughed when the results to the 2019 election came in, none of which can be described as toxic behaviour

According to JD Vance the UK is the first Islamist country with nuclear weapons. Starting to think that Trump supporters tried to lynch Mike Pence on January 6th because he wasn't enough of a headcase, while Vance is so keen to be one

...though the silence from Keir Starmer and David Lammy after these comments is certainly a concern

...and because JD Vance was on a roll, his response to Kamala Harris becoming the Democrat candidate was to call her a "childless cat lady", because that approach worked wonders for Andrea Leadsom in the 2016 Tory leadership race

On the subject of toxicity in politics, I see Kemi Badenoch and fascist pitbull Suella Braverman have decided the best way to put themselves forward for the vacant Tory leadership job is to publicly tear into each other on a daily basis

Militant TERF JK Rowling is now turning her baffling rage towards lesbians, while casually throwing the word "cure" around during her increasingly unhinged rants, which once again lends credence to the belief her choice of nom de plume is not a coincidence

...and then militant TERF JK Rowling demonstrated that she doesn't know what a woman is when ranting about Imane Khelif in the Olympic women's boxing on the assumption that, as she was noticeably taller than her opponent (who she pummeled in short order) and had short hair, she was obviously trans - except that Khelif is not and has never been trans, so at this point Rowling's derangement has her shouting at short-haired women

I hope that Mark Kern doesn't need to take his computer to be repaired anytime soon, because when he's trying to defend Dr Diddleskids by spouting some insane nonsense about a Twitch employee posing as minor to sext with Noncer Disrespect that paints a worrying picture about Kern's hard drives

...similarly we had Sneako saying there were double standards as nobody is as willing to forgive Dr Diddleskids for his past like Sketch was. Just a reminder: Sketch did gay porn once, while Noncer Noncernonce was caught sexting with minors, which are totally the same thing and definitely doesn't make Sneako sound like a fucking idiot whose hard drives need checking

...and because Mark Kern is that dumb, he was duped by people telling him that they were Japanese* and their also Japanese** kids were given homework by their Japanese*** schools about how Assassin's Creed Shadows is factually inaccurate and gleefully retweeted this...unaware that he was being played like a gullible mark that is so desperate for people to agree with him that he retweets people clearly taking the piss out of his latest idiotic crusade

Bitch move by Jack Black in splitting up Tenacious D all because Kyle Gass made a joke about Trump getting his ear pierced (a joke which Black laughed at when Gass made it) because he was scared of losing his money as a voice actor

...similarly we had Adidas cower like a bunch of bitches when the loudest, angriest zionists howled in protest at an ad campaign featuring Bella Hadid which mainly consisted of weaponising the 1972 Olympic massacre, so of course Adidas caved instead of do nothing and simply sitting back to wait for the Israeli Olympic team to get booed all games long

It might have been a good idea for Joey Mannarino to log out of his Twitter account before logging into the one where he cosplays a black woman who will never vote for Kamala Harris, because people were able to spot the lie pretty damn fast...

Waffling gargoyle Nigel Farage couldn't ditch the constituents of Clacton fast enough after Trump had his ear pierced and flew over to the US to show support to his "friend" - and was ghosted the entire time he was there, culminating in his getting arsey when asked by a British journalist if he'd even spoken to Trump since he got there

Apparently the reason why Charlotte Dujardin was whipping her horse to hamburger was "an error of judgment" and not, say, reason to investigate further if she has a habit of making similar errors of judgment. Suffice to say the fawning piece on the BBC a day before the story broke aged well...

Noted failure Paula Radcliffe wrung her hands to ask if being guilty of raping a twelve year old should stand in the way of the Olympic dreams of Steven van de Velde and somehow didn't expect that to blow up in her face - especially after she habitually calls for trans competitors to be dragged out of the Olympics kicking and screaming if necessary

...and, of course, we had Sharron Davies bleating TERFily about how she didn't lose at the 1980 Olympics because Petra Schneider was trans...a claim which is somewhat undermined by the fact that Petra Schneider is not and never has been trans

Freelance snuff photographer Logan Paul decided he'd had enough of scamming people for money, so instead launched a defamation suit in Coffeezilla's direction for their repeatedly outlining all the ways that Logan Paul's pyramid scheme/NFT game was an obvious scam where only Logan Paul benefitted from it while the saps who played the game were out of pocket which even a naked molerat could see is a blatant SLAPP suit, apparently forgetting how badly his threatening legal action against Coffeezilla for the exact same thing panned out the last time

Perhaps if Katy Perry wanted to record a wannabe feminist anthem to serve as her comeback single she could have considered maybe not having it produced by noted rapist Dr Luke

Total professionalism from Judy Murray in her response to Emma Raducanu sending Andy Murray into earlier-than-expected retirement when she pulled out of their mixed doubles match at Wimbledon due to prioritising her singles matches when she suspected an injury by bitching about her on her socials - and not the first time Judy Murray has publicly slagged Raducanu off, either

Rapey nonce Andrew Tate is so desperate to appear edgy that he keeps tweeting a phrase that Idubbbz fans called themselves a decade ago because he thinks that makes him big, hard and clever and not, say, somebody who Romanian authorities are preparing to throw into a dank, urine-soaked hellhole for a considerable amount of time not for being edgy, but for being a rapey nonce

Bonehead messiah Tommy Robinson flew over from Tenerife on his Irish passport to show the "100,000" people he managed to cram into half of the 19,000-capacity Trafalgar Square his documentary which he was told would see him imprisoned if he screened it. Hmm, would you like to guess what happened? That's right: he legged it back to Tenerife to avoid his court appearance

So about how registered sex offender Donald Trump is all over the Epstein Files, which MAGA louts had been demanding be released for years yet are strangely silent about once they are out there. So here's a question for the SCOTUS: did your God King beating it like a piñata while coercing two twelve year old girls into a lesbian sex show count as "an official act"...?

[ianchisnall]

Only 3 MPs spoke about Domestic Abuse and Public Life

Only 3 MPs spoke about Domestic Abuse and Public Life

To be clear the opportunity for the debate was only for half an hour and it was to take place in Westminster Hall and so there was only a modest number of MPs that could have participated. However even so it would have been much more positive if some of the other MPs could have added their words to the debate so that we would have known who else was taking part in the session. The first person…

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[ID: A document. It is a list of British MPs, split into four columns and listed alphabetically in bulleted descending order.

The title "The 125 MPs who voted for a Ceasefire in Gaza, on Wednesday, 15th Nov. 2023" is at the top of the document in red writing.

The MPs listed in column 1 are:

Diane Abbott

Tahir Ali

Rosena Allin-Khan

Hannah Bardell

Paula Barker

Apsana Begum

Clive Betts

Mhairi Black

Paul Blomfield

Steven Bonnar

Deidre Brock

Alan Brown

Karen Buck

Richard Burgon

Dawn Butler

Ian Byrne

Liam Byrne

Amy Callaghan

Dan Carden

Alistair Carmichael

Wendy Chamberlain

Sarah Champion

Douglas Chapman

Joanna Cherry

Hywel Williams

Munira Wilson

Beth Winter

Pete Wishart

Mohammad Yasin

Daisy Cooper

Jeremy Corbyn

The MPs listed in column 2 are:

Ronnie Cowan

Angela Crawley

Stella Creasy

Jon Cruddas

Judith Cummins

Ed Davey

Martyn Day

Marsha De Cordova

Martin Docherty-Hughes

Allan Dorans

Peter Dowd

Sarah Dyke

Colum Eastwood

Jonathan Edwards

Julie Elliot

Tim Farron

Stephen Farry

Marion Fellows

Stephen Flynn

Richard Foord

Mary Kelly Foy

Barry Gardiner

Patricia Gibson

Patrick Grady

Peter Grant

Sarah Green

Margaret Greenwood

Fabian Hamilton

Claire Hanna

Neale Hanvey

Drew Hendry

The MPs listed in column 3 are:

Wera Hobhouse

Kate Hollern

Rachel Hopkins

Stewart Hosie

Rupa Huq

Imran Hussain

Christine Jardine

Afzal Khan

Ben Lake

Ian Lavery

Chris Law

Emma Lewell-Buck

Clive Lewis

David Linden

Rebecca Long Bailey

Caroline Lucas

Kenny MacAskill

Angus Brendan MacNeil

Khalid Mahmood

Rachael Maskell

Andy McDonald

Stewart Malcolm McDonald

Stuart C McDonald

John McDonnell

Conor McGinn

Anne McLaughlin

John McNally

Ian Mearns

Carol Monaghan

Layla Moran

Helen Morgan

Grahame Morris

The MPs in column 4 are:

John Nicolson

Brendan O'Hara

Sarah Olney

Kate Osamor

Kate Osborne

Sarah Owen

Jess Phillips

Anum Qaisar

Yasmin Qureshi

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Liz Saville Roberts

Naz Shah

Andy Slaughter

Alyn Smith

Cat Smith

Alex Sobel

Chris Stephens

Jamie Stone

Zarah Sultana

Sam Tarry

Alison Thewliss

Owen Thompson

Richard Thomson

Stephen Timms

Jon Trickett

Valerie Vaz

Claudia Webbe

Philippa Whitford

Nadia Whittome

/end]

The mps the voted for a ceasefire

[saxafimedianetwork]

United Kingdom Shows Strong Sympathy For The Affected In Hargeisa’s Waaheen Market Fire

In what appears to be the highest tribute the PM @BorisJohnson has yet made to the people of #Somaliland & their resilience in the face of adversity, the PM showed hope that people will overcome this disaster as they did more awesome challenges before. #HargeisaMarketFire

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https://twitter.com/HWorsdale/status/1371522354069835780?s=20

[ukrfeminism]

A Labour MP is taking time away from work after suffering from “a sustained campaign of misogynistic harassment and abuse”.

Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, posted a statement on Twitter on Wednesday night that said she attended hospital on June 12 and was subsequently signed off work by her GP.

She said: “For the duration of my time as a Member of Parliament, I have been subjected to a sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse and harassment.

“As a survivor of domestic abuse, it has been particularly painful and difficult. This abusive campaign has had a significant effect on my mental and physical health.

Ms Begum, who was part of the 2019 intake of MPs, added that her staff and office will still be open to help people in her east London constituency while she is off sick.

Her absence from work means that she will not be able to take any part in Labour’s trigger ballot process. This is when local party and affiliate branches decide if the sitting MP will contest the next general election or if there should be a new selection process.

Ms Begum added: “I am very concerned by the wider circumstances surrounding the trigger ballot process. This has included complaints of alleged rule-breaking and alleged misogynistic intimidation.”

She said it is important the Labour Party investigates these claims and warned that the intimidation she has faced “will be all too familiar to women, socialists, and those from ethnic backgrounds.”

The east London MP was supported by a number of her Laboour colleagues. Ian Bryne MP wrote on Twitter: “The bravery shown by Apsana over the last 3 years of relentless attacks is remarkable but sickening it’s continuing.��

“I hope the party realise they have a duty of care and act to protect my friend and colleague.”

And former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said: “Apsana is a strong good woman. Appalling treatment. My full support.”

Ms Begum first spoke of being a victim of domestic violence after being cleared of fraud charges in July last year.

[mariacallous]

This month marks a year since news broke of the parties in Downing Street. With hindsight, this revelation was to be the fulcrum on which the prospects of the Conservatives, and therefore Labour, turned. What seemed inconceivable 12 months ago is now looking inevitable. Labour is going to win the next general election.

But for a victory so longed for, it feels like one unaccompanied by a sense of hope. Instead, the message from Labour HQ seems reminiscent of a military government that has taken control after an unruly revolution – order must be restored. But at what cost?

The first step on the path to power for the party was to eject the losing left from its ranks. Candidates report being blocked over the most tenuous of transgressions. One candidate was disqualified for liking tweets. There are also other disturbing reports of leaking of party members’ contact details to anointed candidates before others, and leftwing MPs such as Apsana Begum being abandoned by party leadership to face personally motivated deselection campaigns. This engineering of selections isn’t a necessary evil: it is a voluntary one that denies party members and the public their democratic right to vote for a range of candidates. What is emerging is a party that has traded principle for power.

An extension of this purge has been to eradicate anything deemed too ��radical” from the party’s policy offerings. The role that Labour has sketched for itself as a grownup party that brings “stability” could not be less suited to the times. Challenging the status quo is what people are in the mood for after the pandemic, the cost of living crisis and the energy crisis. Instead of focusing on investment in a frail public realm, the party is singing the same tune of fiscal prudence as the Tories. It is distancing itself from angry, desperate strikers, just as the nation rises in historic organised objection to the status quo. Labour wants your votes and your funding, but not your dreams, your fears, your appeals for your future. In fact, anything that looks too close to the popular exuberance of solidarity is to be avoided, because that also looks too close to the prospect of change.Labour is not on the picket lines, in spirit or in body, but is addressing business leaders: at an event last week, Keir Starmer refused to commit to repealing the government’s proposed anti-strike laws, making sure the prawn cocktails of the gathered company went down a bit easier.

This aversion to meaningful change looks even more jarring when you compare Labour with its peers in Europe and the US. Joe Biden has moved closer to climate activism and tax justice, as well as higher public spending through the post-Covid economic recovery programme. The German Social Democratic party came to power after calling for a higher minimum wage and higher investment in upgrading public services. Even France is passing ambitious climate laws, banning some short-haul domestic flights. As the space expands for higher public spending, higher taxation and more investment in infrastructure, Labour is busy reassuring the financial services sector that it won’t be “soaked” with higher taxes.

Some of Labour’s retreat, both in outward ambition and internal standards, is the result of trauma inflicted by its defeat in 2019, by a decade’s rule by a Conservative party that seemed impossible to dislodge, and by a rightwing press that has so ruthlessly savaged successive Labour leaders. In order to win, the party has reverted to its safe space: 1997. The result is a limited and anachronistic policy offering, further constrained by the fact that the solutions to the crisis Labour will inherit involve some form of redistribution of power and wealth, nationalisation, stronger regulation, higher taxation and opening up of borders. All things that Labour recoils from in its fear of being painted as ideological.

But that stereotype of Labour was created by its enemies. By deciding that victory is only possible on the terms of its opponents, the party’s aim is to transform itself rather than the country. Starmer is crystallising into a strongman who has taken on this role with relish. He is rewarded for his authoritarianism by members of a media and business establishment happy to see Labour dispense with the romance of hope and change, and instead embrace the terms of their miserable arranged marriage with reality. Vested interests are happy to see Labour accept that, for millions of people, things will still be tough after a Labour win, but that’s the price of a Labour win.

The bloodless calculus of a centrist ruling class is that acceptable collateral damage is the best we can hope for. There will be no passion or pledges, only grownup acceptance of structures we cannot change. “The British people are conservative at heart, you see,” I am told, in the same tone that after 2010 I was told that Arabs are simply not ready for democracy.

The tragedy is that it doesn’t have to be like this. Labour can win on its own terms if it chooses to believe that it is fit for power because it is Labour. There is space for both competence and compassion. There is room to make the case for decent pay for a day’s work, investment in childcare, hospitals and care homes, an innovative education system, dismantling privatised utilities that gouge both employees and customers, human decency towards those, both here and overseas, without a home. These are not radical notions, but basic expectations of an incoming government after 12 years that have vividly demonstrated the jeopardies of frugality.

If victory means that Labour is winnowed down to a shape acceptable to the very rapacious interests it is meant to challenge, is it a victory at all – or a climb on to a winner’s podium built on a staircase of defeats?

[wankerwatch]

Commons Vote

On: King's Speech (Motion for an Address): Amendment (d)

Ayes: 103 (63.4% LD, 7.9% SNP, 6.9% Lab, 5.9% Ind, 4.0% DUP, 4.0% Green, 3.0% PC, 2.0% SDLP, 1.0% APNI, 1.0% UUP, 1.0% TUV) Noes: 363 (99.7% Lab, 0.3% Con) Absent: ~184

Individual Votes:

Ayes

Liberal Democrat (64 votes)

Adam Dance Al Pinkerton Alex Brewer Alison Bennett Andrew George Anna Sabine Ben Maguire Bobby Dean Brian Mathew Calum Miller Cameron Thomas Caroline Voaden Charlie Maynard Charlotte Cane Chris Coghlan Christine Jardine Claire Young Clive Jones Daisy Cooper Danny Chambers Ed Davey Edward Morello Freddie van Mierlo Gideon Amos Helen Maguire Ian Roome Ian Sollom James MacCleary Jamie Stone Jess Brown-Fuller John Milne Josh Babarinde Joshua Reynolds Layla Moran Lee Dillon Lisa Smart Liz Jarvis Luke Taylor Manuela Perteghella Marie Goldman Martin Wrigley Max Wilkinson Mike Martin Monica Harding Munira Wilson Olly Glover Paul Kohler Pippa Heylings Rachel Gilmour Roz Savage Sarah Gibson Sarah Green Sarah Olney Steff Aquarone Steve Darling Susan Murray Tessa Munt Tom Gordon Tom Morrison Victoria Collins Wendy Chamberlain Wera Hobhouse Will Forster Zöe Franklin

Scottish National Party (8 votes)

Brendan O'Hara Chris Law Dave Doogan Graham Leadbitter Pete Wishart Seamus Logan Stephen Flynn Stephen Gethins

Labour (7 votes)

Apsana Begum Ian Byrne Imran Hussain John McDonnell Rebecca Long Bailey Richard Burgon Zarah Sultana

Independent (6 votes)

Adnan Hussain Alex Easton Ayoub Khan Iqbal Mohamed Jeremy Corbyn Shockat Adam

Democratic Unionist Party (4 votes)

Carla Lockhart Gavin Robinson Jim Shannon Sammy Wilson

Green Party (4 votes)

Adrian Ramsay Carla Denyer Ellie Chowns Siân Berry

Plaid Cymru (3 votes)

Ann Davies Liz Saville Roberts Llinos Medi

Social Democratic & Labour Party (2 votes)

Claire Hanna Colum Eastwood

Alliance (1 vote)

Sorcha Eastwood

Ulster Unionist Party (1 vote)

Robin Swann

Traditional Unionist Voice (1 vote)

Jim Allister

Noes

Labour (361 votes)

Abena Oppong-Asare Abtisam Mohamed Adam Jogee Adam Thompson Afzal Khan Alan Campbell Alan Gemmell Alan Strickland Alex Baker Alex Ballinger Alex Barros-Curtis Alex Davies-Jones Alex Mayer Alex McIntyre Alex Norris Alice Macdonald Alison Hume Alison McGovern Alison Taylor Alistair Strathern Allison Gardner Amanda Hack Amanda Martin Andrew Cooper Andrew Gwynne Andrew Lewin Andrew Pakes Andrew Ranger Andrew Western Andy MacNae Andy Slaughter Angela Eagle Angela Rayner Anna Dixon Anna Gelderd Anna McMorrin Anna Turley Anneliese Midgley Baggy Shanker Bambos Charalambous Barry Gardiner Bayo Alaba Beccy Cooper Becky Gittins Ben Coleman Ben Goldsborough Bill Esterson Blair McDougall Brian Leishman Bridget Phillipson Callum Anderson Calvin Bailey Carolyn Harris Cat Eccles Cat Smith Catherine Atkinson Catherine Fookes Catherine McKinnell Catherine West Charlotte Nichols Chi Onwurah Chris Bloore Chris Bryant Chris Curtis Chris Elmore Chris Evans Chris Hinchliff Chris Kane Chris McDonald Chris Murray Chris Vince Chris Webb Claire Hazelgrove Claire Hughes Clive Betts Clive Lewis Connor Naismith Connor Rand Damien Egan Dan Aldridge Dan Jarvis Dan Tomlinson Daniel Francis Daniel Zeichner Danny Beales Darren Jones Darren Paffey Dave Robertson David Baines David Burton-Sampson David Pinto-Duschinsky David Smith David Taylor David Williams Dawn Butler Debbie Abrahams Deirdre Costigan Derek Twigg Diana Johnson Douglas Alexander Douglas McAllister Ed Miliband Elaine Stewart Ellie Reeves Elsie Blundell Emily Darlington Emily Thornberry Emma Foody Emma Hardy Emma Lewell-Buck Emma Reynolds Euan Stainbank Feryal Clark Fleur Anderson Florence Eshalomi Frank McNally Gareth Snell Gen Kitchen Georgia Gould Gerald Jones Gill German Gordon McKee Graeme Downie Graham Stringer Grahame Morris Gregor Poynton Gurinder Josan Hamish Falconer Harpreet Uppal Heidi Alexander Helen Hayes Helena Dollimore Henry Tufnell Hilary Benn Ian Murray Imogen Walker Irene Campbell Jack Abbott Jacob Collier Jade Botterill Jake Richards James Asser James Frith James Murray James Naish Janet Daby Jas Athwal Jayne Kirkham Jeevun Sandher Jeff Smith Jen Craft Jenny Riddell-Carpenter Jess Asato Jess Phillips Jessica Morden Jessica Toale Jim Dickson Jim McMahon Jo Platt Jo Stevens Jo White Joani Reid Jodie Gosling Joe Morris Joe Powell Johanna Baxter John Grady John Slinger John Whitby Jon Pearce Jonathan Brash Jonathan Davies Jonathan Hinder Jonathan Reynolds Josh Dean Josh Fenton-Glynn Josh MacAlister Josh Newbury Josh Simons Julia Buckley Julie Minns Juliet Campbell Justin Madders Kanishka Narayan Karin Smyth Karl Turner Kate Dearden Kate Osamor Kate Osborne Katie White Keir Mather Kenneth Stevenson Kerry McCarthy Kevin Bonavia Kevin McKenna Kim Leadbeater Kirith Entwistle Kirsteen Sullivan Kirsty McNeill Laura Kyrke-Smith Lauren Edwards Lauren Sullivan Lee Barron Lee Pitcher Leigh Ingham Lewis Atkinson Liam Byrne Liam Conlon Lilian Greenwood Lillian Jones Linsey Farnsworth Lisa Nandy Liz Kendall Liz Twist Lizzi Collinge Lloyd Hatton Lola McEvoy Lorraine Beavers Louise Haigh Louise Jones Lucy Powell Lucy Rigby Luke Akehurst Luke Charters Luke Murphy Luke Myer Luke Pollard Margaret Mullane Maria Eagle Marie Rimmer Marie Tidball Mark Ferguson Mark Hendrick Mark Sewards Mark Tami Markus Campbell-Savours Marsha De Cordova Martin McCluskey Martin Rhodes Mary Creagh Mary Glindon Matt Bishop Matt Rodda Matt Turmaine Matt Western Matthew Patrick Matthew Pennycook Maureen Burke Maya Ellis Meg Hillier Melanie Onn Melanie Ward Miatta Fahnbulleh Michael Payne Michael Shanks Michael Wheeler Michelle Welsh Mike Amesbury Mike Kane Mike Reader Mike Tapp Mohammad Yasin Natalie Fleet Natasha Irons Naushabah Khan Naz Shah Neil Coyle Neil Duncan-Jordan Nesil Caliskan Nicholas Dakin Nick Smith Nick Thomas-Symonds Oliver Ryan Olivia Bailey Olivia Blake Pam Cox Pamela Nash Pat McFadden Patricia Ferguson Patrick Hurley Paul Foster Paul Waugh Paula Barker Paulette Hamilton Perran Moon Peter Dowd Peter Kyle Peter Lamb Peter Prinsley Peter Swallow Phil Brickell Polly Billington Preet Kaur Gill

Rachael Maskell Rachel Blake Rachel Hopkins Rachel Taylor Richard Baker Richard Quigley Rupa Huq Rushanara Ali Ruth Cadbury Ruth Jones Sadik Al-Hassan Sally Jameson Sam Carling Sam Rushworth Samantha Dixon Samantha Niblett Sarah Champion Sarah Coombes Sarah Edwards Sarah Hall Sarah Russell Sarah Sackman Sarah Smith Satvir Kaur Scott Arthur Sean Woodcock Seema Malhotra Shabana Mahmood Sharon Hodgson Shaun Davies Simon Lightwood Simon Opher Sojan Joseph Sonia Kumar Stella Creasy Stephanie Peacock Stephen Doughty Stephen Morgan Stephen Timms Steve Race Steve Reed Steve Witherden Steve Yemm Sureena Brackenridge Tahir Ali Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi Terry Jermy Tim Roca Toby Perkins Tom Collins Tom Hayes Tom Rutland Tonia Antoniazzi Tony Vaughan Torcuil Crichton Torsten Bell Tracy Gilbert Tristan Osborne Tulip Siddiq Uma Kumaran Valerie Vaz Vicky Foxcroft Warinder Juss Wes Streeting Will Stone Yuan Yang Yvette Cooper Zubir Ahmed

Conservative (1 vote)

John Hayes

[convertgrapeling]

People need to understand what they're advocating when they talk about getting the Tories out "at any cost." It's the guy who ignores domestic abuse concerns and allows his party to be complicit in the abuse because it helps him target a left-wing Muslim woman.

[politicalsci]

This is the list of 34 Labour MPs who defied Keir Starmer and voted against the Tories’ Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill tonight. The Bill makes it legal for the state to authorise murder, torture, and sexual violence against British citizens. 27 of the Labour MPs are members of the Socialist Campaign Group (including Diane Abbott, Rebecca Long-Bailey, Jeremy Corbyn, Richard Burgon, John McDonnell).

Diane Abbott

Tahir Ali

Paula Barker

Apsana Begum

Olivia Blake

Richard Burgon

Dawn Butler

Ian Byrne

Dan Carden

Jeremy Corbyn

Geraint Davies

Mary Foy

Barry Gardiner

Margaret Greenwood

Rachel Hopkins

Kim Johnson

Ian Lavery

Clive Lewis

Tony Lloyd

Rebecca Long-Bailey

John McDonnell

Ian Mearns

Navendu Mishra

Grahame Morris

Kate Osamor

Kate Osborne

Sarah Owen

Bell Ribeiro-Addy

Lloyd Russell-Moyle

Zarah Sultana

Jon Trickett

Mick Whitley

Nadia Whittome

Beth Winter