Thug of an MP
TWEET thuggish threats about migrants and you’ll be jailed fast.
Keir Starmer prides himself on that.
PALabour has suspended Mike Amesbury and acts like that’s job done[/caption]
What happens if you’re one of his MPs, caught on CCTV punching a constituent and then beating him repeatedly on the ground?
Labour has suspended Mike Amesbury and acts like that’s job done. It’s not.
Remember how the party piously leapt on every Tory misdemeanour to claim they were morally bankrupt?
Now, when one of its own MPs batters a voter, it delays and hides behind the cops.
One Cabinet Minister says it’s solely up to police to decide “what action, if any, is required”.
“If any”? It’s a blatant attack, on film.
Police action aside, what more proof does Labour need?
How can it tolerate an MP who publicly rails against violent yobs and anti-social behaviour, then pummels a voter in the early hours?
For that matter, how can the Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle tolerate it?
If Amesbury won’t resign his seat he must be fired by his party and suspended from Westminster for long enough to trigger a recall petition.
Labour may not fancy an enforced by-election this early.
That cannot be a consideration.
The Prime Minister must simply do the right thing.
Budget bias
GIVEN Britain’s suspicions about the “£22billion black hole” Labour is using to justify tax rises, we can see why Rachel Reeves wants the Office for Budget Responsibility to back it up.
But the Tories are right to question why the OBR, this supposedly impartial watchdog of the public finances, is poised to intervene in such a political way at the Budget.
It is no mystery.
It is a small unit staffed by centre-left fans of high taxes. Natural Labour supporters, doubtless confident that it is entirely proper to wade in on their team’s behalf.
What is staggering is how the OBR, invented by Tory Chancellor George Osborne in 2010, was overrun by Labour supporters, like the entire civil service and every other state body.
The bungling Tories let this happen over 14 years.
What shameful self-harm.
Zero votes in it
TO win a second term Labour will need to keep the voters who ditched them under Corbyn but returned under Starmer.
So it should be sobering to learn that those people largely despise proposed eco bans on gas boilers and moves to restrict flying or eating meat.
And they overwhelmingly, and rightly, back huge new investment in nuclear power to get to Net Zero.
Quite the wake-up call.
Ed Miliband’s zealotry is a drag on Labour’s ticket.