Letter to my MP over Mandelson vetting inquiry
BBC: Find out how your MP voted on Mandelson vetting inquiry
335 MPs voted to protect Starmer from being investigated for (allegedly) lying to parliament over Mandelson (and 100 other things, I’d suggest).
Was your MP one those that chose to protect Starmer at any cost?
Will you let your MP know how you feel? I know I let our MP, David Baines, know my thoughts.
Are you a Labour counsellor? How do you feel, considering this vote will turn even more people against your party just a week from the local election, when many will still be angry?
How hollow does it sounds when they call each other ‘honourable’, and ‘right honourable when so many clearly have a not single shred of honour, shame, decency or accountability!?
Just 15 voted for, while 53 abstained.
On Facebook one person asked, “Well, what would you do if it risked your job that paid near on 100k a year!?” My answer was pretty much the same as I told my MP.
They don’t risk it though, at worst they lose the whip and are made independent. And they could hold their head up high. Instead, 335 just told the country they are just in it for themselves.
As ‘Enter at your own risk‘ commented on Facebook:
Labour MPs have now done more to protect Keir Starmer than they’ve done to protect British farmers, veterans, pensioners, taxpayers, women and girls, or Chagos. They deserve a Labour bloodbath on May 7th.
Hi David,
I see you voted with the rest to save Starmer’s hide. I really have to wonder why, even with the triple whip applied.
A few – a tiny few Labour MPs – stood up to say this is wrong and they would not support the motion. Yet you did not. I remember your pre GE leaflet, local family man, man of honour, of integrity, blah blah blah (unlike many others we’ve had parachuted in from far away fields). All seems hollow now.
I’m pro Reform, so you’ve not lost my vote, but you have lost my respect.
I used to work for Triplex. Some of the stuff they were doing to temps, to workers (while giving jollies and bonuses to the union reps) was just wrong. I dropped out of the union and stood up in front of the unions, the managers, the directors and said, “This is wrong.” They went after me for it, of course. Cost me my job, but I did it because it was the right thing to do. They were spouting all the usual “needs of the business, lads” BS as they laid off 400 workers. Yet – even as the lads were emptying their lockers – shop stewards were working double shifts… No overtime ban, no stop to union reps flying off to on all expenses paid jollies to France, to Spain, to South America, but 400 lads went down the road.
Because only one person in the factory would stand up and say anything. The rest, “keep your head down.”
Remind me what the vast factory complex is now, a housing estate? How did that work out for all those that kept their heads down, that kept quiet when they knew what was going on was wrong.
Just look at Starmer’s record:
Questions over why Lord Ali was given an all access pass.
Questions over Lord Ali literally putting the clothes on Starmers back, on his wife’s, even buying his glasses!
Questions over Starmer staying in Lord Ali’s penthouse (free)
Questions over Starmer and his mate Hermer ambulance chasing British soldiers for doing their job
Questions over Starmer and Hermer and the Chagos deal.
Questions over, what 16 u-turns so far?
We can gloss over Mad Ed, farmers, business tax shambles, WASPI women, exploitative petrol duty (coining it in there, aren’t we, what, an extra £20m a day?), “smash the gangs” (don’t get me started), closing hotels – but putting the illegals in £500,000 homes in cosy villages… Paying France billions to stand on the shore and wave the illegals off…
Questions over how many ministers have had to resign or been shamed over misconduct, corruption, fake CVs, lying about being a solicitor, failing to pay stamp duty, etc. It’s rather a long and ever growing list, as is the list of civil servant mandarins Starmer has pushed under a bus to save his hide.
Questions over the Ukrainian “models”. SO MANY QUESTIONS THERE!
Questions over his time as head of CPS, over the cases – like Saville – that “never crossed his desk”.
Questions over his push to find a cosy “jobs for the boys” post for Matthew Doyle, even making him a lord when he couldn’t get an ambassadors post (which he is utterly unqualified for) – only to be unseated in disgrace a fortnight later for his associations with, let’s say unsavoury types…
Like Mandelson, like Saville…
Putting off the rape inquiry time and time and time again (to protect who, I wonder).
People notice patterns. And this one pattern swirls around Starmer A LOT, it feels.
I’ve probably missed a few before we even get to Mandelson properly.
Yet, CONSTANTLY, he protests his didn’t know, he was never told, it never crossed his desk, “you won’t believe this but… (no, we don’t), it’s not his fault, it’s the Tories, it’s Brexit, it’s Farage, it’s Olly, “no rules were broken”, “I followed procedure”, it’s.. anyone but him…
And yet you still protect him. Why is that? Really, why? To protect your seat now? Would it really be so bad to have the whip removed and become an independent? To keep your dignity!
To protect your seat in the hope of another term? That’s almost certainly gone in the next general election. If Reform UK don’t take it the Greens will (and that horrifies me!)
Anyway, point is everyone in the country with the slightest interest in politics will look at this, see he forced you to choose – and you and your party chose the look after number one, screw the country, the constituents, I’m looking after ME. And people that couldn’t be bothered voting (what’s the point, you are all in it for yourselves) will start to stand up and say, “You know what, I’m done with this BS, I’m voting these out!”
A week from now all your counsellors will pay the price of the country’s – dislike – for Starmer and his front bench circus. And in another 3 years, if not sooner, your seat will be gone too. Like Triplex. Because you and your backbenchers kept your heads down – to protect a wrong ‘un.
Baffled of Blackbrook!
