Posts Tagged ‘Momentum’
Labour MP Clive Lewis: ‘Get on your knees bitch’ (and try to find the shattered remains of my career)
“Get on your knees, bitch,” says Norwich South’s Labour MP Clive Lewis at a do hosted by Momentum. Labour’s Harriet Harman heard that line and tweeted: “Inexplicable. Inexcusable. Dismayed.” The Labour Party says Lewis’s language “was completely unacceptable and falls far short of the standard we expect”.
The Right Honourable Clive Lewis
It is? Surely it depends who he was saying it to and in what context it was being said? Left-wing pundit Aaron Bastani tweeted: “I was there. The video has been up at @novaramedia for a month – Clive was saying this to a man.”
Does that make it better?
Mr Lewis later tweeted: “I apologise unreservedly for the language I used at an event in Brighton last month. It was offensive and unacceptable.”
The Sun says Clive Lewis remark to a man “was met with nervous laughter” in the room and “fury” beyond. Hosts “jokily” told the MP: “Please may I remind you that this is meant to be a safe space, thank you.”
Outrage ensues:
Just seen the Clive Lewis video. Obviously I am appalled, just listened to 7 teenage girls speak up about gender inequality. Perhaps I’ll bring them to work on monday
— Jess Phillips (@jessphillips) October 20, 2017
Agree w Jess. No excuse for saying this, whatever context. https://t.co/Sq0krWTeBx
— Yvette Cooper (@YvetteCooperMP) October 20, 2017
Sam Swann, a 28-year-old actor, to whom Lewis addressed his command, says: “He says to me ‘on your knees bitch’ and it is clearly jovial. The whole event was so brilliant for seeing MPs letting their hair down and fucking around with people who support them. I think Clive Lewis is an absolute legend.”
Lewis is, of course, toast – another victim of what happens when you try to police speech and seek offence in dust ion your attempt to turn the world into a safe space. Yeah – he’s been hoisted by Labour’s petard.
Posted: 20th, October 2017 | In: News, Politicians | Comment
Corbyn fans issue ultimatum to Luciana Berger
Tough times for Labour MP Luciana Berger. The Liverpool Wavertree CLP is now run by Jeremy Corbyn loyalists. One of their number, Roy Bentham, has a warning for Berger:
“Luciana needs to get on board quite quickly now. She will now have to sit round the table with us the next time she wants to vote for bombing in Syria or to pass a no confidence motion in the leader of the party – she will have to be answerable to us.
“We would like her to come out publicly like other MPs have done and apologise for not supporting him in the past.”
There will be no dissent in Corbyn’s brave new world. You don’t represent the people; you represent Momentum and their agenda.
The Telegraph adds:
…the dynamics at work demonstrate the extent of the Labour party’s sinister new normal, in which tones of anti-Semitism are ubiquitous.
Not word on racism in the Guardian. But this:
A Momentum group in South Tyneside posted a list on its Facebook group of 49 MPs, including Chuka Ummuna and Chris Leslie, that they said should leave Labour to “join the Liberals”. The post was taken down and disavowed by the national movement, which is working to dispel the idea that it wants to see MPs deselected.
Are you right or are you wrong?
Chris Williamson, a strong supporter of Corbyn and a shadow minister, said there were “interest groups and individual MPs in this party who think it’s their God-given right to rule…
“Where I think critics of mandatory reselection are mistaken are in trying to view the Corbyn phenomenon through the lens of the 1970s and 80s, when the militant left was small and ideologically driven. Today, the bulk of Labour’s new members don’t see the new politics as left or right, they see it as a matter of right or wrong.”
Take on Corbyn and see your career ended.
Posted: 7th, July 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment
Dalston Momentum and Hackney Momentum’s clarification is beyond parody
On Twitter., Dalston Momentum – based in Hackney, London – has a message for Hackney Momentum – based in Hackney, London – about an upcoming event:
Hackney Momentum asked us to point out they’re engaging voters with performance theatre, NOT performance art
Satire is not dead. Yet.
As for the event, well, it tells us:
In this meeting we’ll be using performance to help people develop ways of getting Labour’s message across.
Bring your own tissues.
Posted: 29th, April 2017 | In: Politicians | Comment
