Bad few days for Streeting as students boycott visit and 400 demand resignation outside office

Labour’s worst gets the kind of reception he deserves

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting – one of Labour’s most objectionable MPs, in a competitive field – has had a less than stellar few days.

Last Friday, three hundred or more students at Beal High School in Ilford, east London – in Streeting’s constituency – either refused to attend, or walked out of, a school assembly at which he had been invited to speak and then mounted a protest outside for the ceasefire in Gaza that Starmer and his drones refuse to support. Only about twenty students were prepared to tolerate his presence and droning.

And on Tuesday, at least four hundred people gathered outside Streeting’s constituency office to demonstrate against Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, which Starmer has claimed is Israel’s ‘right’ to carry out – and to demand his resignation:

Happening right now! 400 constituents protesting outside of Wes Streeting’s office. They’re demanding he back a ceasefire in the Gaza genocide and that he "step aside”. Labour shamefully backed the cutting off of water, electricity and food and supports Israel’s continued bombing pic.twitter.com/zoBpGvh8AR

— ashok kumar 🇵🇸 (@broseph_stalin) November 7, 2023

Streeting’s track record was appalling long before his betrayal of the women, children, elderly people, medics, teachers, journalists and aid workers being murdered by Israel in Gaza. In 2018, he launched a ‘disgusting’, ‘disgraceful’ tirade at Diane Abbott, Britain’s first Black woman MP. When Skwawkbox exposed his behaviour he threatened legal action, but did nothing after Skwawkbox stood by its reporting.

He has also threatened a constituent, demanded a ‘slaughter until we’re up to our knees in blood’ in pursuit of the Labour right’s evisceration of the Labour party and once vaguely denied setting fire to a pet shop by saying that the police dropped the charges for lack of evidence:

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