Keir Starmer has covered up abuse of domestic violence victims – now his drones are using them as bargaining chips to try to persuade MPs to help Starmer keep kids poor
Independent MP Apsana Begum – now one of seven MPs suspended from the Labour whip by Keir Starmer yesterday for refusing to vote against an SNP attempt to force him to end the cruel ‘two-child benefit cap’ that keeps hundreds of thousands of children in abject poverty – knows how evil domestic violence is. She suffered it at the hands of her ex-husband, whose allies she says tried to get revenge by maliciously prosecuting her on fake allegations of housing fraud.
And she has told a Sky News interviewer that Starmer’s enforcers tried to bribe her to support Sir Starver and vote against the SNP motion, by saying they would back her proposed legislation to protect victims of partner violence – but only if she toed Starmer’s line:
Keir Starmer has previously claimed to be a champion of women who suffer domestic violence – but he has knowingly and repeatedly covered up allegations of ‘criminal’ and ‘sadistic’ abuse and exploitation of Muslim domestic violence victims – whose evidence under oath was not challenged – by the alleged girlfriend of a then-Labour MP.
Whistleblower Elaina Cohen, who was wrongfully dismissed by right-wing then-MP Khalid Mahmood after blowing the whistle on the abuse, repeatedly informed Starmer and his party general secretary David Evans what was happening. Mahmood himself said under oath that he had also informed Starmer of the allegations. Yet Starmer and Evans did nothing – and Starmer left Mahmood in his front bench job.
The allegations against Mahmood’s alleged lover included:
- blackmailing domestic violence victims into shoplifting and giving her their social security benefits
- making victims take speeding points on their licence that they did not incur
- sadistically abusing victims
- making the chief executive of the sham domestic violence charity she set up suicidal by blackmailing her and taunting her
- targeting a victim on social media
- revealing details of the charity’s vulnerable ‘service users’ to others
- using victims from the now-defunct charity ‘for the private entertainment of important people’
- introducing one victim to a male friend who hurt the woman, ‘but she didn’t care’
- berating two victims for stealing the wrong jacket from a local department store
- making victims fund meals for local Labour politicians
Starmer has also protected sex pests in his (then) Shadow Cabinet and reinstated a right-wing MP found guilty by Parliament of sexual harassment and racism – and Begum knows personally how indifferent, at best, Starmer is about domestic violence: he offered her no support during the trial, the attempts of her husband’s allies to deselect her as the party’s candidate, or her battle to get free of abuse. Starmer’s vultures even hung around the courtroom during her trial, expecting a guilty verdict to facilitate an announcement of her removal – and then slunk away disgraced when the court rightly threw out the prosecution case.
Keir Starmer is no friend or ally of women.
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Thanks to Aspana for speaking up in public. The GENERAL public needs to hear rather then “talk amongst ourselves”. That’s what cults do.
As per what i posted in another thread, Aspana gives yet another example of “Concessions granted to SOME MPs were the Whips’ carrots / bribes to support eg infamously the Blair creature’s craven fanboying George Bush’s invasion of Iraq.”
Internationally our governments use the same WHIPPING. E.g. the states previously part of Russia, were bribed with EU membership in exchange for supporting George Bush’s Iraq invasion, which the Blair creature pranced around those and other parts promoting.
Little and even less little crumbs IF delivered, causes those not privy to the sordid BACKROOM dealings, to believe the parasites are not as bad as the other parasites with Blue rosettes.
ANYWAY, great that Aspana is publicising her experience. Pity she had to be helped by the presenter to focus on the nastiness Starmer’s gang inflicted on her. She did not recognise the CRITICAL importance of that.
Prioritising and sequence: Almost ALL who oppose the status quo guardians are convinced that the likes of Starmer and the public don’t know whats morally wrong.
Starmer & Gang KNOW they are wicked. They KNOW and CHOOSE to be wicked. The general public are denied the fullest first hand accounts of eg the sordid backroom stitch-ups.
The general public need to hear that repeated. Given the opportunities REVEAL it, it should be revealed clearly. People DO know that their children are in poverty. They wont know of the backroom deals Starmer uses to keep them poor, unless those who know tell them.
They’d have reneged on any so-called deal.
Certainly sends out the message:
You can either have kids live in poverty, or do something to help prevent domestic abuse…But not both
Just goes to show how sick the labour party really is, and people voted for this scum oif they had taken notice of the labour party they would have known what was coming
Thank you gloriously Independent MP Apsana Begum for disclosing the dirty politics and self-serving trickery already becoming standard and the norm for this pretend-Labour Government.
It took the tories 14 years to become nearly as deceitful as they are in their first month.
What has Jess Phillips got to say about this?
It was interesting to see Emily Thornberry try to justify the suspension on the television yesterday.
This would not be the first time that the whips have sought to coerce Begum.
Here is an earlier example, one which was recently supported by the truly awful Harriet Harman in a ‘farewell’ interview with The Guardian:
“In 24 February 2022, following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Begum was one of 11 Labour MPs threatened with loss of the party whip for signing a statement by the Stop the War Coalition which questioned the legitimacy of NATO and accused NATO of “eastward expansion”. All 11 then removed their signatures.” (Source: Wikipedia).
Only three weeks in and it is already clear to a blind man on a galloping horse that the UK is being run by a Madeleine Albright Tribute Act.
Dozy McDonnell seems to have been taken aback by his suspension from the party for voting with the 7 rebels.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/24/labour-rebellion-child-poverty-two-child-cap-john-mcdonnell
He really hasn’t been paying attention for the past 8 years, has he!
Thornberry, meanwhile, undeterred by losing her Cabinet place, has already started her climb back up the greasy pole/dive into the sewer (delete as preferred) to regain it.
Horsey Phillips will gauge other Cabinet members’ reactions before calibrating her own, as per opportunist usual…
“Dozy McDonnell seems to have been taken aback by his suspension from the party for voting with the 7 rebels.”
“He really hasn’t been paying attention for the past 8” decades, “has he!”?
OR maybe he HAS “been paying attention”… sort of, maybe he is determined to prove his claim that he “BELIEVES IN CONVERTING PEOPLE”.
Never mind his DISMAL failure to provide ANY examples of his success. Such as he, has ZERO part to play in ANY meaningful change.
NB: How did Barry Gardner vote re depriving help to children by keeping the two child sordid policy⁉️⁉️⁉️
Richard Murphy hits the nail on the head on this issue:
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/25/labour-needs-to-find-its-moral-compass-on-child-poverty/
“The row over Labour and the two-child benefit cap is exposing so many flaws within its thinking.
It’s had nearly 10 years to develop policy on this issue because we’ve had that cap for nearly that long and yet they’ve arrived in office and apparently need to hold an inquiry to work out what they should think. Really? Are these politicians so unaware of the briefs that they are meant to be following whilst in shadow cabinet as MPs that they don’t know what they think about them? Of course, Labour knows what it thinks about the two-child benefit cap. It’s either in favour of it or it isn’t. There’s really not much other place where it could be.
So, what is going on here? Well, it’s obviously not a debate about the two-child benefit cap that is happening right now in the Labour Party. There is a virility test going on, and that virility test is between Keir Starmer, Rachel Reeves, and the rest of the Labour Party.”
As one BTL commentator notes:
“The only way out of this now, is for more Labour MPs, to defy the whip, and lose it. Then those independents need to form some sort of coalition, as the French Left have done, and start to attack Starmer at every opportunity. Every person who has an MP that could be part of that coalition, needs to support them, as one commenter did thanking Richard Burgon for his stance.
79 more Labour MPs not following the party line, ends Starmers majority, and power. We need to support these MPs do it”
……………….or they could just wait a few short weeks for the budget.
……..which both Starmer and Reeves have made very clear will be based on ‘balancing the books’ on figures which are pre-determined by the Tories, because they’ve accepted the current Tory financial settlement for this country and the Tories’ fiscal rule, under which Rachel Reeves says she must work.
Spending on forever unwinnable wars to feed the likes of Blackrock, Raytheon et al and their fellow grifters in Nazi infested 404 is already ring-fenced and baked in. Which will leave little, if any, funds in the way of addressing the needs of the populace.
Relying on “growth” to make up the numbers in an economic context where the industrial base which produced all the real value has all but disappeared and replaced by a parasitic rent seeking Financialised economy which Starmer is but a paid stooge to maintain is a chimera.
Not least due to the fact that, as already pointed out on previous threads, the existing unsustainable UK debt bubble – see here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AEJwQKEa9s
……along with the basic mathematical reality that compound interest on debt rises exponentially whilst growth from value added production (which our financialised economy based as it is on parasitic rent seeking, no longer has) rises only logarithmically – demonstrates the economic illiteracy of globalists like Starmer and the pet Reeves who are clearly incapable of understanding such simple arithmetical basics
Not to mention their ignorant cheerleaders, whose only answer is wait a few weeks in the hope there might be jam tomorrow.
Dave – 🥱😪😴💤
Please feel free to come back and tell me all about it after the budget
No need, Billy. Whatever bullshit narrative is presented re this legendary budget in a few weeks time cannot overturn reality.
If I were you, I’d be spending more time trying to find a cure for that gullibility and lack of gorm you are suffering from.
Dave – 🥱😪😴💤
You can pout as much as you like, Billy. It won’t make a blind bit of difference to the objective reality.
– UK external debt is still the second highest on the planet at a whopping $9.65 Trillion this year.
– Last year – 2023 – that debt stood at a few decimal places below 190% of UK GDP.
– Basic arithmetic will always result in compound interest on debt rising exponentially* whilst the rise in productivity growth will always lag behind because in is logarithmic.
*Though you could always let rampant inflation rip to deal with that.
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– And the productive part of the economy, the manufacturing sector – which produces the real growth value – remains at below 20%. Whilst the unproductive – in value terms – financial and parasitical rentier sector of the economy is at around 80% (go figure).
https://www.statista.com/statistics/270372/distribution-of-gdp-across-economic-sectors-in-the-united-kingdom/
– Both Starmer and Reeves have already committed to the Tory defined Fiscal Rules and the simplistic balancing the books approach.
This is the reality now, and it will remain the reality after what passes for a budget.
Is this response of yours really the best we can expect from the Grammar school system.
Dear me!
Dave – I see that you are still trying to convince yourself how clever you are. 🙄
Billy – I see you are still committed to publicly demonstrating how congenitally obtuse you are.
Let’s face it, putting a few easily available facts together in context is hardly challenging.
Dave – If only we were all as clever as you think you are. 🥱😪😴💤
Translation: I have no counter evidence to refute these facts; therefore I will play the man rather than the ball to deflect from the issue.
Pathetic. We see you, Billy, for what you are. An empty sycophant making excuses for other empty vassals.
Are you really the best the grammar school system can throw up?
Come on, lad, start up that outboard motor for us again so we can all have a good laugh.
But…….but…….but…..but…..but…..but……but…….but………but……….’wait the budget’.
Dave – https://skwawkbox.org/2024/07/25/labour-whips-told-begum-theyd-support-domestic-violence-bills-in-return-for-starver-vote/#comment-257082
Is there an echo in here, or has Long John Silver’s parrot just flown in?
Repetition won’t alter the fact, which is clear for all to see, that you have nothing beyond this pathetic deflection, Billy.
Meanwhile, several weeks (?) before the budget……
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/25/rachel-reeves-expected-to-reveal-20bn-shortfall-in-public-finances
…..The Guardian is reporting the least surprising news ever:
“Rachel Reeves is expected to reveal a £20bn hole in government spending for essential public services on Monday, paving the way for potential tax rises in the autumn budget.”
For the benefit of the terminally gullible and permanently “surprised” this does not come as any kind of news to those who inhabit the Reality Based Community – are you listening at the back of the fourth form Remove there over in the (alleged) Caribbean?
Because all of this was detailed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies way back in March, after Jeremy Hunt’s last budget:
To quote:
“One thing is for certain. Whoever is chancellor after the next election, they are going to have one heck of a difficult circle to square. They will inherit historically high taxes, struggling public services, a big debt interest bill, the highest debt in 60 years, and poor growth. The first post-election budget and spending review will contain some nasty surprises.”
As The Guardian suggests:
“Experts expect she will be forced to announce tax changes in the budget, with options including capital gains or inheritance taxes and slashing other tax reliefs. Reeves has ruled out changes to income tax, VAT, national insurance and corporation tax – the largest revenue raisers.”
As Richard Murphy notes:
“In other words, she (Reeves) will have to pick from the selection of tax changes outlined in The Taxing Wealth Report, as I always thought would be the case, which is why I wrote it.
So why has Labour denied this reality for so long? That’s where its own fiscal credibility comes into question.”
The question is, will this bunch of chancers bite the bullet by redistributing some of that wealth which is being hoarded doing nothing for the Country but is instead merely making more money to hoard for the parasitic oligarchs funding and pulling the strings of the political class or will they bottle it by sticking to their paymaster’s narrow and self-serving definition of “economic credibility.”
Dave – 🥱
Like the rest of us, you’ll know the answer to that once the budget has been published.
We will see.
Dave – Yes we shall.
ps – have you seen this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckkg525l93lo ?
And?
Are we really to believe the implied term that there has been some road to Damascus conversion here?
With an already admitted £20 billion budget black hole by Reeves it is hardly good optics to waste more public money on a futile legal gesture of virtue signalling to the Lobby on what is only going to be ignored by the Stills and their paid for shills anyway.
No one who pays attention is going to get excited over this. Only sycophantic empty vassals such as yourself.
It’s a nothingburger. Have you nothing more substantial to offer?