ABSTAINERS PUT CAREER FIRST

Abstainers and absentees: Duffield, Allin-Khan and Johnson

Only one Labour MP voted against his government's winter fuel cut on Tuesday.  It remains to be seen whether Jon Trickett will have the whip removed, but that was the threat facing him and his colleagues ahead of the vote.  348 Labour MPs supported the government, while 52 abstained or were absent.

There was fierce criticism online for both those backing the cut as well as those who abstained.  The words 'SHAME ON YOU', 'cowardly' and 'gutless' all trended on X following the vote.  Canterbury's Rosie Duffield was one of those singled out after she admitted in an interview that maintaining the Labour whip was more important than voting against the fuel cut.  She abstained.  The clip can be seen below.

Kim Johnson (Liverpool Riverside) was another MP who faced criticism after she excused herself from the vote for 'pre-arranged dental surgery'.  If she was so concerned for the lives of pensioners this winter, she would surely have postponed or rearranged her dentistry...

Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) was another who excused herself for medical reasons.  Dr Allin-Khan rose to fame during the scamdemic by returning to hospital work to help out in her role as a medical doctor.  The overwhelming majority of those who died from coronavirus were elderly (the average age of coronavirus death was 81), but Allin-Khan was not prepared to support them on this occasion.  She blamed an accident 'this week' that requires surgery.  With the vote taking place on Tuesday, she could only have fallen in the previous 48 hours.  The timing is questionable at best and 46 is not an age prone to hospital-worthy slips and trips...

Dawn Butler (Brent East) was also rinsed by X users for posting a video about mental health and not referring to the winter fuel cut at all.  She did not vote.

Rebecca Long-Bailey (Salford) was one of seven Labour MPs suspended by Starmer after having voted against the government over the child benefit cap.  However, unlike five of the others currently suspended, she abstained on Tuesday.  She posted a lengthy and evasive statement on social media that was signed off 'Rebecca Long-Bailey - Putting Salford First'.  It appears that the former leadership contender is more concerned with having the whip restored than putting her elderly constituents first.

Ian Lavery (Blyth & Ashington) posted a statement saying he had 'never voted to make his constituents poorer'.  He then went and abstained.  He also seems to have forgotten how he voted during the scamdemic, when he repeatedly voted for Covid legislation that made every single one of us poorer!

The general consensus is that the 52 Labour MPs who abstained or were absent are just as culpable for pensioners' deaths this winter as the 348 who backed the government.  While it is true to say that 52 votes would not have swung the outcome - such is Labour's huge majority - it would have provided a damaging blow to Keir Starmer and perhaps given red voters some hope that not all Labour MPs are career politicians.  Instead, by not having the moral compass or courage to defy Keir Starmer, they have shown everybody that their place on the gravy train is more important than the lives of their elderly constituents.

STARMER BACKS TWO JOBS MP (AGAIN)

Keir Starmer has once again brazenly disregarded his second jobs policy.  The Labour leader has repeatedly committed his party to a ban on MPs having second jobs, most recently in January this year.  However, that didn't stop him from attending another book launch for one of his frontbenchers, Nick Thomas-Symonds.  The latter was promoting a revised edition of his Clement Attlee biography and his party leader was happy to help with the promotion.

Nick tweeted his obvious delight in the relaunch of his 2010 work.

This is the second time the Labour leader has endorsed a book for Thomas-Symonds.  Last year he not only attended the launch of his Harold Wilson biography, he provided a quote for the front cover of promotional copies.  It appears that Starmer's second jobs policy will either be kicked into the long grass when he enters Downing Street, or it will contain so many exemptions as to render it pointless.  If he had any principle on the matter, he would have already implemented a ban on his own MPs taking second jobs.

In January of this year, when Starmer was challenged about Dave Lammy's array of secondary incomes - primarily from LBC - the Labour leader replied: "I think David does a lot of media work, and I think media work and writing books is all part of the political process".  Lammy is Labour's highest earner from secondary income, collecting more than £200,000 since 2019 - in addition to his MPs' salary.  He has pocketed thousands as a guest speaker for various organisations, including Facebook and Google.  

The Rhondda MP Chris Bryant has also made thousands from speaking engagements, including £2,000 from investment bank Goldman Sachs - a statement of how far modern Labour has diverged from the Labour of Attlee.

Loudmouth gobshite Jess Phillips is also making a mint from second jobs, having picked up £162,000 since 2019.  Her appearance as guest host on Have I Got News For You stretches Starmer's media exemption a bit thin.  And what of other Labour MPs raking it in?  There are plenty of them, with 38 per cent of all Labour MPs having declared additional incomes in the current parliament.

Margaret Hodge collects a £20,000 salary from her role at Royal Holloway University, where she is the chair of its governing council.  Khalid Mahmood (Birmingham Perry Barr) takes home £25,000 a year advising the conservative think tank Policy Exchange (yes, you read that correctly).  Dr Rosena Allin-Khan (Tooting) tweeted in support of Starmer's proposed second jobs ban earlier this year, but in the same tweet contradicted herself by declaring: "I'm proud to do occasional shifts on the NHS front line".  Admirable, maybe, but still a second job.

Perhaps the worst offender of all Labour's additional earners is Dan Jarvis.  Despite being elected mayor of the Sheffield City region in 2018, picking up a £79,000 salary in the process, he went on to seek re-election as the MP for Barnsley a year later.  He served a four year term as mayor, while still an MP, eventually deciding to stand down and pursue a career on the Westminster gravy train.

Money talks, no matter which side of the floor an MP sits.  That is unlikely to change when Keir Starmer enters Downing Street.

ROSENA ALLIN-KILLJOY

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan presents a fine example of why comedy is under pain of death from the intolerant left.  Earlier this week she shared a four second clip with her 206,800 Twitter followers showing part of an exchange between Tory MP Lee Anderson and perennial stalker Steve Bray aka 'Drunk Steve'.  In the clip Bray puts it to Anderson that the nickname '30p Lee' will stick, referring to recent remarks from the MP about the nation's cooking skills, to which Anderson replies: "Haven't you been sectioned yet?"

Of course this is banter, but Allin-Khan takes it upon herself to chastise the MP for his remark and demand an apology...

What Allin-Khan fails to acknowledge is that Bray has been harassing Anderson in the street for months.  She has also edited the clip (her version can be seen here), while the full version shows Bray following Anderson down the street calling him a lying Tory.  After Anderson's section remark, Bray responds likewise: "Why haven't you been sectioned?"

The unedited version can be seen below.

In spite of Bray's theatrics, Lee chooses to make a short video clip himself during this encounter, in which he expresses support for Boris Johnson.  Watch below.

One of the most popular replies to Allin-Khan's daft tweet was from her Labour colleague and GB News regular Paul Embery who wrote: "Don’t be silly.  That guy is a pain in the backside.  He can’t complain at being on the receiving end of a bit of banter".  Bray wasn't the one complaining, in fact after the exchange Bray has a smug grin on his face - he clearly enjoys the banter.  This is not how Allin-Khan wanted to portray events, instead trying to paint Anderson as a bully and claim offence on behalf of the mentally ill.  It's a shame there isn't a sense of humour injection that the MP/NHS doctor can give herself.

Meanwhile, Lee Anderson will continue to be harassed on an almost daily basis by Bray and his remoaner pals.  The Nottinghamshire MP (and former Labour councillor) will undoubtedly continue to give as good as he gets in these exchanges.  Here's a few more clips of the pair in action (there are many more to be found online) ...

It's not just Lee Anderson who gets the Bray treatment every time they leave the confines of Parliament by any means.  In one of the more disturbing incidents, Bray accosts Tory MP Paul Bristow while he is enjoying a pint in a beer garden.  Bristow tries to explain that he is having lunch with his wife and children, while Bray accuses him - without a hint of irony - of 'lounging around in a pub all day'.  As Bristow's wife arrives with a toddler in her arms, Bray agrees to leave the MP alone, but sneers menacingly 'it's a good job they were there'.  That clip can be seen here.

As long as Remainers continue to fund Bray's antics (and his thirst), it's clear that he will never return home to Port Talbot.  He is on too much of a good thing in London.  Why work for a living?

ALLIN-KHAN'S BREXIT LIES

Remainers are still trying to convince themselves that every single ill that befalls post-Brexit Britain is down to our departure from the EU.  Some will even outright lie about it, including Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan.

On Sunday morning Allin-Khan tweeted a short clip of Andrew Marr interviewing the PM in which the presenter says there are no issues on petrol forecourts across the EU.  Of course there isn't, because mainstream media on the continent hasn't encouraged moronic behaviour on the forecourts.  Allin-Khan says there are no 'petrol shortages' in the EU, implying that are petrol shortages here - which there isn't.  What happened in the UK over the last week was a supply and demand issue sparked by irresponsible media reporting and a lack of common sense among the British public.  There is - and never was - a shortage of petrol in the UK.

Ironically, one of the only areas still thought to be affected by supply issues is the metropolitan Remain heartland of London.  It's almost as if self-centered middle class remoaners have bled the pumps dry and created the very problem they now blame on Brexit.

There also seems to be some disparity between what Remainers are describing in supermarkets and the situation north of Watford.  Allin-Khan suggests that supermarket shelves are empty here, which is not what most British people find when they do their grocery shop.  Her assertion that supermarket shelves 'aren't empty' in Europe is also a downright fib.

Photos of empty shelves in Brussels went viral last week and France is also experiencing shortages.  There are also shortages of lorry drivers across many EU countries, including Poland, Germany and Ireland.

Remainers want to paint a very selective picture from their metropolitan bunkers.

LEFT'S RADUCANU RACE BAITING

The US Open victory of 18-year-old Emma Raducanu was greeted by many on the left - not as a win for Great Britain - but a win for diversity.  The same people who bleat constantly about racism could not get over her diverse ethnic background.  In the following selection of tweets look how they obsess about her ethnicity and note the sequence of flags in Sadiq Khan's tweet - the Union flag comes last -and he can't even be bothered to spell her name correctly!

Perhaps the prize for the most obsessive race baiter on the back of Raducanu's success was Good Morning Britain's Adil Ray.

So, we don't love homegrown talent then?  Why is that, exactly?  Because they are British born and bred?  That doesn't sound racist at all!

Ray then proceeded to pick fights with anyone who criticised his obnoxious tweets, including Yorkshire Post cartoonist Graeme Bandeira.  More race baiting followed in that exchange...

Those who claim to be anti-racist appear to be the most racist of them all.

THE DEMONISING OF ROD HUMPHRIS

The pub landlord from Bath who told Keir Starmer to leave his pub was stitched up on Good Morning Britain in a similar fashion that has befallen pretty much every lockdown sceptic to appear on that show.  On Tuesday morning Rod Humphris was allowed to speak for a few seconds at a time in a slender opportunity to present his argument.  He was generally interrupted mid-flow by one of the co-presenters.  The full panel consisted of Dr Hilary Jones and the political commentators Andrew Pierce and Kevin Maguire, all of whom were disparaging towards Mr Humphris.  This was five against one and made for unpleasant viewing, but this is how the establishment has always dealt with lockdown scepticism.  On the rare occasions in which dissent is given airtime it is isolated and systematically ridiculed.

Starmer and his party responded in a similar way - by smearing Mr Humphris.  Following the incident, Starmer released a video in which he suggested the landlord was in denial about the existence of the pandemic.  His frontbench colleague Rosena Allin-Khan echoed this in a tweet, accusing Humphris of 'denying that Covid exists'.  If only she had listened to what he had actually said it may have spared her the embarrassment that arose when he later confirmed that he himself was struck down by the virus last year!  The Labour press office also accused Mr Humphris of spreading 'dangerous misinformation', when actually he had built his argument on publicly available statistics.

Click below for the Good Morning Britain character assassination and note how the now traditional 'covidiot' remark is thrown in by the socialist Maguire, who goes on to suggest Humphris is spouting nothing but conspiracy theories and is 'crazy'.  The response on YouTube has been overwhelmingly negative, with 2:1 thumbs down while GMB have blocked people from commenting on it...

There is clearly no impartiality here on the part of the presenters.  Note how they enthusiastically nod along and reinforce Maguire's pro-lockdown mantra.  "Keir Starmer is married to an NHS worker" Susannah Reid reminds viewers during his piece and when Maguire claims that "all the evidence is lockdowns work", Adil Ray can be heard in the background saying "Of course!"

Humphris does very well in these circumstances and maintains his cool, despite being called a liar by Adil Ray.  In actual fact Mr Ray, there were no full national lockdowns in Sweden, Belarus or Tanzania, as stated by Mr Humphris.  There were lockdowns in Florida and Texas last spring, but both states managed to stay on top of the virus without lockdowns during the autumn/winter second wave.

If the presenters were impartial, capable of critical thought and not tied to a pre-established narrative, perhaps they would have questioned at least two blatantly incorrect claims made by Dr Hilary during his clash with Mr Humphris.

The first of Hilary's falsehoods was to suggest that the country went into lockdown after deaths had reached 1,200 per day.  This is simply not true as that level was not reached until January 12 - six days into the third lockdown in England.  This is easily proven by way of visiting the government's own coronavirus dashboard.  Secondly, Dr Hilary says that the virus is not seasonal as it 'has been going on all year'.  Everyone knows that the virus almost disappeared last summer, having plummeted to such low levels that there were days in which there were no coronavirus deaths reported at all.  This is not to back up the claim that it is merely 'seasonal', but it certainly disproves Hilary's claim that the UK pandemic has been in constant flow.

Dr Hilary also made a dubious claim about vaccines, echoing Boris Johnson's recent claim that vaccines were not behind the most recent collapse in the virus.  Hilary claims that the vaccines have "not had time to have an effect yet".  However, the most recent advice given by the NHS states clearly that just the first dose of a Covid vaccine provides 'a significant level of protection at 22 days'.  Let's be clear, the UK started its vaccination programme way back on December 8 - that's around 133 days ago.  Everyone in the most at risk groups had reportedly been offered a first dose over two months ago.  No time to take effect, really Dr Hilary?  Will no-one on the telly box dare to detract from the propaganda of our political masters?

SPANISH NURSES AND BIN BAGS

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan has been mocked over two attempts at the same tweet.  In a desperate bid to attack the government, the Tooting MP raked up PPE shortages in the NHS from almost twelve months ago.  In her original tweet Allin-Khan attached an image of a nurse with what appears to be a bin bag draped over her uniform.  This was to illustrate her point that nurses in the NHS were so desperate as to resort to such methods.  Unfortunately for Rosena, this turned out to be a photo of a nurse in Spain (see below).

After eagle-eyed Twitter users identified the photograph's origins and Tory minister Christopher Pincher asked her to confirm it, Allin-Khan deleted the tweet.

However, such was Allin-Khan's desperation to make her point about PPE shortages, she re-wrote the tweet and this time attached two new images (see below).  Unfortunately, she'd got it wrong again.

The picture on the left-hand side of her tweet does not show nurses wearing bin bags.  As many Twitter users pointed out, bin bags do not traditionally come with sleeves!  One user even posted a link to a site where such aprons could be purchased.

Another user questioned both pictures, saying that the picture on the right showed pink aprons and not 'bin bags'.  Donna Stimpson is an ICU nurse, so she should know.

The picture on the right-hand side of Allin-Khan's tweet comes from a BBC report from April 2020, in which it is claimed that the pink plastic sheets are 'bin bags'.  Clearly this casts doubt on the BBC report too.  Incidentally, the photo of the Spanish nurse can be found in the same report, so Allin-Khan had initially passed on the pink 'bin bags' as they weren't convincing enough.

If the use of bin bags was so 'widely documented' as Allin-Khan puts it, she appeared to scrape the barrel in finding evidence of it.  Very poor and very desperate stuff from a bitter individual who earlier this year falsely claimed that the vaccine minister Nadhim Zahawi had jumped the vaccine queue.  He hadn't and she apologised.

LABOUR'S QUEUE-JUMPING HYPOCRISY

Labour MPs Rosena Allin-Khan and Khalid Mahmood

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan has been forced into a humiliating apology after she published a string of late night tweets on Saturday accusing vaccine minister Nadhim Zarhawi of jumping the vaccine queue.  In the first tweet she wrote: "I have heard rumours that @nadhimzarhawi got him and his family vaccinated in Wandsworth.  Nadhim, can you please tell us if it's true?  I really hope it's not, unless you meet the necessary criteria.  There are millions of vulnerable people waiting patiently in the queue".  In a second tweet she pleaded with Twitter users to 'avoid throwing unnecessary attacks' at Zarhawi, reminding her followers that she didn't know if the rumour was true, but that she hoped Zarhawi would clarify.

In a third message she confirmed that she had deleted her original tweet and apologised for inviting a 'pile-on' which she said was not her intention.  She added: "I await a prompt response to the email I sent him [Zarhawi] about the matter which I hope is answered in good time".  This tweet was posted at 23 minutes past midnight, less than an hour after the first.  In a fourth tweet just before 1am she announced she would confirm as and when Zarhawi responded.  Was she seriously expecting a response at such a late hour or was she, perhaps, well oiled?  Minutes later she had a complete change of heart and deleted all her previous tweets and issued a formal apology to Zarhawi and his family.  Had Sir Keir been in touch?

Prior to deleting her tweets, Allin-Khan received support from another notorious late night tweeter - Hull East MP Karl Turner.  He tweeted: "It is not an allegation.  It’s a fairly reasonable question to a Govt Minister publicaly [sic]".  Turner deleted his tweet an hour later at around half past two in the morning.

For his part, Nadhim Zarhawi accepted Allin-Khan's apology at the reasonable hour of 08:52 and confirmed that the rumour was not true.  At 53, Zarhawi is not in any of the priority groups currently eligible for the jab, but then neither is Labour MP Khalid Mahmood who received the vaccine last week.  Unlike Allin-Khan's rumour, Mahmood's queue-jumping is not in question - the MP having bragged about it on Twitter (see below).

The MP for Birmingham Perry Barr is 59 years of age, far from the over 80 age group at the front of the queue and, needless to say, he does not live in a care home or work in a hospital either.  Were his Labour colleagues Allin-Khan and Turner unaware of his blatant queue-jumping or had they conveniently forgotten?  Either way, they have left themselves open to legitimate claims of hypocrisy.

The kidney transplant to which Mahmood refers in his tweet actually took place almost seven years ago in January 2014, but many reading his tweet would be forgiven for thinking that he'd had the operation recently.  Following a backlash about his early vaccination, the MP explained how he'd managed to jump the queue.  He says he was at Queen Elizabeth Hospital with an elderly relative who was due to receive the vaccine when he became aware that 'leftover' vaccines were available: "It's not very well known, but at the end of the day any vaccine unused because people have not turned up for their appointments is made available at the QE vaccination hub - we can't afford to waste any vaccine doses.  I joined a queue at about 3pm and got a vaccine.  I understand it happens every day if there is leftover vaccine, between 3pm and 4pm.  I did not tell anyone I was an MP or ask for special treatment - it is something they do if they have doses left over, as otherwise they would be wasted.".

His explanation alarmed hospital bosses who hastily made it clear that such leftovers are not publicly available and are usually taken up by hospital staff.  Anyone who turned up at the hospital without a prior appointment would not be seen.

It is not clear how Mahmood became aware of leftover vaccines or whether he will now be entitled to receive the second dose.  What is known is that he has managed to get a jab many months before his priority group is due to be vaccinated.  Some of his constituents are quite rightly outraged, as should anyone taken in by Rosena Allin-Khan's shameless hypocrisy.

LABOUR'S MENTAL HEALTH HYPOCRISY

Rosena Allin-Khan has gone on an offensive about mental health this weekend.  As Labour's Shadow Minister for Mental Health it is her remit, but the timing leaves the party open to yet more accusations of hypocrisy.  For how can Labour bemoan the poor mental health of the nation at the same time as demanding another full national lockdown?  By her own admission, Allin-Khan says that the pandemic has dramatically impacted mental health, so how on earth can she simultaneously support calls to lock people up in their homes - again?

While the Office for National Statistics manages to get Covid-related figures released almost instantaneously, the data for suicides is much harder to obtain and we may have to wait until next year to see the full impact of the pandemic - in particular the debilitating effect of lockdowns on loneliness, depression and suicide rates.  Sky's Sophy Ridge touched on the issue when she interviewed Allin-Khan on Sunday morning, but the frontbencher defended Labour's call for a so-called 'circuit-breaker' suggesting that this proposed 2-3 week lockdown would magically resolve everything.  Now that this drastic action is currently taking place in Wales we will soon be able to find out whether it would have any significant impact on the virus, while the experiment lays waste to the high street, hospitality industry and people's mental health.

The truth is that Labour don't care about mental health, local businesses or people's jobs.  All they are interested in at the moment is making political capital out of a bad situation, something which several party figures have publicly admitted during momentary lapses of concentration.  Labour's support for perpetual lockdowns (the Welsh government has already threatened another after Christmas) will backfire on them.  People have had enough.

MP'S TAXPAYER-FUNDED PROPAGANDA

Rosena Allin-Khan outside Labour's 2019 party conference

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan has been ordered to pay back £1,142 of taxpayers' money she used to send anti-Brexit propaganda.  The staunch Remainer used Parliamentary stationary to send 1,624 letters to constituents ahead of the 2019 general election, informing them that if Labour were elected she would campaign for a Remain vote in Labour's phoney second referendum (on which Leave would not have been an option anyway).

MPs are forbidden from using Parliamentary stationery for political campaigning, yet Allin-Khan not only used official letterheaded paper she used prepaid envelopes to post them.  One of the recipients of the letters complained and a Commons investigation has now reported back after almost a year.  In addition to breaking the rules on misuse of stationery, the MP was also found to have breached data protection rules.  Allin-Khan must pay back the money in full and make a formal apology to the Commons.  The Commons Standards Commissioner also noted that 'this is the third time Dr Allin-Khan has been found to have breached the rules in three years'.  The commissioner went on to warn Allin-Khan: "Any further breach of the code of conduct by Dr Allin-Khan, where there is evidence of a lack of attention to the rules of the House, might call for a more serious sanction".

Allin-Khan represents the Tooting constituency in London, which at 74.4 per cent returned one of the strongest Remain votes in the referendum.  

Allin-Khan (circled) at a 'People's Vote' march alongside fellow Remain MPs
Ian Blackford and Vince Cable

JEZZA'S RULE OF... NINE

It was no great surprise to see the former Labour leader brazenly flouting Covid rules at a dinner party for nine.  He and his wife Laura were joined by seven others as they posed for a photo that has since gone viral.  The dinner was reportedly held in honour of hard left US activist David Graeber, who died last month.  His widow Nina was a guest and sat next to Corbyn.

David Graeber's widow (with dreadlocks seated on Corbyn's left)

Corbyn has persistently flouted Covid rules and advice throughout the year.  During the national lockdown when over 70s were advised to isolate, Corbyn continued to work as normal.  He attended the Commons in person, was pictured not observing social distancing and even travelled to TV studios for in-person interviews at a time when satellite interviews were becoming the norm.  On the day mandatory masks were introduced in shops in England, both he and his wife were photographed shopping without them.

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan was asked about Corbyn's latest breach during her media rounds on Thursday.  Allin-Khan is no fan of Corbyn and she didn't make any attempts to defend him, albeit she couldn't help but bring up the lockdown travels of Dominic Cummings (as is traditional for any self-respecting Labour Remainer).  She contradicted herself as to whether Corbyn had been/would be fined for his latest breach, telling Sky's Kay Burley that he should be fined (see below), while telling Piers Morgan that he had been fined.

The Metropolitan Police have since confirmed that Corbyn will not be fined as they do not investigate Covid breaches 'retrospectively'.  Boris Johnson's father Stanley will also not be fined after he was pictured without a face mask in a London shop.

ALLIN-KHAN LAYS INTO DUP

Labour frontbencher Rosena Allin-Khan has lashed out at three MPs who posed with a Trump 2020 flag outside Parliament on Wednesday.  Sammy Wilson of the DUP tweeted a photo of himself and three others with the flag, including fellow MPs Paul Girvan and Ian Paisley Jnr.  Allin-Khan retweeted Wilson and described the photo as 'an embarrassment'.

Speaking of embarrassments, Labour MPs like Allin-Khan will undoubtedly be throwing their support behind Trump's opponent in November.  Joe Biden can barely string a sentence together and this was evident in his latest speech that included the following calamitous piece of nonsense...

It's astonishing that the Democrats have managed to find someone even worse than Killary, but thanks to coronavirus and the economic crash he may well end up winning.  As for Trump, one wonders if Rosena Allin-Khan and her establishment comrades can provide a single example to back up their claims that he is a racist.  As for 'spouting hate', there's plenty of it Stateside - but it's not coming from the White House.  It can be found on the streets of Democrat-run cities that continue to burn as mobs run riot.

BIZARRE HUSTINGS MOMENT

There was a bizarre moment at yesterday's deputy leadership hustings when one of the candidates suddenly burst into song.  Rosena Allin-Khan was told she still had 25 seconds to spare in order to answer a question and decided to fill in the time by belting out the opening verse of Cher's If I Could Turn Back Time, much to the amusement of Dawn Butler.  To be fair, she's got a cracking voice - watch below.

The latest leadership hustings were held in Brighton at the Grand Hotel.  The party held its 2019 conference at the same venue, although it is better known for a Conservative party conference.  In 1984 the IRA bombed the hotel during the Tory conference in an attempt to wipe out the government, killing five people.  Two weeks after the atrocity backbench MP Jeremy Corbyn invited two IRA members to Parliament and in 1986 he was arrested outside the Old Bailey during a protest in support of the Brighton bomber Patrick Magee.  Last year Corbyn chose to launch the party's manifesto in Birmingham on the 45th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings.  There is no shame in this party.