Dawn Butler is set to announce her London mayoral campaign this Wednesday, according to PoliticsJOE’s Ava Evans. Sadiq Khan is still mulling whether to go for a fourth term…
Guido members will have seen this coming. From Guido Whispers on 10th April:
A New Dawn: Speaking of the London mayoralty, Dawn Butler was spotted hanging around near the Green Party HQ earlier this year. There is speculation she was trying to organise some sort of non-aggression pact amongst the left to run for Mayor of London. She denied that she was defecting to the Greens herself. Although a pact that clears the way on her left flank might be a different story…
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Labour MP Dawn Butler is asking colleagues to sign on to a soon-to-be-open letter calling for Sarah Pochin to be formally reprimanded by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for her complaint on TalkTV about adverts. Butler is asking friends if they would “consider signing my joint cross-party letter to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, regarding comments made by the Member of Parliament for Runcorn and Helsby, which I believe constitutes a breach of the Code of Conduct for Members”…
The MP, who last year shared a post describing Kemi Badenoch as “the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class,” argues the apology is not enough and “Ms Pochin’s remarks undermine the Nolan Principles of Objectivity and Honesty, as her claim that the representation of Black and Asian people in advertising suggests that whiteness is the normative identity, while minoritised communities are outsiders or exceptions. However, Black and Asian people have lived, worked and contributed to Britain for centuries and almost 20% of the UK population are Black, Asian, or Minority Ethnicity.“ Labour wants to have the argument…
Starmer called the comments ‘racist’ yesterday. Scrapping for a fight…
Read the full letter below:
Continue reading “Dawn Butler Leads Campaign Against Pochin for Advert Complaint”
Starmer is continuing to refuse to suspend Dawn Butler, who over the weekend retweeted a post about Kemi Badenoch from loony British-Nigerian author Nels Abbey:
“Today the most prominent member of white supremacy’s black collaborator class (in Britain) is likely to be made leader of the Conservative Party. Here are some handy tips for surviving the immediate surge of Badenochism (i.e. white supremacy in blackface). Don’t allow yourself to be gaslit. Of course, a victory for Badenoch is an obvious, unprecedented and once inconceivable victory for racism…
Don’t get arrested… The police don’t do nuance, and they conveniently refuse to understand black and brown intra-communal language or forms of critique, satire or compliment e.g. coconut, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kemi, house negro, choc ice etc.”
Butler’s favourite hobby is to try to get kicked out of the Commons for accusing Tory MPs of lying. Has she moved on to trying to get evicted from her own party?
Co-conspirators will remember that Rupa Huq was suspended for six months in 2022 after Guido revealed that she attacked Kwasi Kwarteng for being “superficially black.” So far Starmer has refused to do the same this time round. Abbey later said his post had been “clearly satirical” and “intended as a sketch.” That’s OK then…
Yvette Cooper declined to call the words racist on LBC this morning and told Nick Ferrari: “The words that you have read out are clearly appalling and I would strongly disagree with them.” Then she deployed the usual excuse of “I haven’t seen the post, I don’t know the circumstances…”
Cooper, who was on to talk about the government’s small boats announcements, defended Butler’s non-suspension by saying this is “one for the whip.” Labour’s media plan foiled by its own MPs again…
Credit where credit is due. Better than her Cameo performance…
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”