Laura Smith, who readers will remember as the Labour MP who called for a general strike last year in order to bring down the government, has this week publicly backed a Labour campaign to abolish private schools. But in 2013 Smith founded a private tutoring company which helped students get in to private schools. Mysteriously this boast last month disappeared from the company’s Facebook page, and has been quietly deleted from Smith’s Wikipedia article. It’s almost as if she doesn’t want to be seen as a massive hypocrite…
Richard Burgon has been caught out by TalkRADIO‘s Ross Kempsell attempting to deny that he stood on his feet and clapped Labour MP Laura Smith’s call last night to organise a general strike to “bring an end to this government.” There hasn’t been a general strike in the UK since 1926, and now hard left Labour MPs are openly talking of direct action to bring down the government.
But here he is on video doing just that. Not a good idea to be telling porkies when there is video evidence to the contrary…
UPDATE: Richard Burgon clarifies “I did not give Laura Smith an ovation. I stood up and clapped.”
