Anna Soubry took to Twitter to post her two cents on the Southport stabbings’ aftermath. She smugly lambasted Lee Anderson for “not being the sharpest article in the Reform toolbox” after retweeting a video of crowds running away from a stabbing incident in Southend last night. She was quick to jump to the conclusion that Lee had accidentally searched Southend instead of Southport. Sadly, this was a separate attack…
.@LeeAndersonMP_ is not the sharpest article in the #Reform toolbox – he did a Google search for #Southport & got Southend.
He and his motley crew are yet to condemn the attacks on our police and a place of worship in Southport last night.
I wonder why? https://t.co/QvbqY9pu83— Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 (@Anna_Soubry) July 31, 2024
Ironically, she then got the town wrong minutes later, referencing last night’s riots in “Stockport” rather than Southport. Something something glass houses…
I hope there will be a full police investigation in to last nights riots in #Stockport to include anyone who may have ‘aided,abetted counselled or or procured’ the use of violence or may have committed or incited any other offence. https://t.co/R0cV9Svd4X
— Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 (@Anna_Soubry) July 31, 2024
Some poor judgement from a so-called barrister…
After winning 14% of the vote last night, Reform UK gained 4 MPs: Nigel Farage for Clacton, Richard Tice for Boston and Skegness, Lee Anderson for Ashfield and Rupert Lowe for Great Yarmouth. It’s an impressive number for a new party. Now the MPs are presenting their programme for Parliament…
LIVE: Reform MPs Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson & Rupert Lowe on the political earthquake. https://t.co/POvgorgplm
— Reform UK (@reformparty_uk) July 5, 2024
The Tory whips have decided it’s time up for Reform defector Lee Anderson on the Home Affairs Select Committee. Anderson is now getting kicked off by motion, as is the government’s prerogative, to be imminently replaced. Lee’s direct questioning has become a staple of otherwise dull Home Affairs committee meetings. No doubt problematic now he’s not batting for their side…
Anderson says:
“I would’ve liked to have stayed on the committee, but with the Home Office once again due to be scrutinised before it I’m probably the last person they want asking questions in the run up to an election.”
Other committee members acknowledge that Lee is a top performer and say “it’s sad to see him go“. End of an era…
Guido reported yesterday that Labour’s candidate for East Midlands Mayor, Claire Ward, invited Starmer and Wes Streeting earlier this month to King’s Mill Hospital in Ashfield, for which she is Chairman of the Board of Directors – involving the hospital in political activity while also failing to invite Tory candidate Ben Bradley. It looks like the Tories’ ‘patients’ with the shenanigans is running thin…
Local MP Lee Anderson accused “same old Labour” of “gutter politics” for the move. In the Commons today Health Secretary Victoria Atkins told Anderson that the government has raised the matter with the Chief Executive of NHS England and the regional NHS director as a potential breach of the widely-accepted Nolan Principles of public standards. Not quite what the doctor ordered…
Just last week Ward was banging on about how “important” the Nolan Principles are to her. What happened?
Lee Anderson, seeing the number of MPs rushing for a cigarette after last night’s vote, tells Guido:
“It must’ve been incredibly stressful for some MPs to vote to ban smoking last night, so much so that they dashed through the “Aye” lobby straight onto the Terrace to spark up. Stressful times indeed.“
Reform UK just held a press conference this morning, with Tice and Anderson taking the opportunity to bash the two main parties which are “both forms of socialism“, attacking “Labour’s betrayal of the working class” and “14 years of Conservative mismanagement“. Cue Anderson taking the lectern to remind the public that he is in fact the son of a coal miner…
The conference comes as new data from YouGov shows Brexit voters are backing Reform over Tories for first time, and with it looking highly unlikely that Reform will form a pact with the Tories like the Brexit party did in 2019, they may be set to steal away many Tory votes. Meanwhile, Tice isn’t pulling any punches, telling the Today Programme: “I’m not taking lessons from the Tory party that’s got a bunch of sexual weirdos”…
