On this morning’s PoliticsLive Tory Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman Tom Tugendhat hit out at Baroness Chakrabarti’s moral high ground hypocrisy. No holds barred, Tugendhat said:
“She only got her peerage because she cosied up and covered up antisemitism in the Labour Party”
Shami furiously denied the claims. Worth watching the frank exchange in full…
Tory Chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee Tom Tugendhat backed Priti Patel’s border comments on Politics Live this morning, admitting that “with hindsight, we should have closed the borders last March”:
“But I think the government’s been making some very difficult decisions to try and keep an economy open that can pay for the healthcare we all need, at the same time as protecting as many people as possible and protecting lives.”
The Home Office is deftly avoiding pushing back on Guido’s revelations, side-stepping the issue to merely comment, “We have strong measures at the border in place which are vital as we rollout the vaccine”. Politics Live led with the scoop – we’ll shortly know whether Sir Keir plans on following suit at PMQs…
The hard-left great and good are set to gather tonight via Zoom to welcome in 2021 with “solidarity”. The Labour Grassroots organisation will welcome luminaries such as Corbyn, McDonnell, Claudia Webbe and Shami Chakrabarti and Skwakbox’s Steve Walker and Unite’s Howard Beckett to their “Review of 2020 party”. Given how this year’s gone for the hard left, the booze will need to be flowing…
Thankfully, Labour Grassroots has thought this through:
Now they’ve lost the red wall there’s little point in hiding their North London bourgeois pretences. As always, Guido will be happy to join Corbyn and toast everything he and his comrades achieved this year…
In response to the Scottish Court ruling this morning on the Queen’s prorogation of parliament, Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti issued a statement saying:
“This ruling shows that, despite what Boris Johnson has spent his privileged life thinking, he is not above the law.
Labour will not allow his elitist shutdown of Parliament to enable him to dodge scrutiny and force through a disastrous no deal Brexit”
With Shami going out of her way to paint Boris as privileged, Guido thought it would be useful to remind readers of her own, self-confessed wealth…
All this confected outrage is clearly a Sham-i…
Gina Miller and John Major’s High Court battle to prevent Boris Proroguing Parliament has failed. Not surprising following Jolyon Maugham’s Scottish court defeat two days ago…
Miller – supported by the former PM and Labour’s Shami Chakrabarti – was arguing Boris’s decision unlawfully breached parliamentary sovereignty. The courts are bruising a lot of egos at the moment…
UPDATE: Judges have given permission for Miller to keep flogging this dead horse via a Supreme Court appeal on Tuesday 14th…
UPDATE II: Read in full the judge’s summary explaining his rejection of Miller’s case
Shadow Attorney General Shami Chakrabarti says an immediate vote of no confidence in an incoming Tory leader would be a “very good idea”, which presumably means that Corbyn will prevaricate about it for several weeks before doing it too late and failing. It would at least force posturing Tory Remainers like Phil Hammond to make up their minds whether they truly think no deal is worse than a Marxist Government…
