For a man who’s a repeat loser, Jolyon Maugham never seems to get used to it. Still sore from losing the case against the Institute of Economic Affairs, The Good Law Project has now issued a formal complaint against the Charity Commission over the “handling of the radical rightwing think-tank.” Christopher Snowdon of the IEA came out swinging…
It’s quite simple, Jolyon. The Commission doesn’t need to carry out a new investigation every time someone makes the same baseless complaint about the IEA. It has heard it all before and rejected it.
— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) May 16, 2024
The fox-beater came back with an empty accusation – that Snowdon was a “repeat offender“. To which Snowdon egged him on…
What offence have I repeatedly committed? Careful now.
— Christopher Snowdon 🇺🇦 (@cjsnowdon) May 17, 2024
True to form, Jolyon couldn’t come up with any actual evidence against Snowdon. Meanwhile, The (Not Very) Good Law Project have filed a complaint to the Charity Commission against GambleAware for allegedly “promoting” gambling. As Snowdon noted, this looks like “a dash for cash from anti-gambling groups trying to knock out a competitor.” Follow the money…
Carol Voderman has been making the most of her freedom to parrot anti-Tory abuse on X. Her latest victim is Tory Party Chair, Richard Holden, tweeting a long list of so-called “facts” attacking him for writing to Keir Starmer over Rayner’s tax affairs. She may regret her choice of target, as “Dick” didn’t hold back…
Nice to see you leaping forth to a good trolling sesh @carolvorders!
Think we can both agree that the only stench here emanates from Angela’s inability to answer basic questions and Sir Keir’s unwillingness to ask them… >>> https://t.co/ZABLsFNetL
Your logic is that no-one… https://t.co/V3fieHmA3Q
— Richard Holden MP (@RicHolden) April 8, 2024
Holden made a fair point about Voderman’s post, saying her logic is that “no-one should dare question” Keir or Angela, and that the post looked suspiciously like a Labour Press handout. To be fair, she has been getting cosy with the Opposition recently…
Dick. You’re now into blatant lies about me.
You’re the Conservative party Chairman for goodness sake.
Grow up
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) April 8, 2024
Carol hit back with “grow up”, while Holden lashed back that she had “nothing positive to offer…Alastair Campbell and Labour would be proud”. Vorders signed off with “now run along. I have work to do“, though didn’t clarify who exactly her work of anti-Tory rants is for. In this case, there can be only one loser…
It’s Valentine’s Day, and the Tories and Labour press teams are celebrating the annual festival of love in the only way they know how: using the theme to attack each other. No love lost here…
Labour’s digital attack team took to drawing up a mock Spotify Valentine playlist for Sunak, twisting romantic song titles to rip into Rishi’s poor track record on achieving his pledges. Probably not a playlist Sunak will play tonight…
Labour is red, the Tories are blue, Rishi Sunak has failed, he’s done nothing for you. pic.twitter.com/1jI0bxGUzx
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) February 14, 2024
The Tories took a raunchier choice for a doting gift to Sir Kier, making a twitter thread of “Starmer Sutra” all the different positions the Labour leader can take. He may have preferred some flowers, though it is a compliment to his flexibility…
The Starmer Sutra is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for the politically promiscuous.
Written by the father of u-turns, this is the definitive how-to guide on flip-flopping into different positions on anything.
*Only available in paperback and spineless editions* pic.twitter.com/Lb3e1fr07k
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) February 14, 2024
So far they’ve nine posts of times Starmer has flip flopped. Here’s one…
STARMER SUTRA, POSITION 9:
The non-dominatrix. pic.twitter.com/jd4BjuY9KI
— Conservatives (@Conservatives) February 14, 2024
Roses are red, violets are blue, the Tories are down, though now Labour is too…
Twitter bitch fight of the week goes to the Met Police and Just Stop Oil, as the gloves came off over a dispute on who was to blame for blocking the road on Waterloo Bridge. After Just Stop Oil protesters brought traffic to a halt, including an ambulance with a patient on board, the Met announced on X that arrests had been made as activists refused to get off the road. Ding ding…
This is some of the congestion which JSO are causing on Waterloo Bridge.
One of the vehicles is an ambulance on blue lights which is not able to get past.
Officers are continually telling the activists to move out the road so it can pass while making arrests. pic.twitter.com/E2kiM4Wksk
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 8, 2023
Just Stop Oil fought back in their usual righteous fashion, protesting that it was the Met officers that were blocking the ambulance, not them. The Met snapped back at JSO, writing that the bridge was blocked thanks to “your activists…If [they] got up and moved to the pavement we could have reopened the road to release the traffic“. An unusual display of animation from the Met…
The bridge is blocked because your activists are laying in the road, as your video shows. If the people who are under arrest worked with us, got up and moved to the pavement we could have reopened the road to release the traffic.
— Metropolitan Police (@metpoliceuk) November 8, 2023
Good to see the Met sticking it to them online, now how about on the streets…
Chairman of the Commons Standards Committee, Chris Bryant, has told the FT that he wants to see the restoration of a parliamentary rule from 1801 stating that “no member do presume to go out of town without leave of this House”, in an effort to force Nadine Dorries to follow through on her tweet saying she would immediately resign.
Nadine tweeted on June 9 that she would step down “with immediate effect” in protest at not being given a peerage in Boris’s resignation honours list. Nadine subsequently said she was delaying her exit from the Commons while she seeks more information about the process regarding her peerage nomination. This morning she accused Bryant of being attention seeking:
Ahh, Chris Bryant has a book out - well, I never. This latest bout of publicity seeking was so unlike him…
— Rt Hon Nadine Dorries (@NadineDorries) August 8, 2023
All is now clear…
Sir Chris Bryant says he has been assaulted by five MPshttps://t.co/XczUYXGgEC
Nadine also has her book “The Plot” coming out in time for Conservative Party conference in Manchester. Would Guido be too cynical in thinking that resigning her seat to coincide with the book launch would be handy publicity-wise?
This morning Jolyon Maugham decided to test his mettle once again in the Twitter Bitch Fight arena, as he laced up his gloves to face Transport Minister Jesse Norman. Ding ding…
Round one kicked off when Jolyon replied to Jesse’s tweet regarding sewage pollution, with the Kimono King jabbing Norman over the “disgraceful situation” in the River Wye:
How had this disgraceful situation continued for so long, Minister Jesse Norman? https://t.co/P4sm8bqdwJ
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) February 16, 2023
Jesse immediately swung back, claiming Jolyon was “not well placed to call anything disgraceful” after his treatment of Norman’s wife… one Kate Bingham. Now it’s personal…
You are not well placed to call anything disgraceful after your treatment of my wife. The inconvenient truth is that this is a complex longstanding problem which needs much local coordination and agreement. The use of fines — for which I campaigned — is another key step forward.
— Jesse Norman (@Jesse_Norman) February 16, 2023
Jesse is, of course, referring to Jolyon’s accusation that Bingham had a “brazen conflict of interest” and “leaked confidential information to investors” as vaccine tsar in 2020. The same accusations that Jesse later printed onto a tea towel for Bingham’s birthday…
Tea towel drama aside, Jolyon stood his ground. The foxbeater wasn’t going down without a fight…
The criticisms of your wife (which I stand by) were first made in the Times. But you are silent about its role and attack me. Is that because you are afraid to criticise power?
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) February 16, 2023
Now, back to the point: are you proud of your Government's record in tackling sewage dumping?
On the counterattack, Jesse replied:
Jolyon your standing by your revolting remarks speaks for itself. If I worried about criticising power, I would not have run the 2012 rebellion vs. an elected Lords, got kicked off the No 10 Policy Board for not voting with HMG on Syria, or written a no confidence letter to Boris
— Jesse Norman (@Jesse_Norman) February 16, 2023
On the ropes, Jolyon then claimed Norman was dodging his questions because he’s “afraid to criticise the powerful right wing newspapers that uncovered [Bingham’s abuses”:
You have answered neither of my questions: (1) why are you afraid to criticise the powerful right wing newspapers that uncovered her abuses? (2) Why as a Minister do you write letters to newspapers rather than vote to protect the Wye?
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) February 16, 2023
At the end of the round, Norman hit the final haymaker by again sharing the decorative tea towel that still sits in the family kitchen. And pointing out that Jolyon had to withdraw legal action after realising it wouldn’t quite pan out…
You obviously haven’t taken the time to work out that none of these claims was true; and you repeat them even so. You also had to withdraw your disgraceful legal action. Why not spend 5 mins reading her book, which refutes them? Perhaps I can remind you what they were… pic.twitter.com/9EkcNlebFK
— Jesse Norman (@Jesse_Norman) February 16, 2023
Usually Guido leaves it to co-conspirators to decide the winner. In this case, there can be only one loser…
