Labour suspends 11 councillors over offensive WhatsApp messages
Labour has suspended 11 councillors from the party following an investigation into offensive messages in a WhatsApp group.
Andrew Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton in Greater Manchester, was sacked as health minister on Sunday and suspended from the Labour Party after messages were leaked.
Another MP, Burnley’s Oliver Ryan, was suspended on Monday,
The most striking aspect of this latest embarrassment is how it reveals yet again how many members of the political class prefer pub banter to the dull grind of professional behaviour and acquiring expertise. We've known it forever of course, it has been an issue for a very long time.
Perhaps the trick is to be occasionally amusing but always professionally competent, but at the moment most of us would probably settle for competent, or even occasionally competent.
And therefore if the more foolish a man is, the more he pleases himself and is admired by others, to what purpose should he beat his brains about true knowledge, which first will cost him dear, and next render him the more troublesome and less confident, and lastly, please only a few?
Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly (1511)
And therefore if the more foolish a man is, the more he pleases himself and is admired by others, to what purpose should he beat his brains about true knowledge, which first will cost him dear, and next render him the more troublesome and less confident, and lastly, please only a few?
Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly (1511)
2 comments:
Sadly it probably goes beyond just the Labour Party. There appears to be a recent 'totalising' mindset in politics which is "My party contains all the good (nice, virtuous, deserving etc.) people and so all the people outside my party are bad (stupid, gammons, corrupted etc.). It's called polarisation in America and is probably where we got the 'totalising' mindset from.
Since Labour have been alleged as the 'Party of Envy' they were off to a flying start, although I can think of similar outlooks in the Lib Dems, Reform, and the independence parties. The Conservatives are not immune but why flog a dead horse?
DJ - yes, it seems to keep loyal voters voting loyally too, as if switching parties like dropping friends and taking up with that horrible lot in the next street. It's silly because it wrecks political parties.
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