MPs in controversial Labour WhatsApp group should never have been in parliament, says Harman
Harriet Harman was a Labour MP for 42 years. Speaking to Sky News' Electoral Dysfunction podcast, she said that Andrew Gwynne and Oliver Ryan would not have been selected to stand as MPs if the contents of the "Trigger Me Timbers" WhatsApp group were known.
People who believe the things posted in a controversial Labour WhatsApp group shouldn't have been MPs in the first place, according to Harriet Harman.
Not entirely Harriet, there should also be some candidate selection bias against lying, incompetence, inexperience, fudged CVs and over-reliance on ideology. Perhaps we'd all benefit from that, instead of wittering on about perceptions, which is what this is all about.
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And yet if you apply the same reasoning more broadly then many other existing MPs and elder Statesmen would have been disqualified because of their alleged previous behaviour.
Ooh, I wonder how suitable an activist politician who strayed dangerously close to supporting the PIE in the 1980s is to being an MP?
DJ - yes, many should never have been there, including Harriet.
Tammly - not at all suitable I'd say. I still don't see how she survived that, must say something about UK politics.
The latest caring and compassionate champion of the people to be outed as a member of a dodgy WhatsApp group is my own MP, the smug gay useless waste of space Stephen Morgan. I'm hoping that he also gets suspended from the party, although Starmer will probably have to reinvent a new tier of culpability, as he probably realises he wouldn't have many MPs left if he applied some consistency.
Sam - I just looked him up and blimey, what a toad -
"Morgan frequently speaks out on veterans' issues citing Portsmouth's naval history and his own grandfather's military service as his motivation."
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