Unseat Tessa Jowell.

[Dexter Deadwood]

She has got away with it for too long.
Promoted way beyond her intellect, we had to suffer her miserable Ministerial career. A war criminal and still proud of it. Lambeth residents have had to suffer longer. She never comes into Brixton unless it's with a film crew. She has never been on a bus or tube unless it's with Ken Livingstone. She is my local MP and she is a fucking disaster. A nasty piece of work.
Owner of several expensive homes, she "ditched" her husband when he was convicted of fraud in a desperate attempt to save her shitty career. She lied at the Leveson inquiry and took a healthy profit as a result.
Intimately linked with Berlusconi she should have no place in British political life. She ought to be in jail but if we can't put her there let's give her the Brixton boot.

I'm prepared to make a contribution to any fighting fund set up to unseat Tessa Jowell at the next General Election.

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

And when she's gone just 649 more to go!

 

[el-ahrairah]

change that Unseat to 'Behead' and I'm right with you.

 

[treelover]

Have to say Margaret Hodge, one of her contemporaries, is doing some good work on the Public Select Committee, think her detour into working class lives when she was under threat form the BNP has made some difference, but yes, Jowell is odious...

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Have to say Margaret Hodge, one of her contemporaries, is doing some good work on the Public Select Committee, think her detour into working class lives when she was under threat form the BNP has made some difference, but yes, Jowell is odious...

The contrast is stark. I've also been impressed with Hodge in Select Committee regarding the Work Programme and Universal Credit.

 

[Dan U]

That's the Margaret Hodge who is the beneficiary of a tax avoiding family trust linked to the very wealthy company her family are part of whilst holding forth on er tax avoidance.

Fuck her as well tbh

 

[Dan U]

Tbh if they aren't avoiding tax or fiddling their expenses or trashing public services they are brazenly employing their families despite all the public opprobrium previously heaped on them.

I am rapidly falling in to the fuck them all camp

 

[butchersapron]

Fuck Hodge for her past crimes and the ones she is yet to commit. What does unseat mean? Deselect her as the labour candidate? Lose her seat in the general election? The result of the first will be a Hodges type getting the candidacy and the second is not going to happen. Without some alternative being built outside of and against these people then any such unseatings will not be victories but instead allow people like to Hodge to pose as being on out side, to suck more people into the labour pit.

 

[JTG]

Have to say Margaret Hodge, one of her contemporaries, is doing some good work on the Public Select Committee, think her detour into working class lives when she was under threat form the BNP has made some difference, but yes, Jowell is odious...

Covered up allegations of child abuse on her watch whilst on Islington Council. Fuck her.

 

[Delroy Booth]

Hodge is a pure hack, the experience of nearly losing her seat to the BNP probably might have made her realise that her majority wasn't invincible and that she had to be seen to do work.

Reminds me of Hazel Blears after the expenses scandal, when she lost the shitty cabinet sinecure nonjob with that failed coup, and then Nick Griffin got elected in the euro's, everyone in the Labour party hated her over that. On top of that the expenses scandal broke and everyone in the country was appalled with her over that. She looked ruined. Then all of a sudden she's appearing in her constituency all over the place, people who haven't been canvassed for years are getting knocks on the door. Someone who'd shown little interest in her constituency (ultra safe seat) becomes a community actvist. And in the end she got re-elected in 2010 with a healthy majority.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

What does unseat mean? Deselect her as the labour candidate? Lose her seat in the general election?

If people believe that unseating her is impossible then we may as well not bother getting out of bed each morning. Sadly, i have too many conversations with people, mostly working class, who still believe Labour will save them or at the very least that Labour are better than the Coalition. With the lack of an alternative these people will continue to vote for her.
I strongly believe that a local left-wing independent candidate could take Jowell down.

 

[butchersapron]

If people believe that unseating her is impossible then we may as well not bother getting out of bed each morning. Sadly, i have too many conversations with people, mostly working class, who still believe Labour will save them or at the very least that Labour are better than the Coalition. With the lack of an alternative these people will continue to vote for her.
I strongly believe that a local left-wing independent candidate could take Jowell down.

I didn't say it was impossible. I asked what you meant by that. If you meant lose her seat in the general election then this is not going to happen - unless she is deselected - this is a safe labour seat and they will win it with an increased majority. And rather than this being a reason to not do anything it should act as a spur to do something.

 

[editor]

Labour are dead to me.

 

[Sprocket.]

There are scores of Labour MPs who are only seen in their seats when there is a photo opportunity.
The only way to remove them is to nominate and support a left wing candidate standing for local issues and galvanise the locals to vote for the candidate.
The ability for locals to join Labour and get a local, useful and effective candidate selected for election is no longer available because of the Party's ability to parachute the people they want into safe local seats.
The locals in Brixton should be organising now and take the fight to Jowell's door.
We got lumbered with Miliband, despite strong union support within the local labour group for Michael Dugher (Former head of policy for AEEU).

 

[Pickman's model]

didn't she used to live on kentish town's raveley street (well, between kentish town and tufnell park)?

 

[Dan U]

Forgot about the Islington child abuse. Hodge went on to become childrens minister under Blair iirc. Which is perverse as him being a peace envoy.

 

[ViolentPanda]

If people believe that unseating her is impossible then we may as well not bother getting out of bed each morning. Sadly, i have too many conversations with people, mostly working class, who still believe Labour will save them or at the very least that Labour are better than the Coalition. With the lack of an alternative these people will continue to vote for her.
I strongly believe that a local left-wing independent candidate could take Jowell down.

Part of her constituency is solidly middle-class Dulwich, though, so you'd have a tension between working-class needs, and middle-class wiberal desires.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Forgot about the Islington child abuse. Hodge went on to become childrens minister under Blair iirc. Which is perverse as him being a peace envoy.

Which was one of the reasons that an Islington abuse victim (Demetrious Panton) publicly protested about Hodge being given that ministry. What did he get for it? Public slandering from Hodge that he was mentally "extremely disturbed". If for nothing else, such naked monstering should have earned Hodge a kick in the cunt.

 

[kenny g]

Which was one of the reasons that an Islington abuse victim (Demetrious Panton) publicly protested about Hodge being given that ministry. What did he get for it? Public slandering from Hodge that he was mentally "extremely disturbed". If for nothing else, such naked monstering should have earned Hodge a kick in the cunt.

She did apologise unreservedly:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3270149.stm

 

[ViolentPanda]

She did apologise unreservedly:-

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3270149.stm

She did. Not immediately (as would have been proper), but after the story had generated almost a month of bad press for her, though.

 

[bi0boy]

earned Hodge a kick in the cunt.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nice of you to remove the final 7 words from the context of the rest of the post. Totally in character.

Now go roll your eyes at someone who gives a fuck for your snideness, knob-wart.

 

[rioted]

Nice of you to remove the final 7 words from the context of the rest of the post. Totally in character.

Now go roll your eyes at someone who gives a fuck for your snideness, knob-wart.

"she deserved it"

 

[ViolentPanda]

"she deserved it"

No, she would have deserved it. get it right, eh?

If it'd been a male MP I'd have said "kick him in the bollocks".
And yes, if she had been kicked in the cunt for monstering Panton, she would have deserved it. She used her position to traduce someone whose care she had been responsible for (and whom she had failed), and it was only that person's media savviness that led to her humiliation and her public apology. People don't learn from their mistakes if they don't pay for their mistakes.

 

[bi0boy]

No, she would have deserved it. get it right, eh?

If it'd been a male MP I'd have said "kick him in the bollocks".

Same thing isn't it? There's no difference between violence against men and violence against women. See also racism against white people.

And yes, if she had been kicked in the cunt for monstering Panton, she would have deserved it. She used her position to traduce someone whose care she had been responsible for (and whom she had failed), and it was only that person's media savviness that led to her humiliation and her public apology. People don't learn from their mistakes if they don't pay for their mistakes.

Saying women deserved to be kicked in the cunt really does a lot to combat the kind of abuse that happened on her watch doesn't it? Couldn't you have thought of a different insult?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Same thing isn't it? There's no difference between violence against men and violence against women. See also racism against white people.

yes, it's exactly the same a s racism against white people.

Saying women deserved to be kicked in the cunt really does a lot to combat the kind of abuse that happened on her watch doesn't it? Couldn't you have thought of a different insult?

I didn't say "women", I mention a woman, and you know what? Saying that she deserved a kick in the cunt wasn't supposed to "combat the kind of abuse that happened", it was proposed as a punishment or her "just deserts" for traducing an abuse victim who dared bring up the fact of her taking fuck-all action to curb abuse when she was at Islington.

 

[bi0boy]

Punishment? Just deserts? A good cunt-kicking, yeah?

What would you have given to say, Chuka Umunna had he been in her position? A decent lynching or something?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Punishment? Just deserts? A good cunt-kicking, yeah?

Yes.

What would you have given to say, Chuka Umunna had he been in her position? A decent lynching or something?

A kick in the bollocks, as I stated previously in post #24.

You've attempted to insinuate that I'm a sexist, and now you're implying that I'm a racist. Good for you!!!

 

[bi0boy]

You've attempted to insinuate that I'm a sexist, and now you're implying that I'm a racist. Good for you!!!

Nope. Your inability to find fault with what you had written led me to provide an extreme analogy in an attempt to hopefully make you see sense, but I see you're apparently beyond help.

I'll leave you to your cunt-kicking then. Only for women who deserve it of course.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Nope. Your inability to find fault with what you had written led me to provide an extreme analogy in an attempt to hopefully make you see sense, but I see you're apparently beyond help.

I'll leave you to your cunt-kicking then. Only for women who deserve it of course.

So, you're self-righteous as well as sententious. Can't say I'm surprised.