How Keir Starmer Barged into Lindsay Hoyle’s Office Ahead of Key Israel Vote While Sue Gray Lurked Nearby and Chris Bryant Stalled in the Commons
Keir Starmer barged into Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle’s tiny office ahead of Hoyle’s inflammatory announcement of bending Parliament’s rules to help Labour, while Sue Gray lurked nearby and Chris Bryant stalled in the chamber. Andrew Pierce in the Mail has the inside track on how Starmer pulled off his brazen move against the Speaker.
Labour’s Chief Whip Sir Alan Campbell followed Sir Lindsay into the Reasons Room – and hot on the two men’s heels, I have established, was Starmer himself. The Labour leader barged his way in – and the Speaker, I understand, was astonished to see him do so. Normally, party leaders have no business attending private meetings between the Speaker and the whips. So what exactly was Starmer doing there?
And that’s not the only troubling new detail I have uncovered about [Wednesday’s] extraordinary events at Westminster.
Also spotted lurking near the Reasons Room after PMQs was none other than Sue Gray, the ‘neutral’ ex-civil servant who presided over the Partygate inquiry that helped to torpedo Boris Johnson’s premiership in 2022. …
While the private arm-wrestling between the Speaker, the Labour Leader and his Chief Whip took place behind closed doors, back in the Commons chamber, an unrelated Private Member’s Bill about rural transport was rumbling on (raised by Tory ex-Minister Therese Coffey).
Unusually, a frontbencher, Labour’s Sir Chris Bryant, hoisted himself to his feet to respond to Coffey’s fairly arcane speech. Bryant managed to string out his contribution for seven long minutes, even pausing to tell bemused MPs that there were 26 further Private Member’s Bills from MPs called ‘Chris’ in Parliament’s pipeline.
“He was filibustering – time-wasting,” says another Tory MP. “Now we know why. They were stalling to give Starmer more time to mug the Speaker.” …
Just before Bryant sat down, Starmer returned to his frontbench seat in the Commons chamber. Wreathed in smiles, his private meeting with Hoyle had clearly gone well.
Minutes later, the Speaker himself arrived, and then made the bombshell and possibly career-ending announcement that he had turned decades of tradition on its head by allowing a vote on Labour’s motion instead of the SNP’s – a vote which had been crafted to prevent another massive revolt by Starmer’s backbenchers. Sir Lindsay’s deputies had no idea he was going to do this.
Pierce adds that “it’s clear the Speaker was warned by Labour luminaries that he might have ‘blood on his hands’ if he didn’t do as they wish: Islamist extremists had threatened violence against Labour MPs who failed to vote for a ceasefire. In his statement, Hoyle admitted as much, saying he was ‘very, very concerned about the safety of all MPs’.”
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Ed West has written about Wednesday night’s events for his Wrong Side of History Substack. Well worth a read.
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This filthy little Marxist piece of human excrement will make an horrifically bad pm. This is just the entre before he jails ppl for mis-gendering and then does the same to ppl challenging climate alarmism, as well as debanking anyone who faintly challenges the narrative. I’m not extorting ppl to vote Tory as I won’t be but just reminding them much worse lies ahead. Unfortunately.
Spot on. They’re the Islamist’s bitches right there. As regards to voting it’s a bit like being told to get in a lift with either a Ringwraith or Jabba the Hutt, and if you fail to choose you get stuck with a Demogorgon.
Starmer would f..k an antelope for votes and after it appeared on Youtube would say it was taken out of context
*Exhorting not extorting
Beat me to it. 🙂
Next time why not tell us what you really think.
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I know apologies.
Apologies not required. Needed to be said. 👍
It is sometime mundane to point out spelling mistakes when everyone knows what a person means.
clap clap clap “here here”. ——-A piece of excrement indeed ,but the worrying thing is they are all like that nowadays. The only ones who are not excrement are swiftly removed, like Braverman. ————Or as Mark Twain pointed out “Politicians are like diapers, they need changed often and for the same reason”
AsLabour is disrespectful of Parliamentary procedures it is, regretably, necessary to replace Hoyle. To habe a compliant speaker over Brexit was intolerable but to have one with a left wing Labour in office later this year and, perhaps, for 10 years, would mean Parliament was irrelevant. That is something the Blair and Mandelson advisers no douybt relish.
Hoyle will have to go, in disgrace.
But who to replace. Clearly not another left wing Remainer as the last several speakers have been Labour nominated. JRM would be suitable but has he given up Ministerial ambitions and will he be re-elected as an MP? Woud he be acceptable to a majority even of his own Party’s MPs? Probbaly not.
So just as the quality of MPs is at an all time low we cannot find a decent speaker.
My understanding is that the speaker is chosen Labour/Tory/Labour again, and that convention says that Speakers are changed at the start of a new parliament. IF the case, then a Tory speaker would be in place until the GE, and we can look forward to a Starmer Government with a Labour Speaker. Probably the worst combination of a poor set of choices.
So that’s the UK situation but what of the infiltration of Islam into EU politics, specifically in Brussels? We know about the Muslim Brotherhood and their popularization of the oft slung-about slur, ”Islamophobia”, which is a win-win-win for the Muslims because it gives them perma-victim status, silences and cancels critics whilst they insidiously gain more and more power and influence; ”The Muslim Brotherhood has achieved so much influence in Brussels that local politicians now need its support to win elections, according to a French academic who researches the organisation. “All French-speaking parties have been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood,” claimed Dr Florence Bergeaud-Blackler at a February 21 debate in the EU capital. Bergeaud-Blackler is author of Le Frérisme et ses networks, a 2023 book about the organisation which won the Prix de la Revue des Deux Mondes. The Muslim Brotherhood’s top three funders, she says, are Qatar, Turkey, and the European Union. It is “impossible to win any election in Brussels without the Muslim vote, and the Muslim vote is controlled by the Brothers,” she says. In the first phase, the Muslim Brotherhood acted as representatives of the Islamic communities across Europe, argues Bergeaud-Blackler. Later, they shifted towards anti-racism and anti-discrimination activists,… Read more »
Totally correct. Islamophobia equals IslamaBS.
I’m not actually understanding what all the drama is about anyway because what was the point in having a vote on this topic in the first place? How are Israel or the Jihadists remotely influenced by what a bunch of British politicians happen to think about yet another conflict over there? They’re both going to keep at it irrespective of who votes for what so this all seems like pointless melodrama to me. It doesn’t matter how many times a bunch of Useless Idiots screech ”ceasefire”, nobody’s going to cease firing, and as I recall it was Hamas that rejected the last offer from Israel.
The point of having the vote is to stop your throat getting slit by peace-loving constituents of a different opinion. The kitchen knife is the new lobbying, didn’t you know?
So we now understand that MPS are elected to vote for whoever makes the most death threats.
Perhaps balance would be restored by persuading hardline Zionists to threaten MPs if they dare to vote on a ceasefire motion, in similar numbers.
That might provoke instead an emergency debate on actually catching and punishing terrorists who practice extortion on our Parliament. Job done.
Zionists don’t need to threaten MP’s. Many of them receive funding from pro-Israel groups and have been on the Israel Indoctrination Tour. They already know what to support.
As you asked downvoters, let’s have a look at what occupied the thoughts of John Lamont MP (Israel Tour, Class of 2016) during the “pandemic” because it wasn’t government propaganda, coercive vaccination campaigns and lockdown:
19 Jan 2021 – “What recent steps he [Minister of State] has taken to improve UK relations with Israel.”
15 Mar 2021 – “To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what the basis was for the UK’s financial aid to Iran of £16 million between 2013 and 2017; what assessment he has made of whether a proportion of that aid funded textbooks that reportedly promote extremism; and whether the UK currently provides funds to improve educational links to Iran.”
(so obscure even Cleverly didn’t know anything about it – looks like it originated from the ADL)
I don’t think the Borders is well known for its Israeli or Jewish community.
Labour now reaping what they have sown. And their reaction – run and hide, which means the rest of us are Tom ducked.
Just putting it out there, but in the world I used to know it would be the police (or the military if it came to it) who would protect MPs, not up to the Speaker to be doing it. Betty Boothroyd would have had Keir Starmer for breakfast.
Starmer wants a lasting ceasefire. That could be established by creating a desert of concrete rubble and calling it peace.
On the other hand, when the terrorists have been annihilated, fire will cease.
As the UK has no influence in Israel or Gaza, this vote in the HoC can only have been domestic party politicking. The Westminster bubble bubbling away with self-concern. It’s all about them, just as with the Post Office scandal. It’s not about the Postmasters and mistresses.
This was pure theatre Mogs. As if this country hasn’t got enough problems the green leather polishing liars, thieves and cheats going by the shorthand of MP decided on a bit of virtue signalling.
What a way to confirm the utter collapse of our political system. Truly the nadir.
The nadir? Wanna bet?
Exactly, an excellent piece written in Spiked by Brendan O’Neil says as much.
Its all about virtue signalling whilst they ignore the job they are supposed to perform as one Mark Logan a Tory MP said
‘We’re MPs not to fix potholes. We’re MPs not to follow up if our nextdoor neighbour’s hedge is growing into my garden. That’s not what we’re here for. We’re here to protect lives. And this is the opportunity today.’
Get that? our M.P. ‘s are not in place to look after our silly little concerns, they are there to pontificate on the world stage.
The Israelis and Hammas couldn’t give a sh– what anyone in the UK thinks or says. What a pathetic waste of money M.P.’s are.
You as usual get it spot on. ——–My go to books are still the same– “While Europe Slept” and “Surrender” by Bruce Bawer, and no I am not Bruce Bawer. —–Also I have read .”Infidel” Ayaan Hirsi Ali———- The woman is a Muslim so no one can call her a racist when she spills the beans on them.
Wasn’t his choice to allow the Labour amendment related to potential difficulties inside that Party, as much as outdoor threats? If it had not been allowed, the SNP could benefit from the outcome, at least in Scotland. A kind of proxy local SNP/Labour campaign in Westminster.
“Wreathed in smiles”
You’d expect a more solemn demeanour, it doesn’t seem like someone concerned with the safety of his MP’s.
Is there any evidence this related to an Islamic threat and if so, why was it being selectively delivered last minute by pro-Israel Starmer? Why would it require a coordinated time-waster rather than informing all MP’s?
Lindsay Hoyle says he wanted to protect MPs from having to vote on Israel’s war in Gaza out of fear for their safety. So we now have so many extremists that for the first time I can recall MPs are scared to vote in parliament. While I think that is a terrible indictment on society I have absolutely no sympathy for them. They are the gaslighting set of chunts that on the one hand pretend they are trying to control immigration, and on the other they say our diversity is our strength. If their bubble is finally being burst then good. They should get their vote on a ceasefire and live with the consequences.
Labour have pushed and pushed for immigration at least since Bliar’s time and now it is threatening them. They can effing well suck it up. They made their beds now lie in them.
Next Tuesdays the lot of them.
Yes that’s it exactly. When is any one of them going to admit that ‘multiculturism’ has been the death knell for civilized society as we all once knew it? Fat chance! It’ll be like the toxic jabs and all of the restrictions. They all know full well it was an epic disaster and they shouldn’t have forced them on people but as long as there’s breath in their bodies they’ll never admit as much. Well needless to say, I’m on Team Braver(wo)man because she nails it; ”Writing in the Telegraph, Braverman accused the Labour leader of “being in hock” to extremists and “taking the Speaker hostage” with a “grubby backroom deal”. She said: “The truth is that the Islamists, the extremists and the anti-Semites are in charge now. “They have bullied the Labour Party, they have bullied our institutions, and now they have bullied our country into submission.” She accused politicians of “burying their heads in the sand”, claiming they prefer to believe in an “illusion” of a successful multicultural society. The former Home Secretary added: “But the law has not changed, mass extremism parades itself proudly, campuses remain dangerous places for Jews, and Labour is still rotten to the… Read more »
The political class are total parasites. ——The ones that speak the truth of this muticultural cesspit are promptly removed (like Braverman), so all we have left are squirming Islamophiles
Braverman criticised for saying Muslims are running the country, but when people are in fear of saying what they think and actually in fear of being attacked or even killed doesn’t that just amount to “running the country”?
These extremists must be remarkably tolerant.
They’re not triggered by UK military support for Israel or Israeli companies in the UK or Jewish communities in the UK or pro-Israeli MP’s or even reported SAS war crimes in Afghanistan.
Instead we’re supposed to believe they have a greater faith in the power and influence of these infidel MP’s than much of the electorate has.
Constituents everywhere should be very grateful to MPs for providing this illustration of how they operate in the HoC and what their priorities are. All useful for voters to make informed choices at the General Election.
If appeasement works, it dare not speak its name. If these contortions in the HoC, and specifically in the Labour Party, have come about in any way from multiculturalism, it is only called ‘rubbing the nose in diversity’. If they wanted it, how can they complain?
Yet at the same time and to contrast with the Gazan war, MPs are bravely unified in condemnation of Russia in the Ukraine war, despite Russian agents having previously entered the UK on a murderous mission.
They are busy signing their own death warrant whilst being in a position of almost certain victory. You can look at this in a number of ways none of which says anything positive about them and I think even their most ardent supporters are beginning to grasp this just like they are with Biden over the pond. All of our political class is nasty but this lot is like pond scum. The lowest of creatures so obtuse and lacking in self-awareness and dragged even lower by complacency. I think they will be in for a rude awakening.
To summarise then…
Kneel Starmer is nothing but a bully.
Well, well, well. Who’da thunk it.
How bizarre to be a bully and a coward at the same time, as well as being a hand wringing squirming parasite. —-pretty good going huh?
I don’t think I have ever met a bully who does not ultimately reveal themselves as a coward.
The party game is over. You can only move into a position of power when you recognise that along with a few other things in terms of taking power. You won’t have the option of relying on your intellect and the relative advantage that is gained through it. You can’t spend twenty years in front of a screen and know how to react when things get bad. I am just trying to state things as they truly are. The sharper ones know it anyway I would adivse circumspection for the rest. I only say this because I care about my people.
https://youtu.be/CD19uZxpg1o?si=XqJ3zx96k-Q9vpIb
Well done Kneel.
The above picture of his eminently punchable face gives me the heebie-jeebies.
I just can’t bring myself to vote Tory though. Alok Sharma will never receive my ‘X’
Starmer’s public statement that he “preferred Davos to Parliament”, in action.
Sad isn’t it we have Starmer who say’s he “preferred Davos to Parliament’ and the Tories who will never admit that but will sign up to all its edicts privately.
Never, ever, ever vote for an establishment party that is my guiding principle until the whole Augean stable is cleared out.
I don’t know if my disdain for most politicians can get any stronger.
Why can they not behave as adults?
Look at governing the country rather than petty, adversarial squabbling.
Take one issue at a time, put your heads together and work on a long-term solution.
Then move to the next issue.
Can’t say I’m confident about my understanding of parliamentary procedure, but as I understand it, Hoyle allowed Labour a vote on a ceasefire in Gaza (which could only be symbolic anyway) even though Labour wasn’t entitled to a vote under existing parliamentary procedure. He allowed the usual rule to be broken, as I understand it, because he was worried that MPs would be at risk of attack by Islamists if Labour didn’t get that vote. Hoyle’s decision came as a result, apparently, of Starmer and others steaming in to his office, intimidating Hoyle and making demands – presumably driven by their fear of losing the Islamic vote. MPs from all parties were unsurprisingly angry with Hoyle, who seems to have caved in to the pressure from Starmer. Starmer reasoned his irregular behaviour away by saying, in effect, that it was ok to break the rules because this particular issue is so important – which if I’ve understood the situation correctly is classic left-wing the-end-justifies-the-means behaviour (although I imagine the Tories would behave similarly if it suited them…) In fact, Labour’s behaviour is more expediently explained by the fact that attacks on ministers by Islamists are now so frequent that they (Labour ministers)… Read more »
Vote Labour = Bow to Terrorism
These people are not fit to “serve” the public, they are self interested, self centred creatures in any other business they would have been marched out of the building by security, but no not in Parliament, we get to keep on funding their salaries, expenses and other perks of the gravy train they ride.
Read all about it, Read all about it ——“Beadie Eyed Squirming Parasite Bursts Into Speakers Office”. ———-Oh dear the parasite needs the Muslim vote, the Green vote, the Jewish vote, the Black vote the women’s vote. ——–Oh what a dilemma .No much room for principles when you are a parasite is there? Trying to please everybody cannot happen Mr Starmer. You are an imposter.
Starmer and Hoyle both have to go. They up-ended Parliamentary procedures to appease a mob of violent extremists, Muslim and assorted lefties, and corrupted the supposedly politically neutral Speaker for political advantage.
Absolutely.