Dame #MargaretHodge, Baroness Lodge of Barking, is the UK Prime Minister’s "Anti-Corruption Champion". See https://archive.is/UtIw4
But on Tuesday's BBC #Newsnight , Hodge DEFENDED #Starmer's staff who tried to make pal-of-paedo #MatthewDoyle an ambassador.
Hodge claims this is routine job-hunting help. But Doyle could be ambassador only as a political appointee. He'd have been only the 6th political ambassador since 1979. And the #ForeignSecretary was not told. Blatant #corruption.
As #ForeignSecretary, #DavidLamny was a dissembling supporter of Israel while it conducted a #genocide.
Now he is #LordChancellor & Secretary of State for Injustice. He is gutting the right to #jurytrial, claiming implausibly that it will speed justice. In reality, it's an attempt to eliminate #JuryNullification in trials of #protesters like the #Filton24 and the #Colston4.
This leaves a great mystery.
Lammy's politics are horrendous. Why is #Lammy not more hated?
#SimonHarris's statement didn't go as far as I wanted. He didn't label Israel's actions as piracy, and he didn't even mention that the abducted include a member of the Oireachtas: Senator Chris Andrews.
But it's all a big contrast to the silence of #YvetteCopper, the UK's #ForeignSecretary. Cooper has not made any statement in her own name, even in writing.
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The #UK's #Starmer demoted the ridiculous #DavidLammy from #ForeignSecretary to #JusticeSecretary. So Lammy lost use of #Chevening, the Foreign Secretary’s country residence in Kent.
But he still gets to live in the Foreign Secretary's London house, 'cos his successor #YvetteCooper doesn't want to live there. The Brits formally call it a "grace-and-favour home", but #SnoutsInTrough is more descriptive.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/18/david-lammy-grace-and-favour-home-cabinet-reshuffle/ / https://archive.is/Mccl6
In the last five years, the UK has had 6 Foreign Secretaries and 8 Home Secretaries.
The instability of the post-2019 #ConservativeParty has been mimicked by the #Starmer's #LabourParty, with his #HomeSecretary and #ForeignSecretary reshuffled after only 14 months.
Home Secs: Sajid Javid, Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Grant Shapps, Suella Braverman, James Cleverly, Yvette Cooper, Shabana Mahmood
Foreign Secs: Dominic Raab, Liz Truss, James Cleverly, David Cameron, David Lammy, Yvette Cooper
@ChrisMayLA6 #RachelReeves is by far the least intellectually able #Chancellor ever.
#DavidLammy was the second-least intellectually able #ForeignSecretary ever (#LizTruss was worse).
And #YvetteCooper as #HomeSecretary was at best middleweight.
Collectively, they were the least talented trio ever to hold the UK's three Great Offices of State. Yet the #MSM parroted the #Starmtroopers' absurd boast that this was "the adults back in charge".
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