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Labour MP John Mann says leadership contender Mr Corbyn "did nothing" about allegations of child abuse in Islington in 1980s
Jeremy Corbyn, the hard-left Labour MP who is tipped to lead the party, has been accused of "doing nothing" over allegations of child abuse in his constituency during the 1980s.
Islington council has paid hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation to victims following widespread sexual abuse in the London borough in the 1970s and 1980s. It is thought dozens of vulnerable children were abused by a number of paedophiles.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/11758612/Jeremy-Corbyn-accused-of-inaction-over-paedophile-scandal.html
I wonder what impact such a serious claim will have. Might make Corbyn's supporters dig their heels in, if they feel it's a false claim made solely to deprive him of the leadership.
Vote shares for UKIP vs LD vs Green vs SNP would be interesting though.
Are the young'uns being correctly downweighted for Green and Labour yet ?
Turning a blind eye to criminality doesn't just occur in banks you know. And if people want to present themselves as on the side of the vulnerable then we're entitled to ask questions about what that has meant in practice.
I'm speechless and that seldom happens.
Will a Corbyn led Labour party join them?
This petition has reached over 176.000 signatures in 48 hours, and passed the 100,000 threshold in 24 hours.
This isn't about politics; this is about Jeremy Hunt having no concept of the degree to which the NHS is, and has always been, dependent on the good will of the workforce.
Please sign and let others know about it
Gloves off.
Impeccable timing - Is John Mann a Blairite perchance?
At any event, being negligent should not be a bar to further advancement within Labour: after all the sainted Blair made Margaret Hodge Minister for Children even after her appalling record as leader of Islington Council when the abuse was happening was well known.
"You inadvertently helped the rubbishing and the cover up of all of the Dickens allegations. Indeed your actions encouraged others, because a week later the Islington Gazette published a letter attacking Geoffrey Dickens over his allegations from Roger Moody, a prominent pro paedophilia activist."
http://www.mann4bassetlaw.com/an_open_letter_to_jeremy_corbyn_on_child_abuse
The government has a mandate to implement that policy, most people want it, and he's been appointed to carry it out as a government minister.
He absolutely should be pursuing it with full vigour as the government was elected to do.
The letter is a classic smear tactic. Cheap work
1) Do you think the top man knows the ins and outs of your current account
2) Do you think the public care
3) What about what the public do care about.
How can August top this fest?
Link?
What a numpty.
There's some others that Mike won't appreciate being repeated on PB
Now, where are those babies.
Quite a lot of accusations that he's a Tory, that only right-wing people are paedos [this includes Labour people who are right-wing...], whataboutery and a dozen or so questioning his smearing now.
It doesn't matter how many people sign the petition. They will not overturn a democratically elected Government (who just for the record I did not vote for and do not support).
http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/dogging-scandal-at-clumber-1-638210
No writs needed, just humour at the face of absurdity.
They are logically not inconsistent, but they are also very wrong.
It really isn't all about you.
Oh dear!
And yet his own constituency party never mentioned it before re-selecting him.. and why is John Mann suddenly raising it now.. its not as tho this is an old story..
Apols if already discussed in a hurry and saw it..
Let's hope it's cathartic.
So please don't talk nonsense
One of the few supporters of Liz Kendall.
During the 2011 Census I worked some very long hours, but that was the nature of the job and I was going to do what was necessary. The point is, lots of professions are required to work long hours, not just doctors.
I suspect that the medical profession is not being as patient-minded as it needs to be, but it is also true that good patient care efficiently provided can only be expected once management and staff agree on how to deliver that. If the two sides go to war, it is guaranteed that patient care will suffer.
But at the moment we have the Tories talking about making the health service operate well 7 days a week so that your risk of dying does not increase if you become sick over the weekend.
And Labour and health service staff talking about how difficult / expensive it all is etc. And they may have a point.
But one group is talking about doing something for patients. And the other sound as if they're more bothered about their own position.
That may be unfair but that is how they risk coming across. I doubt for instance that many taxpayers are going to be tremendously upset at the fact that in the NHS you only earn 15% of what you can earn outside it. Most people don't have the chance to do this in their jobs. Or their contracts forbid it.
MrT: I have just paid the princely sum of $26 for your book: I think you owe me a drink.
edit: just saw your 3:08 post. It was out-of-stock at the first B&N I tried; the second one had it, but they struggled to find it (wasn't on the shelf where it should be and had to get it out of the back). Not sure if that is a good sign or not!
Staffing levels in the NHS are not matched to demand. As Foxinsoxuk (a medic himself) has explained many times on PB, the NHS is losing disturbingly high numbers of medical staff, particularly to the US and Australia.
The gap is being filled by immigrants.
Number of foreign GPs working in the NHS increases by 11% in decade - and will continue to rise due to shortage of doctors
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3021849/Number-foreign-GPs-working-NHS-increases-decade-continue-rise-shortage-doctors.html
The argument that "if you don't like it then go and do something else" is spurious. It's human nature to fight to improve your present lot, rather than gamble on something new. It's not easy to switch careers, especially in the professions. There's also the pull of the fulfilment of being in a vocation with some jobs. (e.g Teachers)
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/trump-s-mobbed-up-mccarthyite-mentor.html
"They met at Le Club, a private disco on the Upper East Side frequented by Jackie Kennedy, Al Pacino, and Diana Ross, according to Trump: The Saga of America’s Most Powerful Real Estate Baron. Donald Trump, the young developer, quickly amassing a fortune in New York real estate and Roy Cohn, America’s most loathed yet socially successful defense attorney who had vaulted to infamy in the 1950s while serving as legal counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy."
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/23/how-thatcher-s-mi5-spy-chief-protected-a-pedophile-member-of-parliament.html
"The head of Britain’s MI5 domestic intelligence service told the Thatcher government that a pedophile MP was operating in the House of Commons but suggested a plot to cover up his “penchant for small boys” in order to avoid political embarrassment.
It was a plan the government was only too happy to accept."
Needless to say, I leave that happy thought with you!!
"Man calls 999 to say badger chased him"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33645647
If you have a state run system then there will be rationing: patients have to wait and doctors work at less than market rates. So we can either introduce the market into the system - which the BMA and others seem to be vigorously opposing - or pay more by taxing people more. Or what?
But aren't we - the patients and the taxpayers - entitled to ask that the service be provided on a 24/7 basis? And work out a sensible way to achieve that?
On Mann: I think he supports Kendall, not Cooper.
Mann is Yvette.
Both Kendall and Corbyn get negative net ratings from Labour voters, Kendall getting the worst, only Burnham and Cooper seen as potential PMs by Labour supporters
The limiting factor is our attitudes to public services and their funding. We criticise the Greeks for "wanting their cake and eating it", but when it comes to public services the great UK public wants a Rolls Royce service for the cost of a Renault.
[Edited to remove a Grocer's Apostrophe]
Don't like her myself, but she's the best uncontroversial candidate to hold the ship together.
One of the few MPs who demonstrated significant personal integrity and commonsense in the Expenses scandal. No one laid a finger on him.
A stark contrast to, for example, my former MP Dennis Skinner, who has lived mainly in - I believe - Chelsea since the 1980s, or the late Sir Stuart Bell who spent much of his time in Paris and spent the Expenses scandal trolling around TV Studios telling fairy stories about how MPs salaries had been held down below inflation.
Mann has also done some pretty good local campaigning.