Kind words from who?
posted by Luke Akehurst at 11:48 am
Friday, September 21, 2007
About Me
- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: North Durham, County Durham, United Kingdom
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
18 Comments:
"He's got a quality left hook."
Rt. Hon. J Prescott MP
7:21 pm, September 21, 2007
Your timing is, as per usual, impeccable. Let's see. What's her name? Grell? The electorate really don't enjoy this sort of gloating.
12:01 am, September 22, 2007
Grell is a disgrace.
She has been found guilty and she must be expelled from the Labour party.
Homophobia and such sheer nastiness is just not acceptable.
2:22 am, September 22, 2007
Can't wait to see Luke's spin on Grell!
9:06 am, September 22, 2007
That would be this Grell.
12:40 pm, September 22, 2007
I think you'll find that should be "from whom"?
12:42 pm, September 22, 2007
Grell has been suspended from the party - the rules of the party, and legal principles of natutral justice require a process of investigation by the party, and presumambly that could lead to an expulsion.
4:47 pm, September 22, 2007
If we're going to start expelling homophobes can I nominate David "Clause 28" Cameron to be one of the first?
7:45 pm, September 22, 2007
(1.) Grell is appealing against the conviction. This seems sensible. Most people's understanding of the phrase 'proved beyond reasonable doubt' doesn't encompass 'we heard so-and-so day that such-and-such said this.'
(2.) Personally, I think 'sheer nastiness' is what the right-wing Lib. Dem. group have been doing to the people of Waltham Forest; making cuts like a hairdresser on speed. The reason Barry Smith lost his seat was nothing to do with his sexuality, or anything anyone may (or may not) have said, and everything to do with the closure of a local library. Sorry to bring politics into the muck-raking.
4:43 pm, September 23, 2007
Hold on, hold on. Doesn't she admit talking about her opponent's boyfriend?
There are some people in all parties who will do anything to get themselves into positions of power. It seems to me that she is one of these people.
As nasty as the Lib Dems in the area might be, nothing excuses such behaviour.
6:40 pm, September 23, 2007
Exactly. I really don't care who her opponent was - the fact is that she has been found guilty of making entirely unacceptable slurs against a gay man. That is homophobia.
8:24 pm, September 23, 2007
The muck-raking was done by Grell, Simon.
Perhaps a clear denunciation of such tactics would be appreciated from you, Simon.
Do you think there is any time when a gay councillor should be accused of being a paedophile by a political opponent? As a matter of principle - not whether you think Grell did this or not.
8:29 pm, September 23, 2007
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, woudn't it be wonderful for hackney councillors to focus their attentions on sorting hackney problems? Just one. Please?
11:48 pm, September 23, 2007
I'll have a go if you like,
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/andrew_pelling/croydon_central
Take away his vote on the smoking ban and he could be any loyal New Labour MP, though I don't think that is a very nice thing to call him!
8:29 am, September 24, 2007
Kris
the other 44 Labour councillors aren't bloggers so it's a bit unfair to judge them on my output.
This blog would be quite dull if it detailed the extent of the casework and council meetings that I do, though I'd be happy to provide timesheets of my council activity if you think there's a readership for that.
If I want to influence local issues I meet residents, pursue casework, speak at council meetings or write to the Hackney Gazette - it is very rare that blogging about it would add anything to all those offline activities, hence this site isn't intended to be a guide to what I have or haven't done as a councillor - not least because 99% of the readers don't live in Hackney.
5:33 pm, September 24, 2007
Loyal to Labour, not all Labourites said...
"Hold on, hold on. Doesn't she admit talking about her opponent's boyfriend?"
She admitted answering a question about the Lib Dem's partner (who she had seen) in an honest indiscreet mistake. That is a far cry from saying she deliberately and unsolicitedly called her opponent a "paedophille". And as I've written about this story elsewhere. Why is everyone mixing up paedophillia with being gay. Paedophilles like little girls as well as little boys. It has nothing to do with sexuality and everything to do with a serious and dangerous illness.
10:18 pm, September 26, 2007
Jim; that wasn't the court's opinion, though. They didn't believe her.
11:31 pm, September 27, 2007
I think that's why she's appealing, Mike.
5:42 pm, October 09, 2007
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