The title of this piece reads like it could be the elements of a pretty nasty nightmare or the notes for some sort of dystopian political novel set in the near future. Unfortunately it is not. These are words that could constitute a reasonable description of the make up of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, in other words the UK Labour Party.
Pandering to Islam, turning a blind eye to Jew hatred (partially in order to pander to Islamic voters), racist incompetents (in which categories Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbott come into) have been a features of the Labour Party for far too long now. The lurch leftward by Labour has turned the party into a political freakshow, as the sort of people that previous Labour leaders tried to isolate, are now running the party. Now it seems we need to add those charged, but not yet convicted, of serious criminal offences.
According to press reports, a Labour parliamentary whip, Fiona Onasanya, the MP for Peterborough in Cambridgeshire, has appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court, the seat of the Chief Magistrate for England and Wales, charged with Perverting the Course of Justice. Ms Onasanya is charged with two counts of Perverting Justice whilst her brother Festus is charged with three counts of Perverting Justice. These are serious offences that undermine confidence in the probity of the justice system and therefore are punished severely by the courts. There is a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for this offence but most offenders on conviction are given gaol terms of between four and thirty six months depending on the severity of the offence which is in line with Crown Prosecution Service sentencing guidelines.
The core of the case of Ms Onasanya revolves around speeding tickets and claims that she dishonestly denied that she was the driver of the vehicle in question. According to Sky News the charges concern speeding tickets allegedly given to Ms Onasanya between late July and late August 2017 shortly after Ms Onasanya was elected as an MP following the snap election called by PM Theresa May in June of that year.
There are aspects of this case that appear have a sharp similarity to that of former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Chris Huhne who admitted charges of of Perverting Justice and, with his former wife Vicky Pryce, was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of eight months following his admission that he had persuaded his then wife to say that she had been driving in order to protect Huhne from a driving ban due to accumulated penalty points on his licence. There is one aspect to the Onasanya case which is missing from the Huhne case and that is that Ms Onasanya isn’t a person with no back ground in law, as was Chris Huhne, Ms Onasanya is a trained lawyer who has worked for some high profile legal companies including, according to one biography of her the big legal firm Eversheds. Although I must bear in mind that Ms Onasanya must be considered as innocent until proven guilty, it boggles the mind that a lawyer would be unaware of the implications of actions that could be perceived as perverting the course of justice. There could be nothing behind these charges or there could be a legitimate defence to it or we could be looking at a person who is both monumentally stupid and exceptionally arrogant in their assumption that they would not get caught.
I do not want to dwell too much on a criminal matter that relates to a sub judice case for fear of prejudicing any future trial, or having myself ending up sharing a cell with Mr Robinson, but we should take a look at the sort of political persona that Ms Onasanya possesses. What we see when we examine her biography and her Parliamentary utterances paints a good picture of what today’s Labour Party has become. A look at her written questions to ministers on Ms Onasanya’s Parliament page shows obsessions with race, reducing the number of female prisoners incarcerated and overseas aid issues. I see very little on this page that shows that she is concerned at all with the needs and concerns of her local Peterborough constituents which is a dangerous route to take for an MP with such a slim (607) majority. MPs with very slim majorities need to be seen as a good constituency MP in order to build local profile and support among the public and be re-elected. Using her Parliamentary platform to bang on about stuff that may not concern the struggling Briton, such as racism in football or the plight of foreign lepers or having a ‘pussy pass’ to reduce the incarceration rate of female criminals, is not as I would see it, looking after ones constituency. It’s not the sort of political behaviour that will endear her to the hard working and increasingly stressed British voter of places like Peterborough.
Ms Onasanya was elevated by Jeremy Corbyn to the position of a Labour whip in an astonishingly short amount of time. She was elected in June 2017 but given the position of Labour whip in January 2018. This looks to me like a very short amount of time to elapse before giving a new MP this important job which involves voting discipline among Labour members of parliament. This short time scale seems to suggest to me that either Jeremy Corbyn is a man with extremely dubious political judgement or that there is a dearth of talent on the Labour benches of a type suitable to become a Labour whip or willing to do so. I would expect that the job of a whip, even a junior whip, would go to someone who had not only been in Parliament long enough to acquire knowledge of its procedures and foibles but also someone who had become widely known and either respected or feared within the Parliamentary Labour Party. It seems highly odd to me that such a new MP was appointed to such an important job involving party discipline.
Ms Onasanya has been remanded on bail by Westminster Magistrates Court to stand trial at the Central Criminal Court on the 13th August. This will be an interesting and high profile case where much may well be revealed about the background to the allegations that have been made. I’m not sure that Ms Onasanya will be able to continue as an MP even if she is found not guilty by a jury as she has a very slim majority over Labour’s nearest rival in the seat, the Conservative Party mostly because she doesn’t seem to have used her Parliamentary platform to benefit her constituents.
There’s the strong possibility that we may be looking at a by-election in the Peterborough seat before too long. If that is the case then it could have a number of outcomes. Labour could put up a credible candidate who will galvanise local workers to vote for them, or the Tories could surge back and retake the seat. It could even be a seat that UKIP could credibly challenge both parties by running a ‘plague on both their houses’ campaign. However it would be a massive hill for UKIP to climb to get over 22,000 votes which they would need to challenge the incumbent. If there is an election then this is a matter for the voters of this constituency to decide. What I will say is that if the people of Peterborough want to be properly represented in the House of Commons then they need to get out and vote for their favoured candidate. Staying at home and voting for the ‘apathy party’ will only ensure that the combined votes of left wing students, migrants and dole bludgers will land them again with yet another Labour MP of the Corbynista variety. If ordinary decent hard working people don’t get out and vote in their interests then they will be represented by MP’s like
Ms Onasanya who, judging by her parliamentary record, seem to care more for leftist shibboleths than the welfare of her constituents.
It’s sad to have to say this but a once great party, a party that once genuinely represented the interests of the British working classes has declined to such an extent, under the influence of the Left, it is now the party of Islamopandering, racism, incompetence, Jew hating and alleged criminality. It is now a party unfit to govern a whelk stall let alone a nation.
