The member of Parliament for Ilford North Wes Streeting is in the news. He has recently come to prominence as a potential leader to replace Sir Keir Starmer on the grounds that Mr Streeting is a moderate and untainted by association with Corbynism.
However that’s not all he’s started to become known for. Social media posts have been uncovered from Mr Streeting that show him in a much different light. These posts, which Mr Streeting has now deleted from his timeline but which have been screenshotted and archived, show him desiring to push the Mail writer Jan Moir under a train because of a piece that she wrote and also wanting to do the same to the Dutch anti Jihad campaigner Geert Wilders. Posts such as the one above:
Wes Streeting took a well travelled route in Labour Party politics. He was a student activist before becoming a Redbridge councillor where he rose to be deputy leader. He’s also worked for a Quango and for the Labour Party linked Progress organisation as well as Stonewall and the Helena Kennedy Foundation. About the only time he’s ever worked in the private sector and not politics or the third sector was a short time working for Price Waterhouse Coopers as a ‘public sector consultant’.
This blog is long been familiar with the activities of Wes Streeting mostly because of his relationships with various Islamic organisations and pandering to Islamic interests whilst a councillor in Redbridge. Here’s some previous stories about Wes Streeting that have been featured here.
2018
Wes Streeting virtue signals about Islam (again)
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2018/11/30/wes-streeting-virtue-signals-over-islam-again/
2018
Wes Streeting seems rather too relaxed about Islamophobia laws becoming blasphemy laws by the back door.
2015
Wes Streeting moves rather too close to the extremist MEND group.
2017
Wes Streeting jumps on the ‘Islamophobia’ bandwagon
2015
Wes Streeting declares war on critics of Islam
https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2015/08/04/foolish-gay-labour-mp-declares-war-on-critics-of-islam/
Yes there is a lot more about Mr Streeting that puts me off of the man than has so far been reported in the newspapers and other mainstream media outlets recently. He’s certainly not the ‘moderate’ that might get me and others to take Labour seriously again. He’s just another dyed in the wool Labour leftie and Islamopanderer.
He was also one of the members of the APPG on Islamophobia who produced the report that basically said it was Islamophobic and racist to object to expressions of “Muslimness” (I had to correct that from Mudslimeness – odd), but which the report did not define in ANY way.
Thus, what are legitimate “expressions of Muslimness”? Amputations? (Kaffir) child sex-grooming? Mob violence in response to “blasphemy” against ol’Mo?
We know the answer to the last one, the case of the “Batley teacher” (still in hiding, will never teach again) was clearly an “expressions of Muslimness” that at least some Muslims thought legitimate.
Yes some of the inputs into APPG on Islamophobia didn’t come from the Muslims who are liberal or moderate it came from those who are much more conservative. Wes Streeting allegedly hung around with MEND long after other Labour politicians saw sense and abandoned it.
“…some of the inputs into APPG on Islamophobia didn’t come from the Muslims who are liberal or moderate”.
I wish!
In practice these inputs were rejected by the APPG. Only “Islamist” (orthodox) inputs were really considered worthwhile, which shows precisely what the APPG (or at least some of its members) intended to create.
Yep and Streeting either could not see this or chose to ignore it.
Or actively facilitated it.
Which I can believe given his “war” on the “Islamophobic” GOV website etc.
If he and his APPG cronies can get a back-door blasphemy law into UK law then all “Islamophobic” websites (i.e. ones that tell the truth about Islam historically and/or contemporaneously) can be ‘legally’ shut down. Allahu Akbar no doubt.
There is that worry of course but such collusion would need to be properly proven.
I agree that Wes Streeting is a bit of an Islamopanderer and that there is a back door attempt to impose Islamic blasphemy rules onto non-Muslim Britons. Some of the groups that Wes Streeting has been associated with such as MEND would dearly love there to be no criticism of Islam allowed and this is why having dealings with such groups is more than a little troubling.
Oh come on, he hasn’t been caught sexually molesting young boys, watching porn in the chamber or taking massive back handers for lobbying on behalf of companies etc. has he? By today’s standards there is nothing really wrong with the guy is there?
In other words Streeting might be the bottom of the barrel but at least he’s not the scrapings from it.
In other words, Streeting might be the scum at the bottom of the barrel but not quite the scrapings from it.
Well yes that’s about it, it never ceases to amaze me just how low standards in our political system have become. It’s a disturbing thought but I don’t think we are even near to the bottom or the barrel yet.
This is why I want to see a goodly number of randoms picked from the voters reg to sit alongside the Hereditary and Life Peers in the House of Lords. Complex societies need politicians but sometimes (or maybe more often than not) the sort of people who are good at politics and the contact sport of it, can be arseholes. These politicians need some leavening by ordinary bods, who might not be arseholes, sharing decision making and legislative duties and adding a bit of viewpoint diversity.
I completely agree that the bottom of the barrel has not yet been scraped yet in any Westminster Party not just Labour or the Tories. There’s an awful lot of murky dirt bubbling around at the moment re the SNP, Tories and Labour over abuse of power (SNP), turning blind eyes to the activties of Islamic Rape Gangs (Labour), general Major era type sleaze (Tories) and as for the Lib Dems then were do you start with that lot.