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« on: December 20, 2020, 02:37:10 PM »

Only notably Roger Godsiff who was a conservative Labour MP and his support had little to do with the 'community'.

He was the only one very vocal about it, and this was probably for purely cynical reasons - backfired, though. Shabana Mahmood was more subtly supportive, and this may be why she is presently a backbencher despite having exactly the sort of profile (frontbench and constantly rising under Miliband, backbench under Corbyn) that Starmer tends to give jobs to. There was some annoyance that she commented at all as it wasn't a constituency matter for her. The leadership of the City Council was particularly seething IIRC - felt that she was interfering and undermining them when it wasn't any of her business. In terms of local politicians, well, you had people like Salma Yaqoob who gave soft but clear support to the protesters while putting on a different face to other audiences, but then she's not 'Labour' even if she is for the moment a party member. City councillors from the Mirpuri community were split in different directions, which is usually the way when there's a blow-up like this because this is a community with as many different tendencies and worldviews as any other.

One of the most satisfying moments for me in Labour politics over the last 10 years was Nick Brown getting Godstiff removed as a PPC in 2019.

Shabana Mahmoods comments show the stupidy of when MPs parrot their mailbag & blindly follow the current rush; rather than actually thinking A.) Whether they need to comment B.) What they're actually saying. It's unrelated but you've seen MPs embarrass themselves over 5G theories & other issues when they stand up without thinking... you'd have thought she would have known better.
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