Apart
from a life spent in politics living off the British taxpayer, I don't think
that Andrew Gwynne MP has ever undertaken a real job in his entire adult life.
As a young man he was a Tameside Labour councillor who was groomed to take over
the Labour constituency of Denton & Reddish from Andrew Bennett. He's now
been sacked as a Labour health minister and suspended by the Labour Party for
making sexist, racist and anti-Semitic comments, on WhatsApp.
According
to the Guardian newspaper, in one message he joked that he hoped a 72- year-old
woman would soon die after contacting her Labour councillor about her dust
bins. This lady wrote to Gwynne saying "As you have been re-elected, I thought it would be an appropriate time
to contact you about the bin collections." Gwynne shared this letter
from the elderly resident on WhatsApp and contemptuously wrote:
"Dear resident, fuck your bins. I'm
re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you'll have croacked
it by the all-outs."
As
a former chair of Labour Friends of Israel, Gwynne is alleged to have written
in another message, "Sounds too
Jewish" and "too
militaristic" from their name. "Is he in Mossad?"
In
a 2019 message posted on a WhatsApp group called 'Trigger Me Timbers', Gwynne
is alleged to have said that support for Dianne Abbott's historic appearance as
a black woman at prime minister's questions was a "joke" adding that her appearance was "because it's Black History Month apparently."
In March 2021, Angela Rayner was criticised for claiming Parliamentary expenses for wireless headphones. Gwynne is alleged to have reposted a tweet that referred to the incident and related it to a sex act.
Gwynne, who is now the MP for Gorton and Reddish, issued a statement saying: "I deeply regret my badly misjudged comments and apologise for any offence I've caused.”
Last
year, Gwynne was one of three Tameside MPs who voted in favour of removing the
winter fuel allowance from state pensioners who did not receive pension credit.
Excellent work Derek . Gwynne has really shot himself in the foot , it`s one thing to insult other MPs and members of your own party , but when a constituent is the target , that`s a line that just cannot be crossed . It`s interesting to note that in the area of over achievement , Labour are showing the Conservatives just exactly how effective they are at incompetence and stupidity .
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