The Guardian reported this yesterday:
The Labour minister Josh Simons has resigned from the government after the Guardian revealed that he falsely linked reporters to a “pro-Kremlin” network in emails to GCHQ despite having claimed to be “surprised” and “furious” about a PR firm's investigation into their journalism.
Simons, who had been a Cabinet Office minister, previously ran the thinktank Labour Together. He quit on Saturday, saying his position in office had become “a distraction from this government's important work.”
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Just dropped by to say, not all Simons!
But the one mentioned above definitely needed to go, as do those sharing his throughly corrupted politics.
Why has he not resigned as an MP?
It would do everyone good to see six Green MPs in Parliament!
So its seems he misrepresented reality and wasted time of GCHQ. Did he also mislead parliament?
Is there a line he has crossed that would support a bielection?
It’s time these charlatans faced the consequences of their malignancy rather than getting away with stepping back until the heat dies down!
I can only find some comfort in the fact that having grown up with the threat of Trotskyists among us, it is in reality the Right wing of an old social movement that practices such politics.
What do they say about fascists?
That they always get their accusation of what they actually do to their opponents in first.
Indeed.
‘Sovereign is he who makes the exception’.
“Why has he not resigned as an MP?” The right wing members of the Labour Party are very little different to Tories – they hate (vehemently hate) the Left. The only real difference is that they are able to clothe themselves in an aura of “caring” provided by wearing a Labour Party badge. They have no shame and they are extremely devious and well organised. They have totally hollowed out the Labour Party, it now has little relevance; a situation I welcome with open arms. I can actually see a progressive way forward uncluttered with the right-wing Labour Party barricade.
This piece by Paul Knaggs expands on your points and suggests that the system that has given rise to Mr Simons remains. And sadly, he also seems to suggest that one of the “lessons learnt” will be that every now and then someone has to take one for the team.
https://labourheartlands.com/cleared-but-not-clean/
I am certain that if Simon’s was to the left of the Party he would have had the whip withdrawn and be facing suspension from Labour while facing an investigation, which would take four years to complete, ruling him out from standing at the next election.
The only hope for Labour is to expel all of those involved in Labour Together and listen to those few voices on the left who have not been expelled or left.
I am not holding my breath!
Josh Simon does an excellent Private Pike impression every time he’s interviewed.