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Redbridge ward anti-corruption candidate Andrew Pope, who is a member of the Independent Network and is Co-Founder of Southampton Independents, issues a Statement today on yesterday's vote at Parliament on referring Keir Starmer to the Privileges Committee:
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| Andrew Pope when Independent Councillor Photo: Southampton Independents (CT) |
"Yesterday, Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer forced his MPs to defend his corruption when appointing Jeffrey Epstein's friend Peter Mandelson as UK Ambassador to the United States of America.
Labour forced a 'three-line whip' onto its MPs, which means that if you defy the instruction, there will be consequences which could include expulsion.
And like the party puppets they are, the two Southampton MPs Satvir Kaur and Darren Paffey went along with it.
Both Kaur and Paffey voted against a Parliamentary inquiry by the Privileges Committee into Starmer. You can see the evidence from the BBC website below.
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| Satvir Kaur MP Southampton Test MP Voted Against Investigating Her Boss Keir Starmer Image: BBC |
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| Darren Paffey Southampton Itchen MP Voted Against Investigating His Boss Keir Starmer Image: BBC |
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT STARMER IS GUILTY OF CORRUPTION AND OF POOR JUDGEMENT, AND THAT HE IS VERY UNPOPULAR AND SHOULD RESIGN OR BE FORCED OUT BY LABOUR!
Yet the Southampton Labour MPs still defend him. Why? Is it because their political careers depend on it? Yes it is. They put themselves and their careers ahead of principles.
While we focus on local action, as independents, we have to call this out as Southampton MPs being corrupt. They are now complicit in corruption at Westminster, as Satvir Kaur and Southampton Labour have been complicit in corruption here in Southampton by taking £10,000 from a convicted criminal who had been expelled from Labour two years before. And not providing any evidence they paid it back, although we asked them.
And we have to call this out because as independents, Southampton Independents as members of the Independent Network subscribe to the Martin Bell principles.
Martin Bell was a BBC journalist who was elected as an Independent MP when he stood for Parliament as an anti-corruption candidate, and beat the corrupt Tory Neil Hamilton who was found guilty of cash-for-questions in Parliament.
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The Independent Network works under the same Bell principles, so we are best placed to call out Labour's corruption.
I am standing as the anti-corruption candidate in Redbridge ward on Southampton City Council.
I have already uncovered corruption by Labour here in Southampton, and will continue to do so.
If elected, I will have more powers to uncover corruption and hold Labour to account."
