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| The crooked candidate for Chelsea and Fulham |
John McDonnell spent a large amount of his time this week attacking the career history of the newly-promoted Chancellor, Sajid Javid.
While some might take heart at the way Javid, as son of a Pakistani bus driver, worked his way up to become a banker and then the second most powerful politician in the country, for McDonnell it’s clear evidence that he should be clapped in irons.
In a press release on Monday, McDonnell thundered that Javid’s stint at Deutsche Bank and his alleged role in selling collateralised debt obligations (CDOs) which were behind the 2008 banking crisis, meant that he was unsuitable to be Chancellor, and the prime minister should launch an investigation into his past.
You might think it a little hypocritical of McDonnell to criticise Javid when it comes to past experience: after all, McDonnell’s early career mainly consisted of him swanning from trade union to trade union during the 1970s, as Britain was crippled by strikes.
But it seems that the Shadow Chancellor has a blindspot when it comes to banking impropriety in his own party too.
Last month, the Labour party announced that it had selected a host of new parliamentary candidates who would represent the party in the next general election.
One of which was Matthew Uberoi, who will stand in Chelsea and Fulham against Greg Hands.
Rather awkwardly though considering McDonnell’s current line of attack, Uberoi has actually been convicted of banking offences. In 2009, the wannabe MP was jailed for three months for insider trading, after he passed on tips to his dentist father (who was also jailed) when he was doing work experience at a bank. According to the Telegraph, Uberoi used coded messages about Chinese food to pass the information on to his father, who made over £100,000 from illegal trades.
In a blog post in 2018 explaining why he was standing as a council candidate, Uberoi explained that he joined the Labour partly shortly after he was released from prison, not for ‘redemption’, but because he wanted ‘to change the world’.
We are glad of course that Uberoi has been rehabilitated. But if McDonnell thinks it so terrible that a former banker (who has never been found guilty of anything) is Chancellor, surely it can’t be right that a convicted insider trader has been selected to represent the good people of Chelsea and Fulham?
Sajid Javid is being a tad disingenuous when he describes himself as the son of a bus driver. It's true that his father drove a bus in Rochdale for a while but for most of young Sajid's life the family ran a shop min Stapleton Road, Bristol. That's where he learned to count the beans.
ReplyDeleteToday's world is all about leverage. "Son of Pakistani bus driver" is powerful emotive stuff, even if it was only a weekend job. Self conflicted Britain loves to be able to spout that the underclass gets a chance.
DeleteJavid is not a fool. He is a clever, rich, self interested, ex banker.
Uberoi does not look the sort that your daughter should marry
ReplyDeletebad vibes from this picture of Matthew. He needs a PR agent to spruce things up
DeleteOh yeah, throw in some PR puff; that will really help.
DeleteHighly unlikely that John McDonnell would have have openly supported the selection of Matt Uberoi as candidate for Chelsea and Fulham over the 'Momentum' candidates standing for selection
ReplyDeleteI think I might prefer a momentum candidate than this ex public school thief
ReplyDeleteIt is a scandal for one of the major political parties to field a candidate like Oberoi. It devalues public life and undermines democracy. Again.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have to vote for him. Who's the LibDem candidate?
DeleteA proper choice would be good.
ReplyDeleteIt's not exactly a vote grabber is it .
ReplyDeleteLabour's finest.
ReplyDeleteUberoi for Chelsea and Fulham
Dent Coad for Kensington.
Vote Labour and you will be voting for an antisemitic marxist prime minister
Uberoi has done time for insider trading- sleazy
ReplyDeleteDent Coad made a big show of giving up her Councillor's Allowance when she first got elected to parliament. She then claimed it again without publicising that she was drawing it again.- Sleazy
- they are the fag ends of Labour.
DeleteUberoi will not get in.
DeleteDent Coad will be out when Boris calls the election. Kensingtonians will not vote for an Anti- Semitic Marxist Prime Minister.
How can an upper class woman like EDC be a fag end?
DeleteWould Ladbrokes give me odds on Emma Dent Coad being voted out in the next election.
DeleteIt was very DECEITFUL of EDC to start drawing her councillor's allowance again without announcing to the public that she was doing so. She announced that she was giving it up.
ReplyDeleteShes a charlatan and a fake.
ReplyDeleteWith any luck, she'll be out by Christmas.
DeleteUberoi will never get in. Fancy choosing him for Chelsea. Labour is not fit to govern and Corbyn is not PM material.
She is "fake" socialist. She talks about her upper class heritage to feel superior to others. Why else would she mention it? However, using money to buy privileges for your children is not socialist. It is what the aristocrats and the toffs have always done to make sure that their kids are not stacking shelves in Tesco because of poor educational outcomes in the state education system. Public Schools and Boarding Schools also allow kids to develop contacts in their adolescent years that often lead to economic advantages in later life.
DeleteA right thinking socialist would have sent their children to a Kensington and Chelsea Council school. If the Council's school failed to develop any child's talents, a socialist would take the view that toiling in Tesco is the hand that life had dealt them and would encourage them to do their job at Tesco to the best of their ability and encourage them to join a Trade Union to oppose the capitalist class. That would never do for an upper class Labour MP. Mind you it did not do for Jeremy Corbyn's son or Diane Abbott's son. The lower orders will do as they are told but socialist oligarchs want the privileges of the monied class.
Typical upper-class socialist hypocrisy. Do as I say not as I do.
DeleteWhen the General Election is called Labour will employ a spin doctor to counter comments on this blog. We need to be ready for them. I think Emma is in search of a Socialist Holy Grail that accommodates her contradictory Socialist principles.
ReplyDeleteHow did two seriously flawed people get selected as Labour parliamentary candidates?
ReplyDeleteUnberoi has done time for dishonesty. I suppose that's nothing new. It was always the case that Labour politicians are often involved in money scandals whereas the Tories are always involved in sex scandals. Sex is so much more appealing than grubby money.
Dent Coad was sacked as Leader of Labour Councillors long before the Party allowed her to stand for parliament. She was sacked by her own but some twits on the NEC were taken in by her and allowed her to stand. She has turned out to be an embarrassing loud mouth- by insulting Prince Harry, by insulting Shaun Bailey, by sending her children to public school, and by claiming to be upper class, but the Jeremy thinks she 's wonderful. There's no accounting for sound judgement or taste.