The Grenfell Next of Kin planned a rally outside Kensington Town Hall. Those that know say Jeremy Corbyn planned to speak until Emma Dent Coad told him not to.
There are divisions between Next of Kin and Grenfell United but Labour cllrs should not be partisan.
Mason seemed to view the event as an opportunity for political 'platforming'.
This is not what those who perished and survivors would want.
This fuelling of division is despicable.
The word abroad is that Cllr Dent Coad plans to relocate to Notting Dale abandoning Golborne to be 'closer to Grenfell residents'.
She perhaps needs to dilate a little about her role with the TMO at the time of the tragedy...
If true, this moving wards is an act of base political opportunism. Let us hope it is merely a rumour.
Most residents of Notting Dale want her to stay put: she is divisive and factional and harbours grudges against residents seen to be close to Cllrs Blakeman and Atkinson
Emma "Medici" Dent Coad uses people. When they have served their purpose, she casts them aside. Emma has to be top dog and walks over those in the Party whom she wished were her inferiors.
ReplyDeleteDoes Notting Dale need Dent Coad?
ReplyDeleteThe Labour Party even branded her "a right tool."
She managed to distress a Grenfell Survivor, a Notting Dale woman, who begged her not to lavish praise on the fire brigade after her husband died in the Grenfell Tower fire. An error of judgment on the part of Dent Coad or arrogance because she knows what is best for Council tenants? Typical middle class attitude from someone who claims descent from Catherine de Medici- just like Boris Johnson and his mates from Eton knows what the workers need.
Dent Coad was having none of it from the woman whose husband had died. She would not allow her strategy to be derailed. She would do Corbyn's left wing Trade Union bidding regardless of what those who lost relatives wanted. Despicable!
Henderson would be best for Notting Dale and would be able to work with people. Notting Dale does not need an Aristocratic snob who puts her Catherine De Medici and Christopher Columbus heritage top of the list and somehow managing to reconcile all that crap with being a left winger.
Where is the St Pauls boy in all of this churning? he has gone strangely quiet
DeleteBeen reading the 'Leaked report' again?
Deletethe Henderson often described as 'the 4th member for Stanley' that Henderson?
DeleteI haven't always agreed with Judith Blakeman. Many of the people at Grenfell have told me that she has been "marvellous."
ReplyDeleteIs it true that Emma Dent-Coad cannot get on with her?
It is common knowledge that Dent Coad and Blakeman cannot stand each other.
ReplyDelete"A right tool" indeed!
ReplyDeleteThis the woman who served on the KCTMO Board for four and a half years. She wasn't radical in those days. She let the TMO see people off right, left and centre. By not speaking out, she condoned the excesses of Kensington's Tenant Management. Helen Evans and Robert Black were very grateful to her for her support.
It seems that she only turned on her radical dimension when she wanted to suck up to Corbyn and Abbott; even claiming to both of those two that she was radical even when she was at school.
Don't be conned.
Corbyn and Abbott are history. Burnt toast. EDC needs to find new sponsors. Blakeman is a solid and likable person. And a good Councillor. She never warmed to EDC. In fact she violently dislikes her.
DeleteIs there any chance that Judith Blakeman could be persuaded to stay on for another four year term. We would be lost (and much poorer) without her.
DeleteHi, 13.10. EDC is in with the Marxist Rebecca Long Bailey. Another one who doesn't use the hyphen. Pretentious!
DeleteSir Merrick Cockell proudly told me that the TMO had the full backing of both Labour and Tory Councillors. In making this point, he referred to Labour Councillor, Emma Dent Coad, being on the TMO Board. Well done, Emma.
DeleteEmma wants us all to have it that the TMO was the Tories' fault and there was nothing any opposition councillor could do about it.
DeleteCllr Lari, where are you hiding? And why are you hiding?
ReplyDeleteWhere is the lovely Lari? I am thirsting for him
Deletedirty brute you
Deletehttps://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/kensington-mp-calls-for-apology-over-rivals-libellous-grenfell-cladding-claim-64133
ReplyDeleteMy Dear Bagehot, (or may I call you Walter)
ReplyDeleteEDC was incandescent with rage over Sam Gymiah's comments. He failed to apologise. She wanted him prosecuted and even obtained a Queen's Counsel's opinion on his criminal liability.
Indignation indeed!
Or was this a case of a socialist shooting her mouth off to put the frighteners on anyone who dared to criticise her over her involvement at Grenfell.
Gymiah has not been charged with any offence.
Why? Unless the good lady, Emma Dent Coad, tells us why, we can only assume that Sam Gymiah did not break the law. EDC knows why Gymiah was not done, the Police would have told her, but she does not want us to know why.
Politics can be smutty and this is very smutty
ReplyDeleteThis saga is grubby in the extreme. Emma Dent Coad does not want us to know. She has had plenty of opportunity to tell us, just as she wasted no time publicising that she was going to the police over Gymiah's remarks.
DeletePerhaps, Sam Gymiah might whisper in the Dame's shell like and tell us why he was not done.
Conversely, did Emma Dent Coad damage Sam Gymiah's electoral prospects by claiming that he was guilty of a crime? She has always had a thing about the Lib Dems - scorning and scoffing about them at every opportunity.
ReplyDeleteNotting Dale needs a different type of Labour Councillor. Judith Blakeman should get the OBE (possibly a peerage) for all that she has done in the ward.
Dear Dame,
DeleteHow interesting. Emma Dent Coad reported Sam Gymiah to the police for commiting a crime. He was not prosecuted so the charge of him committing a crime was not made out. I know that it is hard for Emma to be humble but will she come on here and apologise for damaging Gymiah's chances in 2019 by suggesting that he had committed an offence.
I think a little humility it would go down well amongst the voters in Notting Dale.
So Humble Pie, are you saying that she used Sam Gymiah as a "political football?" yeah.
DeleteI agree with 16.27. Judith should get a peerage. Baroness Blakeman of Kensington. Nice
You expect Emma to "humiliate" herself by apologising to Gymiah?
DeleteI want Emma to show some HUMILITY.
DeleteTo be fair Liberal Democrats are extremely annoying.
DeleteJudith Blakeman would be a very hard act for anyone to follow. She knows that I am a Tory. She knows that I believe in capitalism. She also knows that I believe in getting off your arse and working for what you want. Whenever I have approached Judith for help with the Council, she has always been very good. She has never held my politics against me.
ReplyDeleteNelson Muntz and the Mean Girls. Ha ha. Ha ha. Ha ha.
ReplyDeleteWho does Ms Dent Coad think she is? Who is she to decide which event is more important compared to any other? She is not even an MP and doesn't represent the ward in which Grenfell stands on the Council. She's nothing when it comes to Grenfell. She has the cheek to declare the Next of Kin Group's meeting "insensitive" because it clashed. Now remember, it was Ms Dent coad who said the Council had listened when it came to refurbishing Grenfell. She fuelled the "insensitivity" when the wife (the Next of Kin) of one of the dead asked her not praise the Fire Brigade post the fire. Ms Dent Coad insisted on praising the Fire Brigade casting this poor woman's position asunder. I thought Corbyn was supposed to be a man of the people. When it comes to Grenfell, this man of the people has his strings pulled by a very divisive fellow marxist.
ReplyDeleteEmma Dent Coad supports those who do what she wants them to do. She's never been any different.
ReplyDeleteEDC is a Marxist but won't admit it because Kensington voters don't like Marxism. She is probably calling herself a reluctant Marxist these days.
ReplyDelete