Felicity?..... You shall go to the ball!
Imagine for a minute being in Felicity Buchan's position.
Here you are, defending a thoroughly unpopular and disreputable Conservative Government in its dying days, your majority in Kensington is only 150,
Labour's dynamic young candidate Joe Powell is winning round your voters and even the most favourable boundary changes have added extra Labour voters to the seat.
You would think it was game over.
Except it isn't.
Delusional enough to think she has a God-given right to represent Kensington and not content with being a mere councillor, Emma Dent Coad has decided to throw her hat into the ring and stand as an independent.
See the LINK
Since yesterday a fundraiser for EDC has been encouraging her supporters to cough up £30K towards her campaign bill.
In reality, EDC has zero chance of winning as the seat is a two-horse race between Conservatives and Labour.
For all her left-wing posturing, all EDC's parliamentary bid is likely to achieve is a split Labour vote, handing a victory against the odds to Ms Buchan and her party.
I see the fundraiser is set up by an interfering Commie mate of hers from Bermondsey. Keep your nose out of Kensington biz, Walter
ReplyDeleteWalter Menteth architect & fellow of RIBA. Is he acquainted with Danny Boys Moylan?
DeleteIsn't it funny how some of her supporters made a huge song & dance about candidates not being local from N Kensington or not having lived in area long but they're happy with EDC's campaign being run by some unknown bloke from Southwark?
DeleteIf Emma was involved in Southwark and Bermondsey 40 years ago then why didn't she do anything to fight off the homophobic hounding and bullying of Peter Tatchell which ruined his chances and left the Lib Dems to take the seat? Just asking.
DeleteWhy didn't Emma do anything to fend off the homophobia in Bermondsey in the Battle for Bermondsey?
DeleteThere was talk of homophobia in the Kensington CLP when Emma was in charge.
Can anyone enlighten us as to what went on?
Perhaps, the Dame can tell us? Our sovereign lady knows everything that goes on in Kensington and Chelsea.
Before we get denials of homophobia, from those who crawl up Emma's proverbial - racism, anti jewish tropes and homophobia go hand in glove. I should know I'm a Jewish lesbian.
No, you've got that wrong there. EDC would have gone to the seat, like a lot of other left wingers did back then, with the intention of defending Tatchell, but then scarpered at the first sign of trouble. She's sat there and done nothing when fights have broken out in front of her in North Ken. She only ever cares about herself.
DeleteEMMA is gutless. She couldn't even stand up for Council tenants when she colluded with the Tories and the TMO.
DeleteNow she professes to be the only person that can represent Grenfell.
She's a blackleg and the Labour Party members supporting her the shitty legs.
I love it. Emma and shitty legs. Priceless!
DeleteIf EDC is going to platform on Grenfell, then perhaps she ought to bear in mind that £30K from her champagne socialist supporters would really be better put to use funding the art therapy for traumatised kids at Henry Dickens rather than this nonsense.
ReplyDeleteEmma is a member of the Emma Dent Coad Society. Me, me, me. Those she professes to represent are pawns to cast aside when it suits her.
DeleteThe narcissism of EDC knows no bounds. She talks about the "grinding poverty" of Kensington and yet must know all she is doing is helping keep the constituency (and the country) under Tory control. Just be honest and say the only reason you are standing is out of spite.
ReplyDeleteLike all of those aristocratic upper class types, (Medici, Columbus, the Borgias and the D'Oyly Baronetcy) she believes that no one does anything better than her. Typical of her class, disempowering those whom she wished were her inferiors.
DeleteShe will need the hide of a rhinoceros for the next eighteen months.
I have been expecting an announcement in these terms since Emma Dent Coad resigned as a member of the Labour Party.
ReplyDeleteEmma Dent Coad is the most vengeful and egotistical woman on the planet. If she cannot be the Labour MP for Kensington then no one else will be.
A vote for Dent Coad will be vote for five years of Tory misery.
IF YOU WANT A RACIST MP VOTE: DENT COAD X
An embittered woman! Dent Coad went to extraordinary lengths to do down Ian Henderson. She was determined to stand for Labour again and she ensured Ian was shafted. She did not reckon on Labour HQ seeing her off for racism and antisemitism.
ReplyDeleteHas the Labour Party candidate, Joe Powell, said anything about Labour plans to tax owners of £2m plus properties. If not why not? Joe, i your party going to go after people asset rich income poor? If so, why would we vote for you.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your contribution at 17.22, Emma.
DeleteJoe will talk about the Mansion Tax if it becomes Labour Party policy. We know that you are a great startegist but Joe will not fall in to the juvenile traps inured by you.
How do you propose atoning for your antisemitism and hatred of Black people?
Now that Emma is trying to make a comeback.................
DeleteFelicity can stop worrying about her tiny majority and can expect to increase it at the next General Election....................................
When Matthew Palmer supported UKIP he got booted out of the Conservative Party.The sitting Labour councillors who are supporting EDC should also get the heave ho.
ReplyDeleteWho are these snakes in the grass that are serving as Labour Councillors?
DeleteSpill so they may be shafted
Adam
DeleteAhmed
Benton
Elnaghi
Isse
Lari
Nur
Simmons
A few of those cllrs have been endorsing Powell in public for campaigns & photos. The truth is they're much closer to EDC. Too close for comfort.
DeleteThe Labour Party must start disciplinary action against them.
DeleteWho is seen at events joined at the hip to EDC?
DeleteWho chit chats on WhatsApp & Messenger with EDC feeding back the content of meetings? Who has EDC on speed dial & gets 'advised' by her?
ANSWER: All of the councilors mentioned above.
Anyone with decency, courage & honour would have chosen to either drop EDC like a hot potato ages ago & would have nothing to do with her like the 3 not mentioned. Or by contrast instead resign from the Labour Party join EDC on the independents & admit to the public that they support her. The fact these 8 haven't shows that they are a shallow selfish greedy & unprincipled bunch of tricksters who care more about the perks of their frontbench portfolios & remaining in safe seat jobs for life than anything else. They are conning Labour voters. Get rid.
Delete??Feeding back the details of meeting??
DeleteCan anyone tell me if Connie Blott, the daughter of Dent Coad, is still a Labour Party Member?
Yes feeding back to EDC via WhatsApp and messenger or through gatherings with her. See who is hanging out with EDC in the Prince of Wales after town hall meetings and ask how loyal to Joe and the Labour Party these people really are.
DeleteBlott was a red herring in EDC's manoeuvrings to get Henderson and Nail out of Colville.
Dent Code is to blame for replacing our councillors with shop window dummies from Burtons
DeleteDent Code used to sit on the TMO
Dent Code doesn't give a stuff about what happens to our market
Residents round here won't forget any of that
21.21. Dent Coad, the coldest woman on earth, let the many suffer when she was a Director of the TMO?
DeleteShe ignored a reasonable request from a lady who lost her husband in the Grenfell fire. ~ Shame be on Emma for doing so badly and doing that poor woman down.
The lady whose husband died in the fire asked EDC not to sing the praises of the fire brigade. EDC praised the fire brigade and Sir Martin Moore Bick later found them seriously wanting. EDC lacks sound political judgement supporting the TMO to the hilt when she was on the TMO and ignoring the woman who had every right to ask her not to comment on the fire brigade on the night of the fire.
When this EDC objected to the appointment of Sir Martin Moore Bick as Grenfell Inquiry Chairman, she told the BBC she always did what her constituents wanted and they did not want Moore Bick.
So why didn't Emma, Grenfell's friend, do what the lady who lost her husband wanted her to do? She was at Corbyn's bidding, doing what he ordered. How could she refuse the Socialist Man of the People anything?
Cllr Nail was as boring as a bloody doormat (and so below her brief every single time, just like Kasim ‘I WILL win this seat with my spicy Kensington sauce’ Ali)… if it’s true that EDC shafted her she did Colville a huge favour!
DeleteI know that Dent used the girl Blott to get Henderson out. I suppose if she plies people with booze in the pub, they will be loyal.
DeleteIn order to support Emma, one would need to be drugged up to the eyeballs.
DeleteThere's talk that one of them is
DeleteOh is there, who is it?
DeleteSo Joe will honour us with his view as to whether a massive number of his potential constituents-income poor but with a £2 miillion flat may have to pay upwards of 1% of its value each year? Is he too scred to tell us now? Of course, Tony Blair who is central to all Starmer's policy making won't have to worry about the tax. He and son have wealth approaching £400 million. Residents should be wary of a parliamentary candidate who doesn't have the guts to say what he thinks.
ReplyDeleteTypical Dent Coad obfuscation!
DeleteThe Hornets do not think her decision to stand for parliament again is a good one so what does she do - she tries to widen the scope of the discourse by talking about Mansion Tax "policy" when the Mansion Tax has not even been declared "policy" by the Labour Party.
Emma always shied away from discussing Marxism telling us all that she was not Marxist. Gosh, she took us for fools. She later said, "My socialism is Corbyn's socialism." She unconditionally supported the policies of Jeremy "Marxist" Corbyn and conned us all with her anti-marxist line.
There is no point having debates about "policy" when something is not policy.
Emma Dent Coad did not have the "guts" to tell us if she she agreed with Corbyn's claim that the existence of NATO was responsible for Putin's invasion of Ukraine. A potential socialist member of parliament who will not discuss foreign policy whatever would Comrade Corbyn say about that, 19.20
DeleteThe Labour Party is considering a wealth tax
DeleteNow, there's a good idea, 20:35. Wealth Tax the Country's 171 billionaires just 10 percent of their wealth. It would bring in £ 68 million and leave Kensington's mansion owners sitting pretty.
DeleteThe phantom mansion tax = EDC"s only real hope of taking away Labour votes in Pembridge,Norland .Holland Park & anywhere outside the safe held wards.
Delete£68 million??? What r u on about
DeleteIf a 10% wealth tax were imposed on the 171 billionaires in the UK, it would bring in a receipt to the exchequer of £68 million. Only 171 people would be paying this tax. This is not Labour policy but the figure has been computed by reliable economists.
DeleteIf Emma Dent Coad hopes that Labour voters in Pembridge, Norland, and Holland Park wards will side with her, in the event of a Mansion Tax, then she is mistaken. Labour voters know that you can never trust a turncoat.
DeleteTalking about the "Mansion Tax" is fake news.
Delete16:15 Why? Because you dictate it to be so?
DeleteNo, 17.29, because Dent Coad tries to "dictate it to be so." She dictated that Press, Henderson, and Healy should be shafted and was then surprised when other dictated that she had values that no socialist party could support. The Mansion Tax is a non starter until Labour declares it a policy.
DeleteOh hi there Emma's little helper with your efforts @19.20 & 17.29. Thought that had heard & seen the last of you when you resigned as CLP chairman last year. When are you planning to resign from the party good & proper? You know it's against the rules to support an opposing candidate.
DeleteIt is a shame that Dent Coad's ego does not allow her to bow out of politics with her tail between legs gracefully. Joe Powell is a decent man with drive, vitality and compassion. We have tried Emma Dent Coad and Felicity Buchan as MP's; neither of whom were any great shakes and thanks to Emma's delusional view of herself we are now going to be deprived of Joe's contribution to political life.
ReplyDeleteI am all for democracy. Emma is entitled to stand for election to parliament although I think she is misguided in doing that.
ReplyDeleteIF Labour wins the next election, and IF our worst nightmare with Emma being returned for Kensington comes to pass, Emma will have to sit on the opposition benches with the Tories in the House of Commons. She would not be a Labour MP. Labour MP's will send her to Coventry just like the Trade Unionists used to do with the scabs who went to work during a strike. I am not sure that Emma is strong enough to bear the burden.
Any Labour Party member who subscribes to or supports this attempt to sabotage the Labour candidate for Kensington must be immediately and publicly expelled from the party ( and preferably burned at the stake on Notting Hill Gate !)
ReplyDeleteExpel Dent Coad's collaborators!
DeleteSo, Joe, you want to be seen to be Mr Nice and all things to all men. You need to get off the pot and tell us whether your party has plans to tax low income, middle class constitiuents whose sole property asset is the C. London property they bought years ago.
ReplyDeleteNo humming or hawing or policy is not made yet. Tell us your view. And let me remind you that event Dent Coad was wary of the idea. So, tell us what you think.
It seems you are a Dame favourite. Nothing negative about you ever appears her so come on Mr Nice Guy...
At least Joe Powell is a man of integrity. Emma Dent Coad is a duplicitous racist, class conscious, antisemite and turncoat of the highest order. She should be treated with contempt and disdain.
DeleteThe Dame is not negative about Dent Coad. She brings condemnation on herself. Joe Powell is by far the superior candidate for parliament.
DeleteI feel so sorry for Joe having to contend with this. Hang on in there, mate.
ReplyDeleteThere is something very unpleasant about that woman.
Labour chair Monica Press might want to have a good look at the donations list for duplicitous Labour members supporting EDC. I've spotted a couple.
ReplyDeleteYou are either Team Labour, you support Joe Powell and you stay away from EDC and her campaign or you are Team EDC and you resign from the Labour Party to support her.
You cannot have it both ways.
Same goes for the councillors. Don't think you can go out campaigning for Joe on a few occasions but remain BFFs with EDC. Residents aren't stupid, we've seen which "Labour" councillors are regular visitors to St Mark's Road, we've seen who goes down the pub with her and who's on the WhatsApp to her in meetings.
I don't like scabs. Typical of our Councillors- run with the hare and keep with Dent Coad.
ReplyDeleteLabour members having anything to do with Emma Dent Coad are no better than vermin.
Monica,
ReplyDeleteThis no time for procrastination or prevarication.
Action needs to be taken against those toadying up to Dent Coad.
Call in Labour HQ to investigate and ensure that those who are double dealing, or double agents, are turned out of our Party.
We will have enough trouble beating the Tories without Labour members doing down our candidate by splitting the Labour vote in favour of an avowed racist, antisemite and an appalling snob.
That grey overcoat that EDC wears looks like the overcoat that London Transport Ticket Collectors on the tube used to wear in the 1980's. Did she work down the tube?
ReplyDeleteThere was a woman who looked like her at Holland Park Station in the 1980's. She shouted out, "Mind the doors" with a very posh voice.
ReplyDeleteEDC surely must know she isn't going to win. So she is going to blow 30K on a big ego trip. Have some shame and donate that money to charities who badly need it.
ReplyDeleteShe teams up that awful London Transport grey serge coat with that Zelensky olive green jumper. Her dress sense is as drab as her politics.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of her side do not know how to dress. I suppose it cancels out Kim Taylor-Smith's various style faux pas like the
DeleteYankee doodle dandy hat and his midlife crisis over-tight trousers which leave nothing to the imagination.
At least he has his own style. Most of the men there in badly fitting suits are in need of a good tailor.
DeleteEmma is as scruffy as the late Michael Foot.
DeleteShe is as "scruffy" as Michael Foot but without his intellect.
DeleteResidents who are politically on the centre ground in Kensington, Notting Hill Gate, Holland Park, Earl's Court & Bayswater don't usually vote for Marxists. I'm willing to have a wager that the viewing figures for this blog post will be far higher than that number of votes that EDC gets.
ReplyDeleteVote Joe Powell. Get a pink tory
ReplyDeleteNo, get a rational, intelligent pragmatist who will represent all sections of the community: we have had enough of dogma driven lunatics. This country needs men like Powell
DeleteI quite agree. It would be a privilege to have Joe Powell, who is a decent person, to represent us and not some self- obsessed snob from Stepney.
DeleteI would be prepared to have the same wager that Gibbet suggests.
21:09 Read the post again
ReplyDeleteVote Emma Dent Coad Get Felicity Buchan
EDC must be a real asset to the Tories with all the division in North Kensington and trouble on the Labour side that she causes and now she'll split the Labour vote and we'll be stuck with Buchan for an eternity
Too bloody true, 22.29. Her politics are filth.
DeleteHer loony left friends must have money to burn.
ReplyDeleteI have always known about her "top dog" mentality. I do not know where she gets her ego from.
I would like just a fraction of her ego, say 0.5% no more than that, just to raise my self-esteem a little.
Just think of all that dosh being poured down the drain when North Ken kids are going to bed hungry.
DeleteEnoch Powell was a racist. Emma Dent Coad did for racism what Enoch Powell never managed to do. The Tories disassociated themselves with Enoch Powell. Whereas, Jeremy Corbyn MP spoke to Emma Dent Coad about her racism and instead of expelling her, he condoned it. So, Jeremy, racism is only bad if it is Tory racism. Felicity Buchan is morally superior to Emma Dent Coad. The girl from an Aberdeen Comprehensive with an Oxbridge education has not done anything so bad.
ReplyDeleteEmma Dent Coad put on the internet a picture of Lord Bailey of Paddington being hanged. He said that the BNP had never abused him as badly as she had done.
There are definitely some CLP members named on that donation list. Hope the traitors get expelled.
ReplyDeleteIf that is so, grass them up to the Labour Party. They will be shafted.
DeleteDent Coad's supporters who still keep faith with the Labour Party are rats. It is time to rat on a rat and tell Joe Powell and Monica Press who they are even if they are in a different CLP to the Kensington one.
DeleteThere is no room in our Party for poisonous "snakes in the grass" or vermin. We don't need them colluding with Dent Coad during the campaign adversely affecting our Party's interests.
Socialist rats and socialist ratbags - what's next?
DeleteThe Labour Party rule is that if a Labour Party member campaigns on behalf of a candidate that is standing against an official Labour Party candidate then that member is automatically expelled. Anyone who so much as pushes a leaflet through a door on behalf of Emma Dent Coad risks automatic expulsion from the Labour Party. A campaign donation, however small, would also be enough for automatic expulsion, as would signing official nomination papers. Labour Party members should be vigilant and take pictures of those publicly campaigning for Dent Coad. The Conservative Party has the same rule--all it took to get Cllr Palmer expelled from the Conservative Party was a snapshot of him at a Brexit Party campaign stall in 2019. The snapshot was shared on Facebook and Palmer was immediately booted from the Conservative Party.
ReplyDeleteAs for Emma's cronies still on the Council, if they campaign for Emma in any way they will be caught and quickly expelled from the Labour Party. Count on it. If the Councillors are smart they will quickly offer public support to Powell's campaign to insulate themselves against claims that they are backing Emma.
Can anyone remember exactly what Sam Gymiah said about Emma Dent Coad in 2019?
ReplyDeleteShe reported him to the police. As he wasn't prosecuted for any crime, it cannot be illegal to tell the Dame and her Hornets what Sam Gymiah actually said.
Emma won't like that. She believes that Gymiah cost her the election in 2019. Like all on the hard left, she became stressed when she was not in control of the dialogue. This is a free country. The Police did not prosecute Gymniah. It is not illegal to discuss it even if Emma wished it were a crime.
ReplyDeleteShe's not going to have much fun on the doorsteps in LD territory Earl's Court. They're also highly unlikely to find thousands of fellow Corbynistas in Courtfield, Campden, Queen's Gate, Abingdon, Brompton, Pembridge, Norland, Holland Park either. Might make for good comedy watching them on the doorsteps though!
DeleteNo DentCoad lost her seat because she refused to speak up enthusiastically in support of the European Project . Despite the electorate of RBKC being one of the most pro Europe in the UK . This is why she did not receive the endorsement of the European movement .She put her desire to please Corbyn before her need to satisfy her voters. Nowt to do with anything the Lib Dem candidate said . Joe Powell is both pro Europe and an Internationalist- this is why he will win whatever Dent Coad tries to do
DeleteGood to hear it 09.58.
DeleteI have never believed that Dent Coad was a Pro-European woman. She's a fake aristocrat, fake socialist, fake anti-racist and a fake Pro European too. If she ever was Pro-European, it was very short lived. When's she got in with Comrade Corbyn and understood the reasons why the hard left dislikes the EU so much, she sided with Corbyn and did Kensington Labour voters down by being mealy mouthed about the EU to please Corbyn.
False. EDC stood on a pro-European, second referendum platform.
DeleteYou mean she was Pro-European but kept with Corbyn's eurosceptic line.
DeleteYou are trying to falsify history again Emma.How else do you explain why the European Movement refused to endorse you ( although they did endorse every other Labour candidate in West London ) ?
DeleteNo, she openly campaigned on a second referendum platform. Supporting a people’s vote and publicly stating she voted (and wanted) to remain in the EU. She wasn’t afraid to announce this while Corbyn was faffing around….
DeleteHence no endorsement by The European Movement - so European enthusiasts channelled to the Lib Dems & loss of seat by 150 votes.
DeleteYou have nobody to blame but yourself & you will find that "paddling your own canoe" becomes an increasingly lonely experience. Or is it now a two man canoe with Lari paddling off into oblivion with you ?
Emma said in public what was politically expedient in a very strong "remain" constituency. The European Movement saw through her (as did I) and refused to endorse her. She denies being Marxist too. I don't think she knows what she is. ?? A mess ??
DeleteShe's never been any different, that one!
DeleteEDC gave the impression that she was on the tenants' side when she was on the TMO Board. She faffed around when she on the TMO in much the same way as she faffed around about the EU - making sure that she kept in with her Marxist mate, Corbyn, and at the same time managed to give a different impression to her voters The Tories did well with Emma supporting them on the TMO.
Did she fancy Jeremy Corbyn?
A woman in her sixties behaving like a school girl with a crush on Donny Osmond
EDC is good at "faking it." She sent her children to public school and claims to be a socialist. A fake socialist but she is in good company with Diane Abbott MP and Jeremy Corbyn MP. A true socialist would not do that.
DeleteState schools in Kensington, Islington North and Barnsbury and in Hackney North and Stoke Newington are only good enough for the proles. 'em.
How can you be a socialist and pay for privilege of your children being educated in the public school system? The Aristocracy pays for elitsim. Socialists do the same - EDC, Corbyn and Abbott.
DeleteDuring that Lib Dem and Labour spat Emma's Momentum thugs thought it was amusing to post dog shit through Linda Wade's letterbox
ReplyDeletePosting shit through Linda's letterbox.
DeleteWhat bunch of degrading Corbynite, Marxists, Momentum really are! They are the shit on shit's shoes. Why didn't Dent Coad put a stop to it?
When Emma was arranging for Ian Henderson to be seen off, using the daughter as part of her strategy, is it true that Ian also received shit through his letterbox?
Don't forget the posters and graffiti on Felicity Buchan's door and the Mete Coban email.
DeleteOur police officers should be monitoring these people. I dread to think what they'll do next.
I do not know anything about the posters on Felicity's door. Please elaborate.
DeleteI think I read something from a Hornet about excrement being delivered to Ian but do not know of it is true. This talk of excreta sounds like one of Emma's supporters has a penchant for Socialism with Scatology.
I cannot recall all the details of the Mete Coban affair. As the late Cilla Black would say, there is always someone there to remind us?
I think Emma's left wingers should be monitored by the police.
The Mete Coban email was written by labour insiders who were trying to undermine Kasim Ali’s campaign (he didn’t get a ringing endorsement from EDC btw - but was seen as being ‘too close’ to her, so he had to be shafted in some way and this is the best they could come up with)
DeleteAs for the posters (there was no graffiti) on Felicity Fuchan’s door, these were from angry locals who have every right to protest as they please. No criminal damage occurred, nor any threatening or abusive behaviour. Her address is public knowledge (I note Emma’s address has been posted in many comments on this website over the years) and if Felicity can’t handle two posters on her door reminding her and her neighbours what a murderous Tory she is, tough luck. She oughta know what she’s letting herself in for. The woman who was too scared to show her face in north kensington the day after being elected
21:33 You appear to have had a part in this. A poster was glued to the door of residents who have no connections with Felicity & her party. There was graffiti daubed on the door too.
DeleteThat is criminal damage & mindless vandalism.
Maybe you didn't take part in the incident I refer to or maybe you don't want to admit to getting the wrong address & causing upset to someone who has nothing to do with Conservatives, but that conduct is not in any way peaceful or acceptable.
There is a loose fringe group of residents who are not Labour members but are closely associated with momentum and some names on the far left. They were the writers of the email not Ali or the Labour Party. It was their way of supporting Ali to try to intimidate other candidates out of the selection process since they didn't have a vote.
DeleteThe email was posted across social media and horrified members who saw it reported it. That was when Labour hq intervened in the selection.
Ali wouldn't have won with or without the intervention. He was trailing behind Powell in most of the rounds and Powell got most of the votes from the candidates who dropped out.
This group and their associates may need to be watched closely if the Kensington result doesn't go their preferred way and Powell or Buchan wins.
I had nothing to do with it, and genuinely don’t know who was behind it (but do know that EDC wasn’t involved). I fully support the people who took part, though. They did get her address correct.
DeleteThank you for your "truth about that email." Words fail me.
DeleteTo be a member of Momentum one has to be a member of the Labour Party. Therefore, I accept your assertion that the "loose fringe of residents" to which you refer are not Labour Party members but they are "closely linked to Momentum." I also accept that they are not card carrying members of Momentum and cannot be so because they are not in the Labour Party.
These residents support the now disgraced, far left MP, Jeremy Corbyn. He is a leading light in Momentum and wanted to move the Labour Party philosophically to the left. It, therefore, follows that this loose fringe of left wingers are congruent with Corbyn.
Emma Dent Coad is also congruent with Corbyn and by default "on all fours" with Corbyn and Momentum. She has even said, "My socialism is Corbyn's socialism." Her socialism, by definition, must, therefore, embrace Momentum's ideals.
What I want to know is just,
. how did this "loose group of fringe residents" know
. what to write in the email in question which some say . . resulted in Ali being shafted (Emma wasn't keen on him being . . selected) and Coban Mete being so upset and distressed.
These goings on are straight out of a Trotskyite playbook.
I would like to read that email to Mete Coban.
DeleteCan anyone post a copy of it to the Dame or provide me with a link so that I may read it?
Is it true that this email was homophobic?
If the email cannot be posted for any reason, would someone please give me the gist of it?
Homophobic? I am sure it was.
DeleteSomeone did far worse than push shit through Ian Henderson's letterbox. Someone tried to fire bomb his home. These people are dangerous
ReplyDeletehttps://londonnewsonline.co.uk/kensington-and-chelsea-councillors-home-targeted-in-fire-bomb-attack/
I
DeleteI am appalled at the firebombing incident at Ian Henderson's home. He was one of the few decent people in the Kensington CLP. He would have been an excellent MP but that would never have suited the egocentric, self-loving Emma Dent Coad. Those responsible for the execution of this crime together with anyone who brought this crime about by their endeavours should be doing time.
DeleteI do not agree with any politician, including their wife and kids, being subjected to intimidating conduct. I hope the police investigated this and spoke to Dent Coad "who just happened to be cycling past."
I just can’t seem to get my head around this conundrum:
DeleteIf Saint Ian is as excellent as you say he is, and if he supposedly had the backing of everyone in Colville, why did he not put his name forward for the Labour candidacy? He chose instead to support (and run) Mete’s campaign. If you’re so sure he’s an amazing guy, why didn’t he stand?
He also could’ve chosen to stand as an independent in the local elections but, again, didn’t. If people love him so much why doesn’t he try harder?
14.30.
DeleteA firebomb might have had something to do with it. Someone tried to put the wind up him. Coad also cut up rough because he was seen helping out at a Foodbank whilst Flicka was there doing the same. Coad tried to get him shafted for that.
Dent Coad conniving with the daughter over the nominations in Colville ward might have had a bearing on Ian's decision. I I would vote for Ian or Joe but not for Coad
Henderson probably had better things to do with his time than continuing to be persecuted and traduced by Dent Coad & the viper Lari. Henderson & Atkinson were banned from attending Kensington members meetings by Lari so unsurprisingly they eventually threw in the towel . The result being the current totally ineffective group of Labour Councillors . Praise the Lord that Monica Press had more staying power than her male co- defendants !
Delete14.30. Monica Press would be placed to answer your CONundrum
DeleteDent Coad traduced Ian so badly when he attended meetings of Kensington CLP - all for her own career ends. She got people on the far left to join the CLP to support her and help her ostracise so many good people. She needed their support to shaft Henderson, Press, Healey and Nail. All very democratic but very, very, nasty.
DeleteNow remember, just how vile Emma Dent Coad was to the Black politician, Lord Bailey of Paddington - abusing him because he is Black and drawing a picture of him being hanged. It was sick and I thought she needed to see someone and have her head examined. Clearly, I was wrong, she wasn't mad but bad.
She was more spiteful than that to Ian Henderson. Ian was cleverer, more politically sophisticated and more capable than her. Unless you saw Emma in action, you would never believe what she was like to someone who would potentially keep her arse off the green leather benches in parliament. She was a desperate woman and no one was going to stop her in her quest to be close to the man she idolised, Jeremy Corbyn.
14:30 Ian Henderson went for Chelsea and Fulham and didn't get it but he isn't spitting his dummy out and standing against Ben Coleman is he?
DeleteIan is a proper socialist and a loyal Labour Party member. He saved a housing estate from the bulldozer and made sure that Foodbank service users had food deliveries during the pandemic. Ian is not a "turncoat."
DeleteWhat did Emma do?
Emma colluded with the Tory TMO for years. The TMO became more and more high handed and, more and more arrogant because Councillors Like Emma never spoke out about it.
The Grenfell disaster came about because the Tory TMO knew best and would not listen to its many knowledgeable tenants who knew better than any of the Tory and Labour Councillors on the RBK&C.
People like Ian Henderson and Francis O'Connor are very hard to find.
Ian Henderson is a domestic abuser. All over the papers in the 90s…
DeleteI can only speak as I find, Ian Henderson is the best MP Kensington never had.
DeleteOne former high profile member of the Kensington Labour Party is a racist and antisemite - now that has been all over the papers in the last few years.
Ian wasnt Johhny Depp.Go figure.
Delete18:48 - you think that one misguided image posted online of a cartoon character hanging is worse than 3 years of domestic abuse and sexual assault (that Ian stood accused of by his ex-wife in 1998)????
DeleteNo, 11.40. Emma Dent Coad has a nasty racist streak in her. Let me remind you that it is not just one incident of her drawing a Black cartoon character being hanged.
DeleteShe has form for antisemitism - endorsing a social media feed which contained a virulent antisemitic trope which everyone knows is wrong. She had to show that she was on message with Corbyn. Her apology for this was not fulsome.
Emma claimed that she was just repeating the racist remarks of a Caribbean Grandmother when she abused Shaun, Baron Bailey of Paddington. Shaun said that not even the BNP had done such a good number on him. Emma knew perfectly well that these vile remarks that she repeated would appeal to the racially prejudiced which, is why she used them. I never believed her quotation marks explanation. She was not big enough to hang her head in shame and accept responsibility for what she did. She said it was someone else's racism.She tried to say that Diane Abbott bought her a cake afterwards. As Diane Abbott had condoned this behaviour, she had been exonerated and we should all accept that. Her so called apology to Shaun was couched was not fulsome.
Emma has never admitted to drawing that picture of Shaun Bailey being hanged. I always thought the Black Gran drew it and Emma just put it on the net.
I do not know what Ian has to say about the allegations made by his ex- wife. Was he prosecuted and convicted in a Court of Law?
Ian saved a Housing Association estate from the wrecking ball.He did not deserve to be seen off. He helped out a Foodbank during the pandemic and there was an attempt to see him off for doing so - insinuating that this made him a Tory. He is the best MP we never had. He would not have crawled to anyone in Parliament to ingratiate himself with them.
I don't know why there was so much nastiness towards Ian Henderson in the Labour Party. I suppose Emma was determined to be the next Labour candidate and did everything possible to make sure that she was. If she would care to share the contents of the Labour Party's due diligence dossier, we can then judge if she was treated unfairly.
DeleteFelicity and Emma have been major disappointments representing us at Westminster.
Time to move on and support Joe Powell as an MP in waiting.
I don't think the comment about EDC encouraging attacks is 'fair comment' . It is unprovable and dear readers should be circumspect.
ReplyDeleteIs Cllr Lari behind her fundraising. This man donated £2.500. Could he have been an Oxford mate of Lari? https://sifted.eu/articles/onfido-cofounders-jubawwy-kassai-startups
ReplyDeleteThomas Hobbes in 1651 said,
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. Man cannot co-operate like the Ant and the Bee.
Ants in an ants' nest and bees in a beehive do not compete for power and glory. Ants and bees know no hatred or envy. Whereas Dent Coad and her acolytes are not like these creatures, they arise on envy, hatred, and power which causes wars. Ants and bees do not wish to outshine each other, they do not engage in peacocking, Dent Coad et al are more like peacocks than ants and bees.
Nobody has donated £2,500. More lies.
DeleteOh yes they have donated £2,500 Emma, dearest.
DeleteHis name is Husayn Kassai. This information is straight from Gofundme page.
Hobbes described the life of man in a state of nature as "solitary, poore, nasty brutish and shorte." This is what Emmaites have done for us made politics in Kensington "nasty, brutish, and shorte."
DeleteHere you are, Emma,
DeleteProof of the £2,500 donation. I know how much you like your hyperlinks, so here you are.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/call-out-for-emma-dent-coad/topdonations?utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet&utm_content=undefined&utm_medium=social&utm_source=whatsApp&utm_term=undefined
Husayn Kassai
£2,500
I don't think that Emma Dent Coad would understand your Hobbesian analysis. She studied architecture and design. She is very good at geometric shapes in building design and the built environment. When it comes to politics, philosophy and economics, she is intellectually challenged.
Delete£ 2,500 has definitely been donated to EDC. Thank you for the link to it.
DeleteI remember Emma Dent Coad saying that Rebecca Long Bailey, "knows a lot about economics." Perhaps, Emma should get an economics' crammer.
DeleteThe interesting thing is that Hobbes believed that the basis of all welfare was peace and security. He risked his own peace and security, his own life, when he wrote Leviathan in 1651.
DeleteCorbyn said in 2017, he wanted "a gentler kind of politics." Look at what has happened in Kensington. It isTragic!
If this Lari bloke has provided one penny piece towards that £2,500 donation or had anything to do with Dent Coad's crowdfunding then the Labour Party will shaft him.
ReplyDeleteShe stoops so low to conquer, just happened to be cycling by to observe violence towards a woman and her children
ReplyDeletewhat are you banging on about now?
DeleteA mob set out to attack Rock Fielding Mellon. He wasn't around so they delivered their ire on his wife and children. Despicable!
DeleteEmma (as the French would say "par hazard") just happened to cycle by and see this taking place. There was a more comprehensive posting about this from a fellow Hornet but it went too far. If you read the comments of the Dame's Censor you will understand the context of the comment above. Hope this clarifies matters for you, 08.27
Frenchie you're wrong. Nobody got hurt or was threatened outside Fielding Mellens home. All people did was stop outside for 5 min and sing a song. There is a video of it on other blog think.
DeleteThe residents who were protesting had their homes, safety and right to live in their community threatened by Fielding Mellen.
If you think council housing people are mobs then don't go north of Holland park
You are remarkably well informed. No, I do not think people who live in Council flats and houses are "mobs." I live in a Council flat. Despite the appalling actions of the Tory Council over housing matters, there is no excuse for demonstrating outside Councillors' homes - you clearly think differently. Demonstrate outside the Town Hall, I say.
DeletePerhaps, I should bring an antiracist demonstration to Emma's doorstep, I'm sure she would like that.
When Judith and Robert chaired the Kensington Labour Party, I never heard of any unpleasantness ever being taken to the front doors of anyone who opposed them personally or the Labour Party generally.
DeleteWhat has happened to those people who have opposed the controlling interests of Kensington CLP since Judith Blakeman and Robert Atkinson both retired as local Labour Party Chairmen?
The list of incidents is summarised below ( and already reported on this page):-
(i) When Ian Henderson was out of favour with "the powers what be" in the Kensington CLP, someone resorted to dangerous and incendiary measures at the front door to his home.
(2) When the Lib Dem parliamentary candidate, Sam Gymiah, spoke out in 2019 about EDC and her alleged involvement in Grenfell, Lib Dem Councillor Linda Wade received excrement through her door.
(3) Felicity Buchan, or her neighbours, had posters stuck to their doors and graffiti daubed on their doors around the time of the General Election in 2019 when Flicka saw off EDC. These actions taken together, or separately, amount to criminal damage despite barrack room lawyers on here claiming otherwise.
(4) It is possible that the videotape of the so called "singing demonstrators" at the Fielding Mellens' home did not capture the ugly scenes reporte hitherto.
Things have turned ugly, I wonder why........... This is the Royal Borough of Kensington not some the People's Republic run by Putin.
Regarding point 4 above. Is it true that EDC just happened to cycle by and hear the choir outside the Fielding Mellens' house? Interesting that.
DeleteIt seems to me that a lot of nasty things have happened to people who disagree with the hard left.
DeleteWow, 19.08. The best comment on this page so far.
DeleteWonder who passed on Felicity's address to these people? The closed register and forms are not public knowledge.
DeleteFelicity’s address is listed on a past planning application objection and is easily found.
DeleteSo 11.34, you know how Flicka's address was obtained by those who posted rubbish on her door. You must have been involved.
Delete"Easily found" ? Not by the average resident it ain't. Someone well acquainted with council matters, the planning committee, how to get documents/papers most likely gave it to them.
DeleteTo that list of "nasty things" you can add the shafting of Press, Henderson, Healey and Nail. Press is a star,....... by anyone's standards. She'll work hard to get Joe in.
DeleteHear hear 14:48. Monica really is a star. We're lucky to have her here. She has worked tirelessly in her role as Labour chair and has sorted out the previous problems at Kensington CLP. She will help get Joe Powell elected. Kensington could do with more decent sensible and compassionate people like Monica and Joe and fewer dictatorial shallow narcissistic pieces of work like EDC and Dizzy Campbell.
DeleteThere is something very worrying about trouble being brought to people's homes. People's homes, their personal domains, are sacrosanct.There appears to be a tacit acceptance of this questionable practice creeping in with some commentators on here.
DeleteMonica Press needs a medal for what she has had to contend with.
DeleteWhat did the police do, and what did they conclude, about the attack brought to Ian Henderson's door?
What did the police conclude about the dog's muck delivered to Linda Wade's home?
Similarly, how did the police proceed over the Criminal Damage and the posters which constitute an offence under the Town and Country Planning Act at either Felicity Buchan's home or her neighbour's place?
What did the police do about Mrs. Fielding Mellen and her children being frightened by the so called choral demonstration outside their home?
I never thought that politics in Kensington would come to this.
Dear Dame,
ReplyDeletePlease tell us how many views has this page had? Hornets will be making a significant contribution to the outcome of the next General Election.
I think this page will have more views than EDC gets votes 🗳
DeleteActually I think the number of comments on this page will exceed her votes!
DeleteHear, hear. I just wonder how many views this page has received.
DeleteThis is an interesting prelude to eighteen months of election campaigning. Just for starters.
Fealty to Jeremy Corbyn MP and his brand of left wing supporter in Kensington has brought criminality and ugliness to the fore.
ReplyDeleteTime for a change?
Welcome onboard Joe Powell, a democratic socialist with no loyalty to those who are hell bent on committing violent crimes and breaching the King's peace.
Thanks to our Glorious, Gracious and Resplendent Lady, the Dame, Hornets have an opportunity to reports their findings on this blog. If the Dame did not provide this facility, we would have to set up on line,
ReplyDelete- The Dent Coad Reporter.
The foregoing is a very fitting warning about the dangers of a repulsive and loathsome quest for power.
ReplyDelete17:08 has a point. Dizzy Lizzy & EDC have a lot in common. Both are terrible snobs, deluded, past their political sell by dates, have an overblown sense of their own importance, pretend to have social consciences, are deeply divisive, master manipulators and both are a stain on our local communities that we cannot get rid of because a few morons still insist on supporting them.
ReplyDeleteThe few differences? OK EDC has a few more brain cells than Dizzy Lizzy & Dizzy Lizzy's electoral record is better. That's it.
Emma Dent Coad "has a few more brain cells than Dizzy Lizzy, are you sure about that.
DeleteEDC cycling by the Fielding Mellen's home whilst a political demonstration was going on outside their home is not very bright. Isn't that so?
Yes. The odds of EDC cycling past the home of a Tory Councillor whilst a political demonstration was taking place there at the same time, on a by chance basis, must similar to the odds of all six of your numbers being drawn in the UK National Lottery.
DeleteJust had a look at EDC's funding page. £2,500 is the top donation.
ReplyDeleteSurprised to see no contributions from Jeremy Corbyn MP or Diane Abbott MP. Stingy pair - with all she has done for them.
Corbyn, when he was Leader of the Labour Party, said he was "parsimonious" = tight fisted and mean with money.
DeleteDizzy Lizzie has been the leader of that Council for six years. I thought her reign would be a flash in the pan. I was wrong.
ReplyDeleteEmma Dent Coad has done lots of "wrong-uns." Her transgressions are not matters of a simple breach of genteel, or even political, etiquette. They are serious errors of judgment in politics and moral philosophy. These matters will be brought up during her egocentric pursuit of being elected Kensington's MP again. The choice is yours.
ReplyDeleteVote Powell. X
Emma Dent Coad's fundraising page says, "She is well known and 'trusted' in Kensington." To say she is "well known" is correct but to say she is "trusted" is an entirely different matter.
ReplyDeleteDo former Labour Councillors Press, Henderson, Nail, and Healey "trust" her? I doubt it.
It would be interesting to hear what former Constituency Labour Party Chairs, Robert Atkinson and Judith Blakeman think. As EDC is no longer in Labour, they can presumably tell us.
Can those Labour Councillors who campaign for her whilst giving the impression they are supporting Joe Powell, be "trusted?" I would suggest not.
It is a shame that those who put their "trust" in this woman, and have stumped up money for her campaign, do not know what people on this blog think about her; particularly her vicious and cruel attacks on political opponents for own ends.
Trust is a glorious thing!
To be clear , EDC sees her most important 'political opponents' as being those who have resisted her within the Labour Party.
ReplyDeleteAnd it should be remembered that HALF the previous Labour Group were removed ,retired or were deselected at the last Council Elections ( Atkinson +Blakeman +Healy +Henderson +Mason +Nail +Press) . And they took with them most of the previous experience and all the talent of what had, until the return to power of EDC, always been an effective Opposition Group.
By the time the London Labour Party got round to intervening in Kensington Labour Party it was too late to save a viable Labour Group of Councillors but they did ensure that the local membership were then able to select, Joe Powell ,as an excellent Parliamentary candidate. The removal of Dent Coad & Kear has largely 'lanced the boil ' ( though inexplicably Sina Lari remains in place ) .
It is to be hoped that ,once elected as MP Joe Powell & Monica Press will still have the energy left to restore an effective Labour Opposition Group of Councillors and bring back those Councillors who were driven out & still have a sincere interest in serving the electors of RBKC .
You cannot "TRUST" that Dent Coad. Good riddance, I say. The future will be bright with Joe Powell and Monica Press. Hopefully, Lari will be shafted soon.
ReplyDeleteDent Coad has an over inflated view of her narcissistic self.
An official in Jeremy Corbyn's Labour HQ described her as a "right tool," how right they were.
Labour shafted Dent Coad: it should be possible to ensure that Lari suffers the same fate. Other Labour Councillors need to be watched very carefully because being seen off is their due.
DeleteUnlike other Kensington MPs, Emma DC did give us all a laugh. She exclaimed the "Bastard Tories" when she learned about a homeless woman in her nineties. It is hard to see how Tories without both parents married could possibly be responsible for a homeless woman in America. I am sure Emma will give many a laugh during the election campaign.
DeleteEmma promotes her parliamentary candidacy as the "Independent Voice for Kensington".
ReplyDeleteWhat's the point of that? She has no influence with the Labour Party so they will take no notice of her "Independent Voice." The Tories never did listen to her, there is no reason to listen to her now if she speaks ouy.
The so called "Independent Voice" will be a voice in the wilderness.
Vote Labour, Vote Powell X...............Speak with one voice.
Emma, the unheeded "independent" voice of reform.That "independent voice" will do a lot of good for the people of Grenfell Tower. It was politically silly to market herself as an "independent voice for Kensington."
ReplyDeleteEvery penny of that money should be fully accounted for to the donors.
ReplyDeleteI know Emma Dent Coad has said that every penny will go on the campaign. I should think so too. Now don't forget, this is the woman who said she would stop drawing her Councillor's Allowance whilst receiving her parliamentary salary. She did so for a while, around a year or so, and when the dust had settled on those good intentions being publicly declared, she started drawing her Councillor's Allowance again. I know she is entitled to change her mind. So far she is around 21% short of her target.
If the £30,000 fundraising target is not achieved in full, do the donors who have pledged money still have to pay up?
DeleteIs it possible to reduce the original target and still receive the donations?
How exactly does it work?
I agree with Good Husbandry. Saying one thing and doing another over her allowance from the Council calls in to question her reliability to keep a promise. Emma Dent Coad has "promised" that very penny donated will be spent on her parliamentary campaign.Transparency requires that an account is produced. Any donor wishing to inspect vouchers, receipts and invoices supporting the expenditure defrayed should be able to do so.
ReplyDeleteWe look forward to EDC making a commitment in these terms.
Go Fund Me is a money making business, 11.31 It does not provide fundraising services. It reduces its fees for charities but still charges.
ReplyDeleteDonors to Emma Dent Coad's campaign should beware that over 2.9% of their hard earned cash is going to a private enterprise before Emma Dent Coad gets one penny of it. On a donation of £5.00 that is 29 pence plus 25 pence which equates to A MASSIVE 8.8% of your money.
FEES.
GoFundMe charges one transaction fee—that’s it. So, what percentage does GoFundMe take for transaction fees? A transaction fee of 2.9% + 25p is automatically deducted from each donation for personal fundraisers. For charity, the fee is 1.9% + 20p per donation.
If Emma DENT Coad does not reach her target, she still gets all of the donations. She has mentioned that she may have to ask for more money. I don't know why, she ran her parliamentary campaign in 2017 from her kitchenette table with very few resources from the Labour Party nationally.