[davidjay]

I see that they are coming after Jess again. And by “they”, I mean the Tories, of course. Badenoch yesterday was calling for Jess’s resignation supposedly on the basis of 4 of 30 abuse survivors who have quit the oversight and advisory panel involved with setting up the new public enquiry into the circumstances around “grooming gangs”, supposedly because they have lost trust in Jess as the safeguarding minister.

Now, I have precisely zero evidence to support this suspicion, but I can’t help but wonder whether there might be some sort of collusion, or at any rate encouragement, going on between the four panelists that have resigned and Tory front-benchers keen to secure a political scalp. A look into any recent political affiliations or sympathies of the four resignees might prove instructive.

Objectively, the notion that Jess Phillips, with her exemplary decades-long record not only of standing up for and campaigning on behalf of the victims of abuse against girls and women, but actively working to help and protect them, is somehow not to be trusted as a government minister charged with setting up this important enquiry, is absurd and nonsensical.

Yet Badenoch and her band of desperados are using the – legitimate- worries of some abuse victims as a weapon against Keir Starmer and Jess Phillips. There is negligible evidence that Badenoch actually gives a toss about victims.

Labour are the friends of muzzies and child abusers. Whatever the government does will never be enough, and I wish that when an inquiry is held into a clear wrong, the victims can be held to account as well as the experts.

[davidjay]

She's gone, then.

[Abernathy]

Just a thought about Jess, and her recent actions (resigning from Starmer’s government and criticising him brutally for lack of real action on her safeguarding work), it strikes me that she is at least being remarkably consistent. If you recall, she got into hot water (albeit with half-witted Trots who pretended not to comprehend metaphor) for saying that if she thought Corbyn was no good, she would not “stab him in the back”, but would be open in saying so - as she put it, she would “stab him in the front”.

Well what she has now done could well be described as having stabbed Keir Starmer in the front.

You do find yourself hoping that Jess finds a leader soon that she won’t want metaphorically to stab, frontally or otherwise.

[davidjay]

I like Jess but she can be her own worst enemy at times.