[Youngian]

"A rising star," according to Her Majesty's press.

[Andy McDandy]

Translation: posh totty* and not obviously crackers.

*Yes, yes, I know, but this is the RW media who are mainly writing for an imagined male audience.

[Oboogie]

More publicity for racist crank Katie Lam.

James O'Brien was berating the media for the lack of coverage of her remarks which O'Brien reckons are worse than the Rivers of Blood speech.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Not many senior people fancy chairing the Grooming Gangs inquiry, perhaps in no measure due to the shit they'll get from lunatics like Katie Lam if they assign any blame at all to people who aren't politically correct social workers and Labour politicians.

Katie Lam is very unhappy with this situation.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I've been looking at Lam's written/ spoken questions. They're pretty shit, lots of stuff about "are you using British paper/ office furniture?", doubtless looking for cheap gotchas to post online. Perhaps Katie can supply us with a list of everything her family have purchased since she's been an MP, so we can check her authority on this matter? That would of course all be funded from Katie's doubtless substantial household income, whereas the Government is using taxpayers money. When does "buying British" become "Government waste", I wonder?

And of course she expects the government to have data for her constituency on everything, and she's interested in the Church of England paying slavery reparations. eg

The funds that have been committed to projects via the Church of England’s reparations project are in fact for the upkeep of parish churches and the provision of salaries for the clergy. I know that the Second Church Estates Commissioner is dedicated to our parish churches and would not support anything unlawful, so will the hon. Lady please provide the grounds on which the Church Commissioners are authorised to allocate this money to aims for which it was not intended? What details can she share of the conversations that she has had with the Charity Commission to determine whether they can do this, as it seems to be unlawful?

I thought the Tories were the anti-bureaucracy, get the lawyers out of the way party? Funny how the Church looks at some reparations and suddenly Katie and all purport to spot these legal problems. Perhaps these lawyers are the same ones who don't like solar farms and railway lines in Tory constituencies. "In fact", eh?

Marsha de Cordova replies that the money actually comes first out of the overall endowment, not some particular ring fenced pot for repairing parish churches. Doubtless Katie gets marked down as cerebral by The Telegraph for this stuff though.

[mattomac]

Lam was educated at her local comprehensive, Guildford County School, where she was head girl [citation needed]. Her paternal grandfather's family is of Dutch Jewish descent and her paternal grandmother's family were from Germany and included a left-wing senator representing Saxony. Her grandmother's family moved to England to escape political persecution. Most of her grandfather's family was killed in the Holocaust. Her father's parents met while delivering leaflets for the Labour Party in the 1940s.[3] Lam read classics at Trinity College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge she was elected president of the Cambridge Union and chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association.[4]

This does often make me wonder.... its from her Wikipedia. Someone with this kind of background can turn so vile, and who knows how far back we can go with this stuff, while we are turfing out all those who are here legally, at what point do we stop?

[Tubby Isaacs]

She doesn't intend going back at all for people from Hong Kong with ILR, it seems. Funny that.

She's a huge bullshitter across the board.

Conservative MP Katie Lam insists the assisted dying bill proposed by fellow MP Kim Leadbeater has been “weakened” by changes. Lam suggests a clause in the bill which says it has to come into force in four years’ time is “very dangerous".

Four years sounds like a long enough time to me. And there's zero to stop the government later saying it needs more time. I thought people on the Kipper right were big on "Parliament can't bind its successors" (usually when they're trying to pretend that they can unilaterally withdraw from the Good Friday Agreement or whatever.