Sarah Jane Sewell is in the news today once again for hypocrisy over her political beliefs. Sarah Jane has publicly declared that she doesn't support the fact that lecturers are striking today saying on Facebook 'I'm paying the equiv of £50/lecture and I am losing that money tomorrow for my lecturer to go on strike. Hmmmm'. Sarah Jane a short time after that also gave a greater explanation on her views of the strike.
However this was not the position Sarah Jane took in her role as Royal Holloway SU's Ethics and Environmental officer. In a vote in the Students Union, which voted in the end to support strikes, Sarah Jane abstained. Her actions have brought much criticism from CFers who believe this is hypocrisy.
One of the many CFers who have contacted me over this has said "She has let down a lot of students. As a national youth officer, She has also let down the Conservative Party. But the main question is why does she lie about it on Facebook and say that she opposes the strikes. If she wants to support the strikes, she has every right to. We all know she's a closet Leftie anyway. Just don't pretend to care about students welfare."
Double Hypocrisy?
Indeed a little digging by #ThingsElliottSays shows that the hypocrisy doesn't stop there as for part of Sarah Jane's re-election campaign involved her claiming that people shouldn't just trust what she says but trust what she does/has done. She even shared a Facebook photo on this topic. I think many people will agree with her when she says 'don't trust words, trust actions'.
Also as a side note, whilst we are talking about Sarah Jane, like some opposition Cllrs in Wisbech, she has blocked me on Facebook and Twitter. A bit petty if you ask me and source of more embarrassment for her.
Update
Sarah Jane has replied to my article.
However people who were present at the meeting have cast doubts onto Sarah Jane Sewell's account.
Diane Abbott is one of those rare breeds of MPs who is
followed by acts of hypocrisy after act of hypocrisy. Normally this involves
something to do with racism, but this time she has
charged £1,750 Birmingham University to give a speech despite her stance for
free education.
Diane Abbott has already her fair share of criticism over racist remarks.
Usually Diane sticks to her specialist area which is race in
politics. Whilst rightly being a great defender of black people from racial
abuse, she sets about saying racist things about people who are white. She has
claimed that West Indian mums are better than white mums, white people love to
'divide and rule' like during the time of the empire and that London cabbies
treat black passengers unfairly. She is a very interesting women to say the
least.
But now it is her stance on free education that is taking a
battering from her own actions. Ms Abbott said about the rise in tuition fees
to £9,000 "I believe that the introduction in this way of a
crude market mechanism into higher education is wrong” and that it did not
accommodate “equality and fairness". She also voted against Tony
Blair's tuition fee introduction way back in 2004. Yet she has charged an extortionate
fee of £1,750 for a 50 minute speech at Birmingham University costing students
money. Most Politicians actually don't charge to speak at universities.
Abbott: I'm against charging for education, unless I get the money.
This is not the first time however that Diane has got into trouble over
education. In 2005 she sent her son to the private City of London School
instead of her local Hackney secondary school because the public school would
offer a better education. However, Abbott had said that private education was "indefensible"
and "intellectually incoherent". Interesting.
Give back the money Diane.
So what can you do to send a message to Diane Abbott that
what she is doing is hypocritical and wrong. Well there is a petition afoot
which I suggest you sign for Diane Abbott to 'apologise to students and pay
back £1,750 to the University of Birmingham'. You can sign the petition here.
I don't usually do this but today I'm going to give a
biography on a certain lady called Sarah Teather, a Lib Dem MP. If you live in
Brent Central I'm so sorry that you are arguably represented by probably the worst
person in parliament. There are four good reasons why this is so.
Sarah Teather is possibly the worst MP in Parliament
Sarah Teather was sacked from her job as an education minister
in the 2012 reshuffle. Why may you ask? Well its mostly because she refused 5 times to
vote for the Government's welfare and education policies. It is beyond belief that she
was allowed to do this even once, a Tory minister would have been sacked.
Clearly she is not very loyal to her party or the Government. In my opinion you
should be loyal to at least one of these if you want to remain a member of the
coalition government.
Second, she is corrupt. She made sure that two schools in her
constituency received special treatment when their planned extensions were to
be stopped because of the closure of the building schools for the future scheme. She managed to make sure that these schools had money given to them
still, something that goes against the idea of governing for the whole country that a
minsters job entails.
Sarah is also a hypocrite. Remember
the coalition proposals of equal marriage, on the 25th January Sarah said she
was 'taking PRIDE in delivering equal marriage'. On the 5th February she voted
against it. A complete change from a lady who doesn't do what she says. Oh yeah
and like most Lib Dems she pledged to vote for no tuition fee rises but did so.
What a terrific MP she is.
Yes she did Boy from Brent Central
Lastly, but most important in my mind, she is stupid.
Yesterday she was on Question Time and she implied North Korea would decommission
its nukes. Furthering that point she said "I fear it will end up in an arms
race." Well my dear Sarah we've been in a nuclear arms race for over 60 years
now, have you not noticed yet. This was shown in her time in government as
well, whether you agree or not with the policy, she could not tell anyone why
EMA should be scrapped. Instead she virtually said it shouldn't be, despite it
being her job to implement the EMA reforms. Does that make sense? It did to
Sarah Teather.
So Sarah please resign and give the people of Brent Central
the relief of having another MP serve them. Even Lib Dem members grown at the
sight of you in the media. Maybe you should get a new career in comedy.
