Penny Mordaunt compares Keir Starmer to a crab

The honourable lady turning to the issue, the honourable lady talks about with with her new colleagues that she mentions, and I do hope the honourable Member for Dover is being made to feel very welcome indeed in her new party, whilst I am buoyed up, Mr. Speaker, at the news that our odds on retaining Dover have actually slightly improved since yesterday. True, I think it is a personal tragedy for the honourable lady from for Dover, as it was for the Honourable Member for Central Suffolk last week. But what it has exposed is a pattern of behaviour from the Leader of the Opposition. It is a shame, Mr. Speaker, that we are not due an update to Peter Brooks, Nature Notes for the Decorator. Crown is a species which covers its surface area with materials to disguise its true form, usually selecting sedentary creatures and seaweed. The Leader of the Opposition is the decorator crab of these benches. Desperate to show that he’s not really leading the Labour Party at all, he has channelled Margaret Thatcher. His deputy has praised Boris. He’s expelled the member for Islington, N with great fanfare, a man who he was campaigning to be Prime Minister only moments before. His exterior shell is stuck over with Saint George’s flags. He’s gonna season ticket and several programmes from the last night of the Proms. What next? A photo op with a bulldog? A lecture on how misunderstood Enoch Powell was? Should I ask the whip on duty on the front bench if he has checked in recently with the honourable member for Rayleigh and Wickford? Mr. Speaker, this is Operation Raddish, the concerted effort to convince the British public that while the Labour Party might look red on the outside, at his heart it isn’t really at all. However, even the defection from our benches of one of Labour’s most sternest critics cannot dislise the fact that Operation Raddish is not going well. Not everyone has got the memo. The honourable lady talks about the important election results last week. Has she noticed that the new mayor for the West Midlands First Act was not to turn his attention to investment or infrastructure but to Israel and Gaza? Ditto for the mayors of West Yorkshire and London, the latter also stating equivalents between the head of State of Israel and a terrorist organization. The anti nuke Foreign Shadow Foreign Secretary is currently trying to walk back from calling a candidate for the President of the United States a Neo Nazi sympathising KKK sociopath. The Honourable Member for Ilford N sought to smear a decent candidate for the Mayor of London as a white supremacist Object to you Les, and you’re a child killer. If you you’re a woman advocating for your rights and dignity, you are a bigot. Want to strengthen our borders? You’re a racist. If you have made money through hard work, you can’t possibly get Britain. That is today’s Labour Party, just as it’s always been. More the politics of the PLP is more the politics of the PLO and the JCR, More comfortable in university tented encampments and picket lines than on the international stage. More interested in thought policing than actual all policing. Labour haven’t changed. Not their behaviour, not their record. It’s still high crime rates, high waiting lists, higher taxes, higher levels of poverty, less pay, less opportunity, less money for the NHS, less freedom. The British people can see what is going on. They like their radishes in salads, not #10.