Tulip Siddiq has resigned.

Well I see Labour are turning out as bad as the Tories.

So, there is now literally no reason to have a Labour Government.

Everything they said in the run up to the election was a lie - manifesto fully funded, no tax rises, smash the gangs, etc.
They have robbed all private sector employees, pensioners, farmers, businesses, etc.

They have killed economic growth.
They are talking about an emergency budget and cuts to public spending.

And now they can't even claim the moral high ground or virtue.
They are an appalling Government. (So far).

M0nica

And about time to.

Whether the accusations against her are true or false, to hold on the specific job she had where she was responsible for tackling corruption in UK financial markets for weeks afterthe accusations were first made just shows her unsuitability for the job she had.

Anyone in that particular post has to be the purest of the pure, and if accused, even incorrectly, should immediately step down from the post until proved innocent (or not)

I can see it is an important role and we have to have trust in the person but what if the media decide to make a target of everyone who gets that job and then they have to go because they are a distraction? I mean do they need any evidence or can they just throw accusations around? Would we end up with someone resigning from that role every week? It just feels like it is quite dangerous and potentially chaotic.

Labour are here for five years FriedGreenTomatoes2. Your choices are - like it or lump it.

Back to Tulip.
How much foreign aid did the UK send to Bangladesh while Tulip’s family were pillaging £150 billion?

I know Casdon.
Lump it seems my best option at present.
I’m happy to be dazzled at some stage though.

FGT you’ve mentioned somewhere that you’d like Reform in power and so what is it that you think they’d do to improve your life or the future of the country? I’m so intrigued to know why you think they’d benefit you or anyone else?

Totally agree with you FGT but sadly they’ve got over 4 years to ruin the country. Why does no one in the Labour Cabinet have any experience in running a business?

Please, spare us from Reform.

The irony isn't lost on me of the anti corruption minister being accused of corruption.
But I am wary of the media - and the mob. 😔

Bixiboo

Totally agree with you FGT but sadly they’ve got over 4 years to ruin the country. Why does no one in the Labour Cabinet have any experience in running a business?

They do?

theworriedwell. Any accusation has to have something to support it, and for many people ther willsimply be nos substance to the allegataions - and we see that happening in other fields, where accusations are made or a news item written, but verification soon show the accusation lacks substane, but in Tulip Siddiqus case, she has very close family links with the woman who was Prrime Minister of Bangladesh, but ran the county like a dictator. Rumours of extensive corruption have wrapped their way round her and her extended family and supporters for at least the last decade. Everything we have seen recently has shown how far Ms Siddiqu, was close to her aunt and her political life.

The real mistake lies with whoever gave her this responisbility within the Treasury, and even who made her a Secretary to the Treasury in the first place. It must have been well known how close her relationship with her family and her aunt who rules with out opposition was. If those security clearing Ministers for their jobs did not know they should be sacked.

she should have been appointed to be Secretary in a Ministry that was merely a spending ministry, where accusations like these would be less damaging.

Succinctly put MOnica and spot on.

Beeches

FGT you’ve mentioned somewhere that you’d like Reform in power and so what is it that you think they’d do to improve your life or the future of the country? I’m so intrigued to know why you think they’d benefit you or anyone else?

Deflection.

What has that to do with Tulip Siddiq's resignation?

Oddly enough we took an Uber the other day, and the driver (of Bangladeshi origin) commented that a house very near us was lived in not long ago by someone fairly high up within the Bangladeshi hierarchy.

That led him to talk of Tulip Siddiq, and to carry on during the entire 20 minute journey, speaking very viscerally about the eye-watering levels of corruption and the vast sums of money that had been stolen from what is a very poor country.

We were left in no doubt as to how he felt about it all!

…and yet Starmer chose to make her an anti corruption minister , what possessed him? I often think that once in power a sort of madness comes over them.

Witsend
There is a piece in the DM today written by a journalist of Bangladesh origin.
He has tracked her for years. I would imagine he’s cock-a- hoop. 😂

It does seem a massive own goal, all of this must have been apparent before she was appointed anti Corruption Minister. Bloody hell! is having a lack of foresight some sort of prerequisite for going into politics these days, the more they're lacking in it, the higher they rise, it seems.

On the other hand by appointing as minister someone whose own extended family are so deeply mired in corruption, at least she has an inside line to how it is done and who is doing it that could have been useful in her role as minister against corruption.

I agree with most of you Gransnetters but just to take chat down to basic tat level for a mo!
I cannot stand her blooming smug, slimy, greasy, sanctimonious, smug (again) face!!!
She really is the epitomy of an over-confident, irritating piece of work. Phhuuh! 🥴

I find the fact she doesn't know who owns her London flat is very suspicious.

TerriBull

It does seem a massive own goal, all of this must have been apparent before she was appointed anti Corruption Minister. Bloody hell! is having a lack of foresight some sort of prerequisite for going into politics these days, the more they're lacking in it, the higher they rise, it seems.

It's even worse than the Tories putting Nadhim Zahawi in charge of the Treasury who were investigating his dodgy dealings since arriving from Egypt as a non-English speaking immigrant 20 years earlier. He got away with a £5m fine for "careless accounting"

TerriBull

It does seem a massive own goal, all of this must have been apparent before she was appointed anti Corruption Minister. Bloody hell! is having a lack of foresight some sort of prerequisite for going into politics these days, the more they're lacking in it, the higher they rise, it seems.

They live in their own bubble. Unfortunately for them we have the free Press and SM. I sometimes wonder how Gladstone or Disraeli would have fared on TikTok.

Ilovedogs22

I agree with most of you Gransnetters but just to take chat down to basic tat level for a mo!
I cannot stand her blooming smug, slimy, greasy, sanctimonious, smug (again) face!!!
She really is the epitomy of an over-confident, irritating piece of work. Phhuuh! 🥴

Beware the wide smile from a politician

Who?

petra

Witsend
There is a piece in the DM today written by a journalist of Bangladesh origin.
He has tracked her for years. I would imagine he’s cock-a- hoop. 😂

I read that article petra. Well done that journalist for continuing to dig deep even when as he said “Tulip lied”.

Good. Her position had become untenable. I have found it very interesting reading about the Bangladeshi oligarchs living in this country. I wonder if they do anything to help their own poor compatriots.