They wrote a line for Ellie-Ann Reynolds, and she delivered it well. Like Lucy Connolly, she is being lined up for a seat in Parliament. Both made initial contact with Nigel Farage to that end. That's politics.
Yet from Kent to Cornwall, Reform UK's newly acquired municipal base is falling apart. And if the only problem with Sarah Pochin's remarks was that they were poorly phrased, then how might the same sentiment be articulated acceptably? Pochin did not merely observe that there were a lot of black and brown people in advertisements. She said that the sight of that phenomenon "drives me mad". In what way that was neither "ugly" nor "unpleasant" could she have said that?
It is potentially defamatory to accuse someone of being racist, as Keir Starmer has accused Pochin outside parliamentary privilege, so is she going to sue him? And if Pochin retained the Reform whip, then remember that until as recently as 2018, the Reform Chief Whip was a Labour councillor, who would have become a Labour MP and probably a Government Whip if Jeremy Corbyn had never become Leader. Now that Corbyn is no longer Leader, then who and what are becoming Labour councillors, Labour MPs, Labour Whips, and more?
Pochin sat as a magistrate for 20 years, chills your bones doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteIn 2018, she was reprimanded by the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office for misconduct. But we are not allowed to know what that misconduct was.
DeleteAre you on the Bench yet?
DeleteIt is amazing how often I am asked that. But no.
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