Speaker blasts Lammy for failing to respond over hunger strikers
Speaker of the House of Commons Lindsay Hoyle has carpeted David Lammy. The justice secretary has failed to respond to a request for a meeting with MPs to discuss the hunger strikers.
John McDonnell MP raised a point of order in the Houses of Parliament at 12.36pm today (10 December). He stated:
I don’t like doing this Mr Speaker, but I have to.
I wrote on behalf of several members to the Secretary of State for Justice last Wednesday. It is in relation to the hunger strike that is taking place within our prisons at the moment by Palestine Action prisoners.
Some of whom now have been hospitalised. We wrote simply asking for a meeting with the Secretary of State. We’ve not received any response. I informed his office yesterday that we will be raising a point of order. We gave it another day. We still haven’t had a response to that letter.
This is a matter of urgency and I would have expected at least the courtesy of some response, even if he’s not willing to meet us.
“Totally unacceptable” says speaker
Could I first of all say I thank the honourable member for raising his point. I always expect to take seriously correspondence from members whichever side of the house. It is totally unacceptable. I can’t make a meeting happen but I do expect people’s correspondence to be dealt with quickly and effectively.
What I would say is the treasury bench [the government] I hope will be listening very carefully and I hope they’ll make contact with the honourable member. It is as I said not acceptable. I’m getting people more and more complaining about ministerial correspondence.
We even heard of one that took twelve months. It’s not good enough. It’s not acceptable. The ministerial teams need to get their act together and make sure members of parliament quite rightly get a reply, timely.
McDonnell has also sponsored an early day motion which has now been signed by 40 MPs.
That this House expresses its extreme concern that six prisoners associated with Palestine Action have felt that they had no other recourse to protest against their prison conditions but to launch a hunger strike; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Justice to intervene urgently to ensure their treatment is humane and their human rights are upheld.
There are currently 7 prisoners on an open-ended hunger strike, which began 38 days ago. As prisoners for Palestine said:
They are reaching a critical point and their lives are at serious risk. David Lammy must immediately address this crisis, which has been created by the state, having imprisoned these individuals for up to two years before trial.
Another prisoner is on a partial hunger strike, which has serious health repercussions due to his diabetes.
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Why would arrogant David Lammy respond to John McDonnell’s letter requesting a meeting. After all these fascist labour ministers know they can ignore the law or how Parliament functions as and whenever they wish.. Remember David Lammy is one who suffers from short term memory loss because he claims he knew nothing about the seven activists on remand who are currently on hunger strike!
Remember fascist labour MPs and ministers weren’t elected as MPs in order to uphold the law and Parliamentary procedure – no they were elected in order to institute a fascist fake government which has systematically treated the law as something which can be ignored whenever it suits their fascist political agendas!
Thank the hunger strikers. I don’t really do ‘heroes’ but they come pretty close. It is actually shocking that it takes a hunger strike to force MPs to start standing up fir the people they are supposed to represent. But then perhaps it was always thus.
At present it is impossible for the public to hold government, at any level, to account. Completely corrupt and fearfully doing as they are told by their handlers and funders, governments including ‘ours’ are destroying themselves. And at the same time, all democracy and the rule of law.
Because politicians, lawyers, police are more afraid of Musk, Trump, and the rest than they are if us.
If they cannot stand up international organised criminals, they need to go.
Next spring, ask every candidate if they will stand up for people and planet against the techno-fascists. Unless they commit to doing so, refuse to vote for them. Vote – but spoil your ballot paper.
This isn’t just about Lammy a Person I detest, He is not capable of handling the Challenges and Stress of this Cabinet Position, How is it that People on a Peaceful Protest March in an alleged Democratic Society be snatched off the streets, Then imprisoned and are now on the verge of DEATH, If this was taking place in Russia China or North Korea The Hypocritical Western Powers that be and the Media would be all over this like a Rash, Saying how any one of these Countries were breaching the Protesters Human Rights, Now onto our out of touch Political Class To be Honest there are very very few Of the Political Class we can Trust to Save Our Planet, But Remember These words of a 74 Year Old Scot who marched extensively throughout the Middle Sixties all the seventies and beyond until I got to knackered to March, The Totalitarian Regime in Britain is Carrying out all these Atrocities against Our Own People Because We are Allowing Them to Do It, And this is the reason we are in this total FUBAR, And You the English Electorate are to blame you have consistently Voted into Power Incompetent Government’ since 1980 that’s 45 Years of Incompetent English Electorate Stupidity, Following on not only Stupidity but a Total Lack of Understanding of Political Reality, You had one Chance in 2019 to end this incompetence but You followed the old tried and trusted, if the Newspapers and BBC ITV SKY Fiona Bruce, and that there Slut on that there umpteen cats do countdown shite are saying He is an Anti Semitic Rabid supporter of them Arabs and their Terrorism, Then e must be must’nt e even Hodge, Sugar, Baldrick, and ur that did the advert for BT about a hundred Years ago said e is, Beatie, that’s oo it was couldn’t Vote for im ese a right un im int e. “ Fucking Clueless”
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