Friday, July 14, 2006

MP acts like Fascist Wanker

The delectable Kerron Cross, assistant to Andy Reed MP wrote a short piece yesterday on his blog about aspiring Prime Minister John McDonnell.
“Interesting message on John McDonnell MP’s Westminster office answerphone at the moment, which goes something like this:“You are through to John McDonnell’s office, this is a very busy office, so in the interests of serving our constituents this office is closed for business on Wednesdays, and we only accept messages between 10am to 1pm Monday to Thursday.”Obviously that’s messages between 10am to 1pm Monday to Thursday, except for Wednesdays, I presume. So from this I take it that John McDonnell’s office is open 3 hours a day, 3 days a week. I bet he is grateful for that 10,847 majority. He may need it.”
However, Kerron then received a number of phone calls from John McDonnell’s office threatening him with legal action and also threatening to report him and his boss to the Chief Whip under the new Yellow Card rules.
Recess Monkey is outraged that this overreaction from McDonnell, in particular his willingness to stomp on the little guy and make the kind of fuss that could lose someone with a less understanding boss his job.
If you are as peeved as me, please email John McDonnell, copying your comments to me for publication.
Furthermore, if your boss is so inclined, please fee free to have them table the following EDM.
Conduct of John McDonnell MPThat this House calls on the Member for Hayes & Harlington to retract his threat of legal action against blogger and staff member Kerron Cross, notes that Members are in a much more powerful position than their staff; and calls on Members to exercise restraint when in dispute with other Members’ staff.
Incidentally, if you are a blogger then please write up this story in solidarity with Kerron.