The rewards for a hypocrite

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/john-mann-nominated-to-the-house-of-lords-after-shock-resignation-over-labour-antisemitism-1.488417

Peerage for John Mann, Labour MP. 

John Mann Member of Parliament for Bassetlaw elected on a Labour party platform, has served on the Treasury Select Committee, and has he has chaired the All-Party Parliamentary Group against Antisemitism. He has been a fierce critic of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership and is counted amongst the usual suspects in the PLP who have been seeking to remove Corbyn since 2015. His infamous altercation with Ken Livingstone calling him a "Nazi apologist" and a "f****** disgrace", but repeatedly checking that he was still in the frame of the camera lens, clearly demonstrated how Mann was and still is, more concerned with keeping himself at the front of the picture to promote his own image.

John Mann, the hypocrite, the fierce critic of the party that gave him his career, the political opportunist, has now been elevated to the House of Lords, with a Peerage bestowed upon him by non other than Theresa May to go with his new Government appointment as "anti-semitism tsar".

The rewards of supporting the Theresa May government on numerous issues at the same time as criticising his own party leadership, are now given to Mann in a sordid appointment to the Lords with all the additional "perks" that a Peerage attracts.

The independent watchdog on Lords appointments warned that it would set a dangerous precedent and could be seen as a bribe

He will not be missed in Bassetlaw or in the Labour party.

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