The scandal will blow over rapidly given the scale of problems facing Westminster and all the tumultuous events taking place around the world, however, with the former minister’s name soon to be forgotten except by the most devout political nerds.
Consider first that the disturbing banter exposed by The Mail on Sunday was on a WhatsApp group – established six years ago – that included at least a dozen Labour councillors, party officials and another MP from his patch on Manchester’s outskirts. And this veteran politician, who claimed to idolise Nelson Mandela when entering parliament, felt confident enough on this forum to join in with abusive and crass banter that smacked of racism and antisemitism.
When one councillor shared a letter from a 72-year-old Stockport woman asking about bin collections while admitting she was not a Labour voter, he suggested the following response: “Dear resident, f**k your bins. I’m re-elected and without your vote. Screw you. PS: Hopefully you’ll have croaked it by the all-outs” [elections with every council seat contested].
Yet, Gwynne’s imperious abuse and mockery exposes a rot eating away at politics to the extent that it harms democracy, with polls showing there is growing discontent over our system of government while disgruntled voters perceive a political elite at Westminster that is not just grasping and inept but actively sneering at them.
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A history graduate from Salford University, he was the country’s youngest councillor at the age of 21 and researcher for an MP before entering parliament two decades ago aged 30.
Now we have a glimpse of how this 50-year-old politician, winning elections all his adult life, viewed voters. Note how the shamed member for Gorton and Denton is among 58 of the 406 Labour MPs coming from a previous role in politics.
The Tory side also lacks sufficient depth or real diversity, delivering ranks of ambitious hypocrites who publicly declared fealty to leaders as politically diverse as David Cameron, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss while public services collapsed.
So we see vacuous, bunker-mentality tribal politics that lacks values, dominated by people who see simply a game to be won at all costs rather than a chance to improve lives or fix the toughest problems.
This is the corrupted, floundering and sordid politics that betrays public trust, dominated by people devoid of decency. And this is the system that is crying out for drastic reform if we want to save democracy – as highlighted by the disdainful swagger of a Labour MP secretly mocking an elderly female voter.
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