Brittan-Baiter Misses Key Vote!

For those that missed Prime Minister's Questions today, the Scots Nats and what is left of the Labour Party were trying to make a massive deal of the tax credit debacle (and the rump of the left are squealing about nothing else on social media) but David Cameron happened to mention that Bermondsey resident and great Tribune of the Left, Tom Watson, had not bothered to turn up for the key vote last night!

Why anyone should be surprised is a mystery as Ten Bellies was the joint laziest MP 2010 to 2015 and yet Labour Party members seem to have considered this a good thing and made him Deputy Leader of the Party! I hope the Tories are not agreeing a pairing arrangement with him to facilitate his absenteeism..... In the last Parliament he did not bother to turn up for half of the votes (but at least four millionaires were happy to bankroll his Deputy Leadership campaign on top of all the dosh rich union members - Unite's particularly - are shovelling at him!)

Of course, Watson is not the first politician to resign from his family to spend more time with his shagging but we are led to believe that on the rare occasions he appears in his West Bromwich constituency he is hunkering down on the couch at one of the two homes owned by Cllr Simon Hackett. There is a serious point to this as Watson actually appears on the voters roll at Chez Hackett number one and so it would seem that either Mr of Mrs Hackett completed the HEF form saying that Watson was resident there and then the self-appointed peado-hunter individually registered to say that he was resident there for a substantial part of the year ie a legal declaration. Of course, there is no chance of him ACTUALLY living with his moronic voters in the Socialist paradise of "Sadwell" and he has an agreeable house in trendy Bermondsey (for those in West Brom - that is an area of London).

So is Hackett regularly rolling out the futon for Wealthy Watson? On 13th October, I sent the following email to Cllr Hackett but he has declined to reply so far:

"Tom Watson is on the electoral register at your address.

Can you please confirm how many nights he spent there in the 12 months immediately preceding the date of the General Election."

Come on Simon - tell us the facts.... It is my obligation, NAY DUTY, to ask these things!

And so we return to the ongoing saga of Watson declining to say whether he has a degree or not and why someone very close to him in "Sadwell" (with a foot in two different camps) was briefing that he hasn't.

New information came into my possession last week but, today, someone sent me this from an official Hull Uni site:

Mr Tom Watson, MP BA Politics

1992

MP for West Bromwich East, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

Clearly the entry had been recently updated to show his new "status"!

Accordingly, I have had communications with Hull Uni Alumnus Development and Relations (who had hitherto declined to communicate with me). Here are the mails from today:

"Me:

You are specifically advertising that Tom Watson MP graduated in 1992 with a BA Politics. Are you sure that is correct please?

Hull:

Kind thanks for your message, and I can confirm that Tom Watson is an alumnus of the University of Hull, and was President of the Students’ Union at the University having studied our BA Politics programme.

Me:

But you are specifically saying he was awarded a degree which does not appear to be the case? Did he or didn't he?

Hull:

Thank you for the query. May I ask if you would advise where we state that the website states he was awarded a degree please?

Me:

Ah I see. Was fooled by the BA Politics.....

Hull:

Thank you for checking with us, and as previous messages confirm Tom Watson MP is an alumnus of the University having been awarded sufficient credit in 1992 for his studies on the BA Politics programme."

(Academics, eh!)

So why did the Rutting Walrus simply not come clean and - ask again - why was the person close to him briefing against him? Maybe, the Nonce-Finder General had simply "forgotten" if this is anything to go by from Watson's interview in The Hullfire student magazine:

“I drank a lot of snakebite back then; I drank so much of it I can’t remember what it cost!” he admitted. “I’ve got very fond memories of long drinking sessions in the bars there."

Just for a bit of fun - do you remember the old "Spot the Ball" competitions? Hackett - allegedly egged on by Watson - recently tried to depose the ludicrous "leader" of Sadwell Council, Darren Cooper. When the putsch failed a peace treaty was brokered and now these two are massive pals (!!!!) Here is the Sage of Smethwick, Cooper, excitedly celebrating Unite's victory in getting their man appointed as Deputy Dog. How about a game of "Spot Cooper's Left Hand"?

And so folks, let the Unitemare continue.....

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