10/02/2025 17:47
The Guardian
Gerald Cooney, former leader of Tameside council, says he warned regional officials about Trigger Me Timbers groupLabour was warned more than a year ago about a “vile” WhatsApp group involving two of the party’s MPs, local councillors and a series of offensive messages, the Guardian has been told.It came as a cycling campaigner said he was “profoundly distressed” to learn that one of the MPs, Andrew Gwynne, joked about him being “mown down” by a lorry.Gwynne, the MP for Gorton and Denton, described a constituent as “an illiterate retard” and a fellow councillor as a “fat middle aged useless thicket”.He called neighbouring MP Nav Mishra, a “splitter” for forming a group of leftwing Labour MPs in 2022.A year after the death of Prince Philip, Gwynne’s colleague Claire Reid, a senior Labour official, said her “go-to phrase” was: “You’re so old. You’re like a young Prince Philip”. Gwynne replied: “But less dead.”Ryan, who was elected last July, described leftwing Labour supporters as “marxists [sic] loonies” while more than 100 messages refer to colleagues as “trots”. Continue reading...
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