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News & Current Events Apr 24, 2026 at 4:19 AM

Coventry MP Zarah Sultana removed from House of Commons For Abusing The Prime Minister.

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Coventry MP Zarah Sultana removed from House of Commons
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Coventry MP Zarah Sultana removed from House of Commons
Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle asked MP Zarah Sultana to leave after she used unparliamentary language.
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gamas Apr 24, 2026 +32
What she did was absolutely dumb and was pure showboating as she knew how it would end, especially as another MP got kicked out earlier for the same thing. But calling it "abusing" is lol. What she did is call the PM a liar over his claims he had no awareness that Peter Mandelson (who got caught up in the Epstein scandal, though (and what oddly has been buried under the drama) was actually vetted to be a security risk due to him leaking stuff to China) had failed vetting. This is probably a reasonable description of the PM as the supposed story is absurd. However the House of Commons in the UK has strict rules on language used within the House - and one of those rules is that you must never accuse someone of outright lying (a rule that's designed primarily to ensure that discourse remains relatively civil - as meaningful debate goes completely out of the window when you just outright directly accuse your opponent of being malicious).
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alwayssunnyinskyrim Apr 24, 2026 +3
What an insane rule. What’s discouraging them from lying, if they know no one is allowed to call them out on it?
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DryWeb3875 Apr 24, 2026 +14
You can’t lie to parliament either. See Boris Johnson.
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gamas Apr 24, 2026 +15
It's somewhat archaic but is based on the principle that every MP has earned their place in the house by virtues of having been elected by their constituents - therefore everyone should be assumed to be a genuine state actor. It's a bit ridiculous in cases like this where you literally can't call a s**** a s****, but its largely meant to avoid the kind of partisan shitflinging you see in certain other legislatures. Everyone has to show respect to each other regardless of how much they hate them and if they don't show respect they get kicked out.
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Witty_Formal7305 Apr 24, 2026 +11
You can call someone a liar without outright calling them a liar. It's meant for force the MPs to use language that encourages productive back and forth by not being accusatory, because once you start going down that road it quickly devolves into personal attacks / personal defensiveness vs the business at hand of managing the country. So you can't outright say "he's a liar" but you can say "they have a casual relationship with the truth" Also have to remember that Parliament is OLD, so alot of these rules / traditions go back hundreds of years and the English language has evolved a fair bit over that time, so some things may not make sense to us today but did back then, but its still tradition and its upheld.
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son_et_lumiere Apr 24, 2026 +2
>So you can't outright say "he's a liar" but you can say "**they have a casual relationship with the truth**" This is still a personal attack. It's essentially the same thing as calling them a liar with more flowery language. And still does not serve to deal with the actual business of managing the country.
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Maeran Apr 24, 2026 +6
You just use different language. Like; "Would the honourable member for Clacton like to correct his remarks? Which I believe he will find to be in error." Its a pantomine. Zara is correct in her observation that Starmer is lying, but she broke the protocol.
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No-Scholar4854 Apr 25, 2026 +2
It sounds a bit disconnected with the outside world, but it’s a good concept. The other half of the rule is that you are not allowed to lie in statements to other MPs (“misleading the house”, i.e. House of Commons, the parliament). It’s almost like blasphemy. Any minister, even the PM, who can be shown to have lied to MPs would be expected to resign or be sacked. So it’s not quite true that Sultana isn’t allowed to call the PM a liar, it’s just that you’re not allowed to just casually drop it into a statement like that. If she thinks he lied about something then she can start the formal complaint.
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fitzgoldy Apr 24, 2026 +31
I wonder if she paid back the money she stole from members of 'your party'.
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Spuzzell_ Apr 24, 2026 +60
She's so exhausting that Jeremy Corbyn finds her too much
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Glittering_Hope1114 Apr 24, 2026 -65
Meh at least someone is willing to call out Starmer.  She was kicked out For calling out Starmer for lying about protecting his appointee who was all over epstein files. If the British hated paedophiles even 10 percent of what they do trans people imagine the good can be done.
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New-Creme-6168 Apr 24, 2026 +31
Plenty of people have been calling out Starmer. I watched a 2 hour debate in Parliament a couple of days ago where several MPs called for him to step down. Now the leaders of three parties are pressuring the Speaker to force Starmer to face a committee to explain why he misled Parliament. That same committee effectively ended Boris Johnson's tenure and could do the same for Starmer. The thing is, none of that could have been done in the world of performative high-school politics that Sultana engages in, because she got herself kicked out of the Commons for saying the one thing she knows she can't say for legal reasons, making herself utterly useless to perform her duties as an MP.
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Glittering_Hope1114 Apr 24, 2026 -27
Just another cover up. The British have a prime minister who backed someone with extremely close links with epstein. Starmer tried to keep him regardless, until it became super clear there was so much dirt they could not sweep it under the rug! God knows how many others were involved. I don't want to hear the "WON'T sOMEoNe PLEASE tHiNK of THe ChilDreN" from the British again in regard to something stupid like a trans person working in public.  When you allow this stuff from politicians. It was bad enough hypocrisy already with pedo stuff in the media you would think a country that covered Jimmy Saville up so willingly would have developed a sense of shame at this point but no. 
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New-Creme-6168 Apr 24, 2026 +13
The entire political establishment is working to find out exactly what happened with Starmer and Mandelson. There's an active police investigation running on this. I've been watching hours of publicly broadcasted footage from Parliament this week of debates and interviews to get the documents around his appointment released for public scrutiny, and question everyone involved. An MP being barred from the chamber for calling him a liar - which achieves nothing other than opening herself up for litigation - is not a cover-up. It was protecting her from her own moronic impulses.
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Glittering_Hope1114 Apr 24, 2026 -18
The entire British political establishment is working to prevent  us knowing what happened with starmer/mandelson*  
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KellyKezzd Apr 24, 2026 +6
>The entire British political establishment is working to prevent  us knowing what happened with starmer/mandelson\*   Are they?
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The_Artist_Who_Mines Apr 24, 2026 +30
Yh Starmer's had such an easy ride from the media. This issue is definitely not being overblown by the trump and Russia aligned media
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Glittering_Hope1114 Apr 24, 2026 -17
I remember when it initially came out about mandelson starmer standing up and defending him. His Rotten to the core. The fact that people are defending him, shows the morality of this country.  Trump needs to be brought down for the same reason. 
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Furthur_slimeking Apr 24, 2026 +7
She didn't "abuse" him. She called him a liar, which is against the rules of the house even when it's an irefutable statement of fact. Starmer is currently under massive scrutiny because he may have lied about something pretty important.
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DryWeb3875 Apr 24, 2026 -1
He didn’t lie though.
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Maeran Apr 24, 2026
If what he said was true, then he is ridiculously incompetent.  Which is worse?
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DryWeb3875 Apr 24, 2026 +5
What’s incompetent about not being informed about the vetting process?
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Furthur_slimeking Apr 24, 2026 +1
Being PM and not understanding the vetting process for positions he appoints would be pretty incompetent if that's what happened. I hope it's not what happened because I think he's doing a decent job.
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DryWeb3875 Apr 24, 2026 +2
What is there for Starmer to misunderstand? The controversy comes from the recommendation to not grant DV. Starmer was never informed of this…
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Furthur_slimeking Apr 24, 2026 -5
That's not confirmed. I don't think he did, but he might have.
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tomsawyer222 Apr 24, 2026 +1
She’s been raisin hell..
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gardenfella Apr 24, 2026 +2
so she's currant-ly on a time out
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Zealousideal_Yak_671 Apr 24, 2026 +3
Definitely not stable enough for office, there should be mental physical as well as thorough ethical test done on those who would govern.
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drunkenbrawler Apr 24, 2026 +28
Who is given the power to decide who is eligible and how do we know they won't abuse that power?
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txmasterg Apr 24, 2026 +5
It's ~~turtles~~ elections all the way down
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Glittering_Hope1114 Apr 24, 2026 +1
She was kicked out For calling out Starmer for lying about protecting his appointee who was all over epstein files.
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DryWeb3875 Apr 24, 2026 +1
I hat lie did he tell specifically?
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Maeran Apr 24, 2026
That Starmer was unaware that Mandellson (known since the 90's as the Prince of Darkness because of his dodgy dealings) had failed his clearance checks.
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DryWeb3875 Apr 24, 2026 +3
Olly Robbins confirmed that he didn’t inform any ministers, as that would compromise the vetting process.
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blue_sidd Apr 24, 2026 -12
Incredible comment from you. Are you tired, do you need to lay down?
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Nomoras Apr 24, 2026 -2
[She's not the only one upset about Mendelson] (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79j0d01x4zo)
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esperstrazza Apr 24, 2026
Calling it abuse and punishing it is one the reasons Starmer was confident enough to blatantly lie.
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