Roger O’Doherty: you’re chair of the Labour Party committee that runs the Trades Club. The Electoral Commission has now put the committee/local party under formal investigation for failing to keep proper accounts and failure to make proper returns, with the option to add more. I’d pipe down.

🧵4/4 A problem seems to be that the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 doesn’t make it an offence for parties not to pay their taxes. That, I suggest, needs to change. There needs to be serious consequences for negligence by parties.

🧵3/4 I even wrote to national Labour’s auditors. They passed it on to the finance director - who did nothing. It seems that this is systemic failure by Labour - it just doesn’t care that it’s not paying its taxes. The MP @JoshFG doesn’t seem to care. No one cares.

🧵2/4 Last year, I found that Calder Valley Labour Party, hadn’t declared its rental income since 1992. I was met with furious bullying and denial when I spoke up. I even told now MP @JoshFG and he brushed it off. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That’s why the Supreme Court was so muddled.

Philipson on the Today programme - trans people should use the toilets of ‘their biological sex’. So with this government we are lost.

Yup. Trying to out-Reform Reform.

Think so. Worrying