Tom Watson Quits

[douglas9401]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/06/tom-watson-to-quit-as-labour-deputy-leader-and-stand-down-as-mp

[youngmafbog]

Watson is a nasty piece of work. For all those labourites calling BHJ a liar, just how would you describe this man?

Having said that, from a political point of view I fully understand why he has done it. Quite possibly a shrewd move.

I suspect we will see more of Watson once the Marxists are on their way.

[THELOONYCORBYN]

"Watson is a nasty piece of work."

exactly....
saw him on some committee questioning somebody a few years ago, cant recall who or what..he adopted a sneering bullying tone, the person he was questioning ripped him to shreds...he kept his fat mouth shut after that

[New Judge]

//His use of his power to influence the Carl Beech debacle is a stain on his character, but as he retires to private life, he will hope that it will not impact on him,...//

And I will hope that it does.

Watson had lobbied successfully Alison Saunders, the Director of Public Prosecutions to reopen Operation Vincente, an investigation into an alleged rape in 1967 by Leon Brittan. The police had concluded initially that the allegation, made in 2014 by a woman with a history of mental health problems, was false. As a result of reopening the case, Brittan was interviewed under caution when he was gravely ill and was not told before his death that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute him. In the meantime Mr Watson
had described Lord Brittan as being as “close to evil as any human being could be”, without a shred of credible evidence whatsoever. He was the nonce-finder general who had used his position to bring misery to a number of people. I hope the "stain on his character" follows him around for the rest of his life in the same way that he expected Harvey Procter to be sullied.

[Jackdaw33]

Quite. As well as Brittan ans Proctor he also destroyed Greville Janner, who also died before he had a chance to clear his name.

[tellboy]

I have not heard him say anything yet about his withdrawal from Labour front line politics except his past concern about his health and realising there are more important things to do.
A big apology to the Carl Beech victims would have been nice.