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    Latest anti-Semitism ‘revelations’ could mean criminal convictions for the Sunday Times and Hodge Archived Message

    Posted by MikeD on April 14, 2019, 3:06 pm


    Latest anti-Semitism ‘revelations’ could mean criminal convictions for the Sunday Times and Margaret Hodge

    https://voxpoliticalonline.com/2019/04/14/latest-anti-semitism-revelations-could-mean-criminal-convictions-for-the-sunday-times-and-margaret-hodge/?fbclid=IwAR0-1auvYJmnPig-vn662fG79oPaKq4XEWRzPqbFAwRzavXuhWw3NLJVQMU

    Today’s (April 14) revelation is that Labour MP Margaret Hodge took a leaf from the Jewish Labour Movement’s playbook and secretly recorded a meeting with Jeremy Corbyn.

    She then passed the recording on to Sunday Times reporters Richard Kerbaj, Gabriel Pogrund (him again!) and Tim Shipman in a clear breach of s.170 of the Data Protection Act 2018.

    It is a criminal offence for a person knowingly to obtain personal data without the consent of the controller, to retain it without the consent of the person who was the data controller when it was obtained, and to disclose it to another person without the consent of the controller.

    Ms Hodge appears to be guilty of all three, along with the Sunday Times and its reporters.

    As the recording contains no information that could be said to show wrongdoing on the part of Mr Corbyn, its creation and distribution may not be said to be in the public interest...

    ...As a victim of the Labour Party’s bastardised and useless disciplinary procedures, I can affirm that they treat members accused of anti-Semitism on the basis that such people are guilty – and procedures are followed that do everything possible to prevent any proof of innocence being heard...

    ...The course of action open to the Labour leadership is clear. Legal proceedings under the Data Protection Act should be lodged against the Sunday Times and its individual reporters – Messrs Kerbaj, Pogrund and Shipman – and againt Ms Hodge. Her membership of the Labour Party must be suspended with a view to expulsion.

    That is the only logical course of action in response to abuse of the law of this kind.

    But, considering the Labour leadership’s record of pandering to bullies like Hodge, I won’t hold my breath waiting.

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