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Freelance journalist Alex Tiffin has posted a printout of the disgraced messages shared in Labour’s ‘Trigger Me Timbers’ group chat that resulted in the suspension and sacking of two Labour MPs.
The post was shared on X and features paper copies of the messages shared within the group chat.
Health Minister Andrew Gwynne and Labour MP Oliver Ryan have been suspended and sacked from the Labour Party after they were exposed making homophobic, sexist and racist remarks.
An additional three members of Tameside council have stepped down following further investigation.
The post on X reads: ‘1/ Here is the printout of some of the Labour “Trigger Me Timbers” WhatsApp group that has seen Health Minister Andrew Gwynne sacked’.
The post contains six images of printed screenshots of the group chat. Some of the messages include Andrew Gwynne stating he had vision of an unnamed cycling activist being ‘mown down’. Another message, sent by Gwynne, talks about an elderly constituent after she complained about local bin collections: ‘Dear resident…. I’m re-elected and without your vote…P.s Hopefully you’ll have croaked it by the all-outs’
Gwynne replied to a message mentioning American psychologist Marshall Rosenberg, stating that he sounded ‘too militaristic and too Jewish’. He also reportedly made sexist comments about Angela Rayner and racist comments about Labour MP Diane Abbott.
Gerald Cooney, the former Labour leader of Tameside council in Greater Manchester, stated he warned senior officials about the groupchat a while ago. He stated: ‘I’ve never been a member of it. I did raise it with the region some time ago. I reported it to Liam Didsbury, and I reported it to Andy Smith a good while ago; I also reported it over a month ago to Andy Smith again’.
