There’s a drama a day in Westminster. Today’s bust-up is between Reform MP Lee Anderson and the party’s former deputy leader Ben Habib who accused him of plagiarism. Following the jibe, the Ashfield MP took to Twitter to brand Habib a ‘pathetic little man’ trying to ‘smear’ Reform. And you thought Mike Amesbury was punchy…
Early this morning Anderson posted online a long list of Labour failures – with the Reform MP claiming Sir Keir Starmer’s army would ‘never have been elected if voters had been told the truth’. While the politician’s post was lauded by his supporters, Habib was quick to spot a rather disgruntled reply from an account that had posted the exact same tweet several weeks before. ‘Does Reform UK endorse plagiarism?’ he fumed. ‘Things go from bad to worse. So much for integrity.’ Ouch.
Not that Anderson was pulling any punches. The Ashfield MP first claimed he had been sent a copy-and-pasted version of the original post by a friend before thanking the user for their ‘great and well written’ intervention. Then Anderson turned his guns on Habib, unleashing a withering tirade on his former colleague. ‘Shut up, you pathetic little man,’ he started, going on to rage:
You really are scraping the barrel with your pathetic attempts to smear us. Just go away, you’re boring… You know what, Ben, there are more important things to talk about at the moment than someone’s post on here. You need to go and see someone.
Shots fired…
Since Habib was demoted from his leadership role, the former Reform man has kept busy by lashing out at his old party and has in recent weeks even accused Nigel Farage of lurching to the left. What with today’s exchange, it doesn’t seem like that particular rift will be repaired anytime soon, eh?
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