The Hypocrisy of Labour's Emily Thornberry
 

Did anyone watch this: Channel 4's Dispatches show: 'Getting Rich From The Housing Crisis'?


Labour frontbencher Emily Thornberry faced accusations of hypocrisy last night after it emerged that her husband had made more than £500,000 profit buying a former housing association property for her brother to live in.

Oxford-educated judge Sir Christopher Nugee paid £572,000 for the three-storey Georgian townhouse in Ms Thornberry's Islington constituency as part of a release of social housing stock on to the private market – even though Jeremy Corbyn's party is opposed to such sell-offs.

The property is now worth more than £1 million and is occupied by Ms Thornberry's brother Ben.

Last night, MP Brandon Lewis, chairman of the Conservative Party, said: 'This is wild hypocrisy from Emily Thornberry – she's pocketing the profits from a policy Labour want to scrap. As usual, Labour says one thing and do the other. Labour are against home ownership, they voted against our cut to stamp duty and by abolishing right-to-buy would stop people from achieving the dream of homeownership.'

The deal is highlighted in a Channel 4 investigation into the £400 million sell-off of more than 1,600 housing association properties.


Sir Christopher bought the housing association property in 2007, two years after his wife became MP for Islington South and Finsbury.

According to the programme, a total of 179 executives in the 50 largest housing associations are earning more than the Prime Minister's £152,000 salary. Over the past five years, the largest 30 associations have made operating profits of more than £13 billion.

Sir Christopher and Lady Nugee – Ms Thornberry's married name – live in a four-storey Victorian house in an exclusive North London crescent worth about £3 million.

Sir Christopher bought the housing association property in 2007, two years after his wife became MP for Islington South and Finsbury. The couple has been married for 26 years. It is not known whether her brother pays rent.

The programme also features Kate Davies, the controversial head of the Notting Hill Genesis social housing organisation, who marked the first anniversary of the Grenfell fire last month – in which eight of her tenants died – by hosting a party to promote her book Making Life More Beautiful. It reveals that Ms Davies, who earned £256,000 last year, has bought a £700,000 luxury second home on the Lower Mill Estate in the Cotswolds.

This is yet more evidence that a pig with its snout in the trough does not HAVE to be a Tory.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/...mand/68438-001

Yes she is Cocky
but you are correct Kirk
take a look at her
and her brother

It’s disgraceful but predictable. Most from powerful positions in politics, whatever party, practice one rule whilst dictating another.

It is however significantly worse from so-called socialist parties who proport to support the working-class and stop home ownership for the poor but allow wealthy politicians to profit from it. Shame, shame, shame ...

I don't like this woman anyway,far too mouthy and cocky for my liking and a total hypocrite.

i've always thought her to be quite unpleasant any time i've seen her, wouldn't trust her an inch

I honestly thought all housing associations housing were to be sold to paying tenants.
Can’t believe they can be sold willy billy to anyone with spare cash:fist:

Is anyone surprised, most of the people are in it to feather their own nests

Oh look Lady Nugee and her Sir husband sticking up for working class people,pretending they know the struggle!

As unlikeable she is, I wouldn't say it's hypocrisy unless she herself has spoken out about such things. I bet very few MPs follow every aspect of their party ideology.