MP Lammy to make up £8m shortfall from Comic Relief....

Isn't there a case for the more you give the less people will learn to fend for themselves?

My experience is the only projects that work are ones where the local people have to do something rather than just wait for handouts.

stick it on expenses

Like many others I'm sure, I refused to donate this year, given Comic Relief's truly pitiful and wholly inadequate response to Lammy's disgraceful "White Saviours" remarks.

He (and more alarmingly Comic Relief) appear to have forgotten exactly which community has bankrolled their charity this last 30 years or so.

Lammy should resign

however he knows the gravy train

I hope he noticed the white faces helping survivors of the Mozambique flooding.

This is the same man so intent on looking for racism that he tweeted about the white smoke from the Vatican chimney being racist.

Rather than even google it, he couldn't wait to make a total @rse of himself on twitter.

Sums up a lot of the political class today (all flavours) - can't wait to fire off their 140 characters of predetermined, agenda laden drivel before finding out the facts.

Think you spelt commended wrong, it should be condemned.

The show's a mess, and Lenny Henry being on doesn't help matters.

I wonder if Mr Lammy is happy and/or grateful to what the Chinese are doing in some African countries eg helping to build and paying for infrastructures in return for natural commodities?; he does have a chip on his shoulder.

It's such a shame the quality and intelligence of some present British MPs have fallen to a level not acceptable and conducive for public office.

I've heard him and his unthinking acolytes telling me to 'Check my privilege', so I did and you know what it said?

"You had the unearned privilege of being dealt a good hand of cards. That involves responsibilities you shouldn't abuse. You should be willing to be held to account for your views and prepared to defend them politely even under abuse (Jacob Rees Mogg is a good example of grace under pressure). But above all you MUST defend them otherwise the barbarians have stormed the gate. The difficult part is to throw aside faux chivalry and robustly call out corrupt, thick, self-indulgent special pleading and victimhood, masquerading as equality and anti-racism"

Same with the people who promote the idea of more black police officers.

What do they think is wrong with white police officers who have served their communities for centuries?

I was very surprised to read he actually completed university, everything he's ever said is so amazingly STUPID I'd assumed he'd went straight from school to some pointless thicko trade union position then into parliament, like so many of them.

Re Grenfell

David Lammy objected to Sir Martin Moore-Bick chairing the enquiry on the grounds that he is white, male and has never spent a night on the twentieth floor of a tower block. His colleague Emma Dent Coad seems to doubt that Sir Martin is even human, judging by her entirely groundless presumption that he has neither “empathy” nor “an ability to understand human beings.”

My own preference is to assess people according to their knowledge, skill, impartiality and fairness rather than on what their skin colour happens to be, what genitals they happen to have or whether or not they’re a “toff,” and I speak as someone born into the working class these two virtue-signalling MPs claim to represent in order to promote their own right-on credentials.

I think we’d get further with a judicious and truthful assessment of the facts, not displays of “empathy”, which I believe is a singularly dangerous emotion.

If you “empathise” with a “victim”, you’re inclined to become mercilessly violent toward those you believe to be “perpetrators” and pre-emptively deadened to evidence that contradicts your virtuous emoting.

Lammy is just a race baiter pure and simple

That’s the first time I’ve seen that clip,what a ****head lammy is.surely its time for some sort of intelligence test these clowns have to take before being allowed to become an mp instead of just being parachuted in to a safe seat

£77k per year plus expenses and all the pies (free) he could eat. if he comes to for a donation I'd refer him to Comic Relief and that "rant" on live tv.

Next time maybe someone if meeting Mr Lammy could ask him whether he agrees that testimonies of people can be legally accepted as evidence in the Court of Law.

Playing politics after a disaster like the Grenfell Tower fire where many perished must be the lowest of the low by any politician. I do not understand why Mr Lammy is invited on the media for his thoughts as his thoughts could be immature, ill-informed/conceived and inaccurate; empty vessels make the most noise!

Just looked him up,I'm so out of touch that I thought he was a conservative , now I understand.

MP Lammy could make himself useful and redeem his recently tarnished reputation (and misjudgement) by doing something decent for a charity that could float his boat eg help to raise funds for people affected in Mozambique and Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai; the donations of the Queen and Prince Charles will not initiate another outlandish outburst, surely.