The parliamentary requirements commissioner is investigating James McMurdock, who was elected as a Reform MP final yr however suspended himself after allegations emerged over loans he claimed throughout the pandemic.
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The requirements commissioner has now confirmed it is going to think about allegations that Mr McMurdock began an “N-Tower” on social media by posting the one letter “N” beneath an X put up that was essential of Aurora.
This was described by Mr Overweight-Jecty as “a means of using a racial slur against an individual on an online platform whilst circumventing moderation that would remove racially abusive content”.
He added: “The practice involves spelling out a racial slur vertically with each individual posting a single letter of the word in order to spell it vertically” because the posts seem beneath one another.
Mr McMurdock is beneath investigation for probably breaching rule 11 of the Home of Commons Code of Conduct.
This states: “Members shall never undertake any action which would cause significant damage to the reputation and integrity of the House of Commons as a whole, or of its Members generally.”
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Ben Overweight-Jecty. Pic: Parliament
Mr Overweight-Jecty mentioned in his grievance that the alleged actions of the previous Reform MP “reflect a lack of adherence” to the seven ideas of public life.
He mentioned by “deleting the post without challenging the subsequent spelling” that was began by him, Mr McMurdock confirmed a “failure to challenge poor behaviour” and “absence of moral courage”.
Mr Overweight-Jecty added: “Having repeatedly experienced this specific type of online racial abuse myself I am horrified that a fellow member of parliament would apparently see this as a legitimate means of challenging a Westminster lobby journalist in a public forum.
“I sincerely hope that there’s a coherent and plausible clarification for this horrendous motion.”
At the time, Mr McMurdock appeared to deny he made the post, sharing a screenshot of X’s AI assistant Grok claiming he never posted the letter N, based on a screenshot of the N-Tower.
Grok is a large language model, which is known to be inaccurate.
He added that Mr Obese-Jecty’s “grievance relating to the alleged posting of a single letter is past ridiculous”.
Mr McMurdock has been contacted for remark.
