Jess Phillips accused of running secret cockfighting ring in Yardley
Video uploaded to YouTube shows Labour MP MCing at sick event in her constituency
Phillips oversaw ‘carnival of cock death’ (Image: Getty Images)
Shocking new revelations about Labour leadership hopeful Jess Phillips have come to light as she has been implicated in the operation of an illegal cockfighting ring in her constituency of Yardley.
A YouTube video purporting to have been filmed in the venue shows Phillips standing in front of a baying crowd as she whips the attendees into a frenzy: she can be heard roaring ‘let’s f*ck some chooks up tonight, bab’ into a microphone.
Later in the video she can be seen soliciting bets from members of the audience before one particularly brutal fight that left one of the birds severely injured. The MP can be heard taunting the animal saying it is a ‘pathetic loser’ and demanding aides ‘get that thing out of my sight’.
It’s unclear how long the sick carnival of cock deaths has been running but in a now deleted Facebook group there were records of fights going back to 2017. One particularly noteworthy event appeared to be a fundraiser for the ‘Drop the T From LGBT’ campaign, a group that has been repeatedly accused of transphobia.This will raise further concerns over Phillips adjacency to the so-called gender critical movement in the UK.
A request for a comment has as yet gone unanswered but a Labour source said ‘finally people are seeing through this act that Jess puts on, there’s even worse stuff to come out, I’ve no doubt about it’.