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?EXCLUSIVE: Rosie Duffield (@RosieDuffield1) has resigned as a Labour MP, blaming Sir Keir Starmer’s “cruel and unnecessary” policies and the freebies row that is engulfing him and his party
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If the aim is to hurt the leadership- and by golly, that's the tone of the letter- wouldn't before/during the conference have been the time to resign?
What are her overall politics? I know she likes the biological sex model of male and female, and dislikes Starmer. Where does she sit on the left-right axis? Is she Team Jeremy?
For the record - I disagree with her views but as a libertarian would defend to the death her right to voice them. The violence and threats she has been subjected to as a result of those views are utterly unacceptable in a polite society, or a Parliamentary democracy.
an outlier without influence or leverage
(this is for statisticians - Google it)
We called it the Labour party, and it is too soon for a new one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vkdy997rko
It should be commended
“The sleaze, the nepotism and the apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle has done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party”
Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield quits Labour
https://x.com/thetimes/status/1840062944979366360
It's what you might expect after being in power a decade. Not three months
One interesting feature of flash flooding & aftermath caused by Helene, is that due to the interesting topography AND hydrology of western North Carolina, is that some of the floodwater will eventually make it's way to rivers that flow into the Atlantic - for example, the James River of Virginia where Dog and his pal Ian are currently bobbing on their houseboat.
While the rest (that doesn't end up in local water table) will flow (mostly) westward into the Tennessee, Ohio and mighty Mississippi; for example, the French Broad which flows through (and now over) Ashville on its way ACROSS the mountains to Knoxville and the Tennessee RIver.
@RosieDuffield1"
https://x.com/thetimes/status/1840063922205839361
There must now be a decent chance Starmer goes. Not a big chance, but no longer vanishingly small
Popcorn!
As kyf_100 suggests, doesn't seem like she'd be a good fit for Cotbyn and the Gaza Bros. Long term independent I reckon.
Wow.
Says what a hell of a lot of people are thinking on the avarice and greed of GiftGate.
It feels relentless, and again I wonder if it is in some way co-ordinated to destabilise him, and ultimately remove him
'Do you agree with Rosie' ?
Rosie gift to all Labour’s opponents
I find this bit the more interesting part of the letter, because as far as political attacks go it is not one which the public at large probably care about at all, or are even much aware of. But I have noted before just how quickly Starmer was put into a senior position, he was even floated as a leadership candidate weeks after first becoming an MP. Even more than Sunak, he had no experience of backbench life.
In modern times those who make it to the top appear to need to get there quickly, even if in shadow positions, and it is interesting that Duffield has chosen to call that sort of thing out specifically.
@owenjonesjourno
This is an absolutely devastating resignation letter.
It is absolutely correct - it’s a searing, damning indictment of the soulless, toxic Starmer project.
It is, however, unfortunate that these points aren’t being made by someone else."
https://x.com/owenjonesjourno/status/1840065218614857998
Owen Jones
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A prediction:
Everything the left said about Keir Starmer and his allies - for which we were mocked and vilified - will end up not only vindicated, but become the consensus view.
This soulless project is stuffed full of malign self-advancing careerists.
It will sink.
Rosie Duffield, a nondescript backbench MP most of the public couldn't pick out or the Prime Minister who spooked the markets and lost to a lettuce?
Just pure 100% ultra-distilled vitriol. The problem for Starmer is that, nonetheless, it doesn't sound unhinged. It is articulate and pointed
Probably including me.
But it has to be done.
The medium and long term rewards are worth it.
I saw Rod Liddle being interviewed on some channel or other and he said that Starmer wont be PM for long. I remember thinking that a ridiculous statement, but now?....
Quite incredible, after just 3 months and with a 170 seat majority
What are the odds? (Asking for a friend!)
But it is not. This is like another hefty punch to a man already on the ropes with one eye badly cut
Blimey, I had no idea the Conservative Party had such deep roots. Natural party of government indeed.
Although I will admit her resigning the whip comes a bit left field.
The next fortnight is going to be dominated by the Tory conference then voting in the leadership contest.
"NEW: Labour insider tells me that the party is an absolute binfire at the top. "Now they have hounded the left out the party they have turned on each other. This time it is over money but a load of other stuff is going to get leaked over the next few weeks""
https://x.com/doctoriaindarcy/status/1836674870240797101
If there are all these skeletons in the closet for SKS why didn’t they come out before.
People on twitter need to be careful. Jenny Chapman has already received damages for an untrue allegation re her and SKS. Others may well end up suing.
Delicious. THAT letter is why we all love politics!
But I suspect she was not arguing that case, but just allowing her sense of drama to arrive at a confused sounding claim.
BSW being (as I understand it) fiscally leftwing but socially righwing? AND is that where Rosie Duffield is coming from?
For what it's worth (maybe 2-cents Canadian?) in la belle province of Quebec, the Coalition Avenir Québec (Coalition for the Future of Quebec) which is the governing party in the National Assemby (=Quebec legislature), and has been eating the lunch of the pro-independence Parti Québécois for some time. CAQ being pro-autonomist (in the classic Quebec tradition) but NOT leftwing.
Have thought for some time, that there MIGHT be some appeal to such a party in Scotland someday in the not-to-distant future?
So, it's payback time. And she's clearly a person who thinks revenge should be served up absolutely freezing.
However it DOES look like there is a concerted drip-drip of leaks from Number 10/the Labour elite, against Starmer. How come we KEEP getting more revelations about griftgate, day by day?
That is the classic technique to bring down a politician. You do it slowly and cruelly so they never get a chance to recover, they are always defensive, then they fall
It's how they brought down Boris, ironically
(Sorry. Just been reading a 'history' which had long passages of confected oratio recta in it. Pet hate of mine. That book went straight to the charity bookshop heap.)
Just imagine if she had quit the morning of Starmer's speech or on budget day.
They at least are NOT pleased . . . at least according to inside sources overhead via my tinfoil helmet . . .
I was just thinking a few hours ago how quickly the nonpolitical have turned on Sir Keir. The Facebook memes have started very quickly - the "sausages" think has had some major cut through, and the Absolute Radio football preview at around 2pm took the piss over that and the hospitality he's taken.
But we know how difficult it is for a Labour leader to be unseated...
Longer term impacts? Sure, harder to guess at and probably less than people think, but it has been a rough few weeks for the government.
He is shite. How do you fix that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hardres.
Its first party political MP was Whig John Baker in 1796 with its first Tory MP elected in 1797, Sir John Honeywood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canterbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#:~:text=Canterbury is a constituency in,since September 2024 an Independent.
Origins
Some writers trace the party's origins to the Tory Party, which it soon replaced. Other historians point to a faction, rooted in the 18th century Whig Party, that coalesced around William Pitt the Younger in the 1780s. They were known as "Independent Whigs", "Friends of Mr Pitt", or "Pittites" and never used terms such as "Tory" or "Conservative". From about 1812, the name "Tory" was commonly used for a new party that, according to historian Robert Blake, "are the ancestors of Conservatism". Blake adds that Pitt's successors after 1812 "were not in any sense standard-bearers of 'true Toryism'".
The term Tory was an insult that entered English politics during the Exclusion Bill crisis of 1678–1681, which derived from the Middle Irish word tóraidhe (modern Irish: tóraí) meaning outlaw or robber, which in turn derived from the Irish word tóir, meaning pursuit, since outlaws were "pursued men".
The term "Conservative" was suggested as a title for the party in an article by J. Wilson Croker published in the Quarterly Review in 1830.[48] The name immediately caught on and was formally adopted under the aegis of Robert Peel around 1834. Peel is acknowledged as the founder of the Conservative Party, which he created with the announcement of the Tamworth Manifesto. The term "Conservative Party" rather than Tory was the dominant usage by 1845.
SSI - believe 2nd para above is the basis for the oft-quoted (and occassionally correct) saying -
"Crooks are Tories, and Tories are crooks"
which yours truly first encoutered in one of George MacDonald Fraser's "McAuslan" short stories.
That said, the first job of the new Tory leader is to appoint a chief whip who can go and pick off Labour MPs one at a time, who disagree with the news agenda of the week.
Because, if it wasn't for her, we would absolutely be calling this the worst start to a government/premiership in modern history. This is far worse than May, Brown or Boris. This is extraordinary
Previous administration was in for X years of very bad thing 1 and very bad thing 2.
It's simply not true. The previous Conservative administration got plenty of things right, and only really jumped the shark from mid 2020 to late 2022.
That was enough, though.
That said she was married to her husband for fifty-four years so perhaps it is a good omen for Starmer.