Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield says Keir Starmer's Labour cares more about greed and power
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The Canterbury MP says she is leaving the party over the PM's "cruel" policies and "hypocrisy" at accepting gifts.
  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
    234·
    1 month ago

    I’m glad people are speaking up against Starmer turning Labour into the New Conservatives.

    • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works
      193·
      1 month ago

      Lol, Rosie usually flanking from the right. A transphobe and not a nice person. Love it when they trash take themselves out. One of the few Labour MPs worse than Kier

      • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
        81·
        1 month ago

        Thanks for providing some context about her. I don’t know her or her history. Seems @cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone was standing on the right side of yet another issue.

    • Z3k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      1 month ago

      It’s kinda funny I had all these people telling me it will be better under kier

      I know they can’t turn ut around this quickly but based on what I have seen from him hrs not even in the same room as the steering wheel.

      • IcyToes@sh.itjust.works
        21·
        1 month ago

        Oversteer Kier. I suspect he’s more right wing than Blair, but we’ll have to see. Definitely more of am autocrat.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      72·
      1 month ago

      Do you have any source for this? From what I read of her, it seems she’s criticized Labour for what she perceives as antisemitism. (Edit: She’s also very transphobic though, apparently; that sucks, but it still has nothing to do with Holocaust denial. Edit 2: okay yes it does. What the fuck.)

      • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        426·
        1 month ago

        Katy is one of those hardcore trans activists who think that literally everyone wants them dead.

        • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al
          51·
          1 month ago

          My experience of Katy is an incredibly intelligent and balanced person. I can’t speak to their history of antisemitism or trans activism one way or another though.

        • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          So I’m not understanding specifically what she said that’s problematic in relation to the Holocaust? Did she say that trans people were killed during the Holocaust? Because that was a real, actual, systematic component of the Holocaust; saying that would be the opposite of denial.

          Also, hardcore in what way? What’s wrong with being pro-human rights in a “hardcore” way, however you’re defining that? And where did she say everyone wants trans people dead? And again what does that have to do with the Holocaust?

          Wait, I read this as Rosie. Who’s Katy?

          • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            219·
            1 month ago

            What Katy is saying is that she thinks Duffield’s views on women’s rights and trans issues is equivalent to the Holocaust.

            Perfectly sane person.

            • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
              41·
              1 month ago

              Wait, who’s Katy in this scenario? I read this as “Rosie” initially, because I couldn’t think of anyone named Katy related to this and so my brain autocorrected.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukMEnglish
    173·
    1 month ago

    In her resignation letter, published by the Sunday Times, external, the Canterbury MP lambasts the prime minister for accepting gifts worth tens of thousands of pounds while scrapping the winter fuel payment and keeping the two-child benefit cap.

    Very funny thing for someone who accepted a £10k private donation and didn’t vote on the winter fuel payment to say. Shouldn’t expect moral consistency from a transphobe.

    • zante@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      I don’t think you’ve read this. They are donations directly to a campaign fund. Are you drawing equivalence to accepting clothes for a spouse or a holiday in New York ?

      For the winter fuel payment, abstention or having the whip removed, as is nearly always case in British parliamentary politics .

      • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukMEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        I did read it, I just think it demonstrates the same problem as Stramer’s freebies, rich people pushing money around in policies to buy influence.

  • disgrunty@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 month ago

    Hate her, but can’t disagree that the two-child benefit cap is fucking awful for families that need the help. Those kids don’t deserve to be punished for being born. Something, something, broken clock.

    Note: I do not have or want children, I just have empathy for them because I grew up in poverty myself. I still think she’s vile.