Spectator Crossword N0. 2681 By La...
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//Canterbury MP Rosie Duffield has resigned the Labour whip, accusing the Prime Minister of “hypocrisy” and pursuing “cruel and unnecessary” policies.
In a resignation letter, Ms Duffield attacked Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to keep the two-child benefit cap and means-test winter fuel payments and condemned his handling of the outcry over gifts given to him and other senior Labour figures.//
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.//And the two child benefit cap, which many of you supported and said so on here, is one of the main reasons she is resigning//
She has implied it's one of the reasons (you used the word MAIN), but as that's been known about for a while I think it's more to do with Keir's hypocrisy over accepting gifts coupled with the WFA cut. on top of the benefit cap, and perhaps even the tuition fees and plans to cut some budgets relating to public spending (return to austerity?). Her treatment over transgender issues must be an issue too.
I doubt very much Rosie is interested in joining Reform. She'll remain an Independent. If she does jump it would be to Liberals or Greens IMO.
if you had bothered to read her letter newmodarmy then you would know that she mentions the 2 child cap explicitly. she also mentions starmer's treatment of diane abbott which many estimable tories on this website cheered on.
i am very critical of starmer and did not vote for labour in 2024 despite having done so previously... the reason for that is I think he is a tory in a red tie and is untrustworthy.
what i absolutely cannot stand are all these fork-tongued tory snakes who have suddenly learned that public spending cuts can have dangerous consequences and suddenly care about corruption when they didn't give a monkey's before july 4th! i maintain that tories are vacuous creatures that have no beliefs, only instincts.
Of course the big question is ... what exactly is Starmer's real relationship with Pally Alli? The rumours are rife in the whispering corridors around Westminster and the msm hacks apparently know the full story. Which of course beggars the further questions, why have they sat on this and all the other "recent revelations" about the bribes, and why drip feed the "discoveries" to the public now? What is going on?