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Not Looking Rosie Is It?
//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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//She wrote: “Someone with far-above-average wealth choosing to keep the Conservatives’ two-child limit to benefit payments which entrenches children in poverty, while inexplicably accepting expensive personal gifts of designer suits and glasses costing more than most of those people can grasp – this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour Prime Minister.”//
Couldn't have put it better myself.
// “Forcing a vote to make many older people iller and colder while you and your favourite colleagues enjoy free family trips to events most people would have to save hard for – why are you not showing even the slightest bit of embarrassment?”//
I did say that his lack of shame shames us all. Right so far.
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Rosie Duffield is a good, conviction politician.
She took horrendous abuse over her quite correct views on gender, and has resigned due to Starmer's dreadful hypocrisy.
Three months in and this is already a terrible Govt (sensible people knew it would be), and a decent politician like Duffield leaving due to Starmer's hypocrisy should give an alarming signal to him that he's already lost the dressing room.
The man is a disgrace.
//the whiff of hypocrisy is strong. It’s positively pungent.
Starmer frequently wrings his hands over the unfairness of inherited wealth.
His government plans to impose VAT on private-school fees, which will make such citadels of learning unaffordable primarily to working-class families who’ve done well for themselves and want their children to get up that social ladder. Yet it turns out that his own son’s educational chances were boosted to the tune of twenty grand.
Apparently it is bad for parents to work hard so that they can stump up £15,000 or so for their kid to go to private school, but it’s okay for Starmer to get the £20,000 freebie of a sumptuous study room for his son. This might be one of the worst cases ever of that haughty decree, “One rule for me, another for thee”.//
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