Well Done Rosie Duffield

I have recently read "Head North" by Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram. One of their suggestions for improving inequality is to remove the whip system.

Trueloveways surely not Dominic Cummings. Much more Matt Hancock and a few others.

Trueloveways

Wasn’t she known as the Labour party’s Dominic Cummings, regarding lockdown rules.

I would have thought that title fitted Stephen Kinnock who with his wife drove a 300 mile round trip to sing Happy Birthday to his dad and bring some essential supplies. Cummings drove all the way to Durham from London a distance almost equal to Stephen's round trip. Rosie entertained her married lover in her accommodation. Of the three only Rosie admitted guilt and took any punishment.

I was responding to eazybee ronib, as she omitted to mention that RD’s vote share had dropped since the previous election. You have to try take a balanced view of her, she is not universally absolved of her somewhat chequered past because she has done one thing you agree with. I think this move is much more of a welcome surprise to some of you than it is a shock to people who have followed her.

Casdon how much of a numerical majority?

Look at the attachment ronib, that’s why I posted it.

Spencer2009

Read her letter yesterday agree with everything she said

news.sky.com/story/rosie-duffields-resignation-letter-in-full-13224368

Casdon 8653 majority in the last election.Wes Streeting was it 500 majority votes? Oh really ….

Quote Rosie51 Mon 30-Sep-24 17:45:50
Trueloveways
Wasn’t she known as the Labour party’s Dominic Cummings, regarding lockdown rules.
I would have thought that title fitted Stephen Kinnock who with his wife drove a 300 mile round trip to sing Happy Birthday to his dad and bring some essential supplies. Cummings drove all the way to Durham from London a distance almost equal to Stephen's round trip. Rosie entertained her married lover in her accommodation. Of the three only Rosie admitted guilt and took any punishment.

Again ? Stephen and Helle drove from Wales to London to see his parents, Neil had chosen to nurse Glynis at home, Stephen
put a photograph on SM , showing them sitting in the font garden he had taken two chairs with him , he said they had sung Happy Birthday to Neil, they took essential supplies , Rachel Kinnock had taken food the day before. The Police would not have know but Stephen was honest about it, he was not charged. Many people are understanding about dementia.

ronib

Casdon 8653 majority in the last election.Wes Streeting was it 500 majority votes? Oh really ….

ronib your skills in diversionary tactics require more work. Shall we get back to my post of 15.59 so you can tell us what you think about all MPs standing as independents?

Casdon my tactics?

Casdon well yes it is definitely time for change to coin a phrase. Obviously if a policy change is not contained in the party manifesto then each mp should be allowed a free vote. Simple solution.

The tactic of not directly answering other peoples questions to you, but asking them further questions.
The answer you just gave wasn’t to the question either, but I guess could be one way forward. Perhaps there should be a free vote on whether all gifts ns donations to parties and individuals should be stopped. It will be great fun, like watching turkeys voting for Christmas.

Casdon Also a free vote on WFA pensioners? Too late though for that one.

It was in the manifesto though ronib, cloaked but there. There was an undertaking to retain the triple lock for the state pension and a specific warning that Labour “will not tolerate fraud or waste anywhere, whether in social security or the excessive use of consultants”.
As you say, it’s too late for that now anyway, but there was definitely no commitment to keep WFA contained in the manifesto - it was in fact very light on detail regarding welfare payments of any kind.

Anniebach

Quote Rosie51 Mon 30-Sep-24 17:45:50
Trueloveways
Wasn’t she known as the Labour party’s Dominic Cummings, regarding lockdown rules.
I would have thought that title fitted Stephen Kinnock who with his wife drove a 300 mile round trip to sing Happy Birthday to his dad and bring some essential supplies. Cummings drove all the way to Durham from London a distance almost equal to Stephen's round trip. Rosie entertained her married lover in her accommodation. Of the three only Rosie admitted guilt and took any punishment.

Again ? Stephen and Helle drove from Wales to London to see his parents, Neil had chosen to nurse Glynis at home, Stephen
put a photograph on SM , showing them sitting in the font garden he had taken two chairs with him , he said they had sung Happy Birthday to Neil, they took essential supplies , Rachel Kinnock had taken food the day before. The Police would not have know but Stephen was honest about it, he was not charged. Many people are understanding about dementia.

Anniebach, I am understanding about dementia, my friend has just lost her husband to Lewy Body dementia and that was horrible to witness. It's an awful disease, both for the sufferer and all who love them. During the lockdown I don't remember there being an edict to the public that lockdown regulations didn't apply if you wanted to break them to visit someone with dementia. Many, many people broke their hearts keeping to the rules and not seeing loved ones in varying stages of illness and dying during lockdown, not everybody put themselves above the rules. I thought that was our criticism of that shambles in number 10, that they didn't keep the rules the rest of us did?
I think you're being very selective and quite offensive about this.

Stephen's initial tweet
Dad turned 78 today. Incredible, but true.
@HelleThorning_S
and I took a couple of chairs over, and sat in their front garden for a socially distanced celebration. As you do 🙂 Happy birthday, mate 🍰 🎁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

followed by this one when South Wales police reminded him it was essential travel only and birthdays don't qualify

I felt that this was essential travel as I had to deliver some necessary supplies to my parents. I stayed long enough to sing ‘happy birthday’ to Dad, and then I was off. All the best, Stephen.

No mention of dementia being the reason for the visit at all.

Support and many column inches from the right wing MSM - a deafening silence from the Labour Left.

No surprise there

Rosie51

I've copied this extract from a post of mine on another thread.

I note not one single person has made any comment on Starmer launching his election campaign in Kent and not inviting the ONLY elected Labour MP in the county. Could he have made it any clearer that RD was persona non grata as far as he was concerned? He did however, just a few weeks earlier, make a great show of being photographed welcoming Natalie Elphicke (MP for Dover) to the party after she defected from the Conservatives to cross the floor, even though it was known she would stand down at the next election. Of course at that time nobody knew just two weeks later Sunak would declare that intention.

Starmer and many other Labour MPs have treated RD atrociously. Presumably the CLP could have deselected her if they felt she was such a terrible MP?

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

RD for some time hasn’t behaved well towards many colleagues or the PM . Could be that’s why there’s little support for her

Iam64 I think RD has behaved admirably towards women. Can’t say that for the rest of the left wing.

Her views on safe spaces and women’s rights are the same as mine, as I’ve said on a number of occasions. Who in what left wing are you talking about? All the left leaning posters here, all my family and friends who vote Labour share the same views -

Iam64 whoever the groups are that can’t understand cervix and female? I presume they are not right wing?

Which groups?
The onky groups I’m aware of who believe a man can become a woman and keep their genitalia are the trans activists. I don’t know which way they vote. I just know they threaten women who disagree with them to, ‘rape you to death with my lady penis”

RD made no mention of this in her resignation letter