Insane how people are defending this just because it harms the Tories. Do labour supporters have no principles at all?
It’s perfect for Labour. They get to shower Rishi in shit until the general election and then quietly deselect her or move her aside for an actual candidate. Why wouldn’t you?
Principles
Maybe its hard for the current labour party to understand that, but the party of the workers should not welcome hardcore right wingers no matter what the circumstances are
Principles
but the party of the workers should not welcome hardcore right wingers no matter what the circumstances are
I think you’ve got principles and policies mixed up. What you’ve described is a policy.
A principle for a party of workers might be: To champion workers rights for the betterment of society.
A policy for that principle could be: to not accept right wing nutters into your party because they are inherently anti worker.
But equally another policy could be: publicly humilate incumbent anti worker government in an election cycle by accepting a defector from their party knowing full well it will be temporary because they’re standing down in the next election.
In a crucial election year one policy is infinitely better than the other.
Maybe I woke up more cynical this morning, but…
Hoping to save her job, much?
I think it really shows how far right Labour has shifted that they even accepted the move
Usually when MPs defect the receiving party tries to find them a safe seat to defend come the election. Otherwise what would the point be?
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/starmer-welcomes-right-wing-tory-labour
One Tory MP tweeted today that it was impossible to find a Conservative in the Commons who regarded themselves as further to the right and many were outraged at her hypocrisy.
Succeeding her husband Charlie in the Dover seat after he was convicted of sex offences, she attacked her husband’s victims and was suspended from the Commons because she had “improperly sought to influence judicial proceedings” in relation to the case.
Sounds like a lovely lady.
Apparently, she’s the first Labour member of the ERG!
Not really a fan of her being in the Labour party. Think that was quite unnecessary – Starmer is going to win the next election with or without this woman. And what specifically about the Labour Party’s aims and values resonate with her? When you join the Labour party as a member, it’s not like subscribing to Amazon Prime. It means you have to actually agree to the aims and values of the Labour Party as described in Clause IV, which begins “The Labour Party is a democratic socialist party,” and includes things like “promotes equality of opportunity” and “delivers people from … prejudice”. Does she agree with any of that? I’m very confused as to how a right wing ERG member could possibly want to join a democratic socialist party, let alone agree with its broader aims and values.
The merit of permitting her to cross the aisle and sit as a Labour MP is obvious, but so is the cost. I didn’t like it when all those antisemites joined under Corbyn’s leadership, and I don’t like this now.
