Labour MP Rosie Duffield has quit the party over the freebies scandal, accusing Keir Starmer of presiding over “sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice” that is “off the scale”. The Telegraph has more.
Resigning her position, Rosie Duffield, the MP for Canterbury, told Sir Keir that she was “ashamed” of what he and his “inner circle” had done to “tarnish and humiliate our once proud party”.
She declared that he was unfit for office after “inexplicably” choosing to accept designer suits while at the same time pursuing “cruel and unnecessary” policies.
The dramatic resignation sent Downing Street into turmoil on Saturday night and came as Sir Keir faced mounting pressure from within his own party to get a grip on the donations crisis.
In her resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Ms. Duffield said: “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 these people can grasp – this is entirely undeserving of holding the title of Labour Prime Minister.
“Forcing a vote [on the winter fuel payment] 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?”
Ms. Duffield, 53, has been a consistent critic of the party over its approach to transgender issues and has not attended previous party conferences over the issue.
She has become the fastest MP to jump ship after a general election in modern political history.
It came after Sir Keir admitted on Friday that Lord Alli gave him £32,000 to pay for clothing, double what he previously declared.
Sir Keir also received £2,400 from Lord Alli for glasses, and the use of an £18 million penthouse during the election campaign and on other occasions. Members of his frontbench team have also declared large donations from the peer.
On Saturday night, a frontbench source warned that Downing Street needed to change course, saying “it is getting to the point where it might be terminal”.
“If you are constantly explaining, you are losing. It looks like you are doing something dodgy,” they told the Telegraph. “Keir needs to be absolutely straight and he needs to draw a line under it.”
Worth reading in full.
Watch Rosie explain her decision to the Times.
Stop Press: Daily Sceptic reader Roger Tilbury has composed a special meme for Free Gear Keir:
Ooh suits you Sir.
Ooh, suits you sir SIR!
Ooh does sir sir like it?
A freebie sir?
We like a freebie sir, especially down behind Waterloo.
The glasses – suits you sir.
Do you like them sir? The specs?
And the motes? Can you see the beams sir?
And the football sir?
Do you like it too?
Going up the Arsenal sir?
And the QPR an’ all sir?
And a Penthouse sir? Do you like it?
A nice spread with a huge balcony. Oooh.
Suits you sir.
Does she like it sir?
Your lady sir?
Or is she a sir lady?
Is she a Swiftie sir?
Or a Quickie?
Do you like a Quickie sir?
Down behind Waterloo?
Do you like to free the sausages?
Do you sir? Do you?
Or do you like to be in control?
When you get into a state?
Ooh, suits you sir.
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Protects paedophiles whilst silencing any voice he doesn’t like – I think we know where this is headed, he’s the Labour Lettuce.
Not inviting Musk shows yet more thin skin and bad judgment. Clearly those £2400 specs aren’t helping, except to advertise that TwoTierFreeGearKeir has been bought
A spell with Lammy as leader, and we’ll have the next election before Christmas
Clueless, damaging, self-centred cretins
Can somebody slap this horrendous woman around the face with a wet fish? What a traitorous bint! Yes, of course predatory and mentally ill men immediately become marginalized if they don a dress and are still refused access to female single-sex spaces, FFS.
”No matter your views on her stated reasons for quitting, Rosie Duffield has made a political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society.
She should never have been allowed the privilege of resigning. Labour should have withdrawn the whip long ago.”
https://x.com/NadiaWhittomeMP/status/1840100910350942533
If you can’t see the comments section she rightly gets a real hammering by all good people who see the toxicity and the dangerous threat of the Transtifa misogynists/perverts ( and all of their enablers ), and who take child safeguarding seriously;
”You make Nancy Kelly look intelligent” Julie Bindel
”My god. You’re a real piece of work, aren’t you….?” James Dreyfus
”You are a truly pathetic person. You can’t answer questions when challenged, you are a science-denying, truth avoiding fool & you have all the grace and poise of a bowl of tapioca.” Rhona Hotchkiss
”Oh fuck off. She stands up for women. Not Autogynophillic perverts.” Leilani Dowding
”You’re a traitor to women & probably one of the most unpleasant people I know of in politics” Sharron Davies MBE
”What you cannot and will never understand is Rosie Duffield represents the very best of the Labour Party’s core principles. The current version of the party failed her, not the other way around. It is lost. That means you are perfectly suited to it. That’s not a compliment btw.” The Attagirls
”Stay classy Nadia x” Rosie Duffield.
This ”woman” looks very marginalized to me. I mean, imagine having to serve time in a jail that doesn’t affirm your preferred gender?? Perhaps being on the ‘receiving end’ might do ‘her’ the power of good, a dose of ‘her’ own medicine, so to speak. ‘She’ could’ve at least shaved for ‘her’ mugshot;
”A trans woman has been jailed for six and a half years after being found guilty of rape following a night out.
Lexi Secker raped a woman in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, on 23 April 2023. The attack took place before Secker began identifying as a woman.
The attack took place in secluded woods after the pair took a walk “under the pretence of sobering up”.
Secker, 35, of Lowbourne, near Melksham, has been ordered to carry out her sentence in a male prison and will remain on the sex offenders register indefinitely.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8rdpdm4r4ro
Duffield has long been the only Labour MP I had any time for. I do not agree with everything she says but she believes in what she says and very, very few MP’s do. She has stood firm on womens rights despite dreadful harassment from her own party. Two male Labour MP’s stood haranguing her in Parliament: Starmer did nothing, the Speaker did nothing. It was extreme bullying and belittlement. She continued on but has now come to breaking point.
I have, this morning, written to my Labour MP, Jade Botterill, asking her if she has a conscience and how will she explain to relatives of dead pensioners why it was necessary. After all, her leader, elected on nearly a million less votes than Corbyn’s 2019 disaster, stated 4,000 pensions will die if fuel allowance is removed.
I see no way out for Starmer or his party. Until this morning I felt he may get upto two years. Right now, I doubt he will make it until Summer. Given that there was a frost up here in West Yorkshire in September this is going to be a hard winter. Every dead pensioner will be put up against designer suits.£36,000 in clothing bungs = 120 frozen pensioners.
In The Telegraph this morning it gets even worse. Over four years Starmer took half a million in bungs from Lord Alli alone. He took £350,000 in 2020. Hoiw much more did he accept?
No MP or PM can survive this let alone a deeply unpopular one with one third of a low turnout and two thirds of the vote. A PM who got less than Corbyn’s 2019 disaster. A man who 2 in 10 voted for out of disgust with the Tories.
Fully agree, but all Starmer is proving (apart from the fickleness of the electorate) is that no member of the LibLabCon Uniparty is worth electing. How do we use this mess to get a much smaller government, led by competent people who didn’t read PPE at Oxford and who have worked for a few years in the productive sector of the economy?
I think this is what you’re referring to here. This is Rosie speaking on GBN about the treatment she’s received from those men and the indifference of Starmer;
https://x.com/MrSugden2/status/1840173182168269164
This a must listen interview with Rosie Duffield. Free Gear and his cohorts are finished.
Why I am leaving Keir Starmer’s ‘toxic’ Labour party | Rosie Duffield (youtube.com)
Pretty good letter. But “apparent avarice?”
It’s not apparent …… it’s screamingly obvious, downright greed and almost certainly corruption.
What did Alli get in return for his
bribesgenerosity?A decent woman.
Exactly what she saw in the Labour Party, – an organization made up of talentless political careerists and demented ideologues – is a mystery to me, but hats off to her.
Yes the clock’s ticking for Starmer. What’s amazing is that he’s been PM for all of five minutes and it’s like he’s even less popular than Boris Johnson, and given Johnson was in charge during the scamdemic years that really is quite a feat. I would add, ”He sides with criminals and prioritizes migrants over British patriots” to the below list, probably because he’s so unpatriotic himself. But can you imagine Angela Rayner as PM? I don’t know what’s worse!
Is it really too much to ask for a country to have a leader who is legitimately patriotic and whose allegiance is not with the globalists who are determined to erase British culture and values forever? Somebody who is not a traitor to the people? Or perhaps this is me being nostalgic because such a person has not led the UK for many years now. Johnson was a delusional clown because he thought of himself as a Churchill-type but he shafted the country and the citizens with unprecedented damage and abuses to their rights as never seen before, which is unforgiveable;
”Keir Starmer is a nasty piece of work.
The public don’t like him.
His own party hates him.
He’s a colossal hypocrite.
He’s a compulsive liar.
He’s incompetent.
He’s corrupt.
Even our leftist MSM can’t defend him.
It’s over for Free Gear Keir. It’s just a matter of time.”
https://x.com/addicted2newz/status/1840100267544768811
There is an interesting point here Mog. In 2019 Corbyn led Labour to their worst defeat since 1935. Starmer got nearly a million less votes than Corbyn.
A lot is explained by Starmer preferring Davos to Westminster, AND ADMITTING IT !!!
https://youtu.be/7qI0xQSn8Y0?si=HbK3ac6lzFLQFraZ
And she was shocked by his reply.
I feel sorry for the labour people that voted for all this deceit, they now know for definite this is not the party they once knew and no doubt feel totally betrayed!
… but there’s an obvious pattern developing. Traditional Tory voters have felt the same way about their party ever since Cameron was first foisted on them. Who on earth is pulling the strings?
Good point, the main two parties are pulling in a completely different direction to the population and, interestingly, the rest of Europe which is being forced away from Socialism by the people. I think Farage was right in his Conference speech that now is the parties chance and we have to prepare for the next election and being electable.
ask Polly
I agree to an extent but, to be honest, anyone who votes Socialist, overall, deserves what they get. The rest of us do not.
Labour voters might be ‘ordinary’, patriots, but the ‘elite’ haven’t changed. I remember the intransigence of union leaders in the 1960s (and bureaucratic stasis) as our industries slipped into dysfunctionality, and disappeared, consuming public money on the way.
Well done, Ms Duffield for setting such an excellent example in this fashion: real leadership!
Rosie Duffield comes across as the kind of person that I once naively thought most MPs would be: independent minded intelligent vocational representatives capable of doing their own research and coming to their own conclusions as to what was most likely to be in the best interests of their constituents.
That she in fact appears to be atypical is a serious indictment of our political system in this country.
The proof of this will be found in how many of her fellow labour MPs follow her over the top. I rather suspect the answer will be that only the Right Honourable Tumbleweed MP follows her over the top…….
I believe we now need a form of proportional representation that will allow the few vocational MPs there are to find their place in smaller parties, and so a bigger influence on the mindless apparatchiks that mainly infest the halls of Westminster.
PR would also diminish the corrupt and insidious effect of the H of C ‘payroll vote’.
That would, of course, mean voting for ‘Reform’.
Proportional Representation makes the party, and their HQ, even more influential.
Parliamentary candidates need to be picked by locals from that constituency, and vetting (usually an HQ function) should highlight candidates misdemeanors, not exclude them, as that has given HQ too much control.
Has she only just figured it out?
Normally a resignation letter like this will deeply unsettle a party. Unfortunately I don’t think Starmer will give a damn.
The working class can kiss my arse,
I’ve got the foremans’ job at last.
I’d say he’s likely to be glad to see the back of her – clears up a good few problems for him
As the Chuckle Brothers would say, ‘oh dear, oh dear!’
First of many I hope.
And pray.
It’s good Sunday morning amusement watching Starmer twist in the wind, but REAL damage is being done by Milliband. He has doubled down on the lunacy of previous Energy Secretaries in the Uniparty, and is – I presume knowingly – trashing our industrial base and our economy with it
Ed started the whole thing off, helped by his brother, and has returned, to finish us off.
The Tories just kept the seat warm.
Now wouldn’t it be amazing if RD joined the Corbyn Independent group, followed by more, to have the aim that they have THIRD Party majority? Just another 50 or so required. Should this happen I suggest Peacock Feathers would collapse in value.
I think this is very refreshing to see and I wish we had more of this from the decent trans folk who are not one-dimensional and clearly have more going on in their lives than just obsessing over their gender and making that all that defines them;
”I’m transsexual, there are no rights I dont have, trans arent remotely marginalised, they’re fawned & pandered to by sexist misogynists like you. Rosie Duffield is a principled & dignified woman fighting for women & girls rights & equality, I respect & support her unequivocally.”
https://x.com/serenstar4/status/1840280662034575574
An older comment regarding the Italian male ‘trans’ runner who competed in the Paralympics female category, cheating his way to the podium by stealing what was rightfully a woman’s achievement;
”Petrillo has been a resounding success in what he wanted to do, he displaced & relegated F athletes, took the rightful spot from an Italian F. His M advantage is there for all to see, 51 & a cheat, his times were close to breaking age records for F, misogynous egregious narcissist.
Im a Transsexual athlete, I would never compete in F category, I respect all F athletes who work tirelessly for opportunities. Petrillo is a M shamelessly & narcissistically cheating, he has zero respect for women. He is egregiously taking a F rightful place, deplorable by IOC.”