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She strikes me as being a bit like Kate Hoey. She wants to be important, to have people ask her opinions on things, and to be a focus of attention. In other words, a gobshite. Labour offered her the best platform for a while. Before that, the Tories.

She's not winning friends on Twitter:

About to write that Duffield will have a full frontal pic with hands on hips in the Mail on why Starmer is a bastard. But the Times got there first.
Good to see the back of her rather than five years slagging off the party from within like Frank Field and his brave independent minded opinions.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:33 pm

If Duffield felt unhappy about Starmer, she should have resigned and stood for election as an independent. She wouldn't have won, but she would have won the moral argument.

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 7:39 pm She's not winning friends on Twitter:

Absolutely!!!!

Parliament had the opportunity to vote for an admendment to prevent the removal of WFA for all.

Duffield chose not that point but 3 weeks later to make a point, also she probably shouldn’t have taken that Golf club freebie.

Remarkably, she seems to have done more for Starmer than damage him if social media is anything to go by.

Oh, and Owen Jones has popped up to defend her - so you can imagine the knots he’s tied himself into to stick up for a known anti-trans activist.

Like Hoey, one does wonder why Rosie Duffield was ever Labour to begin with.

Surprise surprise Rosie is going to appear on Laura Kuenssberg show in the morning. Either Kuenssberg was very quick off of the mark or she had prior notice about what Rosie intended to do.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Sat Sep 28, 2024 10:15 pm Like Hoey, one does wonder why Rosie Duffield was ever Labour to begin with.

I've got a fair idea why she was Labour in July.

Attention seeker, plain and simple.

So what now for her, is she going to sit up at the back with Corbyn, the Palestine Party and Reform for the next five years?

Corbyn, Reform and Palestine.

Now, what they need is an acronym...

Did anything ever come of that story about Duffield supposedly moving to Wrexham to be with her partner, thus no longer residing in her constituency? It bubbles to the surface from time to time, but always sourced to that Whitstable Views site whose writer really doesn’t like her, so I’m cautious about giving it much credence.

Popping up in the Times was kind of inevitable - she’s been the subject of much sympathetic coverage and at least one puff piece profile in recent years - but as evidenced by that Ben Kentish tweet it feels like she’s missed her ideal window for resignation. If she’d left the party during the Corbyn years citing his burning desire to bring about the fourth reich, or early in Starmer’s tenure as LOTO because the evil TRAs had bullied her out, then she’d have got hugs and kisses from at least some of the same crowd who’ve expressed no sympathy whatsoever for her stated reasons of the present.

All that said, she’s still got some fans.

Some interesting perspective, re: gifts. Of particular interest, perhaps, to people who think those close to the absolute boy would naturally be squeaky clean in this regard…

https://www.threads.net/@politicsintheu ... k2x7rJ6M_w

What "nepotism" is Starmer supposed to have done? What's she on about? Just saying words that sound clever?

And what's his "hypocrisy", come to think of it? When did he oppose politicians getting gifts?

Starmer has a problem with women, apparently. She produces no evidence for this. There are 10 women in the Cabinet, plus Sue Gray is the most powerful person outside it.

This all seems like spaghetti being chucked at a wall.

The Labour MP Rowling is ranting at upthread, Nadia Whittome, provides a good template for how the 2019 Corbyn intake can approach the Starmer era - i.e. rather than indulging in a load of performative nonsense such as voting down the 2024 King's Speech, she has instead knuckled down and has already gained an excellent reputation as a hard-working, assiduous MP for her constituents.

I've been impressed by the way she's moved back into line and kept her head down, whilst keeping her powder dry.

I don’t know what Rosie Duffield’s aim was, but coming over like an absolute shit while garnering a lot of sympathy from Starmer for the recent bollocks he’s had to put up with, as well as triggering a lot of people to look again at the Tories and realise what they did was actual, industrial strength corruption as opposed to within the rules, declared things, probably wasn’t it.

The genius behind the "I See You" Blog on Duffield :

Instead I can just do what nearly every member of the PLP are doing right now and breathe a quiet and private sigh of relief. The Labour right are thrilled they no longer have to put up with Duffield’s absurd ego and constant acts of provocation, and the Labour left can finally lift the bile-catching dragnet off her Twitter likes and mentions.
She’s someone else’s problem now, free to go off and start fights in empty rooms of her own. I suspect Starmer considers half a day’s worth of negative headlines to be a small price to pay for her finally removing herself from the equation. He may even have learned enough of a lesson to think twice before he offers his next gender-critical scorpion a lift across the river, but I doubt it.