Good riddance to Rosie Duffield – she was never a good fit for Labour - The controversial MP for Canterbury has finally realised what the rest of us already knew – it’s just a shame that it took her so long, writes Ryan Coogan
It appears Duffield's main crime in this man's eyes is her gender critical stance, for which she regularly receives death threats and indeed one man was jailed for so threatening her and J K Rowling. For her right to her own opinion, Ryan calls her a provocateur. No wonder too then she supports a free speech organisation. She would appear to be the classic victim of the nastiest side of gender activism, likely pretty strong her university constituency of Canterbury. He describes her views as "heinous" This gender nonsense really has poisoned political debate wherever it occurs. Basically in my mind, gender activists insisting one accepts their definition of gender and its anti-scientific and anti-ffactual basis, are guilty of blackmailing independent minds or opinions to become hypocrites. Well, if it comes to human failings, I think hypocrisy is mightily more dangerous than offending a few thin skinned transgender people. It's hypocrisy that is fuelling the war in Ukraine and the evils inflicted on Gaza, hypocrisy kills millions every year, an honest option on transgender kills no-one.
She also only "abstained" on the matter of the two child cap and winter fuel payment, yet look what happen's in Starmer's Labour party if you vote against. She also voted against the whip to keep the UK in the EU customs union- no credit from Ryan as to a social conscience demonstrated in the only way really available to her. Ryan fails to provide his own view on this matter,
She did though go along with the anti-semitism trope and slur put on Labour, and agree on the the IHRA's definition of anti-semitism.
Ryan also attempts a whitewash of Starmer's and Labour failings
To be clear, I’m not saying that Labour’s first 10 weeks have been all that bad. In terms of scandals, a lot of the charges against them have been relatively weak sauce, particularly when compared to the laundry list of ignobilities foisted upon this nation by their predecessors. As far as I’m concerned, there isn’t a pair of glasses or football box expensive enough to put Keir Starmer anywhere near the likes of Boris Johnson.
You'll know I suppose, living in the UK, a bit more about Rosie Duffield's qualities or lack of them more than I do, but to me, apart from her attitude on anti-semitism, she sounds to me to be a reasonably principled MP, as much as any of them are.
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