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Showing Original Post only (View all)Brexit : Seven MPs resign from the Labour party !!! [View all]
MPs will sit as independent group after resigning in protest at partys Brexit stance and its handling of antisemitism
Seven MPs have entered the room. Luciana Berger, MP for Liverpool Wavertree, is speaking. She says they have all resigned from the Labour party this morning and will now sit in parliament as an independent group of MPs.
She says she has become embarrassed and ashamed to be in the Labour party.
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Luciana Berger says she cannot remain in a party that is institutionally antisemitic. She says the leadership has failed to address hatred against Jewish people within its ranks and that she is leaving behind a culture of bullying, bigotry and intimidation. They will publish a full statement setting out their position shortly.
Chris Leslie, MP for Nottingham East, is speaking now. He says it has not been an easy decision and that they have all been MPs for very many years. The Labour party they joined, campaigned for and believed in has been hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left, he says.
He says it would be irresponsible to allow Jeremy Corbyn to be prime minister, which is something other Labour MPs will say privately. He accuses the leadership of having a narrow and outdated ideology. To them the world divides between oppressor and oppressed, class enemies, when in truth the modern world is more complicated than this.
Now Angela Smith, MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge, says that she is from a Labour supporting working class family who were ambitious for her. Most people are like my family. They do not want to be patronised by left wing intellectuals who think that being poor and working class is a state of grace. She says her decision to resign her membership has been very painful.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/feb/18/several-labour-mps-set-to-quit-the-party-politics-live
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5.45pm Kick off, so a perfect time on Saturday Evening ! Hopefully you will get a better result
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#13
I really like Westport, though I don't get up that direction often enough. There are only two
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#66
Yes, they would be centre-right of the Labour Party, Luciana Berger was once a girlfriend of Blair's
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#5
I hope she is, but we'll see. There is a definite opportunity for a centrist party to take hold but
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#22
Well one, Angela Smith, supports water privatization and thinks some people have a "funny tinge."
suffragette
Feb 2019
#61
Yikes, pro-fracking, too. Just really reading up on events today and trying to understand it.
suffragette
Feb 2019
#71
Thanks for the links. It must be so frustrating to keep ending up with pro-fracking elected
suffragette
Feb 2019
#73
He's old school, and not in a good way. Hardline, resistant to change, believes what he believes...
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#6
I agree. Regressive/reactionary populists on the left are not progressives.
CrossingTheRubicon
Feb 2019
#47
People have a tendency to start lighting sh*t on fire when the government stops listening
pecosbob
Feb 2019
#12
I believe the US is in a better position, with the Democratic Party holding up strong. Both main
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#15
The biggest issue in all that is the watering down of regulation, which when attacked by capitalism,
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#21
We should forget the curious circumstances of how he got elected in the first place
OnDoutside
Feb 2019
#24
Weakening the opposition party to Conservatives is SO SMART....for conservatives. they saw how it
beachbum bob
Feb 2019
#27
It's like being a passenger on the Titanic and seeing the Iceberg before everyone else...
Javaman
Feb 2019
#35