Calamity1971
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Keir Starmer's time is up
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ChrisD
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How MPs voted and who rebelled in crunch Gaza ceasefire amendment
MPs have voted on an SNP amendment to the King's Speech calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The motion failed, but here are the MPs who voted for it.
No suprise to see my MP is sadly not on the list
Raheem
Well-Known Member
There are other lists, though.
How MPs voted and who rebelled in crunch Gaza ceasefire amendment
MPs have voted on an SNP amendment to the King's Speech calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The motion failed, but here are the MPs who voted for it.www.heraldscotland.com
No suprise to see my MP is sadly not on the list
ska invita
back on the other side
What did Jess Phillips ever do to make herself stand out from all the other MPs here? Some of the reporting about this vote only mentions her! Id be a bit annoyed if i was one of the other 56 mps. One line said 'the most high profile MP to resign is Jess Phillips'...I vaguely know her from being against Corbyn but has she done anything else that makes her some kind of big name?
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
She’s a massive self serving shit who plays the media well or at least gets them to notice her
Even by politician standards
Plumdaff
joy in people
She's written several books that went down brilliantly with the type of self regarding 'centrist' who believes themselves to be quite radical but thought everything in the UK was great until after the Brexit vote. There aren't many of these people, but nearly all of them live in London and work in the media.
ska invita
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not bad voting record tbf Voting record - Jess Phillips MP, Birmingham, Yardley
Eric Jarvis
Well-Known Member
Also he is looking for excuses to prevent "insufficiently loyal" MPs being candidates at the general election, breaking the whip is something he can use against some of them over the next few months. Assume he is purely in politics for the money and has absolutely no sense of responsibility then it kind of makes sense, with that as the base assumption actually winning the general election isn't particularly important to him, the difference in salary between PM and leader of the opposition is trivial compared to what he is raking in from wealthy donors. I'm not claiming it is necessarily how he is thinking, but if it is everything he is doing makes sense. Alternatively he may just be a privileged self important idiot. Either way he needs to be booted out of Parliament.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I don't think it makes any sense to think he's in it for the money tbh. How much would he have been raking in as a KC? For me it's similar to Sunak and plenty of others, it's fundamentally an ego trip not some sort of financial scam.
mojo pixy
...שלא נמצא בשמאל
Not money but power. That's his key motivator IMO, being important and powerful. He was probably bullied as a kid and this is his chance to show 'em.
We can see already that it's certainly not about improving the country for its citizens.
That's quite an assumption.
And that.
He's a KC and could presumably make a fair amount of money doing that. And what's the money he's raking in from wealthy donors? Is that going in his pocket (is that even legal?) or is it going to running his office, for specific campaigns etc?
I mean I don't like him either but this is nonsense.
ska invita
back on the other side
he's an effective politician tbf...his politics stink but the lesson is corbyn should've done similiar i.e. fuck the labour party as a coalition, cement it as a democratic socialist party
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The surprise being that there's 56 actual LP MPs left after his purging
tommers
Busta Rhymes is an unstoppable movement
Because he is "committed to rooting out anti semitism." He has to support Israel, no matter what, or get the same stuff that Corbyn did.
The Labour Party has "moved on", his position has to be different to that monster.
If he's going to be PM he has to keep good relations with the US.
Lots of reasons.
Eric Jarvis
Well-Known Member
Let's put it this way. His estimated "net worth" has increased from £3 million in 2015 to just under £8 million now. So his overall gain in net worth during his time in politics is larger than than over his entire career in law.
Where are you getting these numbers from?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
TBF, we may hate her for being deep as a puddle, but that is the skillset that Labour is desperately lacking in right now. Someone has to manipulate the media that are generally hostile to even Starmer's Labour Party. Think of her like a shit Mandelson. Horrible, but they have a job and they're good at it. I don't know why the media play nicey-nicey with her, but it's a useful skill/feature.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
I think he was trying to show that Labour are a united party or will be as opposed to a party in chaos like that other lot. And blew it.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Well I'm sceptical of these numbers but even taking them at face value I think this misses the point of how rich people get richer. What is his net worth? It's not going to what he has in the bank on the whole, it'll be his no doubt massive house plus whatever else he's invested all that money in which compounds over time. With all that plus a massive salary how much would he have made as a QC/KC in that time? Five million doesn't seem unlikely.
ETA: I think what it means to have a Labour leader with those interests is an important question btw.
lazythursday
Averagely-Known Member
I don't like Jess Phillips or what she stands for, but I think she's pretty smart at politics. And I'm sure she will have calculated that this little rebellion will not only cement her hold on her seat, it will also add a veneer of faux-radicalism and appearance of being principled, which will do her no harm at all in a future leadership election, labour party members being pretty gullible.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Nutshell. She is a skilful opportunist
Eric Jarvis
Well-Known Member
10 acres of land in Surrey and a house in Kentish Town are part of it. However the increase in value of those is just 30% over that period.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
He didn't own the Surrey land before he was leader, so thats irrelevant. In fact, it's all irrelevant, the relevant thing is his lousy politics.
Larry O'Hara
Well-Known Member
Exactly: and Corbyn had better politics and owned little
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
I grew up a few streets from his place, anyone who bought 25+ years ago is looking at 1-3 million in value…
PR1Berske
Alligator in chains by the park gates.
Karl Masks
Birds Angel Delight
Hodge is an utterly unhinged crank
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