{"id":1294361,"date":"2022-02-13T10:25:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294361"},"modified":"2022-02-13T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T15:25:13","slug":"labour-mp-threatens-defection-saying-starmer-as-bad-as-far-left-corbyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labour-mp-threatens-defection-saying-starmer-as-bad-as-far-left-corbyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP Threatens Defection, Saying Starmer as Bad as Far-Left Corbyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flabour-mp-threatens-defection-saying-starmer-as-bad-as-far-left-corbyn%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1294361&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1180059419-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Labour MP Rosie Duffield warned she may defect as she said that her party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is as bad as his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, in regards to protecting MPs from far-left extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Rosie Duffield has accused Sir Keir Starmer \u2013 who has seemingly attempted to make the Labour Party more moderate since he became leader in 2020 \u2013 of neglecting his role of protecting Labour MPs from far-left extremist attacks.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Labour MP says as a result of the abuse she has experienced from far-left activists associated with Labour for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/09\/30\/feminist-labour-mp-said-colleagues-threw-her-on-railway-tracks-for-wanting-to-use-the-word-woman\/\">defending women\u2019s rights<\/a>, she has been the the victim of \u201cobsessive harassment\u201d online and has to notify the local police of her movements due to fears of being assaulted.<\/p>\n<p>Duffield likened Starmer\u2019s lack of action to his far-left predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, comparing her current experience to when she was censored after she attempted to whistleblow about antisemitism in the party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t feel there\u2019s a huge amount of difference at the moment. And some of those characters are still around and still organising against me,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2022\/02\/11\/labour-mp-rosie-duffield-keir-starmer-no-better-jeremy-corbyn\/\">said<\/a> per <em>The Telegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Corbyn was embroiled in several&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2020\/jul\/15\/labour-and-antisemitism-how-the-party-became-embroiled-in-crisis\">antisemitism scandals<\/a> throughout his premiership, with even Britain\u2019s Chief Rabbi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2019\/11\/26\/chief-rabbi-says-corbyn-unfit-for-office-over-labours-anti-semitism\/\">branding<\/a> Corbyn as \u201cunfit for office\u201d for his enabling of prejudice against Jewish people to fester in the Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>The MP, who has represented&nbsp;Canterbury since 2017, admitted&nbsp;that she has been \u201ctempted\u201d to defect to the Conservative Party \u2014 despite ideological differences \u2014 as a result of the abuse she has been experiencing, which included having to cancel her attendance at Labour\u2019s 2021 Party Conference after she received a backlash for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/politics\/2021\/09\/20\/no-conference-labour-mp-branded-online-transphobic\/\">stating<\/a> \u201conly women have a cervix\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Duffield said at the time that she had concerns about the presence of \u201cLGBT+ Labour\u201d at the conference, who she claimed seemed \u201cto hate my guts\u201d, and was worried they may verbally attack her at the event.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Feminist Labour MP Backs Out of Conference After Threats From \u2018Woke\u2019 Trans Activists <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oTNBTjOW2v\">https:\/\/t.co\/oTNBTjOW2v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1439957267307106310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Canterbury MP suggested that the reason this toxic culture was allowed to persist in the Labour Party was because Labour consists of two parties under one banner, the \u201cCorbynistas wing\u201d and the \u201ccentrists\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Duffield said that she does not believe Starmer will be able to unite Labour and suggested he will also be unable to rid the party of the far-left extremists as they are \u201cdigging down\u201d in the party and it would upset the unions \u2013 which the Labour party relies on for vital funding.<\/p>\n<p>Labour is currently experiencing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/31\/socialist-labour-partys-employees-vote-to-strike-over-inadequate-pay\/\">financial difficulties<\/a>, having been forced to make around 80 staff redundant following a loss of \u00a33 million of funding in 2021 after hard-left unions and members withdrew their support from the party, as a result of Starmer being perceived as too centrist, despite siding with radicals such as the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Duffield\u2019s allegations, the Labour Party told&nbsp;<em>The Telegraph<\/em>:&nbsp;\u201cRosie is a valued member of the PLP [Parliamentary Labour Party]. Keir Starmer and the Labour Party continue to offer her our full support\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sir Keir Starmer Branded \u2018Hypocrite\u2019 by Conservative Commentators Over his Own Covid Rules Breach<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dRq0loJgEX\">https:\/\/t.co\/dRq0loJgEX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1482095176470306819?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP Rosie Duffield warned she may defect as she said that her party leader, Sir Keir Starmer, is as bad as his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, in regards to protecting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}