Tiny sliver of principle, but Oxford East MP stuck with red Tory PM through assaults on kids, pensioners, the poor, sick and disabled and his abuse cover-ups
Oxford East MP Anneliese Dodds has quit her two posts – development minister and women and equalities minister – in Keir Starmer’s Cabinet over his decision to slash the UK’s international aid spending to 0.3% of GDP in order to fund more spending on weapons and on support for Ukraine’s war with Russia.
In a letter to Starmer, Dodds said that she had delayed her decision in order not to inconvenience him during his (humiliating) meeting this week with Donald Trump, but could not tolerate the decision to hit some of the world’s poorest people or the dictatorial way in which Starmer reached and announced the move.
However, she also supported his increase on spending and his ‘peace through strength’ warmongering and claimed she was ‘proud of all that you have achieved since I backed you to be leader of the Labour Party’:
The resignation may represent the tiniest sliver of principle, but Dodds did not resign over Starmer’s war on the poorest children, on pensioners and on the sick and disabled, his betrayal of WASPI women over their stolen pensions, his support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its terrorism in Lebanon and Syria, his war on the right to protest or his lawfare war on those who campaign against or do journalism exposing Israel’s genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, or who protest to save the climate. She supports his warmongering even if she doesn’t like how he’s funding it.
And she didn’t resign when Starmer covered up a whistleblower’s allegations of ‘sadistic’ and ‘criminal’ abuse and sexual exploitation of vulnerable domestic violence victims by the staffer and alleged lover of right-wing Labour MP Khalid Mahmood, or protected sex pests and abusers in his Cabinet and office. And she eagerly amplified Starmer’s scam antisemitism smears against the left.
Far too little, far too late for the millions in this country and others whose lives Starmer’s malignancy has helped ruin or end.
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This is the least of Herr Starmer’s problems from this week – not to mention the British Establishment:
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/non-disclosure-friday-february-28
“During the exciting several hours following the moment when the Trump-loyal conservative pundits held up their binders for media cameras, nobody squirmed in their padded seats more energetically than did one Sir Kier Starmer.
🔥 So … was the hastily arranged Epstein binder spectacle a threat? A plain-as-day threat Trump delivered right before the British summit convened? A blunt message saying don’t threaten me, you nincompoops, because I will tear down the Royal Palace so fast it will make your tea-stained faces spin.
If I’m right, then Starmer fled Washington in a panic. That explains the corporate media’s muted coverage of the meeting (the NYT, for example, generously teased it in advance but ignored yesterday’s actual meeting). The Brits are frantically scrambling behind the scenes to figure out what Trump actually has on Epstein, Andrew, and their intelligence agencies.
The British Deep State, already caught once trying to sabotage the President, is out of leverage.”
The Prime Minister came to sweet-talk —and probably threaten— President Trump,
No.
No.
No.
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No.
Sorry, but any – and all – credibility just dropped dead, right there.
Opinions are like arse holes, everyone’s got one.
And one off field opinion does negate the reality and timing of what is going on with the Epstein evidence and associated shenanigans.
I happen to consider as a result of personal experience – to take an example – that George Galloway is controlled opposition. However, that does not colour my judgement in automatically rejecting everything he says.
Interesting angle. Has weight. Trump trolled Starmer by asking him if we Brits could take on Russia by ourselves. Much squirming lol.
Then there’s today’s shenanigans. It was like watching a father dealing with a foolish child at one point.
As for the article,a positive note of this is someone somewhere won’t be getting meddled or destabilised now because the cash has dried up.
Re today’s (now yesterday’s) shenanigans, what a fantastic show! I’m all out of popcorn. Possible national shortage soon cos this show ain’t over by a long shot. Skwawk remaining conspicuously silent. Alaister Campbell’s hilarious lemon-suckingly pompous outburst on Channel 4 news last night gave us a preview of what comes next in the Ukraine Project death spiral – Euro elites meltdown, promising to take their countries with them. Populations not so keen…
Ta-ra.
Starmer’s recent statement on the increase in military spending was in the manifesto at the last election—that of Reform UK. It is probably not the first such raid and I very much doubt that it will be the last.
His main motive, it seems to me, is to impress Trump so that he will be allowed a role in the Ukraine peace negotiations. However, I think that would be a very ominous development indeed because his goal is to sabotage the prospect of peace. We should not forget that he has always supported efforts to escalate the conflict and lobbied the Biden administration to allow longer-range missile strikes into Russia. He also threatened to withdraw the whip from some Labour MPs who said things about the conflict that were actually true.
If he gets a chance, he will support peace in much the same way that he ‘supported’ Jeremy Corbyn.
About Trump – my hubby (who reads a lot more than I do about current affairs)
compares Trump to Maxwell – in that the latter was discovered to have been an
officer of the KGB. I said Trump hadn’t got the brains .. but then hubby discovered
a political commentator saying that Trump was a Russian mole (or whatever they
call themselves these days).