Well Done Rosie Duffield

So every MP should be independent? could not work

unless you feel that it’s acceptable for all MPs to free vote on every issue with no party accountability

Yes, I do.
I don't agree with the whipping system actually.

Spinnaker

Let's hope this is just the beginning of his downfall 🤞

I certainly hope so.

Is that not what MPs promise their voters ronib?
Do you seriously think all MPs should stand for themselves without any party allegiance and that voters should expect them to vote just as they please on every issue?

Casdon but since when has any manifesto ever been delivered?
I think a great improvement is to forget all this party allegiance and allegiance to the country MPs are elected to serve. Bring it on ….

ronib

Anniebach I think the Crown takes priority over party?

You know exactly what Anniebach meant ronib. Allegiance to the crown is something all MPs do, and it’s not pertinent in this context, is it? If any MP stands for a party, they are promising the electorate that they will deliver that party’s manifesto on their behalf. That’s why people choose that particular candidate. Unless you feel that it’s acceptable for all MPs to free vote on every issue with no party accountability, perhaps?

After reading the thread and googling, I guess she is a "marmite" person: she does have a long history of disputes:

in January 2022 Sky News reported

Rosie Duffield: Labour MP considering leaving party over 'obsessive harassment' from current and former members:

Ms Duffield, who represents the seat of Canterbury in Kent, said the party under both Jeremy Corbyn and successor Sir Keir Starmer has "offered me no support at all since I unexpectedly became an MP five years ago".

She campaigned as a Labour candidate, she would have been selected to stand ,

Anniebach I think the Crown takes priority over party?

Yes some conservative MP have praised her .

*ronib’ FYI I didn’t speak of the oath but the promise one makes when declaring one’s party allegiance and when meeting and greeting as the prospective Labour MP

No, As of today, the praise she has received has been from mainly Conservative MP's. I see no dominos.

www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/she-can-stand-tall-for-having-done-what-is-right-mp-prais-313632/

True allegiance to the Crown is the oath. FYI

What promises exactly?? Anniebach

Are there many Labour MPs waiting to cast aside their promises to their electorate?

Good for her XX

orly

Well done, Rosie. I'm waiting for the domino effect now.

I think you are really over estimating her influence and popularity within the party.

Smileless2012

Excellent post @ 13.03 Rosie.

When it came to standing against the trans lobbyists RD wasn't simply expressing her ^personal strongly held views^Iam she was stating biological fact and standing up for the rights of natal women, something which too many in positions of power/authority/influence were afraid unwilling to do.

Two recent visits from local councillors - Labour and Green, neither of whom could agree that biological sex is immutable, (I had to explain that word) and that they would be willing to take that fact to the PM, or their party leader, even though one claims in his election leaflets, to be an independent voice.
All the noise about freebies has allowed female rights to be brushed aside, maybe Starmer sees some good in the kerfuffle.

Well done, Rosie. I'm waiting for the domino effect now.

PM salary 2024 £167,000+ plus expenses and freebies
MP basic salary: £91,346 plus expenses and some get freebies for lobbying (2024)
Chancellor of the Exchequer: £163,891 plus expenses and freebies (2024)
Home Secretary: I can only find info for 2022 on Google. It was £159,038 plus expenses and freebies. It will be a good bit more now.
Cabinet Minister: I can't find up to date into but I'm sure they get additional salary over and above the basic MP amount.

They can all claim rent allowance and travel costs if their main residence is in their constituency outside London.

Surely these people can afford to buy their own clothes?

Average UK salary 2024 £35,830 (approx)

She's cashed in already - I know this is quite an old reference, but it tells its own story:
shepwayvox.org/2019/12/19/kent-mps-expenses-for-2018-19/

She has no more integrity than any of the other politicians.
She has ensured her name is known nationally and she will be duly cashing in and benefitting from it no doubt in her own way.

Well done!! You have integrity 👏

When I heard the announcement her resignation I too thought - at last - an MP with principles - then I discovered she too had accepted freebies - pot/kettle???
Then I realised she had resigned from the party only - and was holding her position in Parliament - I’m now not so impressed by her actions - I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments she expressed - but would have been more impressed had she resigned her seat & triggered a by election. She could then have stood as an independent candidate- and her victory as such might have made Starmer realise how badly he’s now thought of! I’m not now not quite so impressed by her gesture. (Though I do wish more MPs would have the courage of their convictions - rather than (just like my own MP ) being “yes men”

Her history is of no importance compared to a personal attack on the PM, she is now a woman of principle

(reference to the ruling I refer to)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c243nll5jqpo