I know I’m coming to this story quite late but there’s something about this story that stands out for me.

Normally there are MP’s who resign from their party or refuse the party whip for some reason during a Parliament. Sometimes these MP’s resign because they’ve been caught out doing something wrong but others resign for conscience reasons.

With regards to the conscience resignations it’s normal for these to happen quite late in a government’s term off office when whatever has been bothering the MP who is resigning has built up to a level that they cannot ignore any more. Some MP’s resign mid term and with a flourish because they want to create a bye-lection opportunity in order to raise awareness of a particular issue.

However what is quite unusual is an MP from a governing party that has been recently elected deciding to resign. This is what Rosie Duffield the former Labour MP for Canterbury in Kent has done. It was a massive slap in the face for Starmer especially as her reasons for resigning were much more to do with the government’s policies that hurt ordinary Britons than they were with her battle with gender lunatics, some of whom have been extremely troubling with regards how they have attacked Ms Duffield.

Spiked published an excellent article by Ella Whelan about the resignation of Ms Duffield and this article goes into much more detail than I will about the reasons behind her resignation. It also takes a delicious dig at the appalling Nadia Whittome MP a politician who has continued to back the cult of trans even in the face of credible evidence that this cult is damaging women and children’s lives.

Spiked said:

There’s no love lost between Duffield and Starmer. Duffield has faced years of death threats, harassment and abuse because of her gender-critical views – views held by the vast majority of the population. But rather than stick up for Duffield, Starmer’s Labour has subjected her to investigations over her alleged ‘transphobia’. Starmer refused even to meet her.

Duffield’s resignation letter makes no mention of the gender wars and what she’s been forced to endure, but the context for her decision is clear. You can certainly see it in the response from some of her colleagues. Nadia Whittome – the privately educated, 21st-century answer to Rick from The Young Ones – has said that Labour should have removed the whip from Duffield long ago. Apparently, Duffield has made a ‘political career out of dehumanising one of the most marginalised groups in society’. Which is an odd way to describe a woman standing up for women’s sex-based rights and being viciously demonised for doing so.

Many more Labour MPs have responded to Duffield’s resignation with stony silence. No doubt, many agree with her excoriating assessment of Starmer’s government – that it is managerialist, riddled with sleaze and oblivious to the bread-and-butter issues – but dare not say so in public.

Ms Whelan is bang on about the piss poor way that Ms Duffield has been treated by the Labour Party establishment and equally correct about her description of Whittome as a 21^st century version of Rick from the Young Ones. I find it interesting that Ms Whelan has observed that whilst Whittome decided to grandstand over this in order to serve the transcult, other Labour MP’s have been a bit more circumspect about the issue. This might point to interesting moves in the future when Labour MP’s who have been currently toeing the line with regards Labour Party policies might at sometime in the future also decide that they’ve got a conscience that needs addressing. At present these MP’s are behaving in a cowardly manner by not speaking out but it’s likely that this cowardice might not last forever and these MP’s will find their voice and then Starmer will have more than just one rebellious MP on his hands but a whole gang of them.

All governing parties lose MP’s during a term in office but it’s significant that Labour have lost such a high profile and popular MP so early on in its administration. Labour is a pit of moral decay and one day that stench will be too much for some MP’s to bear.