I had wanted to read this thread from the point I stopped on saturday, but it seemed to have been hijacked by an obsessive who clearly has some personal hang up about RD.
Its clear, and we all know thaat RD had been treated like shit by LP HQ for her support of women's sex based rights, but like some other (in my mind) deluded women are loyal to the Labour Party and hope as a Government they would not act like Tories.
But within days / weeks of winning the election news about the amount of sleeze started to leak out. And as an example of how KS is now matching Boris in arrogant elitism, the one that really got me was the loan of a millionaire's flat for his son to study for his exams.
Then being whipped on an issue that should have been a matter of conscience / what her consistuents want (2 child limit) which even political commentators said was highly unusual. But presumably part of the mind bogglingly stupid Starmer concept that the best thing about his LP is that it isn't Corbyn. Just a party made up of mindless drones.
But then, sneakily, and behind the backs of MPs they have a vote of taking WFA away from pensioners. This again is such a breach of how party politics works, and cowardly, because Starmer and Reeves now Labour would have lost with this as a policy pre election
So the only hypocrite is the LP clique who came up with this brutal Thatcherite concept.
So funnily enough for those of us who do value integrity, RD did do that. She stuck it out on women's issues because it was / is at it were her personal politics she hope to bring to the Labour Party.
But as a long time Labour loyalist the votes she was being asked to make by empty as a shop front manniquin Starmer are against the "socialist" principles she obviously thought Labour might try and implement.
So it is the last straw for her.
And as others have said, who knows what her constituents have said.
And tough luck but constituents vote for an MP to represent them, who secondly is part of a particular political grouping.
No MP has to step down from their seat if they resign from their party, because they are the constituent MP.
And again as is usual with those who bang on and on because they cant believe nobody thinks like them, it would help if they were informed about our political system.
So guess what. In our rather muddled democratic process contstituents are able to de select an MP. Its called a recall petition.
So those who are obsessed and think it is too positively frightful than a woman hasn't toed the line of an oppressive arrogant male, why dont you start writing to local papers etc., and say it is all so outrageous, and RD must be publicly humiliated, you should start a recal petition.
I can believe it just got too much for her. the betrayal of principles.
But as I said at the start of this thread, I hope she did stand as a Labour MP knowing she would resign. Revenge is a dish best eaten cold. As she said last year, being in the Labour Party reminded her of the abusive relationship she was in.
The current MANifestation of the Labour Party can not command loyalty. Those at the centre of it have got to that position by stabbing people in the back all the way to that empty victory.
I'm hoping for a GE by the end of next year!
(And no I am not a Tory, but am embarrassed and dismayed at the pathetic Labour Party we know have when with the Tories losing votes all over the place they are so servile and cowardly they didn't take advantage of that to do something of benefit to the ordinary people.)