Fuck that. Filthy schemes going on, clearly.
Britain has politicians resigning due to minor infractions from over a decade ago, whilst the US is actively seeking this people, if not worse.
Shocker. When you give Wes Streeting a job, you know the direction of travel.
Oversteer Keir at it again.
Is there anything particularly right wing about Heidi Alexander?
She was one of the first to join the failed coup against Corbyn in 2016.
Is there anything particularly right wing about her views?
Honestly, I don’t know enough to comment on that. I remember that during her brief stint as shadow health secretary she was known as one of the blairites given a job by Corbyn in a failed attempt to unite the party, but that’s all.
(Also, “labour right” doesn’t mean right wing in a wider context, it usually refers to Progress (Blairites), Labour First, and sometimes blue labour (although they’re kind of the opposite of progress).)
If enacting a coup against a democratically elected left wing leader isn’t a “particularly right wing view” in your book, then perhaps no.
Coup implies a violent takeover rather than exercising their rights under the party rules and accepting the result when it failed.
Not in English it doesn’t .
Wow. Not OP. But TIL Born in UK lived in both UK and US. This is the first I am learning the word is different here. Thanks
That said, the whole way the UK democratic process works. MPs are expected to be the ones to call party leadership into question. Both Labour Party rules and the structure of parliament are designed that way.
So even though I disagreed with her.
While coup may be correct. Objecting to a party leader because you disagree with them is in no way right wing.
To accuse her of being right wing. You honestly need views or policies she supports tha are right of centre.
Not saying she does or does not have any. With the Overton window so far right atm. It can be hard to agree a line. But objecting to and rebelling against a party leader is not it alone.
Please shut up.
So, no strong right wing views?
Most likely Starmer was told to get rid of her by his big business puppeteers. Took the opportunity of the Assisted Dying bill to limit the impact.
Let’s see how long it is before Starmer embraces Farage as some sort of foreign envoy or ambassador to US.
