More than 50 Labour MPs defy Sir Keir to vote for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war.
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...and then the opposition goes and implodes itself over a vote that has no actual consequence as the involved parties will neither know not care about it. This is the sort of stupidity that let's the tories get back in. Absolutely infuriating.
It's things like this that really anger me about Starmer.
I've grown to like the guy and what he stands for because I've done some hard research. But Joe Public are too busy paying their inflated mortgages and spending much of their time on the phone trying to get GP and dentist appointments to do such research. So along comes people like Suella Braverman and Lee Anderson to fill that void, saying outrageous things.
Like Braverman's attempt to spread lies about asylum seekers, Starmer is so concerned about crucifying Labours antisemitic past, and distancing himself from his incompetent predecessor, that he's making absurd gaffs like this. No matter which way you watch it, he is indeed on record justifying Israel cutting off water and electricity to populations in Gaza. Then he has the stupidity to whip his own MP's on an issue like this.
If he'd taken a free-vote stance, the controversy would have lasted 5 mins then we'd go back to talking about the continuous woes of our current government. But whipping his MP's and having his authority undermined in such a way vindicates the "they're all the same/we're screwed either way" voters.
I think this also highlights how disunited Labour still is. It's all very well waiting for the enemy to shoot themselves in the foot numerous times and laughing from the sidelines, but this whole saga points the spotlight away from an incompetent and desperate Prime Minister, leading a disunited party that has ruined this country in 13 years of failed government, and on to the party that, by default, are supposed to fix it.
On a day where the Supreme Court have ruled that government policy is illegal, a sacked Home Secretary is publicly attacking the Prime Minister, and the Vice-president of the Conservative party is leading a charge to persuade the government to break international laws that were put in place in the wake of the Nazi's changing German domestic laws to make it legal to murder millions of people and invade other countries, the government in waiting look weak and ill-disciplined.
