#Starmtrooper #Cooper: new shadow Home Sec will compete with #PritiPatel in race to the right
The rivals: but Yvette Cooper (left) and Priti Patel (right) will be vying to see which of them can come up with the most right-wing – if not downright fascist – policies.
Cornish Damo got this right in his latest Rant: “Refugees and disabled people beware!”
Yes, Yvette Cooper is back as Shadow Home Secretary, a position she filled in Ed Miliband’s shadow cabinet from 2011-2015.
Fascinating how the fact Yvette Cooper was Shadow Home Secretary from 2011-2015 has been completely forgotten, for a very good reason – she was completely and utterly invisible in the role, except for occasional gratuitous pandering to migrant bashing rhetoric
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) November 29, 2021
The Labour far right – they call themselves Centrists or Moderates – are overjoyed because they think she’ll give Priti Patel a hard run.
In what? A race to full-fat Nazism?
I don’t even have to write about this because her record is all over Twitter.
As Shadow Home Secretary:
Remembering when Yvette Cooper accused Theresa May's 2014 immigration bill of being too soft on immigration.
You know, the one that directly allowed the Windrush scandal to happen.
And her appalling Priti Patel-esque voting record on Asylum Seekers. @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour
— Daniel Grigg (@Daniel_Grigg) November 29, 2021
Yep, Yvette Cooper is a match for Priti Patel. pic.twitter.com/Euxt95fe3o
— Devutopia (@D_Raval) November 30, 2021
If you tweeted about the 27 people who lost their lives earlier in the week, please don't champion Yvette Cooper just days later.
Her voting record is nearer Priti Patel's than almost anyone in the Labour party.
A horrific shadow home secretary choice.@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer pic.twitter.com/0XoSn9xmRd
— Daniel Grigg (@Daniel_Grigg) November 29, 2021
Nothing says couldn't give a toss about migrants' rights more than promoting David Blunkett and Yvette Cooper.
So this is Labour now is it?@UKLabour @Keir_Starmer
— Daniel Grigg (@Daniel_Grigg) November 29, 2021
As Work and Pensions Secretary:
Blairites and centrists are full of glee that Sir Keir Starmer has promoted Yvette Cooper to his Shadow Cabinet
Let me remind you that she introduced the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) in 2008. It has led to the persecution of hundreds thousands of disabled people ever since
— Socialist Voice (@SocialistVoice) November 29, 2021
Coopers policy oversaw the excess deaths of thousands. Cooper laid the groundwork, and was responsible for, setting in motion the Tories regime of welfare cuts and system of testing to the most vulnerable of our citizens, many of whom would have been Labour voters.
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) November 29, 2021
An outline of how Yvette Cooper advocated for those most disabled and sick should be assessed for their benefits claim 👇 pic.twitter.com/IvDJIKHXmf
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) November 29, 2021
Great to see Yvette Cooper back at the top table & great everyone has forgiven her for approving plans to make the ESA medical harder to pass, by docking points from amputees who can use their stumps to lift, or getting people that struggle to walk using an imaginary wheelchair..
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 30, 2021
Yvette Cooper’s DWP, April 2010, Iain Duncan Smith’s inspiration.
Claimants with speech problems who can write a sign saying, for example, “the office is on fire”, will score no points for speech, & deaf claimants who can read the sign will lose all of their points for hearing.
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) November 30, 2021
Yvette Cooper – As DWP secretary forced disabled people on incapacity benefit to take fit-to-work tests run by Atos, despite well-documented problems with the tests wrongly finding people fit to work https://t.co/q7cLsZ3n94
— Jon Stone (@joncstone) February 23, 2020
https://twitter.com/edwardpoole1975/status/1465410898974150664
Even as a so-called Blair Babe:
Yvette Cooper:
Voted for the Iraq War (x5)
Voted against an inquiry into the Iraq War (x14)
Voted for use of UK military forces in combat operations overseas (x8)
Voted for replacing Trident with a new nuclear weapons system (x4)
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@OwenPaintbrush) November 29, 2021
Yvette Cooper voted for the Iraq War. She subsequently opposed holding an inquiry into the war & voted to block an inquiry multiple times. pic.twitter.com/mLl6PUkGbd
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) November 29, 2021
And as for her conduct in general as a member of Parliament…
https://twitter.com/hrh_nic/status/1465262563155980294
All in all, a mild summation of Starmer’s reshuffle would be as follows:
Today has been an important reminder that Keir Starmer's leadership is a right-wing ideological project
— Stats for Lefties 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) November 29, 2021
More accurately…
Labour is now a hard right party.
— Jules #FreeAssange #FreePalestine🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 (@celtjules66) November 29, 2021
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