This is an open-and-shut case, isn’t it?
Rosie Duffield seems a nasty character. The Labour MP for Canterbury marched in the ‘lynch’ mob with Ruth Smeeth and others to have Marc Wadsworth ejected from the Labour Party in the kangaroo court that was his hearing before the party’s National Constitutional Committee.
She campaigned for Chris Williamson to get the same treatment from his kangaroo court (NCC) hearing.
Now she has been caught breaking lockdown – possibly more scandalously than Dominic Cummings – in travelling to meet her lover, who happens to be married. So she’s an adulteress. Shocking behaviour, and a terrible example to set – especially at a time when her party leader has been (rightly) criticising Cummings:
EXC: Labour whip Rosie Duffield quits over lockdown lover… pic.twitter.com/XgxpB5b9YR
— MoS_Politics (@MoS_Politics) May 30, 2020
In contrast with Cummings, Duffield has done the right thing: she has resigned from her job as a Labour Whip. Here’s the reason it’s right:
So Rosie Duffield who joined a lynch mob to get Wadsworth out,demanded Williamsons expulsion + smeared Labour activists whose efforts got her elected in no hope seat Canterbury …is a liar, a cheat+ a hypocrite in her private life too?
Good riddance
— Coolagorna (@trueclausefour) May 30, 2020
The hypocrites in this situation are any Labour MPs who have voiced support for Ms Duffield, saying she shouldn’t quit, after spending more than a week saying Cummings had behaved appallingly and should quit.
Labour MPs "privately backing" Rosie Duffield, whilst calling for Dominic Cummings to go is peak hypocrisy
When Opposition MPs say things like this to the press, the Mailnon Sunday of all papers too, it only helps the Tories.
Consistency matters.
— Alex Tiffin (@RespectIsVital) May 30, 2020
That is the scandal in this story and Keir Starmer needs to take action before the tabloids use it to drag him down. And just when Labour was catching up with the Tories in the polls, too.
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