Zarah Sultana was my local MP until the boundary changes. She gives about £20,000 a year to local food banks and helped me when I reached out to her. I've met her too, she's the most down to earth, genuine person I've ever met and always wants to support the most vulnerable in society. Now she's getting punished for voting for such people. I'm disgusted with this decision. I never thought I'd see an autocratic Labour PM
Zara's the real deal, the people's voice! She has endured so much disgusting bullying from the Far Right in Labour yet stands tall, speaking truth to power. Zara is the true voice of the future!
Those 7 MPs supported the Labour manifesto and campaigned on it to get re elected If they didn’t agree with it they shouldn’t have stayed in the party.
@@yomismo6969 It means that her membership of the party is under review. Being an MP is not affected, however, she may not be able to call herself a Labour MP. I'm not sure on that bit, whether she is still a Labour MP until thrown out of the party, or no longer a Labour MP unless she is cleared of all charges. She has no need to resign as an MP, she has done nothing that her constituents would disapprove of, nothing obviously inconsistent with her pitches to constituents during the election campaign. She has five years to prepare to repeat what Jeremy Corbyn managed in Islington North - defeat a Starmer candidate in a General Election.
whether for the cap or not .. MP's should vote according to the way their constituents want them to vote, they are representatives of their constituents, .. starmer has no mandate to override that
I do hope some people have some fun asking him whether he will deny his children the sort of education he enjoyed at Eton? 'My children must be educated according to my principles, which didn't exist when I was educated at Eton' and all that....
Going crazy on spending right out of the gate is not country first. It needs to be eased in when the money is there. It is a policy that hopefully will be scrapped further down the line, or other legislation will have compensated for it, but less than a month after the election while things are shaky economy-wise isn't the time.
Zarah Sultana shows yet again that shes a proper representative of her constituency. Coventry is a very poor area and this policy has hurt a lot of people. Well done Zarah - again! ❤👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Sarah Sultana campaigned on the Labour manifesto which the public voted for By voting against the kings speech and for an SNP amendment she is not representing her comstituency
This a woman of character and integrity but Starmer seeks to crush her, because she speaks for the most vulnerable in UK society. He refuses to make a difference by taxing the most wealthy a minute portion of their tripled wealth under the Tories. She in contrast champions what she believes in. I applaud her.
She ran on a Labour platform so she could gain power even though she knew that they had no plans to immediately scrap the cap. That doesn't sound like integrity, sounds like opportunism.
What Labour has done by suspending the whip is pure bullying. This kind of thing wouldn't be acceptable in any normal workplace, why should it be acceptable here?
Rubbish It was bait by the SNP Those 7 MPs actions were purely performative….they’ve just spent weeks campaigning on the Labour manifesto ticket and then voted against the Kings speech
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv and yet the cabinet are just cheap prostitutes for coroprate lobbyists, all of their cabinet have taken money from billionaire donors to enact their agenda, like streeting, the insurance and ''paid hospital visits'' lapdog and devolving powers to regions is simply them passing the buck, essentially saying ''not our responsibility'', depsite them having the responsibiltiy to attend for ALL of britian and it's needs, if something goes wrong, blame anyone BUT US it is just a bait and switch, yes regions get more power to help themselves, but it allows central gov to wash their hands of how it got there in the first place, so now the ruling party can go ''look how run down that shit is, can't trust em to do it'' labour have not been pro-worker since the middle of blair's tenure, despite inner party workings to remedy that, now it is just a captured entity for anti-regulation and exploitation lovers
@@RobinHarris-nf4yv I think we should be wary of giving them any benefit of the doubt because they did one good thing. Under Blair poverty decreased dramatically and yet they perpetrated the Iraq war and further entrenched private finance interests in our public services. It lay the foundations for what the Tories were able to do, we cannot let the next 5 years go to waste the way the Blair years were by failing to dismantle the neoliberalist structures that we know to entrench poverty, inequality and increase the wealth and assets of the super rich. We are in incredibly treacherous territory and I would feel sorry for any Labour voter putting their faith in a party and government entertaining big business, private interests and foreign money over that of the workers and the people
Under Blair they were the first to start privatising the NHS ! Yes, things were better but when you have Margret Thatcher thanking Blair for doing what she didn’t!!! Speaks Volumes. During Blair’s tenure he sold Public Land & public nursing homes, don’t be fooled. Streeting has accepted loads of dosh 💰. It’s our health system, Labour is not Democratic & anyone that entrusts in like the Tories will be disappointed. We need a more social Independent candidates (that aren’t backed by corporations) but us & the Greens 💚.
Of course it isn't, it's been the party of self-serving London-centric greasy troughers like Mandelson, Campbell, Blair, Thornberry, the Milibands etc etc.
I hate how every time there is a discussion about important welfare systems, the cost argument is always brought up. Why is it never brought up when we fund the military or tax cuts for the rich???
@@the_embarrassed_lemon5967 Exactly. If they are saying that there's no money available, that means our security is at risk, as this means if there is a war tomorrow we're screwed. But of course it isn't true
Exactly my thoughts. I knew that when he supported Israel to block food, water and electricity, he could not be trusted to be PM. Not only is he not lifting the benefit cap, but the cost of water and fuel is going up, and he is doing nothing about it.
@@rustyjames1900 what scares me is, an authoritarian PM with MP's too weak to stand up to him, I voted green, and will do in future. I'm not going to vote for more of the same.
The whips are allowed to frighten MPs but if the public do it......oh that's disgusting. I'd have to tell them where to put their whip. I'd only be able to be an independent MP. It's not democratic to be ordered what to do.
Of course, why did you ever think otherwise. He also flew in a private jet to the final of the Euros, two weeks before announcing a £20bn 'black hole' in the finances. David Lammy did the same going to Israel. They are just like corrupt EU troughers, the Labour Party.....
@@sallahudinmehuddin8046 Yes, a point well made. Also, when Zarah informed the national Labour party that she had reported all the treats and abuse she got before the recent election, NOBODY replied to her. NOBODY checked in on her. They just don't care about their MPs wellbeing. Well certainly not some of them
Ban the whip, allow MP's to vote along the lines of their constituents and conscientious beliefs. Why have an MP at all if the party forces them to vote along party lines no matter what. It might make things more difficult for the leadership, but no one believes that politics should be easy. Work for the votes, in Parliament as in public.
Why any of these mps would want to remain in this labour party is baffling, to say the least. Start a new progressive party for crying out loud. Free palestine 🇵🇸
@@icravedeath.1200 people have long memories. I remember clegg. I remember how they were after the election, how it was thrown back in people's faces. They enabled most of the austerity we see today. They're rightist libs, like.kost of Europe. I'm a socialist these days. Anything that doesn't approach or reference that is right of my interests. And I don't think I'm alone. Also lol they're gambling lobbyists.
@@DarrenJamiesonJamiesonyou might have a point there. Jimmy Saville’s cronies like the influential elite are still at large looking to prey on underprivileged kids
This is not a left-wing argument. It's the same nationalist, Putinite rubbish Reform are peddling. We can and should do both as a marker of international solidarity.
is anyone really suprised about this labour? Check your comments - been years i've been saying Starmer a wolf in sheep clothing. Prob worst than Sunak, and that in itself is pretty hard to beat.
If there is one thing I hate the most is whips in politics, and if there is anything I hate more than that is punishment for going against them. The whips system employed only reinforces a defacto democracy in all but name and that your local mp actually has no say or power over proposed policies should their local constituents oppose the party line. If Labour want to being confidence back into politics, doing this is not the way to to do it.
Do you really understand what this particular religious group of MPs are in favor of and why? A certain religious group members are procreation without limit, and the rest of the country is paying for their procreation without limit. Thus would allow this particular religious population grow larger than the native population. And all of this paid for by native population. See the funny side of this.
@@selvamthiagarajan8152 it has nothing to do with religion The 7 MPs don’t even have the same religion I don’t agree with them supporting the SNP amendment, but their reasons are purely based on wanting to help children suffering poverty
He's not suspending them as MPs, he's removing their right to call themselves MPs representing the Labour Party. There won't be any by-elections any time soon.....
Harris snubbing Netanyahu is not .. deep. He actively is trying to work against the democratic party's aims, and has for decades. It' can be fully explained by self-interested politics.
The theatre script says that Trump will return in triumph to serve Israel in 2025. Israel gets what it wants - Netanyahu won't care about the snub, he knows that the fix is in already for Israel.....
Scrapping the cap would cost Britain 3 billion GBP, it's too expensive to lift so many children out of poverty but they sent already 12.5 billion GBP to Ukraine since February 2022. Good to know what is more important for the governments of UK.
Yes, you are, but it may have consequences. Being a member of a political party means you sign up to party doctrine. An Independent MP may vote at all times for what they think is right, but it's much harder to be elected as an Independent. Jeremy Corbyn managed it, though.
Can someone explain to me please as to why Starmer was not willing to allow Labour MPs to vote for the SNP amendment? I thought he said work for the country's good, not for the party's good. I am confused, especially as he is in power only a few weeks.
@annesaunders3851 Money is money is just a tautology, it's meaningless. If we tax the rich properly (say via a wealth tax) we can do both. Which is what anyone interested in international solidarity should do.
The dynamic that creates a lot of bigoted behaviour is the pointing out that "white cis male" is not the standard. The human experience is rich and varied, deep and beautiful and should be respected in all its facets.
Are representatives in the UK not allowed to represent the interests of their constituents? What the hell is this? It also protects leadership because these people wouldn't be able to remove starmer from leadership of the party which he doesn't really embody the principles of
Because she has a spine, I knew Zara Sultana would quickly get in trouble with this shitty new government. Kinda sad watching her do these mental gymnastics in an attempt to defend the red-tie-Tory party. She clearly thinks she can change the party from within, doing more good as a member. Maybe she's right; I hope so but I sincerely doubt it. "Labour" is beyond salvation.
In wetherspoon tonight heard a lot of folk saying starmers not going to last long like this. Assuming its flared up with the benefit cap. Heard people talking about labour factions vis jezza. People seem to think that there's a chance the labour right hand the leadership to rayner, which seems a misunderstanding.
The front benchers in this new "Labour" government seem like the worst kind of middle management trying to exude confidence so that the rank and file look up to them. Little do they know that punching down on the little people does not show confidence, it shows insecurity and no one will respect that.
