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Reply to "Frank Field has resigned citing 'Corbyn's anti-semitism'"

Moonie posted:
Carnelian posted:
Yogi19 posted:

Jeremy Corbyn voted against the Whip on over 600 occasions and is lauded as a man of principle.

Frank Field gets castigated for doing the same.

Some serious double standards afoot, IMO. 

 

BTW, am I the only one to keep reading this thread as “Frank Ifield has resigned.....” 

Corbyn voted against the whip on matters of principle.  Peace, Iraq war, Afghanistan war, First Iraq war, Blairite welfare cuts, jumping into bed with the gambling industry etc.  

Field for matters of his rightist principle.  For the Iraq war, ghettoisation of the 'undesirable working class' for attacks on the poorest and for privatisations.

So a vote ‘against’ is okay as long as it’s on ‘principle’ ?

How many of the 600 plus times that Jeremy Corbyn has voted against the Whip have been ‘on principle’, I wonder?

Seems to me there’s still a touch of ‘double standards’ here but then that’s just the opinion of someone is not a ‘political animal’ 

I don't know.  The point is Labour is a social democrat/socialist party not the Tory Party.  It's not really double standards, it's the standards of the party Field is supposed to be an MP for.  

If Field wants to vote against the party on principles that are more aligned with the Tory Party than the Labour Party, the Tory Party is the party that's best for him. 

 

It's not double standards, it's what parties stand for.  It's why Anna Soubry gets so much flack from Tory voters because on many issues - particularly Brexit - she seems more Lib Dem than Tory.  

 

 

Carnelian
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