After being slammed on the issue of grooming jihad, the Labour Party led by UK PM Keir Starmer, is facing mass desertion with outgoing leaders blaming Starmer’s leadership for their decision.
Twenty councillors at a local body in Nottinghamshire have quit the Labour Party citing that the party has “abandoned traditional Labour values” under Keir Starmer’s leadership.
As a result, the UK ruling party lost overall control of the Broxtowe Borough Council. The party gained power in 2023. Defecting leaders include Milan Radulovic, who had served Labour for 42 years.
In a joint statement, the counsellors said, “It is with a heavy heart that we can no longer be in a party that has abandoned traditional Labour values under Keir Starmer’s leadership.” The counsellors will now sit as part of the new Broxtowe Independents party.
The reasons behind their defection were the cut to the winter fuel allowance, the increase in bus fare, and the party’s plans to scrap two-tier county and district councils, which are to be merged to create large unitary authorities.
The senior party member and counsellor, Rudulovic, said the concentration of power in the hands of a few by abolishing the local democracy is a dictatorship.
He said, “I believe the concentration of power in the hands of fewer people, and the abolition of local democracy through the current proposals of super councils, is nothing short of a dictatorship, where local elected members, local people, local residents will have no say over the type and level of service provided in their area.”
He further added, “I have therefore been left with no alternative. I cannot support and will not support another centrist government intent on destroying local democracy and dictating national policy from a high pedestal.”
Ross Bofinger, a councillor, posted an image of a cut-up Labour Party membership card on social media with the caption: “I’m leaving the Labour Party because it has grown increasingly distant from ordinary people.”
Along with 20 councillors, 100 more grassroots members of the Labour Party have denounced the membership in the area.
Notably, 10 group members were stopped from running for county council in the May local elections after openly criticizing the winter fuel allowance cut.
This is not the first time that councillors have resigned. Before the Labour Party was elected into power in April last year, 20 Labour councillors from Lancashire resigned in protest at the party’s leadership. They also put the same blame on the party and said, “Party wants to control anything that any councillor wants to say”.
In recent years, the local Labour group has had several high-profile disagreements with the leadership at the national level.
Keir Starmer in the dock over Grooming gang: Elon Musk call for fresh elections in UK
Amid the raging debate about one of the dreaded criminal institutions plaguing the United Kingdom, Grooming Jihad (Grooming gang or rape jihad), Elon Musk has lashed out at UK PM Keir Starmer. He has slammed the Labour leader for not acting tough against the ‘rape gangs’ who have been exploiting young girls and not doing Justice with the minor victims. Joining the raging debate, several notable figures like Harry Potter author, JK Rowling, and British MPs have also criticised Starmer. Musk has also advocated a fresh elections to be held in the UK.
It is pertinent to note that this is not the first time when the Labour party or its government is facing accusation of pandering to the Islamist forces and not taking action against the rape gangs active in the United Kingdom.
Incidentally, there has been a stark and deplorable partisan positioning by the Labour party on a non-negotiable matter like the modesty of children, teenage girls, just to pander to its Islamist forces which in return has been rewarding it with Mayoral, councillor positions for party’s pro-Palestine, pro-Islamist leaders like London Mayor Sadiq Khan and host of the newly elected councillors in British counties.
Contrastingly, during the short tenure of Indian-origin Conservative PM Rishi Sunak, his Home Secretary Suella Braverman had come down heavily on the Pakistani grooming gangs. The Sunak government had also formed National task force to bring Justice to lakhs of minor victims, and since then, several hundreds of Pakistani rapists had been facing court sentencing in region specific criminal proceedings.
