Posted on 01/02/2025 1:50:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Twenty councillors at a local authority in Nottinghamshire have quit Labour, saying the party has “abandoned traditional Labour values” under Keir Starmer’s leadership.
The move means Labour has lost overall control of Broxtowe borough council, which it gained in 2023, and those defecting include the council leader, Milan Radulovic, who had been a party member for 42 years.
In a statement, the councillors – who will now sit as part of a new Broxtowe Independents party – 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.”
They were particularly critical of the cut to the winter fuel allowance, the bus fare increase and Labour’s plans to scrap two-tier county and district councils, which are to be merged to create large unitary authorities.
Radulovic 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.
“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.”
One councillor, Ross Bofinger, posted a picture of a cut-up Labour party membership card on social media alongside a statement that read: “I’m leaving the Labour party because it has grown increasingly distant from ordinary people.”
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The globalists are wetting their panties about now.
Ooh - Deep State will not be pleased.
So they are leaving because the Labour government is not extremist enough?
Don’t traditional Labour values suck, though?
They do. This seems like a power struggle between the hierarchy. Centralized control is a core tenet of leftism but local leftists obviously see their own power slipping away so...to the barricades!
Two groups of parasites fighting over who has first dibs of the host!
So they are leaving because the Labour government is not extremist enough?
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It’s simple to understand why if you read it.
I did and responded accordingly. They claimed Labour had become too centrist.
I guess your “?” indicated you were not sure.
Who put this guy in office? Who keeps putting Trudeau in office?
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