Rebels Back Down Over 10p Tax Band

Reluctant Hero · Rebels Back Down Over 10p Tax Band

Some of the Labour MPs that threatened to vote against the government in today's vote over the Finance Bill backed out. Why am I not surprised?

They shout and bawl about how it is not just for the poorest paid in our society, but as soon as a little pressure is applied by the party whips, they back down.

Complete lack of any backbone.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8137263.stm

magister ludi

It's your use of the word "rebel" in the title that attracted my attention.

I see now that it was tongue in cheek. ( perhaps thats an unfortunate expression, it's producing a very unsavoury image in my minds eye).

not so much rebels without a cause as rebels without the baws.

What I find odd is that the media generally are refering to these MPs as "rebels" without any obvious sense of the irony that they are Labour MPs standing up for the poorest paid workers in the country.

I can just about understand how a group of people could be disadvantaged and overlooked in a tax reform, but I can't understand why, it having been brought to the Govt's attention, that it appears to be either unable or unwilling to correct this oversight.

Stevie

I think it's because they're opportunistic motherless scum who long ago (on the whole) gave up any pretentions towards idealism in favour of a party job as an MP.

They complain about their ~£65 thousand a year but I'm sure many of us here would be very happy to suffer their terrible lot in life.

I did recently see one Labour guy speak passionately about trade union law reform (obviously not to the delight of Brown et al.) and frankly his earnestness left me surprised since I didn't really think there was anyone left in the Labour Party who wasn't a New Labour minion.

Motherless scum, anyway that's my view.