Labour MP and cabinet minister Jess Phillips has resigned, joining growing calls for the PM Keir Starmer to step down as leader. This latest resignation, however, hardly comes as a shock when we remember how Phillips proudly admitted:
The day that … you are hurting us more than you are helping us, I won’t knife you in the back, I’ll knife you in the front.’
As a result, this serves as a reminder of two things: long-quiet MPs are more than willing to turn on their leaders despite their own inaction and complicity, and it further highlights the absence of any “good guys” in Starmer’s cabinet.
Therefore, British people should think carefully over who they are prepared to accept as leader of this Zionist-captured, genocide-complicit government.
BREAKING: MP Jess Phillips has RESIGNED as minister – amidst growing calls for Keir Starmer to step down.
Phillips infamously told reporters in 2015 she was willing to ‘stab Corbyn in the front’ – not the back.’
There are no ‘good guys’ in Starmer’s cabinet. pic.twitter.com/5535VAJdIu
— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) May 12, 2026
Jess Phillips: when complicity no longer pays, she ‘remembers’ her voice
It is quite something to watch a bunch of MPs, and cabinet ministers, turn on their leader quite so prolifically – especially when they have all seemed perfectly content with the direction of travel under Keir Starmer. It feels especially jarring when we remember that this issue concerns less Starmer’s “personality” and more the fact that British people do not consent to what this Labour government has delivered.
Nevertheless, these MPs would surely wish you to take them on their word now – rather than look to their own abysmal behaviour and performance. One such MP is Phillips, who has equally let down the British public, and women and girls more generally.
This refers to the lack of significant change following her now-previous responsibility for the safeguarding of women and girls. Phillips did little to address this huge issue, given the level of violence women and girls are forced to navigate in an increasingly unsafe and abusive society.
But we are more than happy to keep reminding people of their toxicity, as they so desperately clamber to distance themselves from the increasingly embattled PM. To be clear, Starmer standing down is a welcome sight – however, the British public must not be naive to believe that anything but the figurehead at the top would actually change.
On the other hand, they might not even secure a leadership change – and might subsequently just lose their jobs. Quite ironic, really, when they’ve happily played along to stay in the corridors of power:
Starmer can have 20% of Labour MPs turn on him but unless the said 20% solidify around a contender they cannot trigger a leadership contest.
As such, Starmer can lose maybe 30% of his MPs’ confidence & retain power.
There are 405. Reportedly he has lost 85, 21%. 30% is 120ish. pic.twitter.com/HDsjHO5e8V
— Will Coleshill (@WillColeshill) May 12, 2026
Jess Phillips: Nodding dog
After all, Phillips acted as Starmer’s lapdog last year while other MPs faced suspension after taking a principled stand against Labour’s off-manifesto austerity policies. Starmer has either threatened, intimidated or suspended any MPs who have dared to disagree with him publicly – with the apparent full support of his cabinet.
We wrote at the time:
Apparently, Labour MPs are supposed to behave like those nodding dogs that people have in cars, mindlessly voting through cuts that would bring hundreds of thousands of disabled people into poverty. And Jess Phillips MP seems to be looking for a promotion from nodding dog to chief lapdog with her defence of the suspensions.
She said:
“We were elected as a team under a banner and under a manifesto. And we have to seek to work together. And if you are acting in a manner that is to undermine the ability of the government to deliver those things, I don’t know what you expect. To govern, you can’t have 650 people all shooting off in different ways. And the country wouldn’t thank us for that either”
As well as presenting herself as yes-man-in-chief, Phillips’ comment is backwards. There was no mention of cuts to disabled people’s benefits in the Labour manifesto. In fact, Labour pledged to support disabled people and consult them on changes. But then Reeves announced huge cuts to disabled people’s support in her spring statement. On top of that, there were only two references to welfare in Labour’s manifesto and no mention of benefits.
This ‘blast to the past’ likely underscores Phillips real motives for finally standing up to the big boss man – she is a careerist, after all.
• 90 MPs have now publicly withdrawn support for Keir Starmer
• 55 MPs have now publicly declared support for Keir Starmer
Both expected to pass 100 today. pic.twitter.com/9T6aaYEYOK
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) May 12, 2026
MPs revolt – to save their own skin
This revolt from Labour MPs – currently at 90 and counting – is not a sign that Labour MPs suddenly located their spines, and principles, to speak up. Instead, it’s more akin to rats leaving a sinking ship, as they each seek to distance themselves from Keir Starmer after the pretty impressive losses at the recent local elections.
People will clearly try to present Labour MPs as if they are different from Starmer, despite many of them acting in much the same way when it suited their own pockets and careers, showing they are all largely a chip off the same corrupted block.
As a result, the public must stay alert to prevent further hoodwinking of the British electorate, who this grossly incompetent and increasingly cruel party has already let down enough.
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