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I got the same text.

Also got this one a few hours ago:

Doctor Rosena is standing to be Deputy Leader. She's an A&E doctor who has worked in conflict zones, helping the world's most vulnerable.

You can read more about her online: www.drrosena.co.uk

James, can she count on your vote?

Reply: YES, NO or MAYBE

Thanks!

#TeamRosena

yeah i just got it too, fuck off team keir is basically how i break it down to an extent

I haven't got it, because obv I'm such an out there radical they know not to fuck wit it!

Everyone on twitter is getting these if they’re w member and assuming they haven’t opted out of texts? I didn’t, but I always opt out of as much as possible, because I basically never want to be contacted.

i'd suggest texting back BALLS but then i thought maybe not

I hope this is happening because their internal polling is not good and they are starting to shit it.

I think it's happening because the Labour Party is just really shit with technology. I remember a lot of people complaining about the sheer volume of emails they were receiving in 2015.

Nah it’s the first day after ballot was confirmed and there’s still two fucking months of this nonsense left. This crowd obviously shelled out for the member data and they’re using it.

I’m guessing if you reply that you’re interested in whichever candidate that they’ll try to get you involved stuffing envelopes or something.

they offer any interesting activities like bricking A C Grayling's greenhouse or putting flaming dog shit on his doorstep. meh! stuff your own envelopes you eternal melt.

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— McCats (@PeteMcCats) February 15, 2020

My dad - militant in the Chilean socialist party during the unidad popular government - went to a hustings and likes all the leadership candidates but will be voting for Starmer. From Marxist to melt: the my da story

He hated Blair,voted for Charlie Kennedy-led liberals. Campaigned for labour this election but hated Corbyn, thought he was a mediocrity whose messaging was too far left.Very odd political journey

That’s interesting esp given Corbyn’s own connections to Chile!

In my experience many of the the most actively visible old left of the 70's/80's often turned into the flakiest bunch of melty posturing political no-marks you are ever going to meet (until 2020 Momentum)! It makes me wonder sometimes if my dad who was quite the reactionary right-wing racist in the 70's/80's might have conversely broke Corbyn in the last couple of years of his life if the throat cancer hadn't finished him off!

I watched that RLB video and I guess it's meant to look unflashy and real as a deliberate contrast to the glossy Starmer campaign. As it is it's just dull and will have no positive or negative impact on anything because no one will be interested enough to watch it all the way through.

she should just do realfake vids of Starmer hanging outside schools and battering foxes to death, that I'd watch.

I really groaned at that subliminal flash of Salford Lads Club - if she's like The Smiths to Starmer's Blur then I'm joining the Communist Party of Britain already!

I’ve lived in the public eye since I was a young lad but can’t believe the abuse on social media well known individuals receive in this modern age. Why should celebs who have worked so hard to reach their peak have to be treated so badly, with such disrespect! #bekind #respect pic.twitter.com/QG3rZuVQg8

— Peter Shilton (@Peter_Shilton) February 16, 2020

glad to see Peter Shilton is getting behind #bekindonline

I'd heartily endorse his tweet but he muted me for telling him to go and die in a pile of his own shit.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/16/labour-should-stop-demonising-the-rich-most-britons-like-them

It turns out most people do not view the wealthy in the way the left wishes it would. In focus groups, most people acknowledged that excess wealth brings problems such as disproportionate political influence. But they did not, on the whole, feel angry with the rich; if anything, the reverse held. While they were less keen on those who did not earn their wealth, they admired people they thought had worked hard to make it.

This is what the overwhelming majority of people I've ever met tends to think and why we're all fucked forever.

A good momentum video should really be smeary and divisive imo and should be saying if you want a shadow cabinet with Rachel fucking Reeves, Hilary Benn, Yvette Cooper .. etc then vote for Starmer

“I love Richard Branson… as an example, because you can see how he got there and that can be really inspirational,” one woman said. JK Rowling and Oprah Winfrey were also cited as examples of wealthy people who have a positive impact.

stopped reading that simpering garbage after this...

when worthless clickbait is seemingly designed to enrage me i ignore it harder

See also: 'Bill Gates is one of the good guys.'

the politics of envy etc ... and Gates spends 0.00001% of his wealth building wells in Africa.. the biggest challenge facing the Left is how to learn to kowtow to billionaires!

ffs she's quoting right-wing think tanks on how a prospective left wing government in waiting should make their policies.. problematic to say the least.

oops i thought it said Taxpayers Alliance it is Tax justice UK ..mybad.

Demoralised leftists thinking of voting for Starmer, this really should give you pause for thought, because Rachel “not a party for unemployed people/rivers of blood” Reeves as shadow chancellor is not a moral case for socialism with smooth presentation. https://t.co/vMs0sPNWEY pic.twitter.com/GYxOgy1FBy

— Tom Gann (@Tom_Gann) February 16, 2020

Rachel Reeves gave a Rivers of Blood speech, said Labour should go harder on austerity than the Tories.. and serious people are suggesting she should be in the Starmer Cabinet. If that happens the party will be a lost cause.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/15/keir-starmer-refuses-to-promise-jobs-to-labour-leadership-rivals

In response, Long-Bailey said: “I feel a bit sad that Keir doesn’t want us in his shadow cabinet. I know we don’t agree all the time, and our visions are probably very different, but we meet on areas of common ground, and that’s what would make us a strong shadow cabinet and I would have Keir and Lisa in my shadow cabinet.”

Branson’s seed money came from inheritance/parental gifts and (as anyone in the music biz in the ‘70s/‘80s knows) the, black market/white powder economy.

i thought he made his fortune selling hamsters to Richard Gere.

I'm truly astonished that some study has found that people actually have a lot of time for billionaires you know and don't take the piss out of them. I remember reading mr tubular bells saying Branson was a rat and he once punched him on the neck for getting fresh with his girlfriend.

imo a trenchant name for the male wing of the league of centrist melts = UNIDAD

New Economics Foundation: A bBritish thunk tank Working for a "new model of wealth creation, based on equality, diversity and economic stability" and not pissing off billionaires

"thunk tank" is not a typo

it's just the same old concern trolling. while i'm sure manifesto commitments like "hang Philip Green from a sour apple tree" may not have polled well across the board, i don't think the innate deference of swathes of the English lower orders will necessarily be triggered by focus on structural inequality and actual concrete plans to improve the quality of their own lives

if I ever win the lottery I'm going to start my own shady think tank and constantly publish biased and rigged studies that conclude that most people think billionaires are complete cunts ad infinitium

^ I wholeheartedly endorse this initiative.

Who said this thread didn’t bring people together?

He’s the best omg

Continuity McDonnell. I am pleased that the Labour leadership candidates are largely following my policies but replicating my curtains as well demonstrates total hegemony. pic.twitter.com/chQ8GNPQFQ

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) February 16, 2020

"I remember reading mr tubular bells saying Branson was a rat and he once punched him on the neck for getting fresh with his girlfriend."

Reminded me of this bit from wikipedia re XTC's cheaply & hurriedly made video for "Generals & Majors":

According to Andy Partridge, Branson appeared "because he's a complete publicity hog. He decided he was gonna turn up and keep suggesting that he be in the video. That is the worst video ever made by man."

would totally read a compendium of former Virgin recording stars talking about what a twat RB is/was

err, anyway, politics. <3 JMcD

This is a piece on how attitudes to the rich are more complicated than the usual "we're all fucked"

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/12/why-people-hated-mayor-petes-wine-cave-fundraiser/604009/

I read that and it’s pretty otm for the most part, but the part that’s missing about Rich Kids of Instagram is that people who used to feature on it used to lock or delete their accounts after getting negative attention from being featured on there, and now the account partners with supercar and private jet rentals while collaborating with rich kids for coverage.

"Why did you say you wouldn't speak to The Sun?"

"We were in Liverpool."

Explaining the answer you gave according to the audience you were speaking to isn't great politics.

— Michael Walker 🌹 (@michaeljswalker) February 16, 2020

Starmer finds that happy medium between pretending not to be a tory and happily sucking satan's dick

the inference being he can't wait to get completely skullfucked by Murdoch, because that is what serious Labour leaders do.. but just don't admit it in front of scousers!

Lol what's happening pic.twitter.com/lRjmjoJgub

— Shrieking Tinman (@phased_bemused) February 16, 2020

Amazing.

Every opportunist remotely connected to Labour in the last twenty years grasping for Starmer’s coattails - see also the Reeves for Shadow Chancellor stuff today as well.

I did enjoy this video of RLB taking the piss; I would prefer her to be punchier and less, well, shit like she was in that horrendous Momentum video or v Peston.

Some of the attempted smears have at least made me laugh pic.twitter.com/ccU0bUu5Kp

— Rebecca Long-Bailey (@RLong_Bailey) February 15, 2020