have you quit the labour party yet?

while it's disconcerting that starmer has clearly thought to himself - I cannot have a "bigoted woman" moment - and that has hamstrung him in his response., it's perhaps even more disconcerting that he likely thought to himself "this is a red wall labour voter type" when hearing this kind of rhetoric when it was an actual fascist, and that this wasn't immediately clear to him because the kind of rhetoric is so widespread in the uk

this party’s takeaway from bigotgate was that racism should never ever be called out, except for factional reasons, and nothing in the last decade has changed their position

also the party is just racist, always has been. it prefers its racism to be expressed through proxies for plausible deniability but it’s more than eager to stoke the flames

none of this is a surprise is it? you just kind of hope that your suspicions aren’t true

when Dawn Butler finished last in the deputy leader election was a big "finished with these fucks" moment for me

Corbyn specifically commented on the antisemitic mural saying there was nothing wrong with it iirc, probably the most enduring 😬😬😬 of his tenure

and no, none of it is a surprise, it's just therapeutic to moan - like you Left dude :D

Here's a chart showing Keir Starmer's satisfaction rating amongst BAME respondents in Ipsos MORI polling. Note that these are subsamples of around 120-130 respondents.

Starmer's net rating amongst BAME respondents has fallen from +53 (June) to +6 (December). pic.twitter.com/BNACT38jnV

— Stats for Lefties (@LeftieStats) December 14, 2020

There's a lot of BAME voters in his constituency.

His constituency office is at the foot of a big block of (mostly) council flats, maybe he should try listening to some of the people who live there.

can't wait to see what's in the daily starmer tomorrow

can't listen to your constituents if they're not bunging you £80 a month

Of course, he knows all those BAME voters in his constituency have got nowhere else to, their votes are in his back pocket, so fuck them.

Yes, and weirdly he appeared to be helpful and normal in his interactions with various groups and individuals from BAME backgrounds (lots of Bangladeshi and Somali people in H&StP) which vexes me! FFS whyyyyy can’t he behave this way on the national stage, how difficult is it to explain why (for example) the Home Office under Patel is bad because they’d love to treat citizens the way they treat asylum seekers, if only they could, and they’re ransacking the entire country with their bullshit?

Those people who might have nowhere else to go could stay home (but they like how he treats them as constituents, so vote for him because he sorts out their issues).

I've lost count of the amount of "fantastic constituency MP's" in the PLP who get praised for not telling their constituents to get fucked (just doing what they are paid to do) apart from from when it comes to abstaining or voting in Parliament in a manner that will make many of them poorer or ruin their lives.

I think we’re in broad agreement, Calz, in that if the right-wing press are gonna call Labour socialist regardless of actual party positions, might as well do some socialism!

https://gal-dem.com/keir-starmer-is-a-wet-wipe-lbc-caller/

"When Starmer first ascended to Labour leader in April, he was somewhat of an enigma"

^^

I agree with all this piece (fantastic title/URL as well!) apart from this nonsense, there was there was enough information on Kier's history to build a very clear picture of a conservative minded reconstructed tory cunt - you didn't need to be Sherlock Holmes to see this either, definitely no mystery, no enigma - just an obvious tory cunt.

anyone who didn't see him coming: lol, where the hell have you been for the last 25 years? In a monastery in Wales ?! A cave in the Shetlands ?!

i guess the people who write for gal-dem are all like 25 tho?

oh of course I wouldn't put it so harshly to someone of that age, but there were people old enough to know better posting absolute reeking guff about him back in Feb

not always out of naivety I should add, but I remember him being talked about as if he was a blank slate and don't worry .. he's a human rights lawyer - lol some of the loveliest people in the world as twitter has revealed to us!

lol it seems there was an official rebuttal to this in a labour newsletter?

really? hah hah!

I wonder if calling Sir Kieth a wet wipe is enough to get you thrown out of the party these days!

insulting to wet wipes imo

I love this notion that apparently Kieth is very thin-skinned and trawls social media with a quivering lip while reading people calling him a wet wipe and dismissing his leadership as an abject fail, some of the responses from his office have suggested there could be some truth to this.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpbZEWeXEAAlAcy?format=jpg&name=large

lol this dismal joke of a man won't be the first rotten pol to try and take credit for Marcus Rashford's good work

the since becoming leader sentence has big marc jacobs by marc jacobs for marc jacobs energy

Nick Ferrari – Police ‘Assessing’ Hate Crime Allegation Against Top LBC Host.

Top LBC regular guest has nothing to say on this matter.

eh surely they have to 'investigate' if there's been a complaint. reporting this is just to enable outrage and then the investigation will be quietly dropped.

unless ferrari has been literally mailing his own feces to people from minority groups. remember, simply using your power to scapegoat and villainise whoever you want to is not against the law.

On December 3, during a live broadcast discussion about 23 people being removed from a deportation plane bound for Jamaica due to legal challenges, Ferrari said: “Fairly soon there will be a Jamaican rapist or paedophile coming to a street near you.”

i dont disagree that these people are the absolute worst and that they should be hounded out of public life forever

is Kieth one of them people that uninvitedly turns up at a party, drinks all the booze and brings an obnoxious noisy racist with him, then blocks the toilet before he leaves.

i dont think keith is that much fun

truedat!

more like the sort who would turn up with a West Wing box set, and occasionally be chiding people for making too much noise during the best bits!

🚨 Labour have voted AGAINST Plaid Cymru's motion to extend the eligibility of #FreeSchoolMeals.

Our motion called for the 70,000 children in families on universal credit or equivalent benefit who aren't currently eligible to get free school meals.

— Plaid Cymru (@Plaid_Cymru) December 16, 2020

Kieth trying to take credit for Rashford's campaigning work and I've not heard him criticising his Welsh Labour colleagues for voting like heartless Tory cunts in the Senedd.

lol i just found out a few members in my ward have started a leftist splinter group on whatsapp.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqhJ3ABWMAEYw9O?format=jpg&name=large

Today's puzzle has me stumped

genuine question but what is the function of the labour party right now lol

— sandy haws (@jeremywh0rebyn) December 29, 2020

Opened my old campaign account to find a year after losing in elec I'm still getting emails from locals asking me for support. All desperate working class people, one even from the street I grew up on. Tories will keep them struggling. Hard not to think about what could have been

— Faiza Shaheen (@faizashaheen) December 31, 2020

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqkCcN3XcAEz-LN?format=jpg&name=900x900

there is always what could have been and the grim reality of what we have got, which is two tory parties now.

that he can't even be arsed hiding his indifference to austerity and that he cares so little about victims of Windrush just shows how long a year is in politics

you know who else had a predictable moral framewerk?

it's a lousy metric to use for admiration towards a politician never mind one of the most evil and vindictive in recent UK history, he's such a tool

We don’t even have two Tory parties because the Tories are usually a damn sight better at opposition than this

Really liked it when Theresa called me a “citizen of nowhere”, thanks Keir

A classic May speech from the halcyon days of 2012

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2012/10/09/theresa-may-speech-in-full/