have you quit the labour party yet?

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/

I still believe we should scrap the Human Rights Act altogether

love to not believe in human rights, that's my moral framework right there

can't help but have a degree of admiration for you

Interesting fact: the tiles on the floor of the Senate and House of Representatives were made in Stoke-on-Trent.

— Gareth Snell (@gareth_snell) January 6, 2021

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-labour-no-confidence-camberwell-b1784390.html

Keir Starmer: Labour branch passes ‘motion of no confidence’ in leader
South London branch ‘does not believe he can win a general election’, despite rise in polls against PM since Corbyn was party leader

I almost feel like defending him when that horrible piece of shit Rosie Duffield is gunning for him but my main beef with Kieth is that I don't even care if he could win an election with the current bunch of knaves he has in that shadow cabinet and the direction he has taken the party. Lol he's won an extra 4% of Leave voters back to the party - sick numbers!

This looks like great news. Solidarity and well done to @unitetheunion members at Barnoldswick. There is power in a union.https://t.co/pQcWprtpR6

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 8, 2021

something has put the fear into him recently

or someone ;)

probably something more like very worrying private polling rather than idiot death-threats from shit-posting muppets!

That all his conservative messaging and not giving a hoot about the biggest teachers' unions advice during what is turning into a national catastrophe, and that this has only gained him a negligible slither of support from knuckle scraping troglodytes in Bishop Auckland should also have him worried. His current electoral math is so bad it is almost guaranteed to keep the tories in power for another decade.

It's the worst time in the last 70 years to be playing a cautious conservative politically narrow-game and hoping not to upset the status quo and also hoping for the best.

calz i think he's more a symptom than a cause but it's beautifully life affirming to watch him fuck himself like ths

who put 50p in kieth

i wdn;t throw a sharpened 50p at that cunt

something has put the fear into him recently

― calzino, Friday, 8 January 2021 22:53 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

or someone ;)

― imago, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:05 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

getting a very "nimoy in the monorail episode" vibe from this

*evaporates*

a couple of wars on different fronts against Kieth now. He's got the FBPE lamers like Duffield who remembered what he did last summer, baying for his blood as well as all the pro-Corbyn branches piling up the votes of no confidence. It won't end well for him, but when it does i'll pull up a deckchair and get some popcorn.

he lacks the savvy of a Blair

whar a terrible indictment

he probably wouldn't survive Chicken Coup 2, because Corbyn for all his faults inspired loyalty amongst a big enough swathe of the membership to withstand such attacks.

Imagine still paying your dues to these muppets...

if you don't pay your dues you can't troll the leadership with no confidence votes

cunt doesn't even have confidence in himself. joined a union just to try and cut him off, the Tory muppet cunt

Wonderful news. https://t.co/n9MYOQdH6a

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 9, 2021

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fingers_and_thumb_in_circle_downward_motion.jpg

hmmmm plebs love the royals so i'd better put this out to prove i'm not some kind of a traitor like the last guy

https://i.imgur.com/nuMqytA.jpg

Wonderful news.

I guess the herpetologists out there will be relieved that it works on lizards

I think, by this stage, any photos of Prince Philip should come with some sort of warning for those of a nervous disposition.

I got all excited until I got to the word "vaccine"

LOL SAME

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErVAexBXIAIDmqt?format=png&name=small

Sir Keir Starmer has declared Labour will become "the party of the family", as he calls on the Government to scrap an inflation busting rise in council tax in April which will hit household budgets....

from the latest paywalled Torygraph Kieth piece that thankfully fades as you hit the wall

Finally a party for normies

This has faded into insignificance now, but at the start of the Labour leadership contest Kieth obv identified Nandy as a main rival and went for his own gritty w/c Town's credentials in quite an embarrassing manner which i can barely remember now. But then we found out he was about as w/c as someone whose dad was from the factory management classes

He's probably closer to working class than Crombyn but so what, so are half of Blue fucking Labour

Sorry but you need multiple families to be PM now.

Corbyn was pure middle class to the core and never pretended to be anything else and also was the best Labour leader we will see in our whole sorry lifetime alas

I bet Corbyn's upbringing was more culturally middle-class and Starmer's more fiscally middle-class - that would seem about right.

until you take Piers into the reckoning!

Ah, the working-class factory owners of East Surrey, salt of the earth

— Juliet. (@zinovievletter) January 10, 2021

i suspect that jeremy and piers' parents were quite progressive inasmuch as it seems they both seem to have absorbed and been deeply affected by very different aspects of 1960s politics and culture (jeremy anti-war, civil rights, new left(?) piers techno-utopia libertarian bullshit) this is a very underdeveloped thought instinct

Asked whether he should apologise to unions on schools, Starmer says "we all owe them an apology" after they worked so hard over Christmas on preparations

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) January 10, 2021

Piers left the Labour Party over Iraq and to spend more time with his brain worms and his weather prediction company that after some early successes seemed to make a series of dud predictions!

He featured in a Channel 4 documentary The Great Global Warming Swindle in 2007; a scientifically reviewed complaint to Ofcom noted that he was introduced as 'Dr Piers Corbyn, Climate Forecaster' despite not having a doctorate nor any qualification specifically in climate science or environmental science.

lol he's a funny guy tbf!

Well we're all climate forecasters if you think about it

Piers was also Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006

Yeah but they give that shit to anybody, I got it one year

there might have been a point somewhere 70's-80's where Jez and Piers seemed almost ideologically/politically identical, but it seems like Piers went on a bit of a diversion off the beaten track.

So I'm obviously a casual observer here, but at this point, what distinguishes the Labour Party from the Tories?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/10/keir-starmer-accepts-end-of-eu-free-movement-in-brexit-reversal

Is the new ploy something like 'the Conservative Party, except with a less shambolic-looking leader?'

more like the Tory Wets Party with an equally shambolic leader imo

The Brexit issue was never a hard line between the parties. It would be unfair to guess what the differences are now because Kieth won't announce any policies until a general election is called, he'll just kvetch lamely in his silly voice

Don't even know why they bother, it's not like Tory voters will ever pivot to Labour. The other way round, yes. All they're doing is alienating their actual voter base.