"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

Ha ha ha...YES!!!

I am dying https://t.co/SAEDLfUBBp pic.twitter.com/DkaSbxzTBD

— Charlie (@vampiretraums) June 18, 2021

the pernicious spread of Kiethism is nationwide now, it's long since broke free of its shitposting echo chamber origins!

Has he got any supporters though?

I've heard Jenny C will walk through brick walls for him.. and some more

Sharon Graham said: "The announcement of the Turner/Beckett ticket, along with the Gerard Coyne candidacy, now completes the Westminster Brigade. I am the workplace candidate and will be standing to ensure the voice of Unite members is heard."

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) June 18, 2021

Hipster enclaves?

If they exist, aren't they in cities?

― the pinefox, Friday, 18 June 2021 11:51

PF I *think* he means places like St Leonard's / Brighton / Ramsgate / Frome and so on - the kind of places where people complain about "DFLs" and "London refugees"; I *think* that constitutes the green part of his pipe-dream.

I don't think he knows what he's on about.

🚨 BATLEY AND SPEN 🚨

Lip readers have observed Sir Keir Starmer refer to Batley as "a complete shithole" and that the locals are "gravy drinking idiots" during meal with Labour candidate Kim Leadbeater. pic.twitter.com/EioDsfhz2t

— Politics For Everyone (@Pols4Everyone) June 18, 2021

Angela Rayner spoke against fire & rehire with Jeremy Corbyn.

When she came under the slightest pressure for doing so, she claimed via a source that "Corbyn photobombed her" "unnoticed" & she "did not talk to him".

Here's a video of Corbyn's photobombing technique. pic.twitter.com/XR1KZUGIJH

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) June 18, 2021

if I was an unscrupulous liar I'd simply make my lies a little bit more convincing

what catches my attention there is more that she's confident enough the current leadership is toast to even do this in the first place

Kieth will be furious that from that vid you can work out from previous pics with Rayner that he's 5"6

I'm just imagining the palpable despair if by some miracle Labour wins Batley and S now!

Meanwhile back at the Tories:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/18/tory-mp-faces-trial-over-alleged-2008-assault-on-15-year-old-boy

OTM

this isn't tracking for me, they want a centre right party that propped up a tory govt for 5 years to lose, but want a centre right party that propped up a tory govt for 1 year to win? pic.twitter.com/QkZeHKtG1i

— pez (@periuspb) June 18, 2021

totally fucking clueless and useless account. Labour Accelerationists is much better.

and a whole truckload of non-Corbynite backbenchers are desperate to avoid another Corbynite leader winning with the membership

— Chaminda Jayanetti (@cjayanetti) June 18, 2021

I've seen this view expressed in a few places, that no matter how bad things get the PLP is unlikely to get rid of Starmer in the short term because they're afraid the membership might elect a left-winger in a leadership election held under the current rules. Presumably changing the party rules to prevent a Corbyn-type figure from ever being elected again has to be a priority for the Labour right - does anyone know of an article setting out how these changes would be made/how likely they are to succeed/what moves are already going on to achieve this etc?

changing the party rules around how leadership elections are run, that is

BREAKING: Very significant Labour news. Ben Nunn, the party's Director of Communications has quit. Source: "He was the brains and the muscle of the whole party operation. That's it for the Labour party." https://t.co/6VUpA3LGCG

— Simon Vessey (@Simon_Vessey) June 18, 2021

It probably will be happening sooner rather than later. Kieth's last shake-up or maybe he's already been urged to walk by some Labour grandee and they are clearing the decks early

It's really striking that in the real Westminster, the Amersham result has been the cue for a meltdown in Team Starmer, but in the 'Savvy Westminster Reporting' world it is, via charts, and "actually's" somehow good for Starmer.

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) June 18, 2021

xxp

Without any Labour Right stitch-up a bigger bloc of the membership still voted Starmer over RLB and Ian Murray and Rayner over Dawn Butler etc and that was before they were shedding 10 k members a week. But I suppose they could still contrive to meddle with the candidate process to block anyone who is decent.

pic.twitter.com/HyAzidKrrx

— black lives matter (@jrc1921) June 18, 2021

xp Starmer's pitch in the leadership election was basically 'vote for me you'll get the Corbyn policy agender with a leader who can win elections', I think it would be difficult for a potential successor to run the same kind of campaign after Starmer has failed to deliver on both of parts of that promise.

I see people on the left arguing that the failure of the Corbyn project shows that any attempt to organise through the Labour party is doomed to failure, even when the left managed to capture the leadership they were undermined by the right, therefore socialists should focus on trying to build new projects outside of Labour - but even if it's a longshot, getting another leftist elected as Labour leader and reconstituting the make up of the PLP seems like a more plausible vision of how the left could effect change in the UK in the short to medium term, certainly more plausible than the idea some new electoral force to the left of Lab. It's strange to me that people became so fatalistic about the chances of the left in the Labour party after Starmer's election given the relative strength of the Labour left in 2020 versus immediately before Corbyn became leader in 2015.

'vote for me you'll get the Corbyn policy agender with a leader who can win elections'

anyone who had their pockets picked this easy probably would still vote for Rayner/Burnham/some other charlatan over Zarah Sultanna/some other inspiring principled MP that I'm struggling to think of rn.

Batley & Spen, constituency voting intention:

CON: 47% (+11)
LAB: 41% (-2)
WPGB: 6% (+6)
LDEM: 3% (-2)

No Local Ind Grp (-12) and Brex (-3) as prev.

via @Survation, 09 - 17 Jun
Chgs. w/ GE2019

— Britain Elects (@BritainElects) June 18, 2021

even the PrOgRessIvE AlliAnCe looks completely fucked here

Clearly Galloway should follow Howard Beckett's example and withdraw https://t.co/FGUQUlH3Tj

— Luke Akehurst (@lukeakehurst) June 18, 2021

lol this wanker really believes if Galloway withdrew (for honour!) then the votes would transfer to Labour. Stupid motherfucking orange faced muppet.

got to say I wasn't expecting Galloway to be polling on 6% though. Was talking about Batley with an Asian woman I know and there was full agreement that Kieth is a cunt but then an awkward silence when I dissed Galloway. Afterwards I thought: shit, never be too presumptuous about gorgeous George when he's been doing his grift in the area.

of course Akehurst doesn't really believe that, it's just a bit of racist vote-shaming. Such a great way of winning back the Asian voters who've been alienated by Kieth.

Back to well over 10k in covid cases, with over 1k in hospital :-(

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Without any Labour Right stitch-up a bigger bloc of the membership still voted Starmer over RLB and Ian Murray and Rayner over Dawn Butler etc

Sure but they also voted for Corbyn in the first place - post-2019 panic was perhaps inevitable but equally Starmer's doing everything possible to show that a more centrist approach yields zilch and I'd imagine a lot of the younger voters in particular would be less inclined to fall for the same trick twice.

That being said yeah most of these ppl are currently no longer in the party.

Who’d even be a serious left candidate at the moment? Trickett has the shortest odds and is 20/1.

Rebecca Long Burnham

Rebecca Long Covid

even there was a possibility of electing a genuine left-wing leader it would have to be someone incredibly thick-skinned and resilient and with no skeletons in the closet, not even minor youthful indiscretions like joking about spying for Putin. God knows, it would probably be cruel to subject this onto to some of the younger more likable SCG MP's. Maybe an old gammon-lite grey blur like Andy McDonald, who seems pretty decent and principled and mediocre and well liked. This isn't a serious suggestion btw, was just looking down a list and posting shite!

My recollection is that Corbyn's nomination in 2015 was seen by some of his nominators as a fig-leaf - "it'll look bad if we don't have someone from that wing" - and that he wouldn't have been re-nominated in 2016 if he didn't have an automatic bye as the incumbent.

yeah they didn't count on the entryism and Corbynmania that followed. Margaret Beckett later admitted she wouldn't have nominated him if she knew he had a realistic chance of winning and she even cried tears of regret ;; These lads only like party democracy and party members when they vote how they are supposed to vote.

Bercow has defected to Labour
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/19/john-bercow-defects-to-labour-with-withering-attack-on-johnson

Did not realise he was still an MP

oh he isn't, misread the article

any attempt to organise through the Labour party is doomed to failure

no he's just *bravely* joined the party in the quiet and humble fashion you'd expect from him, 14 months after Kieth took over and it become an unelectable centre-right waste of space!

I, like Angela Rayner, have been a victim of Jeremy Corbyn’s photobombing antics.

Judging by #CorbynPhotoBomb, he’s been going around the country making this kind of mischief for years. pic.twitter.com/OwanfCUley

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) June 19, 2021

"a mix between the Stone Roses and Primal Scream with the swagger of Oasis"

I think it's a horrible shirt tbh!

it's a bit like this shirt

Phew! The Dewbs is definitely wearing a jacket, right? #gbnews pic.twitter.com/Kb4q9HKPjc

— GBNews Fails (@GBNewsFails) June 16, 2021

Jez might want to take it to the tailors to have some collars stitched onto the neckline so it looks a bit more Chairman Mao rather than bass player from Kasabian

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E4MHi6fXwAINOAT?format=jpg&name=medium

Jez is in such great shape for an old git he can still get away with wearing tight fitting shirts ... Kieth on the other hand...

Bastadi has been in Batley all week, chatting to ordinary folk and he's writing a long piece about it. I'm not much of a fan but it could be interesting and is definitely should be a massive improvement on the John Harris safari format.

Seems like the push from certain quarters to try and detoxify Blair is in full swing, good luck with that lads.

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/voices/tony-blair-new-labour-reelected-b1850027.htm

Can't read the body of this piece as it's paywalled but is that really the argument you want to go with?

"Say what you like about Blair but at least the buses ran on time!" Fucking hell.

it's a big testament to the grassroots strength this burgeoning Blair revival that the last Labour candidate he publicly endorsed lost their deposit!

They're apparently going to try and make the Batley loss all about antisemitism. Full destruction of English politics.

blame it all on the "anti-Semitic" South Asian community and vote-shame them and salt the earth while you are at it so they won't vote for Labour again for decades.