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

when you are a landlord like LRM you are always going to be put the protection of property above civil rights

Conrad that from PM is hilarious!

if you're anything like me, every fucker hates you

Duntsy will you ever win

ah, but who among us could have seen this coming? pic.twitter.com/8pzIWUKBQ9

— Adam Smith (@adamndsmith) September 28, 2021

Paul Mason
@paulmasonnews
8/ The deal I thought we had with Starmer is broken. He is retreating from key pledges - nationalising energy, redistributive income taxes - and facilitating attacks on democracy. There are now no left figures in the Shadow Cabinet... worse...

newsflash: Starmer breaks deal that he had with Paul Mason (and associates)

Nick Robinson earlier:

"Isn’t the true story of this conference, Diane Abbott, your faction lost two general elections, you then lost the leadership of the Labour Party. Keir Starmer has decided to roll that back — successfully — and, as they once said in Dad’s Army, “You don’t like it up you?”

Leaving aside how that might be variously offensive, it's inane, as it means something like:

"Faction 1 doesn't like being attacked by Faction 2".

No. It probably doesn't.

But this is to underestimate the direness of NR and everything else that is submerged in what he is saying.

Cop union.

GMB slams Labour Party delegates over AUKUS opposition @GMB_union #Lab21 https://t.co/qGGAcjp81l pic.twitter.com/4FFfWKEPhU

— UnionNewsUK (@Union_NewsUK) September 28, 2021

This guy is such a low-level cunt

Just under 0.5% of the overall #Lab21 conference vote. 16,000 affiliated TU members out of just over 1.8m affiliated to the Party. Just lost its NEC seat yesterday too

— Charlie Mansell (@charliemansell) September 28, 2021

i thought number of members didn't mean fuck all to the likes of him?

Kieth :"I never made a commitment to nationalisation. I made a commitment to common ownership which is worlds apart from nationalisation"

yeah but he put his hand up with RLB when asked which of the candidates would nationalise water and electricity, never mind the weasel worded "common ownership".

🚓 Proud to support the launch of Labour Friends of the Police at #Lab21 today.#newporteast pic.twitter.com/knvIUmteGS

— Jessica Morden MP 💙 (@jessicamordenmp) September 27, 2021

acrid taste of lols in my mouth

Nick Robinson earlier:

"Isn’t the true story of this conference, Diane Abbott, your faction lost two general elections, you then lost the leadership of the Labour Party. Keir Starmer has decided to roll that back — successfully — and, as they once said in Dad’s Army, “You don’t like it up you?”

She should've just answered "Dad's Army is shite, mate".

i'm sure Nick Robinson had no notion of the racist context of that quote

Indeed. "You stupid boy" would have done the trick.

NHS is buckling with a wait list of about 5m. There is only so much we can do with donations, community care and mutual aid to address food shortages etc. We can't fucking offer cancer treatment or fund everyone's housings. Sorry this has got so bleak but these are bleak times.

— Moya Lothian-Mclean (@mlothianmclean) September 28, 2021

Really vile

genuinely find the use of this phrase, which is a clear appeal to incredibly paranoid right-wing ppl, really disturbing. like, beyond regular levels of right-wing labour crap. it’s fairly close to incitement https://t.co/6PijC8pi73

— josie sparrow (@ofthesparrows) September 28, 2021

Come on, Aaron, tell us what you really think.

Getting Paul Mason on to discuss Labour is like asking Harold Shipman to sermonise about self care. He’s talked nothing but utter gibberish for 18 months #newsnight https://t.co/r7OtsNVuKL

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) September 28, 2021

Starmer's reputation has taken a pounding among Britons this year (net scores shown)

Competence: -6 (down from +21 in Jan)
Likeable: -14 (down from +8)
Trustworthy: -14 (down from 0)
Decisive: -27 (down from +3)
Strong: -31 (down from +4)https://t.co/JWZAB9ellO pic.twitter.com/wfvHBhQVEG

— YouGov (@YouGov) September 29, 2021

no conference boost in the polling because the more time in the spotlight he get's the more it draws attention to what a despicable, unlikable, untrustworthy ... etc

oh that polling cuts off in July? Maybe his barnstorming conference speech will turn this slump around

"Go back to your constituencies and prepare for oblivion!" *conference rises as one*

We're ready.

Momentum has told supporters at Labour conference that any responses with chants during Starmer’s speech should be focus on £15 min wage and ten pledges, and “absolutely not on the previous leadership”.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) September 29, 2021

Fucking Momentum lol

Lammy being an idiot

We will not be making proposals that cannot be costed, the public need to know where the money is coming from.

Clearly it was the case at the last general election, we were coming up with policies like free broadband, policies on pensions for women, a four-day week, and the public were saying ‘how much is this going to cost’?

It was coming at the last minute, they felt confused and they didn’t feel able to trust us because of some of the issues that were dominating the party.

Keir is not going to make that mistake, things have to be costed.

Momentum has told supporters at Labour conference that during Starmer's speech they should hum quietly, consistently increasing in volume, pitch and intensity until he finishes and “absolutely not shout 'WET WIPE!' whenever he pauses for breath”.

I'm not going to make the mistake of defending Lammy again, sorry I ever did.

it was all fucking costed Lammy

people will just lie about anything won’t they?

Costing everything is going to kill us all.

"they didn’t feel able to trust us because of some of the issues that were dominating the party"

= because evil people were constantly lying about the party while people like DL weren't contradicting them.

Kberg only tweeting about the heckles and only that they are being thwarted. That's the only point of interest.

I stuck Keith’s speech on and made it as far as: when I was a fed, a woman got murdered and I shouted at someone that if I didn’t have time for to chat to their parents, what kind of cunt am I? Any way something came up and I had to rearrange (radio off)

Oh sorry there was a big round of applause he had to rearrange

Just catching up on this.

Former police officer Wayne Couzens in court for sentencing. Court hears he had police handcuffs, arrested her & used his knowledge of police Covid patrols to detain her.

— lucy manning (@lucymanning) September 29, 2021

Refers to the young women he recently met in Stoke who told him they dare not go to their high street alone: “they see more violence and fewer police… the Tories are letting you down. And I can promise you that will never happen under my leadership”

on the very day that horrific details from the Sarah Everard trial are leading, not that there is a good time for his "more cops" attempts to appeal to Tory voters.

lol what pic.twitter.com/Ke6IV4bZHL

— Agree to disagree 🍊 🍊 🍊 (@StefGotBooted) September 29, 2021

lol

Starmer getting conf to clap the line ‘we are patriots’ by linking it to supporting England players taking the knee. Clever again. The Times’s loss of Phil Collins is speechwriting’s gain. (Now they’re clapping NATO) #lab21

— gabyhinsliff (@gabyhinsliff) September 29, 2021

well take a look at him now

can't believe this is real https://t.co/mnYXigQp39

— UEFA SNIPER (@dreamboatslim) September 29, 2021

The trusty “Webster’s dictionary” gambit beloved of high school word-padders everywhere

I just want a nationality that isn't Kieth's

It really is Iain Duncan Smith all over again.

Starmer says ‘family and work’ are 'the two sources of what I believe to be right and good'

some have pointed out it's an old Vichy slogan. The Vichy used to issue special awards to *decent* married French woman who birthed 10+ bairns. In the world he paints single people, childless people, the disabled, carers etc.. are just not pulling their weight and have no respectable place in society.

Everything Starmer does is with the impeded confidence of a man who knows in three years about four-fifths of the UK press will be calling him a paedophile enabler. There's a certain dogged glory to the fact he can even get through speeches as his will to live visibly drains.

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 29, 2021

people will just lie about anything won’t they?

Thing is costing everything was playing their fucking game in the first place. Look at the US rn - it's just an excuse not to do anything.

He's going Full Heaney. You never go Full Heaney. pic.twitter.com/xwnEK7fYLI

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) September 29, 2021

i'm just spitballing, god forgive me, but i feel confident that the enormous majority of people who get exercised about whether Labour's policies are costed are people who will never vote Labour anyway

Has any Starmer spokesperson even been arsed to pump out some "this is what non-nationalisation common ownership means". It's apparently "a world apart", but this other world is a complete mystery https://t.co/TXNJPw6al1

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) September 29, 2021

no explanation or pressing to explain the distinction between Common Ownership and Nationalisation he meant - just using words like they don't mean a thing