have you quit the labour party yet?

he should stand as an independent (which I imagine he reluctantly will do) at least then he'd be blocking a terrible Labour melt from winning the seat. He's healthy enough to carry on being one of the few decent constituency MPs for some years. He needs to forget about "stay and fight" at his age, it's futile and will be for a long long time - maybe more than what many of us have got left!

In another way tho calz there might be some power in him explicitly acknowledging that the Labour Party and by extension the current parliamentary setup is useless to left politics

after being in the Labour party for so long I think he might have become a little bit institutionalised on his thinking on this. He spent decades marginalised by the right, yet he bided his time. He's been around long enough to know that the party is garbage and of the futility of exacting change through parliamentary democracy (as hard as he tried). But this is just a feeling, but I think he's got a strong bond with the party in some emotional way and he doesn't want to terminally sever the link.

I think you're right, just not sure it's good for him or the left at this stage

Halfway thru that sentence I realised it was patronising and none of my business really

There was an article over the weekend on the seat, not short of speaking on condition of anonymity

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/12/no-way-id-take-on-corbyn-labour-safe-seat-turns-toxic-over-mps-whip-removal

Yeah I saw that, or skimmed it. Nothing but Labour ogres dripping the line tho really?

Labour’s proposals to abolish the House of Lords are set to be watered down after an eleventh-hour row between Gordon Brown and Sir Keir Starmer’s advisers, The Times has learnt.

Preparations for the launch of a review of the constitution by the former prime minister have been overshadowed by internal tension over the scale and pace of reform of the upper house.

lol

Just waiting for the plans to end charitable status for private schools to go the same way.

I believe this is what electability looks like

The A-Team! @bh_younglabour on fine formidable form for the Wish by election. They’ve earned their lunch at The Stoneham Pub 😅 pic.twitter.com/AJ4trdSCLH

— Peter Kyle MP (@peterkyle) December 3, 2022

someone has been unkind enough to post that the little Tory shit in the middle looks like a youthful Heinrich Himmler

tbf focus groups are telling the Labour Party Heinrich Himmler appeals to Red Wall voters.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/22/labour-targets-new-swing-voter-middle-aged-mortgage-man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ZB1t6gg8

look at the state of this lying fuck

In a discussion on how he "couldn't disagree with the basic case so many leave voters made to me", Starmer says yes, he campaigned for remain & voted for remain, but "we lost the referendum". Sophie Ridge reminds him he went on to lead the campaign for a second referendum #Ridge pic.twitter.com/vaCPzFCD7e

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 8, 2023

Am I wrong to think that constantly reminding people of Brexit is not a very good idea? Electorally, I mean.

he's trying so hard to yezhov that 2nd ref period of his career, ffs it was only 3 years ago and there are plenty of videos and quotes. Just admitting it would be so much easier than looking like a typical prevaricating slimeball pol!

this is it! any remotely competent hypocrite wd've come out with something along the lines of "i was in favour then but the politics has changed" but he just gawps like he hopes the question will vanish

do their focus groups ever tell them that just going with whatever their focus groups say will play best at any given moment doesn't actually play very well? that it kind of makes you look like a snake who can't be counted on for shit?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmBlbTvXoAAxb0M?format=jpg&name=medium

big dichter energy!

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/keir-starmer-labour-lammy-jobs-b2258114.html

Lammy is one of greediest and most owned by corporates MPs in the opposition, even greedier than some of the worst tories. Absolute piece of garbage.

How on Earth does David Lammy find time to do his actual 84k a year job? pic.twitter.com/3v0nMZoQVH

— j (@jrc1921) January 8, 2023

in the top half of the venality charts

I read one of his apologists posting that he has to accept the £87k from Global Radio because part of duties as an MP is to find the best platform to communicate with his constituents, ha ha!

Has it occurred to Reeves that if the capitalist system she's such a fan of actually worked then there'd be no need for political parties?

Oh wait, of course it has

it occurred to me that the stitch up they did on Lula (which was basically him staying at a holiday home owned by big construction or something) was nothing compared to what some of the busiest Labour Party p/t MP-f/t Lobbyists get up to.

'Bolder' Labour is it now.

Wes Streeting's plan to scrap the current GP system "was not raised at shadow cabinet and some sources suggest the potentially huge costs of scrapping the GP contract were not even run past Rachel Reeves," reveals @REWearmouth. https://t.co/2G4QrxHxR1

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) January 9, 2023

Kieth throwing in with the terfs over the Scottish gender recognition bill just in case anyone harboured a shred of faith in these villains

centrism means never having to take your fingers out of your ears or open your eyes

ppl like Bastani and OJ will criticise him for this and carry on with the "lesser evil" defence of still voting for them, to say that is becoming a very untenable position is a fucking understatement.

Have the SNP started running candidates in England yet

Nic-Sturg would make a cracking Mayor of Batley!

Delighted as I am to see the back of Ian Blackford his replacement has a strong Dundonian accent and that is not a good thing. Not in the slightest.

lol

Who would be your dream dinner guest?

Probably Bruce Springsteen.

Big fan?

I am, yeah. It was a toss-up between him and Billy Joel there. I sound like my dad, actually. But, probably Springsteen. Big fan of his music – I’ve actually seen him quite a few times, too many times, maybe. I actually saw him in the States in my early 20s and he puts on a good gig. I’d love to sit down and have a chat with him about some of the folk he’s played with, like Bob Dylan and all that, I think it’d be a good chat. I say good chat – I’d probably just sit there in awe.

(born 13 October 1988)

Kieth throwing in with the terfs over the Scottish gender recognition bill just in case anyone harboured a shred of faith in these villains

Getting into bed with the Tories over the independence referendum pretty much destroyed the Labour Party in Scotland, now this fucking oaf has decided to repeat the exercise.

Look on the bright side, maybe he really doesn’t like Ian Murray

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmiiwT9XgAARdw_?format=jpg&name=large

who is the biggest wanker? Springsteen or drummer from Blur. You decide!

lol that he's enough of a simp to think renationalisation might be a serious Starmer agenda

"a solid aspirational vision", what a tosser

always love it when politics fans talk about "the brand" with a straight face, you can tell they're really passionate and have deeply-held beliefs

blur announce rhythm section for upcoming gigs:

https://www.ciaoitalia.com/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/2-Provolone-cheese-melt001.jpg

Labour to pledge rapid action on replenishing UK weapon stocks https://t.co/lPBuvTVJng

— The Guardian (@guardian) February 6, 2023

Some might say that this is a party of cunts, run by cunts, chasing the votes of simps

of course freunde

nothing worse than getting caught short without huge fucking stockpiles of anti-tank bazookas

it's nice that unfunded pledges are OK as long as they are going to the weapons of death industry rather than the NHS

i shall sleep easier in my bed

Guess what's being destroyed?

What makes this one especially egregious is that Broxtowe represents a model of the party as a hub of community organising. They fed 10,000 people during the pandemic. The absolute opposite of hollowed out, cartel party Starmer wants to erect. https://t.co/b2T9YO4rQd

— Keir Milburn (@KeirMilburn) February 28, 2023

This is how many times now, to a wall of fucking silence from a press pack that had screaming fits over any individual resignation letter they could lay their hands on 2015-19 https://t.co/wgc0THKVhg

— The Justin Horton Show (@ejhchess) February 28, 2023

I genuinely hope these spiteful scumbags somehow manage to fuck the next GE.