Would Anyone Still Vote Labour?

i reckon the leftwing voters are drawn to this kind of revolutionary social transformation

The Tories are allowing Britain's beautiful rivers and coastlines to be turned into open sewers.

Labour will take action to tackle the scandal of sewage dumping.

We'll introduce mandatory monitoring and automatic fines to hold those responsible to account.

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) April 1, 2023

listen to the puny dormouse offering to monitor the cats. The government is already getting tougher on fining water companies, they can probably just price it in and still pay their shareholders fat dividends.

Monitoring, surveys, reports, commissions, fines, a bit of HR here and PR there with sustainability on top. Really what his constituency lives and breathes on.

isn't that exactly what the Tories said this morning?

https://inews.co.uk/news/environment/water-companies-unlimited-fines-government-plans-polluters-2248577

if you had a competition for which party has the most greedy corrupt MP's in the pocket of private water companies - I've no idea who would win

they said penis on cnn april fools

— wint (@dril) April 1, 2023

Guardian letter writers are shocked by Labour's recent adverts.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/10/labours-advert-attacking-rishi-sunak-is-a-new-low-for-the-party

Kieth is losing the Marina Hyde fan-club and some of the pol prof community, his campaign office perhaps shouldn't have advised him to double down on the ad. I really hope it damages Labour, but they've probably calculated that it's a hit they can take.

It's only metropolitan elites who don't like it

Kieth in his £2m North London townhouse: fuck the metropolitan elites!

I saw a twitter account getting suspended for posting Kieth's full postal address and postcode the other week.

resisted the urge to screenshot it and order him a ton of manure

Anybody who mocks privilege discourse could get a lot of instruction from looking at the current Labour 4 Lyfe boosters and all that they're prepared to ignore or wave away

"reportedly"

not to get all "Corbyn has never read Ulysses" but totally refuse to believe that this cold, calculating psychopath has any artistic inclinations whatsoever pic.twitter.com/Sl4ECZ2a9t

— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) April 27, 2023

obvs this isn't a completely serious conversation, but (to be serious for a second) we should probably start from the assumption that everyone is capable of artistic feeling and expression, even people we think are cunts

— Peter Mitchell (@pdkmitchell) April 27, 2023

Painful to admit but it seems he was pretty musical when he was younger.

He was a junior exhibitioner at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama until the age of 18, and played the flute, piano, recorder and violin.

(xp)

Painful indeed.

oh he's such a renaissance man. I chose to believe his renditions of the B-dog's sonatas are so passionless and dismally dull that it wouldn't be correct to attribute "artistic expression" to this boring cunt in this case!

He has to do a recital like the time Clinton played sax.

boogie woogie duet with Jools Holland on Later coming soon

The B-dog !! :D

so he benefitted from free music tuition in the 70's/80's? (or maybe his humble toolmaker dad paid for private tuition). It's a good job he's going to roll back all those austerity cuts to school music departments so people from poorer backgrounds get a chance for some artistic expression as well.

anyway you should listen to Barenboim playing the sonatas and then forget about silly stories of some drunken fat fingered hack abusing a piano in his £4m townhouse, with a bottle of Jameson on the lid.

He was a Junior Exhibitioner?

hmmm...

Are we talking about Starmer here or Sir Alex Ferguson?

(xp)

lol!

he has a piece on the new wedding present book picking his favourite track

on / in

I’m on the same page as @Keir_Starmer, literally 😁 @UKLabour @weddingpresent @richard040560 #allthesongssoundthesame pic.twitter.com/8b3DL8zbmg

— Iain Key (@iainkey) April 19, 2023

His flair for vivid and colourful storytelling really takes you back there and is another good example of his artistic capability.

I would imagine he's in good company in what is potentially the most boring book ever published...

Co-edited by David Lewis Gedge, lead singer and main songwriter with The Wedding Present, and music writer Richard Houghton, All The Songs Sound The Same brings together over 300 stories from fans, friends and current and former members of The Wedding Present, who each write about their favourite song by The Wedding Presents."

thanks for making me give up on the Wedding Present as well as the Labour Party you grim turd

Wouldn’t Stella Creasy already have had that effect?

We are so doomed https://t.co/0zR5l5fvPi pic.twitter.com/iDb4YOg45s

— William Kedjanyi (@KeejayOV3) April 29, 2023

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23490266.labour-branches-express-concern-mp-selection-process/

"The financial situation has changed. Pray it doesn't change any further." pic.twitter.com/93uEpIoele

— Phil (@Piplodocus_) May 2, 2023

He added there were "other ways of approaching this"

no there aren't you ugly piece of human garbage. Ed pledged to knock tuition fees down to 6 grand and got rinsed in the election because his manifesto was weak pish.

The Labour Right are pro student loans anyway

he was on Today this morning and i had to switch it off immediately. like having a deputy headteacher unsure of his own authority right in my kitchen

there is no magic money tree for education or healthcare they say, but they can always shake out billions from the fucker when the private sector donors that own them click their fingers. They are grotesque and pointless.

the excuses are so fucking threadbare. you either make these things a priority or you don't.

it's a good job we've got Putin and covid, because otherwise this card would be trying to use the 2008 financial crisis as an excuse for maintaining the austerity consensus.

Fucking using a Theresa May attack line from 2017 as a reason voters don’t deserve anything except more penury

I saw an amusing little sideshow on twitter yesterday. Babs had deleted a lie tweet about her buying her first home at the age of 20 after someone pointed out she had many times previously given a different autobiographical version of events. lol, these people who lose themselves in lies.

In other words, it's the most popular option pic.twitter.com/e7DnElioS7

— P.G. Chodehouse (@mynnoj) May 2, 2023

Hilary Clinton derided it as "Chocolate milk for everybody!" when Bernie Sanders proposed it in the US. It doesn't matter how popular a policy is to these corporate ghouls.

Some legitimate concerns are more, er, legitimate than others.

The Labour leader said it was “early days” for the Public Order Act, under which the group was detained for 16 hours before being released and told no charges would be brought. Rather than committing to repeal the legislation, Starmer suggested fresh guidance could make improvements amid concerns it was being used to clamp down on dissent.

“The police have obviously apologised in relation to some of those cases,” he said. “They’re a difficult judgment call, we all understand why action has to be taken in relation to Just Stop Oil and that sort of tactic but on our hand obviously we need to protect legitimate protests, so it’s a judgment call.

“They got some of those judgments wrong, as they have accepted, and I think that’s a learning experience for them, as we go forward we need to ensure there’s perhaps better guidance or something.”

You could stop Just Stop Oil by stopping new drilling licences, no police state necessary