have you quit the labour party yet?

Isn't it just?

Gordon Brown praised Thatcher too, lest we forget.

Not exactly a novelty for Labour leaders to hero worship Thatcher.

Just recorded a fascinating long interview with Shadow Chancellor @RachelReevesMP covering the Autumn Statement, the big challenges that lie ahead if Labour wins, how she feels about being called ‘right-wing’ & some v exciting chess news. Tune in tomorrow, Sat, 6pm @timesradio

Rachel Reeves apparently has feelings about being called ‘right-wing’ and had a chat about it on a Murdoch owned right-wing talk radio show with a former flop political adviser who helped Ed Mili lose an election in embarrassing style.

I’m sure the ex-Ed Mili advisers who were suddenly in commentator careers after 2015 were all “talented” IKYWIM.

what takes real talent is having the chutzpah to attend your book launch when it has already been revealed that it is just a straight quoted patchwork of wikipedia entries.

What's going on in hackney?

https://x.com/thatbloodyMikey/status/1746148566383439913?s=20

Hackney Labour Party tried to stand a bigoted, anti Trans candidate, ignored every Message on here, shut down all replies, & continued to canvass for her regardless, so people started Flyposting her Transphobic Tweets all over Hackney Town centre.
& *Thats* how you fucking do it.

— Mikey Walsh (@thatbloodyMikey) January 13, 2024

Source 👇https://t.co/8PgYIjLTQ7 pic.twitter.com/01JjqTBVE5

— Stats for Lefties 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️ (@LeftieStats) January 13, 2024

To be fair, he is an expert in disrespecting people, principally Labour voters and Jewish people, so he knows what he's talking about.

he is an incoherent moron as well as a tory

Yes Kieth the super rich def got where they are because of their skilled work.

They are all better than us and they should keep their money and maybe the state should give them more money

what really fundamentally disrespects people is the tacit approval of austerity and dismissive contempt for any nod towards progressive taxation from this cunt and the gaslighting here that there is dignity in a system that props up poverty wages and foodbank expansion. And then this year he is going to make the case that people should vote for him. He can fuck off and die a million times.

I'm going to rephrase this thread title if any Labour canvassers knock on my door. No thank you, I've quit the Labour Party.

"Given we now hear from leading Israeli govt officials a one state solution and a dismissal of the two state solution... I think it’s your responsibility now to tell us how that works," Streeting adds

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) January 14, 2024

"Will those Palestinians in Israel have equal civil rights? In which case in the long term how do you safeguard Israel’s jewish character?"

If they don't get equal civil rights, Streeting asks, "how do you not give real credence to this idea of an apartheid situation?"

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) January 14, 2024

slightly surprised to hear this from Wes Streeting (at the Jewish Labour Movement conference) given how antsy some people get about the words 'apartheid' and 'Israel' appearing in the same sentence. I guess it doesn't necessarily mean much, and that Streeting and co can keep talking about how they 'call for a two state solution' regardless of how increasingly implausible a two-state solution becomes, but still

but it seems rare for a current Lab front bencher to not just reject the idea of a single secular state but also actually spell out that the implication of Israeli government's rejection of a two-state solution is effectively a one state solution where not everybody in the one state has civil rights?

it's probably got the approval of the leadership, there will be lots of nervous MPs after Kieth wouldn't endorse a ceasefire vote and whipped against voting for it + added some bullshit compromise amendment including lukewarm criticism of the IDF's military actions that impressed nobody. The backlash was huge really and cost them some council majorities, also caused the shocking resignation of Babs! But there will be some Labour MPs who already know they are toast in the next election over this. I know for sure Leadbeater is toast, because my straw poll of the 3 Asian ppl from Batley I talk to is conclusive to me.

Hahahaha

Cazenove (Hackney) council by-election result:

CON: 53.8% (+47.4)
LAB: 31.0% (-13.1)
GRN: 12.8% (+1.0)

loool

welp guess this means abandoning their green pledges. look it's for the good of the country

Labour’s campaign imploded. Its candidate was suspended after liking a transphobic tweet, then unsuspended for polling day. It couldn’t repeat the progressive vote it won in 2018.

Meanwhile the 2018 Lib Dem candidate stood for the Tories this time & took all his votes with him.

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) January 19, 2024

It's not a good look for the Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care to be having a pop at the NHS, is it?

It's a great look for the only people who matter i.e private healthcare companies, financial speculators etc

Keir Starmer, John Redwood and Wes Streeting have all earnt or been donated six-figure sums from firms or individuals linked with private healthcare

who'd have thunk it?

love 2 have donations given 2 me, a politician.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEiOyhWb0AAjnk2?format=jpg&name=medium

Peter Hearn practically owns Wes Streeting.

Check this wanker...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/23/the-key-thing-is-to-have-a-plan-the-former-city-watchdog-now-helping-to-guide-keir-starmer

that praying pose just makes him look an incredibly foolish old twat. Why do they have a stupid Smash Hits style q+a underneath for a fucking corporate ghoul that nobody gaf about

“There are times when the Labour party is led too heavily into nostalgia,” he told The Sun. “It would be the easiest thing in the world to go into the next general election just saying ‘worst crisis in NHS history’, ‘you can’t trust the Tories on the NHS’, ‘you’ve got 24 hours to save the NHS’ and by the way here’s a nice sepia film of Nye Bevan.”

You'd kind of think he'd be able to reframe this better, wouldn't you? You'd hope he'd fucking love the idea of the NHS and be able to articulate that.

as long as he's getting a few times his basic annual parliamentary salary from Peter Hearn + others in donations - he doesn't give a flying fuck about the founding principles of the nhs.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/31/labour-party-cap-bankers-bonuses-financial-services

I’m a sensible centrist, I will be glad to see sunak & co eat shit but also glad if these utter fucking ghouls get trounced

people on twitter are pointing out that Reeves posted this only three months ago:

Today - in the midst of their cost of living crisis - the Conservatives are scrapping the cap on bankers' bonuses.

It tells you everything you need to know about this Government.

why is a party with such a huge lead in the polls flailing around so much? I guess if you were going to be cynical about it you could say that there's *technically* no contradiction between saying that the tories scrapping the cap "tells you everything you need to know" about them, and not actually reinstating the cap, but they must know it makes them look ridiculous, so what's happening? Did they actually intend to bring back the cap at the point Reeves sent that tweet, but they've made a panicky flip-flop for some reason?

We need the Houthi militias to sort this out

I'm not a fan of Twitter except when it gives the likes of Rachel Reeves enough rope to hang themselves.

why is a party with such a huge lead in the polls flailing around so much?

i have to assume that they are simply fucking around for the hell of it, nothing else makes sense

it's just baffling, like i get they're awful and truly just want to do awful tory policies, but why not just decide on the evil tory policies you're doing and stick to it instead of constantly announcing & un-announcing policies, or announcing policies they criticised only months ago. maybe donors are fucking with them behind the scenes and constantly putting pressure on contradictory parts of their agenda or something? but even that wouldn't explain it really

like the tories have fucked up so bad that labour don't really need to even announce much at all to win a landslide victory so i don't know why they're bothering with having policies at all if they're having so much trouble deciding on them

Probably a result of trying to be all things to all people, but also a result of being a shower of cunts

Probably also a number of competing power bases in the cabinet coalescing around Starmer, Reeves, Streeting, Miliband (don't laugh), all giving out mixed signals to the journos and doing their best to fuck each other over.

Probably a result of trying to be all things to all people, but also a result of being a shower of cunts

― wang mang band (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, January 31, 2024 12:56 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This made me do an uncomfortable gag of recognition.

https://t.co/ejRd2Hbpe0 pic.twitter.com/IidLNHnL7p

— Usman Akhtar 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@usmanakhtar00) February 2, 2024

I was going to say LOL @ the guy behind him but looking closer that photo looks like a fake.

More here: https://t.co/2az5ghm0E6

— Serena Barker-Singh (@serenabarksing) February 5, 2024

They thought the Labour leader came across as "quite cold and horrible", and one described the atmosphere as "jingoistic" with "Union Jacks everywhere."

Shaking off more fleas I see.

lol, tell me something new!

pinch of salt, maybe? but this is turning into the laugh riot of the year already

🚨 NEW: I am told it is 'armageddon' in Starmer's office and things have gone 'nuclear'. One source tells me there is massive kick back against the suspension of PPC Graham Jones and claimed it was orchestrated by 'pro Isreal right wing groups' embedded in the party.

— Dr Iain Darcy 🍉 (@doctoriaindarcy) February 13, 2024

Too funny. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh

chickens coming home to roost time, is it