have you quit the labour party yet?

This is much funnier

I think Euan Blair’s ex will be running in the constituency where she lives (and ran as a LibDem last time).

i just don't see Mason happening, he's too embarrassing even for Labour 2024 and doesn't seem to be acknowledged by anybody in the party that matters

strongly hoping for him to get a chance tho, it'll surely be the comedy highlight of the election

his main problem is that he isn't even a useful idiot for Starmer Labour. Nobody takes him seriously and he didn't come close in his 3(?) previous attempts at standing in low-key seats. God knows why he thinks he can take on the Jam man, who is popular, respected and is taken seriously - especially on his own patch. If Labour right do run him against Corbyn it would be no-risk for them, because he's certain to lose and none of them really give a shit about him. He was an early Starmer adopter and even he doesn't give a shit about him.

good thread

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Here's another selection mentioned in the Telegraph report.

Unless you believe that such a wildly unbelievable discrepancy is in fact plausible, there's only one conclusion: the results have been tampered with. pic.twitter.com/VsYD37Ulc3

— Angus Satow (@AngusSatow) March 28, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/starmer-faces-discontent-as-labour-mps-criticise-election-flyers-union-jacks

Other Labour guidance to members on branding states that a “primary palette” of colours including “Labour red”, “flag blue” as well as white and black should predominate colour when producing “content or positive messaging”.

A “secondary palette” has been composed to match messaging relating to Labour’s “missions”. They are “growth pink”, “green energy green”, “NHS blue”, “policing yellow” and “opportunity purple”.

I Am Opportunity (Purple)

yeah i'm not voting for this brown

they have exhibited so much islamophobia for decades, like for instance briefing the press that they are "shaking off some fleas" in response to muslim voters rejecting them, and their apologists have the nerve to say they are reclaiming the flag from the far right

policing yellow of course, who can forget such sayings as the boys in yellow and the thin yellow line

:o

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party is set to unveil a weakened package of workers’ rights in the coming weeks in its latest softening of radical policies ahead of the upcoming general election, the Financial Times has learnt https://t.co/7QepJW4wLE

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) May 1, 2024

“The whole tone of everything they’ve been saying on workers’ rights has been attempting to be constructive compared to a couple of months ago,” said one lobbyist.

One business leader said that after several meetings with the party, they were now “pretty relaxed” about its…

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) May 1, 2024

cunts

On May Day too; could they be trolling the left again?

love to see exploitative millionaires looking relaxed

Well. Cameronite inner circle former Conservative MP and former Tory minister Nick Boles introduces shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves speech on the economy to business… we knew he was advising the shadow team, but still quite something to see him her introducing her. pic.twitter.com/4un3R4KasB

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) May 7, 2024

Ugh, that nauseatingly smug wanker.

But enough about Rachel Reeves

But enough about Rachel Reeves

the unauthorised autobiography of Rachel Reeves that is just a series of plagiarised posts and c+ped wikipedia entries put together in a few hours will be very dull, but still you will get a sense of the dark sociopathic void harboured where most humans have a soul.

🧵1/5: All the warnings Unite made about the dangers of @UKLabour rowing back on its pledges for the 'New Deal for Workers' have been proved right. This new #Labour document on the New Deal, issued to the unions on Monday, is a row back on a row back. https://t.co/2taowMcaOF

— Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) May 8, 2024

2/5: It is totally unrecognisable from the original proposals produced with the unions. UNRECOGNISABLE! Workers will see through this and mark this retreat after retreat as a betrayal. #Labour @UKLabour

— Sharon Graham (@UniteSharon) May 8, 2024

idk Sharon maybe stop giving them money or something

Problem is, members voted against disaffiliation last year. Wonder if they can vote again soon

this article about the Labour left doesn't indicate there's much to be optimistic about, although Luke Akehurst still apparently has a touching faith that the Socialist Campaign Group remain a serious threat

https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/labour-left-keir-starmer-theyre-sealing-tomb-incinerating-it

Current and former SCG members who are critical of its leadership argue the group is ineffective and irrelevant as a parliamentary force. Some disagree with the policy of SCG membership being invitation-only and believe it should be open to the “soft left”.

“The lack of strategy is mind-blowing,” says one MP, who complains of “back-slapping” and a “dick-swinging competition”.

Some activists on the left are frustrated by what they call a “quietism” strategy from MPs. “Going over the top into machine gunfire… There’s lots of people screaming at us to do that. But is that the right thing to do?” the same MP asks. Another “quiet” Labour MP explains their approach: “People will say ‘where’s your backbone?’ but we employ teams of people and have families to support.”

One Labour source supportive of the leadership says they had expected the Labour left to organise within the party off the back of Starmer’s vulnerability on the politics around Gaza. “I’m surprised at how little they’ve taken advantage of it. If you can’t build a mass movement inside the Labour Party about this, what can you build it about?”

A widely held forecast from the hopeful left goes as follows: Labour wins, but the honeymoon is short; the party is forced to choose between sinking in the polls and changing tack; deep divides with Starmer’s own cabinet come to the fore, weakening the Labour right; with public services still collapsing and local government in crisis, the leadership turns to the left for policy solutions. With free school meals extended, public ownership revived, and wealth taxes introduced, the Labour left is victorious.

this seems like castles in the air stuff, but idk maybe it's not any more implausible than the idea of building up a viable left party outside of Labour

I think we have seen more than enough evidence that the right wing establishment of the party are more than happy to scuttle the ship and let the tories in rather than have the left get anything at all.

They have deliberately barred progressive wards from meeting, citing vague "recruitment irregularities", they have deselected left candidates, they have distanced themselves from trade unions - they have done far far more to actively undermine the politically organised left in this country than any Tory has even dreamed of

People will say ‘where’s your backbone?’ but we employ teams of people and have families to support.

Absolutely baffling line of defense. Can't think of another country where failing to stand up for the ideals you got voted in for is met with a "listen, we got mouths to feed".

Despicable, like any of these cunts are going to struggle to find cushy jobs if they're no longer MPs.

Despicable, like any of these cunts are going to struggle to find cushy jobs if they're no longer MPs.

And I third what these two gentlemen have just said.

I’m sure Luciana is hiring over at InHouse:

https://inhouse.london/informed/inhouse-hires-former-labour-mp-luciana-berger-as-new-ceo/

Richard Burgon has a similar analysis. “When we hopefully get into power, we’re going to inherit a mess, and the left can play an important role in developing the ideas to help Labour meet the challenge it faces in office. We believe we can be useful for that end and have a significant input,” the SCG MP says.

“The left needs to have confidence in its ideas. Some of the stuff [Tony] Blair’s government did, particularly in its first term, like the national minimum wage and devolution, it was a lot of the stuff Tony Benn and the wider left had been talking about in the 20 or 30 years before. We’re not seeking to be oppositional; we’re seeking to be propositional.”

I know that this kind of talk is largely tactical, and they started doing it when Corbyn still was leader as a way of selling policies that opponents were trying to frame as extreme, but the amount of time some people on the left spend talking about the progressive aspects of the 1997-2001 Labour govt seems like a telling sign of how bad things are for the left at the moment

it's a shame the CPoGB are so so shit, it should be a boom membership period for them with all these angry young commies about. but none of the smart and angry ones would touch 'em with a bargepole it seems. I'm guessing they have always been bad, at least since they supported the Molotov/Ribbentrop carve up of Poland. I tried to join them one night when I was a bit drunk and their system took a £1 admin fee off me without sending a confirmation email to me. That's not going to bring down capitalism to its knees!

Kieth promising more police state, what a party

https://i.imgflip.com/8pm5fi.jpg

polis polis, get tae fuck
polis - get tae fuck

Lisa Nandy is an utter scumbag.

just cut to the chase and announce the gunboats already u fucks

https://x.com/MikeTappTweets/status/1788893449384562863

The Labour Party will secure the border under Keir Starmer, using a Border Command, including MI5.

My speech today.#securetheborder #Immigration #Tapp24 #Dover #Deal https://t.co/CjuGhkeKbW pic.twitter.com/PE7vUT4s5v

— Mike Tapp (@MikeTappTweets) May 10, 2024

This is like when John Kerry appeared on stage with a phalanx of navy officers and saluted the Democratic National Convention as the confetti came down

"i have killed and i'll kill again"

fucking hell, just saw the "children of the damned" Nandy vs Blakeley clip from QT. Wot a psycho and also what a piece of shit.

ffs lads, read the room

Good luck to @alexander_olly at #Eurovision2024 tonight 🇬🇧 pic.twitter.com/8b9JgQP5W0

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) May 11, 2024

At least it wasn't the Israeli entry.

That Nandy clip, the disgust on her face that someone would dare challenge her - utterly awful

Times drops damning piece about Elphicke. Hate the Times, but genuinely hope this backfires horrifically on Labour. Repulsive.

https://archive.is/KS5wt

On this meeting with the then Justice Secretary, Robert Buckland:

Immediately after entering Buckland’s room on the ministerial corridor, she turned to the topic of her husband: the man who, in a newspaper article three years earlier, she had described as a victim of “injustice heaped upon injustice” having been “thrown to the wolves”.

To the shock of those present, Elphicke, 53, lobbied Buckland to interfere in the upcoming hearing of the case. She told him she felt it was unfair that his case was the first to be heard at Southwark crown court after lockdown and that was being overseen by Lady Justice Whipple, who, as presiding judge of the southeastern circuit, was one of the most senior judges in the land.

Her comments were interpreted by one person in the room as an attempt to have the case moved to a lower-profile court to spare her husband public scrutiny. Another saw it as an effort to replace Whipple, who Elphicke apparently felt would be overly-strict. It is claimed that she spoke with an air of entitlement and as though Buckland should intervene to stop him being “singled out”.

Buckland immediately objected, insisting the conversation could go no further, and declined to help. He feared it would be “outrageous” for him to interfere with the administration of justice by helping a fellow Conservative MP or her husband, also a former colleague. A key constitutional doctrine is that there should be a separation of powers between the principal institutions of state — including parliament and the judiciary.

Charlie Elphicke was tried for sex offences at Southwark crown court in July 2020. His wife stood by him at the time.

The MP for South Swindon said today: “She was told in no uncertain terms that it would have been completely inappropriate to speak to the judge about the trial at all.”

A Labour Party spokesman said: “Natalie Elphicke totally rejects that characterisation of the meeting. If Robert Buckland had any genuine concerns about the meeting, then he should have raised them at the time, rather than making claims to the newspapers now Natalie has chosen to join the Labour Party.”

heartbreakingworstpeopleuknow.jpg

Conservatives were more talkative. A source close to Spencer said she had “thrown him under the bus” by initially claiming she would not discuss her husband’s case, only to do the opposite, before his trial. Another source said: “I remember her saying they gave him this judge because she’s a real hardass and she’s going to throw the book at him.”
Of her subsequent efforts, the first source said: “I really didn’t think it was the role of the chief whip to sort out some convicted sex offender’s pillow in prison.”

Nandy always trots out “I’ll not be lectured by…[the left]” whenever someone to her left challenges her version of events. For once in her life I would like someone to say “actually this time you’re gonna have to sit there and take it, because everyone is sick and tired of watching you act like nobody to the left of you has a right to an opinion or deserves a vote. And were you not the person who was responsible for the plan to ‘break Corbyn as a man’?”

Uh no facebook I don't know him!

https://i.imgur.com/Ylzipw0.png