Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

Doesn't matter if JC loses he'll - - and I don't say this to slight him - - just keep doing campaigns till he is no longer able.

Yeah but the briefcase banter will be intolerable

Today on Twitter: many briefcases complaining about the_far_left calling them briefcases.

If I see one more "Starmer is a horny-handed son of toil" tweet I'm gonna run amok I swear

Guardian reporter doing the rounds in Islington North just happens to bump into Boaby G (I had no idea he lived in the same constituency as me!)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/25/defeat-would-be-a-big-blow-labour-faces-double-trouble-of-corbyn-and-abbott-in-islington-and-hackney

... no guarantee that he does, of course.

I think he’s up in Highbury?

Further up Highbury Park, the Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie is on his way to celebrate his wife’s birthday. “I’ll definitely vote for Corbyn,” he says.

He described the former Labour leader as a “great British patriot who wants the best for everybody”. Getting into his stride in a long disquisition on the state of Britain, he says he’s disillusioned with parliamentary politics, quotes Noam Chomsky and denounces the “worldwide network of financial capitalism” before finishing off with a two-fingered salute and: “Fuck Labour.”

Right on Boaby :)

Getting into his stride in a long disquisition on the state of Britain

You can sense said journo edging away, panic in their eyes

"But by the same token, defeat would mean an ignominious end to a parliamentary career that has spanned five decades and will almost certainly be the final nail in the coffin for Corbynism."

Thames Water will need a government rescue by the end of the year. The things thrown up by the Corbyn leadership will not go away.

Corbynism, that's totally a real thing

Lol I know.

Meanwhile if this narrows more as time goes on I am really going to enjoy these ppl squirm.

🚨 NEW: The first Opinium poll of the general election campaign sees its highest Tory share since March

🔴 LAB: 41% (-2)
🔵 CON: 27% (+2)
🟠 LDM: 10% (+1)
🟣 RFM: 10% (=)
🟢 GRN: 7% (=)
🟡 SNP 2% (-1)

23-24 May
Changes w/ 15-17 May

— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 25, 2024

The Blue Bounce continues

Breaking

The prime minister unveils a plan that would see 18-year-olds given the choice of a full-time military placement for 12 months or a scheme to volunteer for one weekend a month for a year

"Sixteen- and 17-year-olds could be given the right to vote if Labour wins the general election, Keir Starmer has confirmed."

But why oh why believe him etc.

rishi's desperation is just incredible. he called the election just a couple of days ago and he's already stooping to nonsense like that? can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeve next

more concerned that he'll give Labour ideas tbh

Lab's response was to go on about cost. That's their default for everything

Hope Sunak just starts announcing debates like Trump while Keef cowers. GB News will probably empty chair him.

The Conservatives are pushing for six TV debates, one each week of the campaign, but Labour officials will only commit to two - run by the BBC and ITV.

tbf on the empty chair - it's probably more capable of pretending to be a human being and giving substantive answers to questions than Starmer is.

xyzzzz__ at 11:08 25 May 24

Lab's response was to go on about cost. That's their default for everything

I can guarantee you that the 18 yr old who volunteers one weekend a month will turn up hungover, uninterested and useless, be put in a cupboard to do some basic filing, and nobody will get anything out of the experience - especially the 18 yr olds who won't be able to get a part-time job because their availability for retail and hospitality will be ruined. Not that it needs repeating, but this is nonsense that's been dreamed up by someone who has no clue how the world operates and looks in 2024.

Nailed on that his girls wouldn’t be doing this.

Tories have finally run out of minorities to shit on so they're shitting on the young.

The funding question was a good one, seeing as the answer seems to be "by cracking down on Tax evasion"

Yeah, right. That's gonna happen!

'There will be no return to austerity under a Labour government,' says Rachel Reeves

Guessing nobody challenged the glaringly bullshit premise implied by the phrase “return to austerity” here

Also rest assured she will have also said “difficult decisions” 500 times

you know I am absolutely no fan of labour, but mentioning the massive expense of national service is a pretty easy and effective response rather than getting bogged down in the other reasons it's a stupid idea
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 26 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Costs can be weighed one way or another. If this was a coherent plan, with an ideology behind it that was communicated properly, 'cost' wouldn't be a response.

As the boat crossings increase due to climate emegencies cost will quickly become an inadequate response to the Rwanda plan.

Tha lawyers love him.

Everyone I've spoken to about @Keir_Starmer whilst he was at the Bar has a story to tell like this. It's really striking: there's a genuine, consistent and strong admiration for him. Let's hope he finds and exhibits this quality as Prime Minister. https://t.co/9wMYmEhwku

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) May 23, 2024

he's just so friendly to dogs as well, i hear

I'm sure Jimmy Savile felt the same.

A doozy of an article.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/26/it-is-foolish-and-self-indulgent-for-the-anti-starmer-left-to-split-the-labour-vote

this "Starmer is a good person" shit would be more convincing if it didn't suddenly appear in the context of rallying support to elect somebody who looks like a venal self-serving little cunt every time he speaks in public

important good faith thoughts from Sonia "I'm voting for anybody but Corbyn" Sodha

At least a dozen other Graun regulars could and probably will front p much that exact same article over the next five weeks.

Meanwhile theres's gall and then there's this:

“It will be an outright outrage if Murdoch supports Starmer,” said Mackenzie, the Sun’s former editor. “He was the man who brought prosecutions against journalists. They were cleared, but they had their lives destroyed or disrupted. It would be a low blow.”

Hm, what would be the funniest way for Kelvin Mackenzie to have his life destroyed?

meanwhile, in scotland

Ouch. After trying repeatedly to dodge giving an answer, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar admits on Sunday Show that his family's wholesale business (in which he no longer has shares) does not pay all its workers the real living wage despite his party's plan to improve it

— Tom Gordon (@HTScotPol) May 26, 2024

His whole family are dodgy as fuck, if you ask me.

Labour Friends of Sweated Labour

Rachel Reeves in The Daily Mail:

https://archive.ph/OPqc1#selection-1423.0-1427.76

But I know from talking to businesses over the past three years that stability and investment are not enough to kick-start our economy. We need reform, too. That means a serious plan to get the long-term sick – who have been let down by ballooning hospital waiting lists, failing mental health support, an inflexible welfare state, and inadequate employment support – back to work.
If you can work, you should work – that's why we're called the Labour Party.

Far from the worst thing, but for me the most insultingly lazy erase-the-past pish

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27333723c1fa5d2d862c5d90870

Forced Labour Party

businesses have been telling you they're crying out to employ the seriously ill and disabled have they Rachel? that boosts the economy does it? it's not just murderous performative cruelty? you're gonna fix it by investing in healthcare and listening to what disabled people tell you about what they need? yeah it's gonna be great

get the idle rich to put an honest shift in first perhaps

LOL

‘Int milk brilliant?’

Rishi Sunak here looking like he’s in a scene from the Fast Show

Good lord it just gets worse and worse

pic.twitter.com/AYAgv7GIDA

— Stuzi 🐝🐝 (@stuzi_pants) May 26, 2024

"sleepy Kier" is really desperate, pitiful stuff, so of course all the sensibles are signal boosting it to death

Who needs bots?

i wonder what the text from labour hq said x pic.twitter.com/kVsAjSeC0H

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) May 27, 2024

Labour’s manifesto launchpic.twitter.com/qTfviN1A9Y

— troovus (@troovus) May 27, 2024

lol

Imagibe getting back to hung parliament

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/27/labour-polling-lead-conservatives-overstated-tory-election-expert

the After Laughter (Comes Tears) election, but it will be worth it just for the laughter.