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

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.

Overstated polling lead not reflected in the bookies odds (yet?)

But I noticed UKIP are shorter odds than Reform. I didn't know UKIP still existed, or what it is Reform offer that UKIP didn't

Eton educated MP (and son of Prue Leith) Danny Kruger argues in favour of national service on the basis that it challenges the "prevailing culture" of 'I'll do what I want, and Govt can do the work of looking after me.'

The National Service idea divides opinion - naturally. It's a bold proposal that challenges the prevailing culture of 'I'll do what I want, and Govt can do the work of looking after me.' There are good liberal reasons to object to anything compulsory... 1/2

— Danny Kruger (@danny__kruger) May 28, 2024

seems like some of these guys are resigned to the fact they're going to lose and now just openly expressing their contempt for the electorate?

Its a virtue signal

it's ingenious of them to find a way of taking the fact that everyone thinks they've done a crap job of running the country and reframe it as evidence of the entitlement and fecklessness of the public - oh, so you think the government should do everything for you?

how many days before he announces he's bringing back hanging?

For everyone between the ages of 18 and 24.

That and the "quadruple lock" on unfreezing tax (which they froze in the first place) so that pensioners will never pay tax is just a sign that one of the neurons has latched onto "old people vote and should love us" as the plan.

Also: lol
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tory-mps-blamed-poor-start-123657177.html

the brexit hardman is on holiday in Greece for a GE campaign, that is slightly amusing.

xxp i wonder if they will shift strategy when this doesn't work

State pension has risen to just a bit above the UK tax threshold so they have to do something about pensioners getting a surprise tax demand for a grand or so.

Ed Davey fell in the water on purpose in a desperate attempt to remind the electorate he exists and you can't convince me otherwise

NEW: I can reveal Labour’s investigation into suspended MP Diane Abbott’s racism comments finished 5 months ago

A source says she was given a ‘formal warning’ in Dec ‘23

Ms Abbott was required to do an online ‘anti semitism course’ - which she did in Feb

Yet source says she…

— Victoria Derbyshire (@vicderbyshire) May 28, 2024

Insert Cilla gif here

Hateful party for hateful voters

This vibe as a voter offering

I met Cilla Black once - she sat at a table I'd reserved and refused to move. Her spiteful arrogance was astounding. pic.twitter.com/AY86JjznfH

— BeCo (@BeCo74) August 2, 2015

Labour Friends of People Who Sit in the Train Seat You've Paid For

so Starmer has been hiding behind an investigation that finished 5 months ago when dodging questions about Abbott. Pathetic little lying fucker.

xxp That's Rachel Reeves' look at you when you ask why she won't tax wealth to feed kids

you could see the visceral hatred towards Abbott in the texts between party insiders and the consensus probably is they want her out but it's just ever so slightly nagl to drive out the only senior black female MP. Nothing to do with having a shred of human decency, it's just makes for awkward PR.

What's the betting the media will "suddenly" discover the scale of anti-black/anti-muslim racism in the Labour Party 6 months into the new parliament?

Speaking about taxing wealth, did we see that Starmer's answer to why he won't tax wealth is "we can't afford that" ?

xp especially when you theoretically want the votes of black people

Islington North odds with bet365

Labour 1.72
Corbyn 2.00
Lib Dem 34.00
Conservative 41.00
Reform 251.00
Green 251.00

Starsports have Corbyn fav but similarly close

Pretty sure they assume black people will to vote for them anyway so they don't give a fuck.

so Starmer has been hiding behind an investigation that finished 5 months ago when dodging questions about Abbott. Pathetic little lying fucker.

Yeah he needs dragging for this wtf

Jesus Christ

EXCL: A white Labour candidate who publicly apologised after saying he had the “worst tan possible for a black man” at a Black History Month event privately dismissed criticism as being “part of a smear campaign” against him.https://t.co/3Kyzm4v4Ah

— Joe Pike (@joepike) May 28, 2024

Brit pol getting better.

Very emotional moving sign off from @IainDale who has just announced he is stepping back from LBC to try to get selected as a Tory MP.

— Ayesha Hazarika (@ayeshahazarika) May 28, 2024

“part of a smear campaign”

okay yes i did leave the car windows open last night during the rain and i'm sorry, but frankly the criticism about it feels like a smear campaign on your part, honey

Sweet.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/29/junior-doctors-strike-england-june

for FUCK’S sake

https://x.com/tomorrowsmps/status/1795832705265135975