have you quit the labour party yet?

Hilarious

Surprised IDS still isn't hanging it up tbh

Luke the nuke's old tweets over my TL, and look at this gem from ten years ago.

And now a completely offensive and gratuitous comparison between Apartheid and the Israel/Palestine conflict from a delegate #Lab14

— Luke Akehurst (@lukeakehurst) September 22, 2014

Meanwhole.

🔴 I’m told some last-minute seats, eg Leyton & Wanstead, Labour are considering senior military officers with a view to jobs in a Labour government

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) May 29, 2024

Good, short thread on the 'soft left'

Starmer himself is of that faction. He has no control over the Lab right and they will come for him sooner or later.

thing about the soft left is they try to please everyone and so when the right comes for them they have no real allies. hence executions like this. https://t.co/hTCnYc89PD

— bat020 (@bat020) May 29, 2024

This is a pretty amazing night of the long knives. It's hard to be fully sympathetic to people who haven't already recognised what the Labour Party has become, but I'm enjoying the mask coming fully off. I don't care how much anybody equivocates about getting the Tories out, we've reached the stage where voting Labour would be the height of amorality

Always going to happen when you don't get rid of these freaks. Had a chance, now gone.

“Honestly I’m so shocked right now, to be treated this badly”

Faiza Shaheen, who was set to stand for Labour, describes hearing that her candidacy had been pulled over liking a series of Tweets which she claims Labour said would frustrate its campaign#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/JtMIywDz2N

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) May 29, 2024

Quite! pic.twitter.com/Ini9WzNYjX

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) May 29, 2024

^ goes without saying this world has got to be burnt down.

Pretty sure someone like Lee Harpin is being paid to go through left wing candidates’ social media.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOxvRVhWsAA2COY?format=jpg&name=large

I don't think most ordinary ppl (i.e. anyone slightly offline/unaware of the finer points of Labour 2015-19) are quite ready for this fucking stupendously grotesque freak

Luke The Nuke please go on question time and face the public you want to serve

Lol

This is the dumbest thing The UK has done since electing Boris Johnson…what the actual fuck… https://t.co/n6Ekibi5is

— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) May 30, 2024

lol, going to be a long road to winning back the Dems' endorsement

demanding that Akehurst be banned from standing as a Labour candidate due to his troubling links with Trotskyists:

Labour Party National Executive right-winger Luke Akehurst has posted on Twitter to recommend an article by Solidarity contributor Sean Matgamna on left antisemitism. “Quite a read”, he says.

True enough. But how does Akehurst reconcile his support for purging people from the Labour Party just for social media “likes”, “shares”, or “retweets” of Workers’ Liberty output with his own tweet?

The ban on Workers’ Liberty passed by the National Executive in spring 2022 had a “dispensation” saying it was all right for people to attend Workers’ Liberty meetings if they were “debating”, and that exemption seemed to have been motivated by the fact that in 2016 Akehurst spoke (in debate) at the Workers’ Liberty summer school.

https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2023-02-14/akehurst-and-ban

Wow @ that Jon Stewart thing. That is fucking insane.

It's so milquetoast

Press statement from the SCG this evening: pic.twitter.com/ueYQBeT9eE

— Sir Ken Stonger KC (@Ken_Stonger) May 29, 2024

This is somewhat point missing as this crowd came out of Labour.

Imagine if, instead of standing around like turkeys waiting to be shot, the Labour left had used their networks, resources and popularity, the stadiums full of young people turning out for left wing politics, to build something better. oh well! better luck next time dickheads!

— j 🇵🇸 (@janhopi) May 30, 2024

Don't give a shit about Faiza but fuck me at her being barred because of a couple of likes on twitter while Akehurst's is full of love for genocide and conpiracist crap.

Someone on twitter did some digging and he has deleted 2000 tweets last week, its amazing what's still on there.

This is the guy in Moyle's seat. Does corporate lobbying for gas and oil

🔴 BRIGHTON KEMPTOWN & PEACEHAVEN: it now looks like former Starmer adviser Chris Ward will get this seat. https://t.co/6rhgI51jBD

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) May 30, 2024

wonder where the leaks to D Hodges, formerly a figure on the Labour right, about Rayner's house sale originally came from. https://t.co/adl8Ogpq49

— jamie k (@jkbloodtreasure) May 30, 2024

Not really but that doesn't tell me anyway.

How can Faiza challenge this through the courts?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/30/blocked-labour-candidate-faiza-shaheen-to-challenge-deselection

She should stand as an Indy. IDS will probably win but who cares really.

she's already sucked up to the leadership and equivocated about any kind of left politics so no shits given personally but srsly what would she hope to gain from desperately trying to cling on to this hateful party?

start a new party of butthurt Labour moderates whose main flagship policy is to fight for more legal appeals + remedies for when MPs are deselected!

these deselections are basically Michael shooting Fredo in the boat

it's not nice or legit, the way she was treated. But just feel like MPs who keep a low profile and sleepwalk through the job and don't criticise the vile direction taken by Starmer, they only seem to get angry when they get fucked over themselves. There are millions of ppl getting fucked over every day in this country, to help these ppl is often cited as the reason why MPs joined the Labour Party, and of course about 90% of these fuckers are lying through their teeth.

My friend worked under Chris Ward, Starmer's advisor who's being imposed as a candidate in Brighton. My friend alleges Ward "basically bullied me out of the job. It was unrelenting: gaslighting, passive-aggressive." He says when he told Ward he was disabled, Ward "ramped it up." https://t.co/xg8x2pEvEZ

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) May 30, 2024

sounds like a very nice guy, gl Brighton.

big "high quality candidate" vibes

speaking of high quality candidates

🔴 I’m told some last-minute seats, eg Leyton & Wanstead, Labour are considering senior military officers with a view to jobs in a Labour government

— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) May 29, 2024

She should stand as an Indy. IDS will probably win but who cares really.

IDS was toast until some twat at Labour HQ found a tweet of Faiza Shaheen liking a sketch by Jon Stewart. Great work there guys!

I can’t believe I’m now rooting for IDS

it's not nice or legit, the way she was treated. But just feel like MPs who keep a low profile and sleepwalk through the job and don't criticise the vile direction taken by Starmer, they only seem to get angry when they get fucked over themselves. There are millions of ppl getting fucked over every day in this country, to help these ppl is often cited as the reason why MPs joined the Labour Party, and of course about 90% of these fuckers are lying through their teeth.

if they all weren't so cowed by Starmer, including McD who has been silent, then there wouldn't be any unpleasant surprises a month before a GE. I know it's harsh but I have no respect for MPs who are treading water/doing bland canvassing pics and campaigning for a nasty right-wing shitshow and going silent while soft left candidates are getting deselected etc.. There is no point being in the party if you are too shook by Kieth to actually be a participant in political arguments anymore imo.

The Labour candidate has defended describing the United Nations as antisemitic in a post on social media

He also stood behind a tweet which asked: ‘Aren’t Jews politically black?'https://t.co/qKPtw3oy7l

— Metro (@MetroUK) May 30, 2024

oh dear, once you let this freakish right-wing crank out of the box you have to start wondering if Durham is still a safe seat, lol

a truly fetid gremlin. they’ll probably make him a minister

xp photos you can smell

Change.

One of two NEC members sat on the @faizashaheen three-person panel given a seat. This is the one who kept his camera off throughout. In general, decency (or just plausible deniability) demands a little longer between grubby little stitch-up and reward. https://t.co/XZ6RCVBE0K

— James B (@piercepenniless) May 30, 2024

re akehurst
now would be good for those journalists to leak who said "shaking off the fleas" quote and "MP for Gaza" (sic?) to them

They agree, so they won’t.

Heard a Labour ad on YouTube while watching Boston sports radio, Starmer starts in his horrible nasally voice

“I came into politics to get things done”

Then there’s a clip of him at Labour conference
“I grew up” small pause “working class”
applause

Genuinely came across like someone fed Calz’s most pointed comments about him into an ai ad generator

He's a bandit and a heartbreaker
Oh, his daddy was a toolmaker

during the cultural revolution in China ppl like Starmer's dad would have had struggle board with "bourgeois capitalist roader scum" on it tied around their neck and the red guard's might have thrown him off a bridge after cutting his balls off. Sometimes extremely easy decisions have to be made!

Could you imagine being such a dishonest operator, so lacking in self-awareness and basic human decency that your dad owned the Oxted Toolmaking Company and you went to a posh school, and yet you allude to "struggles" that you have experienced. Fuck and die Kieth.

Starmer's dad apparently campaigned for Corbyn in 2017!

(fuck off and die I meant - no more fucking, kieth!)

in 2017 Corbyn was hot!

Well okay but Keir resigned from the shad cab in 2016 so it's fair to assume his dad had/has different politics from him, but of course I don't know more than that. I do remember reading somewhere that his dad was disgusted at his son's behaviour at that time

Err, had, obviously. He died in 2018

wasn't Kieth one of the first chicken coupers to come back into the fold? can't remember. It's not a stretch to imagine his dad wasn't as awful as him, few are.

Uma Kumaran, a Starmer loyalist and former Starmer speechwriter, has been selected for the ultra-safe seat of Stratford and Bow

If I could vote I'd vote for Halima Khan, the whistleblower in the Al-J doc "The Labour Files" - standing as an independent - https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/the-labour-files/

We also have a candidate from the Revolutionary Communist Party but i'm not sure i'm ready for that

If not now, when?