have you quit the labour party yet?

He's a big tent believer.

Funnily enough, Dawn rented a room from him for a while.

Not a big tent?

Faiza Shaheen, the Labour leftwinger who was blocked from standing as the party’s candidate in Chingford and Woodford Green, has announced that she has resigned from the party. In a statement posted on X, she says that she has faced “a relentless campaign of unfair treatment, bullying and hostility” and that that the party’s decision to block her shows the views of local members “mean nothing” to the party’s leadership. She goes on:

I cannot, in all conscience, continue to contribute to a party that seems to think so little of people like me and has moved so far away from my values.

Shaheen has already she is considering running as an independent in the constituency and she says she will make a further announcement about her next steps tomorrow.

is she going to post in the thread then?

What?

about quitting the labour party

might have to settle for a much lower calibre of pol-celeb when ilx lurker Michael Crick logs on

oh lol

is she going to post in the thread then?

― plax (ico), Tuesday, 4 June 2024 bookmarkflaglink

I am posting for her!

I won’t rest until baggymp posts itt

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xp he hasn’t scrobbled in over two years but the comment box is still a treat

https://www.last.fm/user/baggymp

new antisemitism crisis for Labour

"They have abandoned very much of their Jewish identity. They don't go to shul at all. It's become a purely cultural thing around a bowl of chicken soup."

This shocking clip shows Labour GE candidate Luke Akehurst, a non-Jew, launching an antisemitic rant about non-Zionist Jews. pic.twitter.com/jDm7QKBYCZ

— Red Collective (@RedCollectiveUK) June 5, 2024

to seasoned Akehurst haters this is just his standard shtick, he would need to employ a crack team of social media cleaners to conceal how much his prolific online racism has gone on unchecked by the Labour Party for over a decade. Could you imagine if a left-wing white English member of the party had decided they were an arbiter of what constitutes Jewishness and were filmed making anti-Semitic comments in public.

No-one in the media seems interested in any of this. Unfortunately. Luke Akehurst MP in a few weeks time.

fucking hope not

5th July will feel terrible. Our enemies will have (temporarily) won :-(

The aftermath will be worse because they will definitely go after all those left wing MPs they were shamed into reselecting.

People like Sultana, Begum can always turn into Indy MPs if it gets to that.

By the end of the parliament it won't matter as things get even worse.

Can he remain on the NEC if he’s an MP?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/06/labour-drops-lawsuit-against-ex-staffers-accused-of-leaking-antisemitism-report

I thought pissing away over a million bucks on a frivolous and vindictive lawsuit that you're never going to win was what Donald Trump did, not the UK Labour Party.

A Labour MP and former shadow cabinet member reacts by criticising the selection of Alex Barros-Curtis, the head of Labour's legal unit, as a Labour candidate in the general election on basis he has "wasted eye-watering sums"

This is really useful. Could Mr Akehurst set himself up as a gatekeeper we could go to, to find out if we qualify as being Jewish? Perhaps he could have a checklist that he could go through with us and then he could decide whether we could have the certificate or not.

— Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 (@MichaelRosenYes) June 5, 2024

Big columbo moment when I read this https://t.co/prOxfl2JhF pic.twitter.com/7NFKbIFJQx

— Babble (@Babble____) June 6, 2024

forensic twitter detective confirms what Tim Shipman and Mrs Starmer already knew

#noweddingringtruther

People like Sultana, Begum can always turn into Indy MPs if it gets to that.

Agree with this. More independent MPs would be good in general, reduce the hold all the parties have if voters punished them for these moves by sticking with their MP over the party more

Having published several anti-Corbyn screeds by David Bennun and Taylor Parkes, the meltiness of the Quietus was never in doubt, but still

I campaigned for Faiza at the last election and would have done so again (with reservations) this time around. Standing as an independent is a really bad idea that risks splitting the vote and allowing Iain Duncan Smith, one of the worst Tories in my lifetime, to get back in. pic.twitter.com/WvGz07qyYS

— Luke Turner (@LukeTurnerEsq) June 5, 2024

That kind of solidifies it for me. Its not only a good idea for her (and others) to stand as independents, to some degree its incumbent on them to do so, to curtail party bureaucracy from making these kinds of decisions

Labour clearly think unseating IDS is less important than being racist cunts, maybe that’s something that can be interrogated idk

5th July will feel terrible. Our enemies will have (temporarily) won :-(

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 6 June 2024 09:14 (two hours ago)

They are everyone's enemies though*, and it won't take long for the British public to realise

*apart from fanatical Atlanticists and Israel stans

even if Faiza's key motivation is revenge rather than political principles, as this Quietus dickhead is suggesting - then I'd say so fucking what. Anyone humiliated and treated as badly as she was would want revenge. As if vote-splitting is the important issue when the party has gone full BNP. Some dreadful Labour austerity and immigration policies are coming whether IDS is turfed out or not, which judged by the dire campaign rhetoric, could be worse than what we've already got.

Fully agree. She’ll have loads of volunteers to help her.

If IDS remains a tory mp he's less likely to be given a job by Keith lol

Why is this prick pissing and moaning over one seat when they’re supposed to win a huge majority?

he's questioning her motivation for running, but will happily vote for someone who passes the Morgan McSweeney test i.e. not one of them election losing trots and obviously with the purest of political motivations, a high quality candidate.

I think the Labour right will not be able to resist making the left into "national enemies/traitors" one in power, and contriving ways to blame them for whatever doesn't go according to plan. So that tweet is I think symptomatic of their authoritarianism and the full-channels hegemony that they plan to cultivate. No dissent will be - or is - tolerated.

This misunderstands a decade of austerity, inflationary pressures we are all facing and the stuff that's coming

https://www.ft.com/content/6d1779c2-f3e3-467d-b49e-133220c51ec6

Terrifying.

EXCLUSIVE: Former Labour councillor and Apsana Begum's ex-husband to stand against her in Tower Hamlets as an independenthttps://t.co/yd1tMZdcrv

— Left Foot Forward (@LeftFootFwd) June 8, 2024

One seat where I hope Labour annihilates the independent.

this guy’s a real piece of work

Such an arsehole. This is not illegal but it is definitely malicious. I think she has a restraining order against him?

This is not my house. https://t.co/4V7f0v2aol pic.twitter.com/rl2LKRx4vI

— Jenny Chapman (@JennyChapman) February 19, 2020

cunts

The Tories unfunded spending commitments are a risk to you. The money isn't there. pic.twitter.com/SUxEUMotXL

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) June 10, 2024

we're well into the "genuinely afraid of this lot getting in" phase

Labour will clamp down on dirt-bikes being used for antisocial behaviour. pic.twitter.com/FWscLJJ0PZ

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) June 10, 2024

"give the police new powers" is not a phrase you ever want to see, in any context

Is that a fake? Omg!

dear kieth,

the one or two times a year on average I see young ppl rarsing scrambler bikes about in the park would be concerning if I was park-keeper. But they only existed in the comics of my childhood and I don't give a fuck.

Fake or not my point stands