have you quit the labour party yet?

I bet even jeremy cunt would beat Starmer

I asked for the third time to be taken off a party mailing list and was asked why I had left the party, here is a c&p of what I got back, enjoy.

Hi (Camaraderie at Arms Length)

The allegations you refer to are being investigated by an independent inquiry (the Forde inquiry) and should hopefully report soon. Starmer and Rayner have made it clear that all actions proposed in that report, including the expulsion of any members found guilty of actions such as racist abuse will follow swiftly. Likewise the sacking of staff members guilty of any offences that have brought the Party into disrepute.

As for the Overseas Operations Bill, the Party abstained so that it could introduce amendments that would have substantially reduced the worst aspects of the bill in terms of potential human rights violations. Regrettably, those amendments were voted down by the Tories.

I hope to welcome you back one day. The Tories are doing terrible damage to this country, and Labour is the only Party that can save it from their corruption, incompetence and greed.

Best wishes

(Labour Party Guy)

"the Party abstained so that it could introduce amendments that would have substantially reduced the worst aspects of the bill in terms of potential human rights violations"

lol, well done adults

yeah, total rake in face stuff

"and Labour is the only Party that can save it from their corruption, incompetence and greed."

to roughly quote the great Cornel West : " I might be a prisoner of hope, but I wasn't born last night!"

http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2021/01/timidity-as-clever-clever-politics.html

"if a moment of crisis, institutional failure and rising despair is not a time to think big, when will be?" Quite.

lol when the John Harris quote about you is otm, that's when Kieth really needs to start worrying. But fuck it instead of thinking big let's just project an even more timorous version of Milibandism while a 1000 people are dying a day and millions of people are falling through the cracks of an inadequate social security system. Does team Starmer think he's so special that he can succeed where Ed + Broon failed? let's just try it again anyway because he can eat a bacon sandwich like an authentocrat and even looks like bacon

It's worth remembering that at this stage of his leadership Ed was miles ahead in the polling and it makes you wonder how fragile Starmer Labour will be when his friends at the Torygraph start putting the boot in and he'll be all sadface: c'mon lads ..it's me. When the Graun starts cuddling up to Jeremy Cunt as opposition that is a strong indictment of not just the lousy fucking Graun, but also Starmerism.

If you can take questions about the "Great Replacement' from Gemma in Ibiza for Talk Radio you can leave your comments on, good Sir Knight. https://t.co/H5A5HZcydM

— KateMcK (@TheKateMcK) January 25, 2021

"Starmzy"

This is broader than Kieth but for the last few days i've been thinking that any government or would be government worth its salt should be starting to develop their vision of what reconstruction will look like for a state that's been economically and socially ravaged. That would be good material for a genuine opposition to start selling themselves to the public and hammering Johnson and co.

The Kiethite reality is that the electorate don't want vision or a better world, even a better world than the mouldering corpse of the UK in two or three years time. Expecting jobs and services and hope is, well, not what grown-ups do

Was it you who boiled Kiethism down to TIG-esque "I'll do it better, just let me do it" and nothing more? Because I think that every time I see him now.

(Especially important never to go anywhere near what "it" is or might be, obv)

Things can only get better!

Exclusive: Labour Expects ‘Vaccine Bounce’ For Boris Johnson Ahead Of May Electionshttps://t.co/HxLGRuqKC6

— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) January 26, 2021

expects nay demands

i wish i was dead

sometimes I find it hard to comprehend how a liberalism which isn't permanently apologetic and terrified of its own shadow hasn't been able to get itself together yet. then I start thinking that such a thing would probably end up resembling corbynism more than any kind of nu-blairism

In fact we could and should blame Jumps Canbin for frightening the Liberal establishment reluctantly rightwards

even on the day official deaths pass 100k the best he can offer is "we'll have to take a look into this at some point".

christ, even around likely Tories i've been saying "we need to find out exactly what went wrong and why, without necessarily scapegoating", but maybe that's tankie rhetoric idk

No rush lads, not as if anyone’s died

I've had labourites literally telling me the problem was not enough police enforcement of lockdown rules so I have no hope that even a more forthright response from this party would be a good one

if Kieth doesn't want to look like he's point-scoring off death he should still be pressing the "maybe it's important to know why so many people have died" line

my fave part of public inquiries is when they fearlessly point the finger at high profile govt ministers and send them to the gallows rather than finding low-level scapegoats and also the speed at which they erm .. execute them. Just waiting for the Pendle Witch Inquiry to conclude this week.

if Kieth doesn't want to look like he's point-scoring off death he should still be pressing the "maybe it's important to know why so many people have died" line

We (well Pieths Morgan) already established that the official govt response is 'too old and/or fat" iirc

well?

Forde Inquiry report delayed indefinitely, chair tells Labour Party – full story here: https://t.co/LvWwgUzXh4

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) February 11, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMSNVgQgctE

gotta imagine some of those 9 "never!!" votes must have shifted by now

I'd say never! about football club affiliation and all sorts of other inconsequential nonsense, but never about membership to a moribund political party led by a tory cunt with 90% of their MPs being rotten useless garbage that could just have easily joined the LibDems or UKIP

I’d hope at least some of the people taking the EHRC report fallout in good faith would have understood what the rest of us are saying by now.

I almost wish I hadn't quit the party last year so I could tell them I'm leaving tonight.

I wished I'd left sooner after finding out how my monthly subs was being wasted and taken for granted by these worthless scumbags

has a major political party ever destroyed itself so wilfully and methodically like this it's almost impressive

They did it in Scotland first.

The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, has promised to offer “credible alternative” to the SNP over the next five years, despite the party’s poorest Scottish results since devolution.

he's only lost two seats I think, give a disreputable millionaire labour candidate a chance!

Love to aspire to be a credible alternative to popularity

Perfectly timed to coincide with Rosie Duffield going off on one again.

This is not a joke, but deadly serious.

The Labour Party have officially placed @YoungLabour chair @JessicaLBarnard under investigation - for opposing transphobia.

Here is her letter sent to NEC members - passed to me - and here are the tweets she’s being investigated for. pic.twitter.com/qnzcC0fLWm

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) September 10, 2021

Lol how long until LGBT labor becomes a proscribed organisation

Labour now claiming it was “sent in error”, obviously without explanation of how that “error” was made.

It’s completely bizarre:

If they’re very senior, and they remain very senior, it almost doesn’t matter does it pic.twitter.com/F25GLBOV37

— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) September 10, 2021

Timing also clearly linked to her argument last week with Oliver Kamm about Palestine.

Love having the grownups back in charge

“we apologise unreservedly to Jess for the hurt and upset this has caused”.

lol fuck these people

how many on the left of the party who probably wouldn't disagree too much with Dudfield? Laura Pidcock definitely and I've been reading possibly Burgeon as well.

I was sent an email by the Governance & Legal Unit of the Labour Party that asked why I wasn't on the electoral register, as part of a 'routine review of the membership of your CLP'. This is the CLP, you may remember that has been disallowed from meeting for supposed irregularities in its recruitment and membership. I replied that I wasn't allowed to vote because I'm not a British citizen, and asked, if this was a 'routine review', what was the date of the previous review, and when is the next one scheduled? Two months went by and they replied that 'your inability to register to vote in the UK is noted.' I replied immediately, asking them to reply to my questions about this 'review'. Reader, can you guess how quickly they tripped over themselves to respond?

I look at the case of Jessica Barnard and think why couldn't we bully Luke the nuke like this?

There’s something else circulating today, albeit via Evolve, about someone having been sent a letter accusing them of abuse against a protected belief group - people who don’t think there should be a four day week. I don’t know whether the complaints mechanism itself has been completely hijacked by right-wingers with a grudge or if the process for filtering out transparently vexatious claims has broken down but it amounts to the same thing.

burgon repeatedly defended pidcock against criticisms of transphobia and there was this:

if there’s one thing you should take away from this article it’s what burgon has to say on @Labour_Trans’ pledges 😶 https://t.co/AOmIxf2pDO pic.twitter.com/diHOFrpTTR

— eli 📕 (@elihxrris) February 25, 2020

i don't think he's likely to be actively against trans rights, just very naive & doesn't understand what all the fuss is all about, there are reasonable people on both sides etc. which is enough to mean he can't be trusted at all on the issue

marsha de cordova is apparently in the scg & has been all over the place, rightfully criticising the tories for going back on gra reform etc., but she also tweeted this transphobic nonsense article about how trans people have no right to use the bathroom at work:

Not clear how the Law Society thinks this fits with the Equality Act 2010. @trussliz must ensure all public bodies, incl. the Government Equalities Office and Equality & Human Rights Commission, produce statutory guidance in keeping with the legislation:https://t.co/McVw5ixyxM

— Marsha de Cordova MP (@MarshadeCordova) October 2, 2020

falling for something like that at best shows she clearly doesn't have a clue on the issue, which is even worse bc she's shadow women & equalities secretary

More on the Barnard incident, suggesting the investigation notification was essentially fake and didn’t come via any official governance process:

The real story of what happened with @JessicaLBarnard yesterday is incredible.

The party said she was sent a notice of investigation “in error”. That was mocked—how do you investigate someone & send them an intimidating letter at 1 am by mistake? But it was actually true. >

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) September 11, 2021

If this is correct, it seems almost inconceivable that there won’t be repercussions, even in a party as cooked as Labour is.