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Blame game inside Labour escalating tonight 🔥

There's a fight over whether Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner should get the blame for elections as formal campaign head - or whether it should be Keir Starmer

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— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) May 8, 2021

it was the coat wot lost it

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:48 (two years ago) link

It's Michael Foot's donkey jacket all over again.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link

Had it confirmed by two sources that Keir Starmer has sacked Angela Rayner as party chair.

So much for "I take full responsibility" ...

— Andrew Fisher (@FisherAndrew79) May 8, 2021

Scamp Granada (gyac), Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link

Cont

Harsh.

nashwan, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:53 (two years ago) link

But valid.

nashwan, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:54 (two years ago) link

It’s not all bad news

Results from St. Mary's ward. 🗳️

Chris Jarvis (Green) and Dick Wolff (Green) elected.#LocalElections2021 pic.twitter.com/zsdeOFopD0

— Oxford City Council (@OxfordCity) May 8, 2021

Scamp Granada (gyac), Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:57 (two years ago) link

was it Angela who made the decision to parachute Saudi Paul into Hartlepool? I don't think she did tbh.

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link

Yes, but she's just some thick Northern prole innit?

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:00 (two years ago) link

I think alongside all his other fine qualities it's not surprising that Kieth is a vindictive fucking coward as well

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:01 (two years ago) link

Wasn’t there a video from his days as DPP shifting all the blame for something onto a staffer? He has form for this anyway I’m sure

stet, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link

I've seen footage where he blames a female staffer because he's too fucking thick to work out how floppy disks work

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link

Even SR (who I think likes to present herself as a fairly neutral reporter) can't contain herself:

In a series of terrible political management decisions, this has got to be the worst.

— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) May 8, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:14 (two years ago) link

Lol

Reports confirmed that Angela Rayner has had job of party chair and campaign chair removed from her - she's still deputy of the party, which is an elected position, and popular with members

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) May 8, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:17 (two years ago) link

It was Jenny Chapman, Kieth's director of politics who championed the move to circumvent party democracy and drop a hopeless candidate into Hartlepool. so is she sacked as well?

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:18 (two years ago) link

yeah I don't think I've seen Sienna Rogers post anything like that before.

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link

FUCK

Hearing this too. Another name doing the rounds is Wes Streeting, who it is thought would be an effective (shadow) ‘minister for the Today programme’ https://t.co/TPfstAILH7

— Henry Zeffman (@hzeffman) May 8, 2021

Scamp Granada (gyac), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link

🤪

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) May 8, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link

You heard it here first.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link

Re: Streeting, that's the only way this is going now.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link

bad move to bring in another person much taller than Kieth imo

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link

really smart politics to sack a popular rival who could outflank you from the right on a wave of fantasy red wall credentials tho

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:30 (two years ago) link

Word that even Nandy is being pushed out?? This really is C:UK #2.

Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link

I was fooled by Angela at one point, probably wanted to think the best of her because she is quite relatable and fit as.. her politics are almost sub-UKIP unfortunately.

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link

Nandy’s being one of the few councils to be solidly red and stay that way so far fwiw so of course she has to go

stet, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link

apologies for objectifying Angela there, but I've never FPed a female poster for saying Chukka is hot!

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:40 (two years ago) link

Man's not hot

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:42 (two years ago) link

Nobody has ever said Chuka is hot. I said Rayner was hot just today and I was right when I said it.

NEW: Rayner ally leaks this email in which David Evans invites colleagues to election post-mortem Zoom led by him and Starmer. Rayner notably nowhere, which, they say, is curious given her role as campaigns coordinator - and more evidence she had "nothing" to do with the campaign pic.twitter.com/YWcJrvsseM

— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) May 8, 2021



Meltdown May continues.

Scamp Granada (gyac), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link

Pretty sure people on ILX have said Chuka is hot. Or words to that effect. Long time ago though.

Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link

This is going even better than I dared dream

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:48 (two years ago) link

Maybe kieth hasn't lost his mind, but is trying to do angela rayner a solid by pushing her off in a lifeboat

On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, and picked me up at last. It was the devious-cruising Rachel Reeves, that in her retracing search after her missing children, only found another orphan.

I like to think every day in Kieth's office is like that Downfall scene now

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link

phwoar @ those silver birches

imago, Saturday, 8 May 2021 18:57 (two years ago) link

I definitely would not want to play Starmer at chess.

— Steven Fielding (@PolProfSteve) January 3, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:12 (two years ago) link

Yeah there is this:

But @AngelaRayner, you let them send you out to front the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn, who was always so kind to you. They used you to attack the membership, and you went along with it. Now they have spat on you and humiliated you, and it's hard to feel any sympathy.

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) May 8, 2021

But if it gets a lot worse I'm wondering if there's one fucking leadership challenge in about six months.

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:22 (two years ago) link

https://t.co/1rWdzp7mjR pic.twitter.com/pUVmOKuaRr

— tom (@malaiseforever) May 8, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link

Banter timeline would suggest that Wes to be installed as chair in time to be sacked after the Batley & Spen by election.

Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:29 (two years ago) link

probably best not trying to repeat the Hartlepool debacle in Batley and Spen.They are quite a peculiar and tough crowd. and shitloads of them voted Tory in '19.

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link

FINAL SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT SEATS:

SNP ~ 64 (+1)
Conservative ~ 31 (nc)
Labour ~ 22 (-2)
Green ~ 8 (+2)
Lib Dem ~ 4 (-1)#SP21 #BBS21

— Ballot Box Scotland (@BallotBoxScot) May 8, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link

Why does Brabin have to give up her seat if fellow regional mayor Dan Jarvis doesn’t have to give up his?

the thin blue lying (suzy), Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link

She has already said she'll resign as MP.

Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link

Lol

Another Labour source confirms a reshuffle *IS* ongoing, however.

It sounds like this is how it may shape up ...

Demotions: Anneliese Dodds, Lisa Nandy, Jon Ashworth and Nick Brown

Promotions: Wes Streeting, Rachel Reeves, Jess Phillips, Sarah Jones and Steve Reed

— Rachel Wearmouth (@REWearmouth) May 8, 2021

xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link

I'm not sure tbh, perhaps it was just her personal decision and Dan can draft a minute and shoot a whole family dead , so he's used to multitasking

calzino, Saturday, 8 May 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link

From the Times article on Rayner's sacking:

Since December 2019, Mattinson, a former pollster for Gordon Brown, has conducted focus groups for Starmer, asking voters in some to compare the leaders of political parties to animals. When it comes to Starmer, many choose an eagle: circling above events and opportunistically swooping down from time to time. The implication is clear: the 58-year-old former director of public prosecutions is aloof, detached and too far from his prey.

Not sure anyone in their right mind would see Kieth as an eagle, unless they meant Eddie?

Piedie Gimbel, Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link

Don Henley maybe

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link

Nah really tho it's an outright lie nobody has ever thought Kieth is a competent predator

Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:11 (two years ago) link

henley > starmer SITO

mark s, Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link

the implication is clear: the focus group was drunk and trolling

mark s, Saturday, 8 May 2021 20:13 (two years ago) link


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