have you quit the labour party yet?

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.

Reportedly it was sent by one of the insecure & inexperienced agency staff brought in to work on complaints while the party was making permanent staff redundant—a great advert for hiring cheap labour from the party of labour.

🤦🏻 pic.twitter.com/FwoMOSueqQ

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) September 12, 2021

Another reset! Those lucky Fabians get first dibs on the massively expanded Snyder cut word salad version of his conference speech - it's everything those cunts deserve tbf!

"opportunity", a classic Tory dogwhistle, translation = "if you're struggling to survive and thrive it's your fault for not seizing your opportunity, don't blame capital"

only "hard-working families" count to Blairite Labour and especially Kieth's ghoulish shadow chancellor, everyone who isn't in that very woolly category - whatever the fuck it means - can die in a pile on the streets.

one of the pro-Starmer comments "the left is obsessed with policy"

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/13/keir-starmer-jeremy-corbyn-suspension

Len McClusky on Corbyn’s suspension and Starmer’s involvement.

Lol @ Margaret Hodge's role in this

maybe she objected to being lumped in with the antiracists

I know they have to sound respectful about party democracy and say "I had no idea Kieth would turn out to be such a cunt and had nothing but goodwill for him at the start" but I never believe a word of it.

Hodge's visceral hatred for Corbyn is actually quite impressive at times! But there is not much else to be impressed with.

Her daughter is deputy editor of the BBC 6pm news broadcast so she is always a phone call away from airing her latest grievances.

Hodge's visceral hatred for Corbyn is actually quite impressive at times!

I'm wondering how much the Islington connection is behind it.

https://www.islingtongazette.co.uk/news/crime/isn-members-confront-margaret-hodge-at-ucl-3827360

A former leader of Islington council and now a devoted Blairite member for Barking, Hodge agreed to debate Clause 4 with hard left MP Jeremy Corbyn in front of an earnest crowd at the Red Rose Centre in Islington.
Corbyn argued to retain the public ownership clause while Hodge said electoral victory must come first. Corbyn won the crowd over completely – at which point Hodge turned from cool pragmatist into fuming maniac. She rose to reply and completely blew her gasket: she called the astonished crowd stupid and accused them of loving being in opposition and of having their heads in the sand. Of the hundred or so present, only two voted in favour of Hodge..

this as well

Anyone going to the Red Rose Club (RIP) to debate with Jeremy Corbyn was on a hiding to nothing tbf!

So in the blue corner, Starmer's team deny a deal, but their arguments are inconsistent, illogical & anonymous.

In the red corner, Len is on the record saying there was a deal, providing uncontested verbatim quotes & showing Starmer to be dishonest.

Who would you believe?

— Alex Nunns (@alexnunns) September 13, 2021

of course a former Corbyn speechwriter would say that but the contradictory and constantly shifting palter from Kieth and his staff doesn't hold together at all. But you are allowed to be a bad liar in UK politics if you are a tory.

A Thread on Unison Labour Link elections 👇
1. Imagine an election where the ballot papers are counted behind closed doors without tellers or independent observers, and where the results are announced without revealing the breakdown of votes. @novaramedia @DoubleDownNews

— Yousaf Hassan (@YHLabour) March 9, 2022

If you haven’t quit the party yet, it’s always a good time but now is especially good.

There are concerns that Sharon Graham, the general secretary of Unite, will reduce the amount the union normally gives to the party before elections. Tensions also remain with the GMB over Labour’s environmental policies.
Those tasked with keeping the unions onside include Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader; Nick Parrott, her chief of staff; Luke Sullivan, a political aide to Starmer; and Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, who is involving them in drawing up economic policy.

for my own sanity i need to stop hate-reading Twitter cunts giving it the "don't you want the Tories out?" bit

the list of councillors has been set for Newham now (chosen by the NEC) and all of the new intake apart from one are firmly on the right. only three councillors left who supported Corbyn.

there's room for several narratives about the position of socialism in the Labour Party, and for debate about how anomalous the Corbyn moment was, or the Atlee government was, but i feel pretty safe saying that it's never been more useless to working class people and the Left in general than it is now

Local elections are coming, be interesting to see if things are pointing towards a collapse of the vote in the cities.

Will you be voting?

Yes, though not for the Lab councillors here.

Sotsialnyi Rukh condemning Labour for the impending ban on the AWL.

The statement of Sotsialnyi Rukh on the banning Labour members from "supporting" @workersliberty https://t.co/eCwVR391mk pic.twitter.com/oidqMlF6Mi

— Taras Bilous (@ahatanhel) March 29, 2022

https://monthlyreview.org/2022/02/01/anatomy-of-a-propaganda-campaign-jeremy-corbyns-political-assassination/

turns out claims of antisemitism are baseless and politically motivated

will Hodge backtrack when Starmer and Lammy have to make grovelling apologies for all the offence they've caused. It goes beyond party politics, just about everyone sees how crass and defensible it was - apart from a couple of Labour MPs!

indefensible I meant

lol filming yrself at holocaust memorial to signal jews = great bunch of lads

mind ay 'grindr remembers'?

it's reminding me of ilx poster oscar bravo ruminating on Starmer never saying anything intelligent but clever enough to pass the bar and become a hotshot human rights lawyer. Well anyone who finds themselves in a situation where you are making a promotional vid at the berlin holocaust memorial without thinking "perhaps there is something not quite right about this". lol, they are definitely lacking something.

It also turns out that saying the antisemitic trope "Who funds them?" is good and fine, actually

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/19/forde-report-labour-racism-sexism-bullying-claims