have you quit the labour party yet?

Last Sheffield Central selection was this week. Final nominations:

Rizwana Lala: 4
Abtisam Mohammed: 4
Mike Buckley: 1
Eddie Izzard: 1
Jayne Dunn: 0
Paul Mason: 0

last Paul Mason update for those who are keenly following his attempt to advance the class struggle in Sheffield Central

Lol nobody wants him

at least Big Dunty still takes him seriously

great minds and all that

It’s not for ministers to pluck numbers out of the air, overriding negotiations. That would just undermine industrial relations and the negotiating power of unions. (3/5)

— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) November 12, 2022

To be clear, this is what I said:

Q: Would a Labour government give public sector workers a 10% pay rise right now?

A: Not in that sense, to put it brutally. No, it will be decided through the pay bodies but we would strengthen the unions by having good employment rights.(4/5)

— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) November 12, 2022

maybe trade unions should form a party to represent their interests in parliament

Unison's leadership academy delivering the goods for its members, you love to see it

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/14/jeremy-corbyn-will-never-stand-for-labour-again-say-senior-figures

Announce through a leak to the guardian that a former leader is permanently expelled, no recourse to party members, this has been decided by [unnamed people] because [no need to mention logic, procedures, rules], what kind of organisation is this? at least with the tories you know what yr getting.

Akehurst talking to reporters again?

It's his party now.

Do we still reckon Corbyn is so much of a loyalist that he won't stand as an independent?

I think it might be the principle of the thing, in that he remains a party member in good standing despite this whip business.

he does seem hugely sentimental about this dead party tho

tbf if they stand another candidate i'd like him to stand against them for the sheer lulz, but for his own sake and in a way for the sake of left politics i think he should, as we say, give it neck

I reckon he'll stand. God knows who is going to be left (pun not intended) in the local constituency Labour Party after all this, AGM in a phone box etc.

He is a massively sentimental bag about it. Given how little he was respected for so much of his time there.

Reckon Corbyn retires to being a campaigner. That is not nothing either.

ppl falling for a dumb news story by noted outlet "mylondon.news" that's saying Corbyn is being "urged" to run against Khan based on one unnamed source, you'd almost think this was planted by the labour right because it's so obviously a less popular idea than him running again in Islington.

I realise it's more likely it's just blatant clickbait ofc.

I like the line in the article that says they’d have no shortage of funds for Islington North. Yeah, I can see Starmer Labour throwing huge amounts of cash at the seat out of sheer spite. Cunts.

I just feel so angry on Corbyn’s behalf about this all, it’s so humiliating and such utter bullshit!

It's pure vindictiveness and all because some racist moron in Worksop told a reporter once that he'd never vote Labour again.

he should stand as an independent (which I imagine he reluctantly will do) at least then he'd be blocking a terrible Labour melt from winning the seat. He's healthy enough to carry on being one of the few decent constituency MPs for some years. He needs to forget about "stay and fight" at his age, it's futile and will be for a long long time - maybe more than what many of us have got left!

In another way tho calz there might be some power in him explicitly acknowledging that the Labour Party and by extension the current parliamentary setup is useless to left politics

after being in the Labour party for so long I think he might have become a little bit institutionalised on his thinking on this. He spent decades marginalised by the right, yet he bided his time. He's been around long enough to know that the party is garbage and of the futility of exacting change through parliamentary democracy (as hard as he tried). But this is just a feeling, but I think he's got a strong bond with the party in some emotional way and he doesn't want to terminally sever the link.

I think you're right, just not sure it's good for him or the left at this stage

Halfway thru that sentence I realised it was patronising and none of my business really

There was an article over the weekend on the seat, not short of speaking on condition of anonymity

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/nov/12/no-way-id-take-on-corbyn-labour-safe-seat-turns-toxic-over-mps-whip-removal

Yeah I saw that, or skimmed it. Nothing but Labour ogres dripping the line tho really?

Labour’s proposals to abolish the House of Lords are set to be watered down after an eleventh-hour row between Gordon Brown and Sir Keir Starmer’s advisers, The Times has learnt.

Preparations for the launch of a review of the constitution by the former prime minister have been overshadowed by internal tension over the scale and pace of reform of the upper house.

lol

Just waiting for the plans to end charitable status for private schools to go the same way.

I believe this is what electability looks like

The A-Team! @bh_younglabour on fine formidable form for the Wish by election. They’ve earned their lunch at The Stoneham Pub 😅 pic.twitter.com/AJ4trdSCLH

— Peter Kyle MP (@peterkyle) December 3, 2022

someone has been unkind enough to post that the little Tory shit in the middle looks like a youthful Heinrich Himmler

tbf focus groups are telling the Labour Party Heinrich Himmler appeals to Red Wall voters.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/22/labour-targets-new-swing-voter-middle-aged-mortgage-man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ZB1t6gg8

look at the state of this lying fuck

In a discussion on how he "couldn't disagree with the basic case so many leave voters made to me", Starmer says yes, he campaigned for remain & voted for remain, but "we lost the referendum". Sophie Ridge reminds him he went on to lead the campaign for a second referendum #Ridge pic.twitter.com/vaCPzFCD7e

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) January 8, 2023

Am I wrong to think that constantly reminding people of Brexit is not a very good idea? Electorally, I mean.

he's trying so hard to yezhov that 2nd ref period of his career, ffs it was only 3 years ago and there are plenty of videos and quotes. Just admitting it would be so much easier than looking like a typical prevaricating slimeball pol!

this is it! any remotely competent hypocrite wd've come out with something along the lines of "i was in favour then but the politics has changed" but he just gawps like he hopes the question will vanish

do their focus groups ever tell them that just going with whatever their focus groups say will play best at any given moment doesn't actually play very well? that it kind of makes you look like a snake who can't be counted on for shit?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmBlbTvXoAAxb0M?format=jpg&name=medium

big dichter energy!

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/keir-starmer-labour-lammy-jobs-b2258114.html

Lammy is one of greediest and most owned by corporates MPs in the opposition, even greedier than some of the worst tories. Absolute piece of garbage.

How on Earth does David Lammy find time to do his actual 84k a year job? pic.twitter.com/3v0nMZoQVH

— j (@jrc1921) January 8, 2023

in the top half of the venality charts

I read one of his apologists posting that he has to accept the £87k from Global Radio because part of duties as an MP is to find the best platform to communicate with his constituents, ha ha!

Has it occurred to Reeves that if the capitalist system she's such a fan of actually worked then there'd be no need for political parties?

Oh wait, of course it has

it occurred to me that the stitch up they did on Lula (which was basically him staying at a holiday home owned by big construction or something) was nothing compared to what some of the busiest Labour Party p/t MP-f/t Lobbyists get up to.

'Bolder' Labour is it now.

Wes Streeting's plan to scrap the current GP system "was not raised at shadow cabinet and some sources suggest the potentially huge costs of scrapping the GP contract were not even run past Rachel Reeves," reveals @REWearmouth. https://t.co/2G4QrxHxR1

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) January 9, 2023

Kieth throwing in with the terfs over the Scottish gender recognition bill just in case anyone harboured a shred of faith in these villains

centrism means never having to take your fingers out of your ears or open your eyes

ppl like Bastani and OJ will criticise him for this and carry on with the "lesser evil" defence of still voting for them, to say that is becoming a very untenable position is a fucking understatement.