have you quit the labour party yet?

lol that he's enough of a simp to think renationalisation might be a serious Starmer agenda

"a solid aspirational vision", what a tosser

always love it when politics fans talk about "the brand" with a straight face, you can tell they're really passionate and have deeply-held beliefs

blur announce rhythm section for upcoming gigs:

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Labour to pledge rapid action on replenishing UK weapon stocks https://t.co/lPBuvTVJng

— The Guardian (@guardian) February 6, 2023

Some might say that this is a party of cunts, run by cunts, chasing the votes of simps

of course freunde

nothing worse than getting caught short without huge fucking stockpiles of anti-tank bazookas

it's nice that unfunded pledges are OK as long as they are going to the weapons of death industry rather than the NHS

i shall sleep easier in my bed

Guess what's being destroyed?

What makes this one especially egregious is that Broxtowe represents a model of the party as a hub of community organising. They fed 10,000 people during the pandemic. The absolute opposite of hollowed out, cartel party Starmer wants to erect. https://t.co/b2T9YO4rQd

— Keir Milburn (@KeirMilburn) February 28, 2023

This is how many times now, to a wall of fucking silence from a press pack that had screaming fits over any individual resignation letter they could lay their hands on 2015-19 https://t.co/wgc0THKVhg

— The Justin Horton Show (@ejhchess) February 28, 2023

I genuinely hope these spiteful scumbags somehow manage to fuck the next GE.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64595772

it’s very strange from an American POV to see candidates with no ties to the area “selected” by the national party and parachuted in. in a way it’s kind of awe-inspiring that the party is that powerful. in another way it just sucks

A very sad evening as the right wing of DaWN Labour Party conclude 8 years of assault on Gipsy Hill Branch by abolishing us out of existence.
They stitched up our councillor selections, fabricated complaints against members, ignored our votes and now abolished us. Complete joke pic.twitter.com/3X2jMGl8di

— Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann (@benwwk) March 16, 2023

always telling easily fact-checked lies is the grownup politics

Starmer denies ever being a friend of Corbyn despite describing him in such a way in April 2020 and serving alongside him for a number of years pic.twitter.com/QEnRLE46gY

— j (@jrc1921) April 3, 2023

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fa5b38b4-d18d-11ed-b1cd-5223fe349502?shareToken=b3b4b6c43851ef4eefba09c962b6181f

Times article about divisions in the Labour leadership between those who think Lab should be targeting 'Workington Man' (male red wall voters who defected from Lab to Con in 2019) and those who think they should focus more on a type identified by a think-tank called 'Labour Together' as 'Stevenage Woman':

Disillusioned with politics, she is in her early forties and works full-time. She worries about the cost of living, is an instinctive fiscal conservative, and probably voted Tory in 2019. She quite likes Rishi Sunak.

but then when you get to what this actually means in practice:

Labour Together wants to lock Starmer to a small-c conservative line on crime, immigration, gender and security.

this seems like the exact same line we were told Labour needed to adopt to win over Workington Man? so what is the big divide, exactly? maybe the 'instinctive fiscal conservative' bit, the Stevenage Woman boosters might think Labour needs to move right on economics? but the article doesn't say anything about that, just stuff like this

Ahead of Labour’s “crime week” last month, there was a lengthy debate over whether the party should use the word “punishment” in its messaging; and some think the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper is too soft on law and order.

also the article opens with a tenuous reference to 'This is the Chorus' by Morris Minor and the Majors, very strange article all round

arguing aggressively over which fucking fictional racist you've made up for your tea party you need to pander to more

...is the grownup politics

it's fucking grownups everywhere i tell thee

three lads i was listening to in the pub yesterday veering between "bring back the death penalty" and "it's the immigrants" so maybe Volkischer Labour are onto something

'I'm not going to make that commitment.'

Keir Starmer tells this junior doctor that he cannot promise a full pay restoration if he were in power, but says a Labour government would be 'on your side'.

Kiething it real!

Did he elucidate in what way he'd be 'on their side' I wonder?

this guy is arguing that it's not accurate to say 'Stevenage Woman' is socially conservative based on the data in the report, that she's moderate or even liberal relative to the general population (rather than relative to existing Lab voters), and that the journalists leading with the 'socially conservative' framing are misrepresenting the report. But presumably the 'socially conservative' angle is what Labour Together are briefing themselves, based on stuff like that Times article.

Let us *please* not have a repeat of the commentariats garbling of James Kanagasooriams "Red Wall" hypothesis. pic.twitter.com/W7DXXOxpTk

— Marios Richards (@MariosRichards) April 3, 2023

i heard Yvette Cooper on the radio this morning talking about the new grooming laws, and about the Dover queues, and she was even worse than I'd remembered. just idiotic. You could hear it Mishal Husain's voice, constantly downshifting to try and reach Cooper at whatever level she was at, and failing.

I heard that as well, lol she's fucking awful and some people still see her as a fluent grown-up politician who is good at this stuff. The funny thing is she hasn't pleased anybody this morning. She's getting pelters from FBPEs and the rabid right. Might need some new triangulation software.

The shock revelation that a huge percentage of grooming gang crimes are actually committed by white people could have done with a bit more discussion.

look it's only 80-odd percent white people, we need to look at the bigger issue

you might think that nepotism and its attendant corruption is profoundly anti-democratic, but you're wrong

“Everyone knows everyone” is the first rule of the Labour Party.

They know each other; they’re related to each other; they sleep with each other; they marry each other, writes Morgan Jones. https://t.co/TBeWQ7zdmV

— The New Statesman Politics (@TheStaggers) May 30, 2023

so amusing that they repeatedly shit all over the democratic process during selections and all the most powerful people are advancing up their own family members to the upper hierarchy of the party. yes it is like a Succession ep, but funny cos it is real, ho ho ho let's write a whimsical piece about this

it wouldn't let me read it tbh, but I assume it is a light-hearted take on nepotism from the title

The Tweet said "and that's good" originally, I'm sure. So they've already rowed that bit back

The article says that

has it been deleted? I can't even load it on twitter now

oh no it has loaded now. Yeah they have deleted that part of the line on twitter - a ghost of it is still showing up on ilx - I think

it was ratioed to fuck even when i first shared it

I can see it again now. lol I think twitter is becoming dysfunctional

3 Retweets 62 Quotes 3 Likes 11 Bookmarks

so it seems the NES will be realising that political cronyism/nepotism isn't really a jovial subject - even the melts have spent years railing against it in its Tory form

Possibly the only pro-Corbyn candidate whom Lab didn't, for some reason, stop. She is running for the seat at the next one.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/29/social-mobility-is-a-fairytale-faiza-shaheen-on-fighting-for-labour-and-hating-oxford

don't know whether to feel sad that somebody so acute and passionate is still ensnared in the Labour machine or glad that people are still trying to speak truth from a public platform

Stalinmer, anyone done this yet

So this Jamie Driscoll things isn't going to go away, and I can only hope it does some damage.
Even Tories seem to think it's unfair and ludicrous. An apparently it's all over essentially being in the same room as Ken Loach.
But Loach was not expelled for AS, as various liars are lying

"Where somebody shares a platform with someone who themselves has been expelled from the Lab Party for their views on antisemitism.. that would preclude them from being a candidate"

Reynolds justifys the leadership purging socialists from standing as Labour candidates. #Ridge pic.twitter.com/eHECs1V4wU

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 4, 2023

I've got mixed feelings on KL's approach to making movies with class consciousness at the heart of them. I still do like some of them though. But to try and monster him as an anti-Semite and then anyone who is caught stood next to him is just completely fucking senseless and hideous.

this is transparent bullshit, illegal no doubt, just saying shit for headlines, but the fact that a prospective parliamentary candidate for Labour things it's worth saying is completely unsurprising

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/05/darren-rodwell-labour-barking-dagenham-london-knife-crime-evictions

Pure fiction in the FT today

this week @ft looks at what Starmer would do in Downing St if Labour wins 2024 general election:

the answer is more radical than you might think…

green economy, employment reforms, planning changes, scrapping House of Lords, nationalising rail, moving 50,000 civil servants https://t.co/G18oCTbJOv

— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) June 6, 2023

the paper who kept endorsing the Tories until brexit now have their party back

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The labour left group I was a member have been fighting against developers for ages and it looks like they have won.

For over 2 years in Brixton, the local community have been fighting a Texan millionaire’s attempt to build a vanity tower block that would tear the soul out of the iconic market and turbo-charge gentrification.

Tonight, the community have won. The application has been withdrawn. pic.twitter.com/wzPH69oWfs

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) July 17, 2023

Meanwhile..

Keir Starmer will be Britain's next PM. What does that mean for the rest of us?

I tried to see the Labour leader clearly - a difficult task - for the next issue of the @LRB. Now online early: https://t.co/4GyTn35Nvv

— James B (@piercepenniless) July 17, 2023

Fantastic news about the tower!