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
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:51 (ten months ago) link
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
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:09 (ten months ago) link
it wouldn't let me read it tbh, but I assume it is a light-hearted take on nepotism from the title
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:14 (ten months ago) link
The Tweet said "and that's good" originally, I'm sure. So they've already rowed that bit back
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:29 (ten months ago) link
The article says that
― TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:02 (ten months ago) link
has it been deleted? I can't even load it on twitter now
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:09 (ten months ago) link
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
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:14 (ten months ago) link
it was ratioed to fuck even when i first shared it
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:15 (ten months ago) link
I can see it again now. lol I think twitter is becoming dysfunctional
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:22 (ten months ago) link
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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
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:35 (ten months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 11:19 (ten months ago) link
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
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 12:16 (ten months ago) link
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
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 4 June 2023 21:04 (ten months ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 4 June 2023 22:02 (ten months ago) link
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
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 June 2023 11:00 (ten months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 12:24 (ten months ago) link
the paper who kept endorsing the Tories until brexit now have their party back
― calzino, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 12:34 (ten months ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ef/2c/60/ef2c601dc2683372203d360ce6a40fd5.jpg
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Wednesday, 7 June 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:06 (nine months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:09 (nine months ago) link
Fantastic news about the tower!
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 13:47 (nine months ago) link
Bit of a howler in the first line from James B, in 1931 the National Government didn't fall, it was the labour government that fell, and the National (overwhelmingly tory) government that was elected on a landslide.
― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 15:33 (nine months ago) link
He implied opponents of his stance on the two-child cap were taking the same approach to the economy as Liz Truss:“It doesn’t matter if it’s unfounded tax cuts or unfounded commitments — it’s working people who suffer.”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s unfounded tax cuts or unfounded commitments — it’s working people who suffer.”
in a warped reality where any proposal to reverse Osborne/May's deepest cuts is comparable to Trussonomics. I can only wish the worst on these people. I genuinely hope they ... well I'll leave that bit out.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 19 July 2023 06:38 (nine months ago) link
They are going to hide behind the Truss budget, but governments can borrow at 5% lol. This stuff is disgraceful.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 06:59 (nine months ago) link
More on the Tower:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/brixton-hondo-offices-developers-community-victory/
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 19 July 2023 12:33 (nine months ago) link
One of the Labour people berating activists at Uxbridge. Loser.
You’re there to canvass, not sit about and eat.The best committee rooms don’t have chairs in them. https://t.co/fVqaV8Hbk3— Hannah (@hannoir) July 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 09:00 (nine months ago) link
I think anyone still campaigning for this party are out of their minds, of course they are going to get treated like dogshit. These supercilious pricks are the mainstream of the party now and they are all acting like the next GE is already all sewn up. So they don't need any of these nobodies.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 21 July 2023 09:22 (nine months ago) link
Lol
This guy Keir Mather finished his BA in 2019, then did a year as Wes Streeting's Researcher, a year at the CBI, and now he's set to become an MP. What even is that?! https://t.co/BTS5EukHiK— Hon. PolProf of Agile Ceremonies (@CeilNoyle) July 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 10:09 (nine months ago) link
Labour's deputy leader, Angela Rayner, described the result in Selby and Ainsty as a "historic win", adding she was "pretty certain [Mr Mather]... understands some of the challenges his generation faces".
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Ms Rayner said: "Being 25, he's of that generation that is looking at insecure work, looking at not being able to ever own their own home - and looking at the challenges that they face with cost of living now, that leaves them in this spiral of not being able to get on in life."
you get to the point where you just don't know [breaks down crying] where the next sweet gig at a right wing think thank is going to come from
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 21 July 2023 12:17 (nine months ago) link
tbf he might still be MP after the next election but he'll be looking for work after the next one
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 12:26 (nine months ago) link
before this rapid rise up the Labour Party hierarchy his education path was: private school>Oxford, somehow I don't think this fucker would be struggling to get onto the property ladder
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 21 July 2023 12:31 (nine months ago) link
I've got a ladder he can get on
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 12:53 (nine months ago) link
lol
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 13:33 (nine months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1i1dbeWAAExoym?format=jpg&name=medium
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 22 July 2023 08:19 (nine months ago) link
They are always doing a 'technical' or 'legal' thing to hide from
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:12 (nine months ago) link
he's mixing up campaigners with voters here but of course it is nonsense. It must be exhausting campaigning for the party of no purpose or significance beyond "getting the tories out" unless your a good bullshitter.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:21 (nine months ago) link
Luke is vermin anyway obv but something about how he tries to drop a bit of history knowledge like he has any or cares grinds my gears extra hard there
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 July 2023 10:49 (nine months ago) link
yeah he tries to play up as an authoritative Labour history geek but he's always way out of his depth
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 22 July 2023 11:13 (nine months ago) link
He added: “We are doing something very wrong if policies put forward by the Labour party end up on each and every Tory leaflet. We’ve got to face up to that and learn the lessons.”
― TWELVE Michelob stars?!? (seandalai), Sunday, 23 July 2023 00:03 (nine months ago) link
Scottish Labour's position on this is clear, we support self ID for trans people and oppose the UK government's attempt to block the necessary reform we voted for. https://t.co/kQNFn0yD9P— Richard Leonard (@LabourRichard) July 24, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 July 2023 09:54 (nine months ago) link
🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer personally confirms that Labour has abandoned its commitment to trans rights, stating that "a woman is an adult female".He also ruled out self-ID for trans people. pic.twitter.com/DDd9VmrlwD— Stats for Lefties 🏳️⚧️ (@LeftieStats) July 26, 2023
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:28 (nine months ago) link
a great bunch of adult human scumbags
grim
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:30 (nine months ago) link
Kier Starmer, chief genital inspector
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:32 (nine months ago) link
every time he drops one of these admissions of who he is i wonder whether the team have decided that it's now of strategic value to them to just own it, or if it slips out because he's bored of having to lie to the woke scum
― Let's talk about local tomatoes (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:36 (nine months ago) link
not going to shake this "TERF island" thing any time soon, are we?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:42 (nine months ago) link
just once i'd like to see these dickheads have to spend a few minutes with an 8-year-old trans girl and answer her questions
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:46 (nine months ago) link
there are still some parts of their new policy that would represent a meaningful (though totally inadequate and much worse than the previous policy) improvement to the status quo re: changing birth certificate gender marker, so i expect they will inevitably abandon even that before too long because trying to do even that inadequate, small improvement that makes no one happy policy would still upset all the transphobes in the party & media
― ufo, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 10:53 (nine months ago) link
"struggles with the penis question"TERFs just absolutely obsessed with cock
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 11:36 (nine months ago) link
I've always held fast to my stance that giving Diane Abbott one vote less wouldn't really work as a measure to spite Starmer and his ilk, but God I do wish there was something I could do in that department.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 26 July 2023 11:41 (nine months ago) link