have you quit the labour party yet?

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

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ef/2c/60/ef2c601dc2683372203d360ce6a40fd5.jpg

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 The application has been withdrawn.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!

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.

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.”

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.

They are going to hide behind the Truss budget, but governments can borrow at 5% lol. This stuff is disgraceful.

More on the Tower:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/brixton-hondo-offices-developers-community-victory/

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

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.

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

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

tbf he might still be MP after the next election but he'll be looking for work after the next one

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

I've got a ladder he can get on

lol

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1i1dbeWAAExoym?format=jpg&name=medium

They are always doing a 'technical' or 'legal' thing to hide from

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.

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

yeah he tries to play up as an authoritative Labour history geek but he's always way out of his depth

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.”

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

🚨 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

a great bunch of adult human scumbags

grim

Kier Starmer, chief genital inspector

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

not going to shake this "TERF island" thing any time soon, are we?

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

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

"struggles with the penis question"

TERFs just absolutely obsessed with cock

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.

I don't even know who is going to be the Labour candidate for my constituency, but I'm quite certain they wont make it a difficult decision for me. If there was a candidate who Starmer wanted out of the party and was decent I still couldn't vote for them. When I voted for Ed in 2015 it was the first time I voted in a GE and I pledged to myself that I'm never voting for a marginally least worst option ever again. Now it seems that paltry offer isn't even on the table any more.

more than any time in my life parliamentary politics feels like a pointless, useless endeavour for affecting positive change in the UK, but i think anybody who believes that the UK government can potentially change things, and believes there should be a left/liberal party offering hope for change, should be very vocally withholding their vote from the Labour Party as it currently operates

The smell of cut grass takes me back to beginning to play grass football.

And, you know, going onto a pitch that's been cut, so when I was probably - first time I went on a decent pitch was probably when I was about 10, playing an under-11s league, where they cut the grass and it's that that smell of fresh grass that's just been cut.

You do still get at a football grounds, not so much because now the grass is sort of integrated a bit with other stuff, you don't get the same cut smell.

But that takes me back to sort of cycling around Surrey and Kent - I played with the Kent Boys League, um, for, um, a team there and just walking on the pitch.

I can't tell you how joyful walking onto a pitch is for me.

I’ve played football pretty much every weekend since I was 10. There’s nothing like it.

Sport promotes creativity, resilience and the ability to adapt.

With Labour every child can study a creative subject or sport.

Our mission is to secure opportunity for all. pic.twitter.com/93LgmOjlUn

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) July 27, 2023

funny, would've thought he'd categorize the smell of grass as antisocial behaviour

where they cut the grass and it's that that smell of fresh grass that's just been cut

let's hope nobody from the Sun has bad hay fever or he'll be rowing this back within the week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w

Transgender

Wes Streeting apologises to Rosie Duffield for treatment by Labour over gender views

MP said she felt ostracised and accused male colleagues of shouting her down for opposing transgender reforms

Just the grossest people in the world.

if any Labour campaigners turn up on my doorstep I'm first going ask them to give me a concise one minute presentation of what is good about them without mentioning Liz Truss or Putin and then ask them why they will throw all minorities who aren't the conservative ideal of "hard working family" under a bus. Then tell them to fuck off if they don't admit they aren't much better than BNP or UKIP these days.

2019 "Climate change is the issue of our time & as the XR protest showed us this week, the next generation are not going to forgive us if we dont take action.. now we need action"

2023: The action I'm taking is to say demanding no new oil & gas licences is contemptible. pic.twitter.com/3zg3kJxkGP

— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) August 7, 2023

maybe it's just me but this rhetoric doesn't say "sensible and forensic"

i hope something extremely unfortunate and permanent happens to this cunt soon

Both parties in the U.K. support tuition fees - but the leader of one goes on the high performance podcast to talk about themselves and mindset. pic.twitter.com/a2p1FiVfbd

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) August 24, 2023

Rise and grind (the workers into dust)

some Liz Truss shit

not sure if would be unfortunate at all if starmer were to [REDACTED] on a [REDACTED] until his [REDACTED] turns into a mushy pile of [REDACTED] tbh

not unfortunate for humanity as a whole, certainly