have you quit the labour party yet?

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

Don't worry Keith. Not getting "taking part in a communist revolution with killing fields set up for you lot" out of my mind.

The Labour right huffing and puffing that a Jewish woman has been chosen to stand for the Greens in Birkenhead. Isn't it past time we call them what they are, which is antisemitic? As well as authoritarian freaks who presume they can dictate selection in other parties, of course.

calling them anitsemitic is antisemitic, especially the goys

let's not forget that the current Labour shadow chancellor has a portrait of her pro-nazi political hero in her office. The one who wouldn't employ Jews or Catholics and in the Nazi era was referred to as "our honorable member for Berlin" by Stafford Cripps.

"With a Labour ­government, those who make British lives a misery will face British force — and British justice."

“There are some who say that Labour shouldn’t talk about immigration or shouldn’t believe in secure borders,” he said.

“On the other side, there are some who want us to turn our back on the world and shut up shop.

“Both are wrong.

“Both are un-British.”

I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me keir starmer as one of its members.

imagine thinking that there was such a thing as 'british' that goes beyond a passport categorisation.

I despise this party so much I would literally be tempted to vote Tory if I thought it would contribute to their demise. Not that I'd really do it and it would be a futile act, but I think there is some merit in the idea of tactical voting in marginals with trash Labour MPs to reduce their win margin. The last thing you'd want to do is hand these dangers a crushing majority and a limitless mandate for evil.

seumas milm (gyac)
Posted: 26 September 2020 at 14:21:55
Every day a new low.

I despise this party so much I would literally be tempted to vote Tory if I thought it would contribute to their demise. Not that I'd really do it and it would be a futile act, but I think there is some merit in the idea of tactical voting in marginals with trash Labour MPs to reduce their win margin. The last thing you'd want to do is hand these dangers a crushing majority and a limitless mandate for evil.

I used to say I'd rather vote UKIP than vote Liberal, it's getting that way!

https://i.imgur.com/8EKzRmB.png

24/5 for Tories to win most seats
9/1 for Conservative majority

I get the polling lead at the moment but these are too good to pass up

if I had to have a bet on this, I'd take the 11/4 on a hung parliament

The headline lead is big but need to factor in voter distribution

I feel like there are similarities in the UK with Japan's 1955 system but I don't know if the opposition party ever held a lead this big there in the polling

Japan's 1955 system...damn that's a grenade you have thrown in this thread!!

I'm voting for Mishima

I can't think of a more low-stakes GE than Sunak vs Starmer in my memory. Even if the Tories throw up some extreme wedge issue like bringing back the gallows, Starmer will start talking about how he always loved the sound of necks snapping.

Now unlike some of you I've seen the Tory gallows proposal. And it pains me, Mr Speaker, though I must say I am not surprised, that the specifications the government have settled on for their gallows regime are utterly unfit for purpose. The Tories have mode a mockery of public hanging. We can do better. We must do better. The people demand it. Labour demands it. That is why, Mr Speaker, today I am submitting my own designs for a humane, sensible, thoroughly British approach to the execution needs of our country. It is backed by science. It is fully costed. And I call upon this House to see this Tory proposal for what it really is: a shambolic, unworkable system of outdated pulleys and levers that I doubt could even snuff out someone's grandma.

OTM. The guillotine in other words.

I feel like there are similarities in the UK with Japan's 1955 system but I don't know if the opposition party ever held a lead this big there in the polling

"no one" often enough does but that isn't an opposition party. there were similar gigantic opinion poll leads last time an opposition party won government in japan (2009) but they didn't take long to completely collapse in popularity once in government.

i guess the uk will end up there if there isn't some fascist opportunist (in the tories or otherwise) to take advantage of starmer being completely worthless as pm

I meant more if the opposition had significant leads which they then lost, given the LDP winning 21 of 23 elections since 1955, 1993 and 2009 being outliers and short lived ones at that. Couldn't easily find historical polling data

i really doubt it, managing to lose a polling lead like this would be very unusual anyway but if anyone can do it starmer's labour can

a five-year hysteria to label corbyn as a racist and this is what they fucking replaced him with, jesus https://t.co/XHWGVmc5tv

— Gordon / rent controls fan account (@istreasatuatha) September 18, 2023

"I'm very happy to work with The Sun, to write for The Sun, to do interviews for The Sun..."

Ahead of his party's conference in Liverpool, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer explains why he writes for a newspaper that's widely boycotted on Merseyside...@GranadaReports pic.twitter.com/HQ5dNJdWx6

— Andrew Misra (@MisraAndrew) October 5, 2023

all I can ever think of when I hear this guy talking is happy thoughts of someone smashing him in the chin with a lightning uppercut so ferocious that he takes flight for a few seconds.

“Labour [has ] sought to delay the civil trial until after the general election takes place.” https://t.co/vd84Soz5kJ

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 5, 2023

that's almost Trumpian really in it's naked cynicism to gain power to abuse power

I have quit the Labour party (or at least stopped paying my subs more than a year ago) but for some reason I still received this email yesterday (NB I'm not Peter, this guy is just the first person I saw who screenshotted the email) (not pictured but the email also came with a bonus union jack emoji in the subject line)

this is quite simply the most abjectly embarrassing shit i have ever seen pic.twitter.com/bftcnd2smr

— Peter Mitchell (@pdkmitchell) October 8, 2023

Kind of relieved they didn't go with "Luv my country, 8 Islam, end of" as was presumably the first draft

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/i-will-never-leave-labour-but-my-new-membership-card-makes-me-uneasy

... there is nothing on God’s green earth that would make me leave. Nothing.

Zoe agrees with ILX.

It's such an insane position to take, like if labour officially decided to become the party of eating children she'd still stay?

I see this kind of resigned attitude amongst lifers for football clubs or bad tv shows, couldn't imagine applying it to a political party.

it's an identity thing, which is understandable if you're always gonna be comfortable enough for it not to matter whether your party of choice does anything other than win the occasional election

They should make her a special membership card that says “I hold no actual convictions I just really like rosettes”