have you quit the labour party yet?

you can *only* join as an 'associate member'

the only effective pressure groups on the Labour Party these days are bet365, private healthcare lobbyists, big business donors and various billionaires etc. If anybody truly wants to change the party they have to explain why why nobody should vote Labour because there isn't a popular mandate for austerity and they are fucking garbage. Momentum won't do that, so basically they are absolutely without a reason to exist - other than just ambling on doing nothing.

I'm just trying to process how stupid or disingenuous you'd have to be to call the Fabians left wing

Momentum has been a busted flush since 2019 at the latest if I'm generous

Did anyone else get the begging email from Labour that is fundraising off the back of the racism faced by Diane Abbott, without even once mentioning her by name?

You can respond to it, so I did:

Not a penny from me or anyone I know in Holborn and St Pancras (where I live) until the whip is restored to the Diane Abbott, the victim of this racism, along with an apology. She apologised to you for her poorly expressed letter; how sad it is that it’s taken the whole Hester scandal and the Speaker’s refusal to call her at PMQs to illustrate to the general public that deep within that letter, she may have had a point.

nice

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GIndn4pXYAEYhy2?format=jpg&name=medium

🤢

yeah it's disgraceful all right

Cunts.

JP tweeting up a storm over this when she made her name as a new MP by slagging off Diane frequently hasn’t gone unnoticed

Journalist Robert Peston and Labour MP Jess Philips having a good laugh at someone impersonating Diane Abbott. Racism is not the preserve of any one political party https://t.co/mGmv44zS1U

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) March 13, 2024

i thought they didn't care about little people's money nowadays

Don’t you know? The only thing they value from little people are their votes - which you should give up without questioning what you’re supporting - or whatever coins the glorious forthcoming Reeves era leaves you with after cutting whatever remains of public services so she can spend money getting her hair cut at Legoland or giving nice contracts to donors.

I should clarify: RR is not spending valuable donor money on getting her hair cut, you just have to clip that stuff on and you’re good to go.
https://i.postimg.cc/ZqRTXSGN/IMG-7071.jpg

i assume Reeves has a big round peg on top of her head so this looks credible

Next ukpol thread title needs to be “short legs, big happy smile”, works for Starmer and Reeves both

Reeves' political hero, Nancy Astor ("our honourable member for Berlin") got sidelined by the Tories, mainly for being a pro Nazi regime nutjob who kept embarrassing them in parliament and she was also loudly anti-Semitic. That's her political hero.

First white antisemitic Nazi female MP >>>>>>>>>> first black female MP

Now the gossip is that she’s been offered the whip back on condition she stands down at the General.

Fuck. That.

Also RR is so clearly cosplaying Gina McKee from Our Friends In The North, along with eg. Bridget Phillipson.

These Labour antisemitism investigations sure do take a long time

right????? scandalous eh

A sham inquiry obviously, because aside from the letter to the Observer there is fuck all else of substance on Abbott to justify a year of *investigation*

they’re really dragging their feet. they must not be serious about tackling the problem. why are these antisemites still in the party. etc

the way they've treated her in comparison to Neil Coyle, who had his whip restored after racial abuse of a journo and harassing an assistant. Well that shows the distinction between politically convenient racism, which is a very grave offense in Diane's case, and the racism they are happy to give a pass to.

Centrists and terfs throwing fits because Owen Jones has left Labour, you love to see it.

Yes, strange, since they were saying they didn’t need him for years

Apparently this also makes him a grifter? Who knew!

Meanwhile I'm thinking the lad might still vote for them even after all this

No, I’m sure a huge part of the reason he’s left is that Emily Thornberry (his MP) has been extremely shifty over Gaza. They have been good friends in the past and often canvassed together. I’m sure people in Labour who are dissatisfied with the direction of the party generally stick around as members if they like their MP.

"We Deserve Better" looks likely to be effective as "Enough is Enough" in terms of results, but fuck it, if it helps to run scum like Starmer and Streeting close in the numbers, it will have ben worth it. And it may help in Bristol West too. I have to say, I do admire Jones' stances lately, and his videos have been very useful in helping to educate my parents. My mum has really changed her opinion of Starmer and Labour because of him. And I really can't see how this is beneficial to his career, despite solidifying his brand. In any case, it's a good brand.

We all remember his video encouraging us to vote Labour last year - it does genuinely seem to be Gaza which has pushed him over the edge, and you have to respect that.

I’m a big football fan, I go to England games, men, women’s games. And the flag is used by everybody, it’s unifying, it doesn’t need to change. We just need to be proud of it. So I think they should just reconsider this and change it back.

hahaha we're back baby pic.twitter.com/z9QG2TFCE5

— Frank Sobotka (@cymrurouge) March 24, 2024

Bring it on.

Lol I thought they were going to to do Euan Blairs ex

This is much funnier

I think Euan Blair’s ex will be running in the constituency where she lives (and ran as a LibDem last time).

i just don't see Mason happening, he's too embarrassing even for Labour 2024 and doesn't seem to be acknowledged by anybody in the party that matters

strongly hoping for him to get a chance tho, it'll surely be the comedy highlight of the election

his main problem is that he isn't even a useful idiot for Starmer Labour. Nobody takes him seriously and he didn't come close in his 3(?) previous attempts at standing in low-key seats. God knows why he thinks he can take on the Jam man, who is popular, respected and is taken seriously - especially on his own patch. If Labour right do run him against Corbyn it would be no-risk for them, because he's certain to lose and none of them really give a shit about him. He was an early Starmer adopter and even he doesn't give a shit about him.

good thread

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Here's another selection mentioned in the Telegraph report.

Unless you believe that such a wildly unbelievable discrepancy is in fact plausible, there's only one conclusion: the results have been tampered with. pic.twitter.com/VsYD37Ulc3

— Angus Satow (@AngusSatow) March 28, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/30/starmer-faces-discontent-as-labour-mps-criticise-election-flyers-union-jacks

Other Labour guidance to members on branding states that a “primary palette” of colours including “Labour red”, “flag blue” as well as white and black should predominate colour when producing “content or positive messaging”.

A “secondary palette” has been composed to match messaging relating to Labour’s “missions”. They are “growth pink”, “green energy green”, “NHS blue”, “policing yellow” and “opportunity purple”.

I Am Opportunity (Purple)

yeah i'm not voting for this brown

they have exhibited so much islamophobia for decades, like for instance briefing the press that they are "shaking off some fleas" in response to muslim voters rejecting them, and their apologists have the nerve to say they are reclaiming the flag from the far right

policing yellow of course, who can forget such sayings as the boys in yellow and the thin yellow line