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You got me thinking of what Milord Keir's musical tastes must be and sure enough it turns out he was on Desert Island Discs. Starts off with a decent bit of Northern Soul, but the rest is (predominantly) as beige as you'd expect. You can't object to the Grenfell song he has on last, but that's...

I think that "Keir Starmer has changed Labour so that it is unrecognisable from the party of 2019" line is an underappreciated aspect of this whole shitshow. He certainly has, for one thing the party of 2019 had an MP in Rochdale. "Vote for a sex pest who's running for RefUK because he's just...

Labour has suspended their election candidate for the Hyndburn constituency. From The Guardian:

(((invertebrates))) Octopuses can be quite plucky.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/13/starmer-insists-he-took-tough-action-to-withdraw-support-from-rochdale-candidate

I agree, Labour North West is hardly a hot bed of dissent and is more likely to be generally Starmer loyal than Starmer out with the party municipal machine influential and connected. It is not clear to me what the status of this meeting was tbh. It could have been an ad-hoc meeting of Labour...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/13/azhar-ali-labour-handling-rochdale Proper shitshow.

What will tomorrow's line be on this? 'This shows how serious Keir Starmer is about rooting out... how he puts what is right before party interest....'. Some poor sod is going to have to do the rounds parroting this shit. Though of course anyone willing to parrot Starmer on anything is a...

Incidentally, the Guardian are running this as their main headline Unless I've missed something, the offending words were Whether he's right or wrong, that's a classic case of conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism.

Forest Fire Latest: Starmer Still Refuses to Call Fire Brigade Keir Starmer has today reaffirmed his refusal to call on the fire brigade to extinguish the forest fire that has been raging for the past four months, leading to unprecedented loss of life. “It is no good simply pouring water on...

Very well said.

...condemn Russian atrocities and help arm Ukraine and call for a ceasefire... Yet by way of contrast, former human rights lawyer Sir Keir Starmer failed to condemn Israel's collective punishment, ie war crimes. Why is that Labour will support white Europeans but not brown Middle Eastern...

https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-labour-party-uk-election-u-turns/

More of the same: Starmer to scale back home insulation scheme as part of green policy U-turn

What a cunt. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/07/keir-starmer-to-announce-scaling-back-of-28bn-green-investment-plan

Think this is evidence that his grip on the parliamentary Labour party is not all that.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/06/keir-starmer-labours-28bn-green-investment-desperately-needed Oh hokey, cokey cokey ... etc. Shades of Gordon Brown's election that never was here.

David Lammy and Keir Starmer cancelled an event at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham this afternoon which was going to be protested by people in support of Palestine. Fuck them both and big up Tottenham.

STARMER AND LAMMY - CEASEFIRE NOW! 📆 Monday 5 February ⏰ 1-3pm 📍 Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London N15 4RX 📣 Bring megaphones, banners and placards 🥁 Labour leaders Keir Starmer and David Lammy are set to appear at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre this Monday.

From the Independent (behind a paywall)