Hold your nose and vote Labour?

[MickiQ]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict this relationship is probably doomed.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Even 24 hours later, this is still shocking to watch:

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And she is forced on the defensive for liking a tweet that is true: LFI, JLM etc are as Asa Winstanley/Al Jazeera ‘’The Lobby’ have conclusively shown, well organised groups.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

There is another way of reading these escalated purges: Starmer and his clique know their economic policy will crash and burn, and are desperate to prevent any Left criticism.

Ironically (but something I will relish) it will be the right wing media (including BBC) who will most enthusiastically slam Starmer/Reeves in government for economic incompetence…

 

[Pickman's model]

There is another way of reading these escalated purges: Starmer and his clique know their economic policy will crash and burn, and are desperate to prevent any Left criticism.

Ironically (but something I will relish) it will be the right wing media (including BBC) who will most enthusiastically slam Starmer/Reeves in government for economic incompetence…

the wheels on the bus fall off off off

we'll look back on the days of george osborne and kwasi karteng as halcyon days of economic competence in comparison to the fuckwittery of la reeves.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

the wheels on the bus fall off off off

we'll look back on the days of george osborne and kwasi karteng as halcyon days of economic competence in comparison to the fuckwittery of la reeves.

Not quite but given Labour have vowed to accept Tory spending plans and not raise taxes, the sums do not add up. It is just that the only new policy ideas come from the Left: and Reeves facile ‘securonomics’ is a platitudinous slogan only.

 

[Pickman's model]

Not quite but given Labour have vowed to accept Tory spending plans and not raise taxes, the sums do not add up

and that's with basic arithmetic. when presented with spending projections she will sink to the level of her training and not rise to the occasion.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

and that's with basic arithmetic. when presented with spending projections she will sink to the level of her training and not rise to the occasion.

There is already one serious downside of Reeves even now: for an article I am writing I have been forced to read her turgid thoughts in detail…

 

[Pickman's model]

There is already one serious downside of Reeves even now: for an article I am writing I have been forced to read her turgid thoughts in detail…

(((((Larry O'Hara)))))

 

[Larry O'Hara]

and that's with basic arithmetic. when presented with spending projections she will sink to the level of her training and not rise to the occasion.

She actually boasts of having worked for the Bank of England!

 

[Pickman's model]

She actually boasts of having worked for the Bank of England!

it's not a boast reciprocated by the bank itself.

 

[teqniq]

How to alienate your core supporters:

 

[brogdale]

How to alienate your core supporters:

 

[teqniq]

This would seem to have been a massive miscalculation:

 

[Whagwan]

Extremely on brand for Luke the Nuke's wife to be telling Brown Brits they belong in Iran.

 

[Balbi]

I see Euan Phillips of Labour Against Antisemitism the actually not Jewish but made up a fake alias "David Gordstein* to mass report Labour members and MPs during the Corbyn years is spitting tacks that Starmer didn't purge every single actually left wing person in the party - because he'd reported them all.

Because being a member of the Socialist Campaign Group or being left wing means you are antisemitic. Making up a fake Jewish sounding name to report Labour MPs and members, not antisemitic. Just to be clear here.

 

[TopCat]

Urgh these people are grim.

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Fucking hell. Integrity, family, decency. We know what they stand for.

 

[teqniq]

Nearly £1.4m wasted on pursuing people because they blew the whistle (told some very uncomfortable truths actually) and it has all come to nothing:

Labour abandons legal action against Jeremy Corbyn-era staff - BBC News

The party is facing huge legal bills, which critics could have been spent on election campaigning.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[planetgeli]

Nearly £1.4m wasted on pursuing people because they blew the whistle (told some very uncomfortable truths actually) and it has all come to nothing:

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Labour abandons legal action against Jeremy Corbyn-era staff - BBC News

The party is facing huge legal bills, which critics could have been spent on election campaigning.

www.bbc.co.uk

I imagine Frank Hester will pay if they ask him nicely.

 

[GarveyLives]

"We’ve just had two weeks of campaigning dominated by Starmer’s attacks on the candidacies of Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen, driving more minority ethnic voters away from the party … this pointless and vindictive failed lawsuit is another example of Starmer allowing his bully boys to get carried away with their war on the left when it’s clearly not in the party’s electoral or financial interests to do so.”

Labour drops lawsuit against ex-staffers accused of leaking antisemitism report

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‘How can they treat people like this?’ Faiza Shaheen on Labour – and why she’s running as an independent

 

[Whagwan]

Labour drops lawsuit against ex-staffers accused of leaking antisemitism report

"A number of party figures had criticised Alex Barros-Curtis’ handling of the case as the party’s director of legal affairs. He has now been installed as the parliamentary candidate for the Labour safe seat of Cardiff West."

Is there anyone involved in the party machinery they haven't given a safe seat too?

 

[teqniq]

"A number of party figures had criticised Alex Barros-Curtis’ handling of the case as the party’s director of legal affairs. He has now been installed as the parliamentary candidate for the Labour safe seat of Cardiff West."

Is there anyone involved in the party machinery they haven't given a safe seat too?

I will not be voting for him.

 

[hitmouse]

Since I can't be bothered finding a Green thread, was wondering, does anyone have any sense of how many Green candidates this time round are ex-Labour/Momentum types? I'm actually tempted to vote for my local candidate cos she's a decent type from a trade union and Momentum background, is this unusual or are there many similar candidates elsewhere?

 

[The39thStep]

Since I can't be bothered finding a Green thread, was wondering, does anyone have any sense of how many Green candidates this time round are ex-Labour/Momentum types? I'm actually tempted to vote for my local candidate cos she's a decent type from a trade union and Momentum background, is this unusual or are there many similar candidates elsewhere?

Their candidate in the Rochdale by election got dropped for Islamaphobia didn't he?

 

[hitmouse]

Their candidate in the Rochdale by election got dropped for Islamaphobia didn't he?

Oh yeah, so he did. But I don't think that proves he was in the Labour Party.

 

[The39thStep]

I only know a few Greens around Manchester, mixed bunch, and haven't met any new ones since Starmers election as leader, so not in the best place to assist.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Since I can't be bothered finding a Green thread, was wondering, does anyone have any sense of how many Green candidates this time round are ex-Labour/Momentum types? I'm actually tempted to vote for my local candidate cos she's a decent type from a trade union and Momentum background, is this unusual or are there many similar candidates elsewhere?

my local candidate appears to be a retired deputy head teacher.

and was a tory activist as recently as 2016 (including photograph with theresa may on his tweeter feed)

think i might have to vote limp dem if i bother at all... (in honesty, voting anything other than LD will only help the tory)

 

[Chz]

Since I can't be bothered finding a Green thread, was wondering, does anyone have any sense of how many Green candidates this time round are ex-Labour/Momentum types? I'm actually tempted to vote for my local candidate cos she's a decent type from a trade union and Momentum background, is this unusual or are there many similar candidates elsewhere?

There may be a few candidates that come from there, but that's certainly not the Green Party as a whole. You'll only be disappointed if that’s what you're looking for. And I say that as someone intending to vote Green as my protest. (I mean, who else is there if you don't spoil the ballot?)

 

[hitmouse]

Oh, I certainly wouldn't dream of getting involved or anything, was just surprised to find that I have a candidate who makes me half-tempted to not spoil my ballot.

 

[Whagwan]

Akehurst has done a party broadcast.

 

[teqniq]

Novara media have done some worthwhile digging here and exposed s veritable plethora of connections with lobbying and PR consultancies. Pretty much everything that is wrong with the political landscape in the UK:

Meet the Labour Candidates Lobbying for Oil, Gas and Arms Companies | Novara Media

From Shell to Uber, Amazon to Lockheed Martin: Labour's class of 2024 has a stunning array of corporate clients.

novaramedia.com