Hold your nose and vote Labour?

[Pickman's model]

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

Let's call it what it is, corruption

 

[brogdale]

Let's call it what it is, corruption

The conduit of information between the continuity class warriors and their political wing(s)

 

[teqniq]

I am afraid this does not surprise me in the least. Complete arseholes:

Welsh Labour councillor quits party after learning it hid evidence that cleared him of complaint

Martin Shipton A former council Labour group leader who was barred from standing in the general election has quit the party after learning that it has concealed evidence that should have cleared him of a complaint made against him. Carmarthenshire county councillor Rob James was the favourite to...

nation.cymru

 

[Whagwan]

It's amazing that nothing whatsoever will come of this, cause Labour have booted the nasty antisemites and racists from the party.

Revealed: Labour tried to gag Black lawyer who wrote party’s own racism report

Exclusive: Martin Forde KC says people will see letter from party responding to his criticisms as a ‘collateral attack on a Black professional’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[mauvais]

No fuckin' chance I'm voting Labour. If it wasn't bad enough in its own right, our candidate was elected last time as a Tory MP and then crossed the floor. No mention of that in his bland literature, of course.

 

[Eric Jarvis]

In the end I did, on the grounds that I needed to send my postal vote in and there has been no sign of the Greens on Angell Town, not even a leaflet. Helen Hayes may be all mouth and no trousers but at least she admits we exist. Shame.

 

[bellaozzydog]

I should vote green but we gotta get the fucking evil filthy tory tick out of the place

Anyways the postal vote is going in today

 

[Sue]

In the end I did, on the grounds that I needed to send my postal vote in and there has been no sign of the Greens on Angell Town, not even a leaflet. Helen Hayes may be all mouth and no trousers but at least she admits we exist. Shame.

Hang on, are you not involved in that group that's campaigning/standing candidates against Labour? You posted a load of stuff about it?

 

[Eric Jarvis]

Hang on, are you not involved in that group that's campaigning/standing candidates against Labour? You posted a load of stuff about it?

Yep. However there wasn't anybody willing or able to the a candidate in Dulwich and West Norwood. So it's Labour or Green here. If the Greens are going to stand paper candidates in all but 4 constituencies and not even send leaflets to inner city council estates why should I even consider voting for them. They can't represent me if they completely ignore my existence.

 

[Sue]

Yep. However there wasn't anybody willing or able to the a candidate in Dulwich and West Norwood. So it's Labour or Green here. If the Greens are going to stand paper candidates in all but 4 constituencies and not even send leaflets to inner city council estates why should I even consider voting for them. They can't represent me if they completely ignore my existence.

Erm okay. Do you think Labour sending you a leaflet means they'll be representing you?

 

[Eric Jarvis]

Erm okay. Do you think Labour sending you a leaflet means they'll be representing you?

No I don't. However the fact that Helen is on the estate every few months at least shows she knows we exist, even if she does damn all for us. I told the Green candidate back in March that if I got a leaflet or saw a campaigner on the estate he would get my vote. Not a sausage. They need to learn the lesson that it isn't only white middle class people who would consider voting for them. I've seen more effort here from the RCP than the Greens.

 

[teqniq]

More on the goings-on with the Labour candidate in Clacton. Completely abysmal treatment:

Labour candidate ‘in tears’ after being ordered to abandon Clacton campaign against Nigel Farage

 

[gentlegreen]

I can't work up any enthusiasm for politics - especially in the current circumstances, but in Bristol East it seems to make sense to vote Green - Bristol seems to be on a roll at the moment .. with my old MP Thangham Debonnaire quite likely to lose Bristol Central ...
Thanks to Urban for posting that Kerry McCarthy apparently abstained on a Gaza ceasefire motion and I'm a bit fed up with my street's Labour Activist's fan posters of Starmer ...
Due to geography, the Tory doesn't stand a chance here so it's not a very brave move and I doubt I'll stick a poster in the window ...
Googling the candidate Ani Stafford-Townsend reveals no embarrassing anti-science nonsense...

 

[The39thStep]

More on the goings-on with the Labour candidate in Clacton. Completely abysmal treatment:

Labour candidate ‘in tears’ after being ordered to abandon Clacton campaign against Nigel Farage

I see the alleged lack of local resources and funds issue actually wasn’t a problem with that £7.5k donation for the candidate that Labour HQ bagged after ditching him .

 

[teqniq]

I see the alleged lack of local resources and funds issue actually wasn’t a problem with that £7.5k donation for the candidate that Labour HQ bagged after ditching him .

According to the article, they did return it.

 

[Pickman's model]

According to the article, they did return it.

Bet it was a different £7.5k tho

 

[Pickman's model]

I can't work up any enthusiasm for politics - especially in the current circumstances, but in Bristol East it seems to make sense to vote Green - Bristol seems to be on a roll at the moment .. with my old MP Thangham Debonnaire quite likely to lose Bristol Central ...
Thanks to Urban for posting that Kerry McCarthy apparently abstained on a Gaza ceasefire motion and I'm a bit fed up with my street's Labour Activist's fan posters of Starmer ...
Due to geography, the Tory doesn't stand a chance here so it's not a very brave move and I doubt I'll stick a poster in the window ...
Googling the candidate Ani Stafford-Townsend reveals no embarrassing anti-science nonsense...

Just put an updated wankers poster in the window

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Just put an updated wankers poster in the window
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An old poster surely?

 

[Pickman's model]

An old poster surely?

Gentlegreen can better be described as a senior poster

 

[The39thStep]

According to the article, they did return it.

Yes only after the donor asked for it back. However my point is that that donation would have been a significant contribution to a local campaign .

Starmer’s response to the Guardian 5 days ago is at odds with the don't campaign line .

 

[rasputin]

I wonder what the repulsive TalkTV journalist Isabel Oakeshott (partner of Reform's Richard Tice) makes of her sister's candidacy in the new Bicester, Kidlington and Woodstock constituency?

 

[Pickman's model]

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[The39thStep]

They´re coming to take me away,
Haha, they´re coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I´ll be happy to see
Those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they´re coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAA

 

[krtek a houby]

They´re coming to take me away,
Haha, they´re coming to take me away,
Ho ho, hee hee, ha ha,
To the funny farm
Where life is beautiful all the time
And I´ll be happy to see
Those nice young men
In their clean white coats
And they´re coming to take me AWAY,
HA HAAAA

View attachment 431701

An odd character, that Furedi

 

[The39thStep]

One day before the election and a bit of critique amongst the confetti

 

[Elpenor]

One day before the election and a bit of critique amongst the confetti

I read this yesterday and it painted a rather concerning picture

 

[Whagwan]

One day before the election and a bit of critique amongst the confetti

Gruaniad starting their "We've always been critics of right-wing Labour" pivot (despite spending years facilitating them and ensuring there could be no other option.)

 

[krtek a houby]

Gruaniad starting their "We've always been critics of right-wing Labour" pivot (despite spending years facilitating them and ensuring there could be no other option.)

Better late than never, the hypocritical shits

 

[Silas Loom]

Oh, fuck off, Keir. Is there really any need for that?

Britain will not rejoin EU in my lifetime, says Starmer

Labour leader also says he cannot foresee circumstances where UK would re-enter single market or customs union

www.theguardian.com

Perhaps he knows he won’t last until the next GE.

 

[gentlegreen]

I'll be voting Green using my EU passport in my safe labour seat and may fly my EU flag at some point tomorrow or Friday ..
My WIFI permanently honours it...

If the Tories get back in HERE after decades, the country is lost.