Wonder if there's anybody in the PLP with a recent history of being elected by the members who may now find it extremely easy to collect enough nominations to mount a challenge whenever she feels like it
Keir Starmer's time is up
- Thread starter agricola
- Start date
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Anyone who regularly reads NS articles will recognise how, by their usual polite centrist standards, utterly dismissive and scathing this is from Stephen Bush re: Kieth. Among the highlights...,not a serious figure’, ‘lacking in political judgement’, ‘a fucking joke’....
www.newstatesman.com
Keir Starmer’s sacking of Angela Rayner is self-destructive, stupid and wrong
The Labour leader’s decision has raised questions about his position – and more importantly about his judgement.
www.newstatesman.com
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."Anyone who regularly reads NS articles will recognise how, by their usual polite centrist standards, utterly dismissive and scathing this is from Stephen Bush re: Kieth. Among the highlights...,not a serious figure’, ‘lacking in political judgement’, ‘a fucking joke’....
Keir Starmer’s sacking of Angela Rayner is self-destructive, stupid and wrong
The Labour leader’s decision has raised questions about his position – and more importantly about his judgement.
Shame that she was more like her Liberal grandfather Frank Byers than her dad.
Twitter gossip has it that this has pissed off everybody in the PLP and Labour friends of various persuasions are spitting tacks over it. Fucking incredible cack handedness
Even better I've seen suggestions that Steve Reed or Wes Streeting would be in line to replace her which is just... omg
Even better I've seen suggestions that Steve Reed or Wes Streeting would be in line to replace her which is just... omg
ska invita
back on the other side
Why SEP 23?
I "liked" his post defeat tweet "im off to do something important, namely pick the kids up from school".
No skin in the game, clearly
Last edited:
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Coz labour are inherently shit at shooting a lame horse, he's deranged/tin-eared enough to keep going for another two years, but eventually they'll get desperate/offended enough.
Gives the next leader a year and two party conferences to bed in.
ska invita
back on the other side
Ah 2023, I thought you meant 23rd Sept
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
Last edited:
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
I think he will have to go. Sacking raynor is suicidally inept. The beyond satire empty drivel he came out with today was already compounding the disaster - this is pulling out a handgrenade, putting it in your mouth and throwing the pin. Who the fuck is advising him? Is it Dominic cummings in disguise?
To think the labour right tore into corbyn for being incompetent, cack handed and gaffe prone - well look at your man now.
Im guessing the membership (whats left of it) the unions and a big chunk of the PLP will be aghast at what has just unfolded. Hes destroying the party.
Im also guessing we will now have a desperate smear campaign launched agasint a popular leading working class female labour mp - who is still deputy leader - just to further inflame the situation.
To think the labour right tore into corbyn for being incompetent, cack handed and gaffe prone - well look at your man now.
Im guessing the membership (whats left of it) the unions and a big chunk of the PLP will be aghast at what has just unfolded. Hes destroying the party.
Im also guessing we will now have a desperate smear campaign launched agasint a popular leading working class female labour mp - who is still deputy leader - just to further inflame the situation.
splonkydoo
Well-Known Member
I'm very curious if this is a kneejerk solo-run by Starmer, or else was seen as an option to get one of the Labour right crew in? Incredibly shit politics either way.
ska invita
back on the other side
Fuck knows tbh I'm just enjoying imagining the chaos of outright mediocrities like Streeting or Philips winning senior positions as the ship sinks beneath the waves
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
Been chatting with a friend and this came up, and again I'm left wondering just what the thinking and logic is even from the point of view of those making the decision. Obviously you can disagree with someone's decision but understand, from their POV, why they made it.
But this... how is this the option they arrive at?
But this... how is this the option they arrive at?
Lord Camomile
Yipchaa!
All except for Jess Philips who is smiling to herself at home and crossing names off a listSo... he's united the Labour party? Watchmen style?
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Already started - 'friends of Keith' have been desperately trying to get the Times to go to town on some train tickets she used during the campaign.
This is an almost admirable level of fuck-wittery. Comedic stuff...
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Friends of Keith also fear he may be spiralling out of control and lashing out at his closest friends. An intervention may be in order
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Fucking hell, Burnham's gone from boom to boost in a couple of hours. Tea time, he was making noises about 'if the party want him' in the future, which might have added up to him coming in at the next winnable by election. As of tonight, there could be another labour leader in power within a few weeks, before he gets chance to get back to westminster. The irony is, if kieth is forced out - I still don't think that's likely, tbh - Rayner would take over in the short term.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
changing at Warrington Bank Quay rather than Crewe, apparently
Similar threads
