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Keir Starmer's time is up

It doesn't really matter who replaces Starmer at this point. The point right now is to punish Starmer and his ideological supporters.
With him gone there would be an election and the membership would vote on who is the best of the candidates who steps up.
The winner of that contest, if they have any sense, should learn lessons from Starmer's abject failures and the will of voters.
If they repeat the same mistakes they too will be binned. The more the Labour right humiliate themselves in failure, the better. If they have the next five leaders and they all are rejected by the electorate, so be it, thats a process that needs to happen.
This is how the occasional-vote democratic model functions.

National elections dont mean much at the moment - Labour is so far away from contesting it seriously - we are in an effective one-party state (as opposed to that utopia of a two party state!!), and for the forseeable. For a variety of reasons democracy in the UK is effectively dead. So on a voting level the most important battlefield is within Labour itself.
Following this logic you should be supporting people to vote Tory in Con-Lab elections (prior to any GE).
 
A policy arrives from Labour.

Pledging to take the opportunity to review public procurement rules - one of the major benefits of Brexit - to ensure that ‘social value’: jobs, tax revenues, skills and even the demands and requirement of an industrial strategy are fully taken into account when spending public money is important. This could even open up the question of state aid for critically important sectors.

Also interesting to see Rachel Reeves on Marr talking about creating ‘jobs you can raise a family on’ and mentioning union rates and quality work. A direct lift from Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Significantly, this would pose major problems for hedge funds and other neoliberal ghouls waiting for the public sector/spending bail out via procurement. Rules that demand a living wage, union negotiated rates, skill targets and requiring them to show ‘where the money goes’ would be a very welcome move.

 
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A policy arrives from Labour.

Pledging to take the opportunity to review public procurement rules - one of the major benefits of Brexit - to ensure that ‘social value’: jobs, tax revenues, skills and even the demands and requirement of an industrial strategy are fully taken into account when spending public money is important. This could even open up the question of state aid for critically important sectors.

Also interesting to see Rachel Reeves on Marr talking about creating ‘jobs you can raise a family on’ and mentioning union rates and quality work. A direct lift from Biden’s infrastructure plan.

Significantly, this would pose major problems for hedge funds and other neoliberal ghouls waiting for the public sector/spending bail out via procurement. Rules that demand a living wage, union negotiated rates, skill targets and requiring them to show ‘where the money goes’ would be a very welcome move.

will be interesting to see the reality - Tories have been signalling they will do this too - but the Breixt deal, from my limited understanding, hasnt really negated 'state aid' rules...supposedly full hard brexit WTO rules also have similar severe limitations on it.

for example this
is already deemed to be a breach of the trade agreement
 
will be interesting to see the reality - Tories have been signalling they will do this too - but the Breixt deal, from my limited understanding, hasnt really negated 'state aid' rules..

Agreed that the detail is important. Agree also that the deal means that the EU will be the first to howl if a serious strategy on procurement/social value/state aid meant the UK became unaligned with the free market EU model. But that’s a debate that needs to be had
 
Agreed that the detail is important. Agree also that the deal means that the EU will be the first to howl if a serious strategy on procurement/social value/state aid meant the UK became unaligned with the free market EU model. But that’s a debate that needs to be had
sure...it also comes down though to what people were saying before that state aid was always possible to a degree, though the UK both didnt want it to ever happen, and played a big part in creating a culture within the EU against it

ive no idea of the reality of that, when reading about it a while back there was a lot of contradictory stuff out there.
 
will be interesting to see the reality - Tories have been signalling they will do this too - but the Breixt deal, from my limited understanding, hasnt really negated 'state aid' rules...supposedly full hard brexit WTO rules also have similar severe limitations on it.

for example this
is already deemed to be a breach of the trade agreement
Soz which body has determined that's an actual breach of the trade agreement?
 
Soz which body has determined that's an actual breach of the trade agreement?
In the article it says the European Commission consider it to be
They would have to take it to court i expect for it to be "determined"
There are already a few court cases lined up it seems
 
Depends how you read it though - could be read that the EU deemed it had breached the agreement and so were taking UK to court, which he did clarify in the next post.
 
sir keir starmer's spokesperson today confirmed that the labour leader had gone shortly after he woke up this morning. 'keir starmer would like to confirm that he went this morning and although his urine was yellow it was not strongly so', they said.
I had a memory from Latin at school that Martial had once written an epigram to his enemy saying "you clean your teeth with piss" but a quick Google and I can't find it so it might be a false memory syndrome like Kurt Waldheim
 
Fuksake...missed this yesterday; almost indistinguishable...

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Union Jack worshippers. I hated boy scouts as we had to sing songs to that ghastly pendant but fortunately no nonce got his hands on me. I remember one time some guy with weird eyes swimming in strange glasses wanted to buy me an ice cream at the Guildford show in Stoke Park but I clocked him and legged it back home.


 
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Sir Starmaggedon has 1.1 million confused souls following him at Twitter. He has not a single contribution to make to this dreadful and poorly governed society.

@Keir_Starmer

I have finally made the landmark of 600 with a woman in Lebanon who wants sex with lots of men.

@devereuxmatthew
 
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Union Jack worshippers. I hated boy scouts as we had to sing songs to that ghastly pendant but fortunately no nonce got his hands on me. I remember one time some guy with weird eyes swimming in strange glasses wanted to buy me an ice cream at the Guildford show in Stoke Park but I clocked him and legged it back home.


We had a load of flag-shaggers in town on Armed Forces Day where I live. I did wonder why it was all slippery around the war memorial.
 
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