Keir Starmer's time is up

[TopCat]

Remember these are the opinions of someone who is doing just fine for themselves as it is. Someone for whom the current tory misrule is only a problem for aesthetic reasons and does not represent an existential threat in the same way it does to so many people.

This

 

[TopCat]

Toynbee is full of shit.

Great summary of the above.

 

[Rob Ray]

Labour’s Rachel Reeves: ‘We are in the strongest position maybe in 10 years’

The shadow chancellor says it has been an odd time in politics but there are grounds for Labour optimism

www.theguardian.com

They're all coming out of the woodwork now aren't they, Rachael "we'll be tougher on the unemployed than the Tories" Reeves, Miliband loyalist, Remainer extraordinaire, scourge of anti-semitism and Nancy Astor fan, in her infinite wisdom reckons Labour's doing its best in ten years. When it had lost an election and more than 90 seats to David Cameron.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Meet the new failed opposition, same as the old failed opposition.

 

[19sixtysix]

New labour is back oozing poverty of ambition on everything that matters.

 

[steveseagull]

Starmer now popular with 9/10 Jewish members he has not hounded out of the party

 

[PR1Berske]

David Lammy has apologised for nominating Jeremy Corbyn to be Labour leader in 2015 and said he is “staggered” that some individuals with deeply antisemitic views remain in the Labour party.

Speaking at this year’s Limmud festival, a Jewish event, the shadow foreign secretary said he “never believed” Corbyn would become leader and that his nomination was “a mistake”.



“I regret nominating Jeremy Corbyn and if I knew what I do now, I never would have nominated him,” Lammy told an online audience of about 300, in comments first reported in Jewish News.

“I never believed he would become leader. That was a mistake and I am sorry for that.”

Lammy went on to say he was “fully behind” Keir Starmer and said of his leadership: “I don’t believe the overall culture is toxic any more … but until the party is genuinely welcome for everyone, we remain on a journey.”



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His comments came after a recent survey of Jewish Labour Movement members found strong support for Starmer’s efforts to tackle antisemitism since he became leader last year.

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Roughly 70% of the survey’s 363 respondents said Labour was a safe space for Jewish people under Starmer’s leadership, compared with just 4% who felt the same under Corbyn.

But Lammy said Labour was still “on a journey” when it came to improving relations with Britain’s Jewish groups and that certain individuals with antisemitic views remained in the party.

“I’ve met some of these individuals and am frankly staggered some are still in the party,” the Tottenham MP said.

“But as a lawyer, I understand that people appeal and go to court. There is a process, which can feel slow and tortuous sometimes, but it must be undertaken.”

Describing himself as a subscriber to the “rainbow coalition approach to politics”, he said he was proud of the Jewish community for standing “shoulder to shoulder” with leaders including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu in their fight against apartheid.

“The Jewish community understood the fascism that was at the heart of apartheid and the pernicious evil of discrimination. The tradition that I’m from is Jewish friends recognising and being active alongside historically discriminated groups.

“It means black communities like mine understanding prejudices existing against Jewish communities.”

 

[Rob Ray]

Sir Keir Starmer vows to restore trust if he wins power

The Labour leader seeks to build on his party's poll lead in a new year speech setting out his vision.

www.bbc.co.uk

Absolutely incredible stuff. Manages to hark back to the sloganeering of Brown, the solemn contract of Miliband, and place Blair as a Labour titan alongside Attlee and Wilson all in one sitting. And was still so utterly banal in his Big Policies that the Tories could dismiss him, rightly, for "New year, same old platitudes" and not having anything resembling a plan.

 

[two sheds]

I think we can all get behind this though

He said: "I believe that the best still lies ahead for this country. But only if we have the courage to create a new Britain. A country in which you and your family get the security, prosperity and respect you deserve."

 

[Quote]

Top Tip: Buy yourself a used shop dummy, put him in a suit, stick a Union Jack behind him & re-arrange the same handful of trite platitudes on a lectern at the front - hey presto! You've got yourself a homemade Sir Kier Starmer relaunch relauncher. Hours of fun for all the family!

 

[Pickman's model]

Top Tip: Buy yourself a used shop dummy, put him in a suit, stick a Union Jack behind him & re-arrange the same handful of trite platitudes on a lectern at the front - hey presto! You've got yourself a homemade Sir Kier Starmer relaunch relauncher. Hours of fun for all the family!

Sounds livelier than the real labour leader

 

[brogdale]

Sir Keir Starmer vows to restore trust if he wins power

The Labour leader seeks to build on his party's poll lead in a new year speech setting out his vision.

www.bbc.co.uk

Absolutely incredible stuff. Manages to hark back to the sloganeering of Brown, the solemn contract of Miliband, and place Blair as a Labour titan alongside Attlee and Wilson all in one sitting. And was still so utterly banal in his Big Policies that the Tories could dismiss him, rightly, for "New year, same old platitudes" and not having anything resembling a plan.

As you say, quite incredible:



Not a nationalist party, but a national party for Britain...in fact, a British National...

 

[splonkydoo]

No way will I listen to that speech, so I will just take John's word for it.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

No way will I listen to that speech, so I will just take John's word for it.


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Weird. Wouldn’t McDonnell and others demand that Starmer commit to and promote what are, I assume, Labour policies?

 

[magneze]

Weird. Wouldn’t McDonnell and others demand that Starmer commit to and promote what are, I assume, Labour policies?

He's not opposing the policies?

 

[gosub]

Sir Keir Starmer tests positive for Covid for a second time

Labour's leader misses Prime Minister's Questions, with deputy Angela Rayner filling in for him.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[elbows]

Sir Keir Starmer tests positive for Covid for a second time

Labour's leader misses Prime Minister's Questions, with deputy Angela Rayner filling in for him.

www.bbc.co.uk

At least he can gain comfort from the fact that there was at least one fan of his recent speech, the virus.

 

[steveseagull]

Doesn't he always contract COVID or has to self isolate after a relaunch?

 

[elbows]

Doesn't he always contract COVID or has to self isolate after a relaunch?

Some wear baseball caps or boast that they drink 127 pints in order to demonstrate that they are a normal person, Keir demonstrates his human credentials by catching the virus.

 

[GarveyLives]

"Completely wrong" ... according to a former Director of Public Prosecutions.​

 

[kabbes]

Pity poor Keith, for he is a triangulator.

 

[Chilli.s]

a cheese triangle

 

[steeplejack]

bland as a Dairylea Lite triangle with the same nasty aftertase & acidic reflux

 

[steeplejack]

Still maybe boredom-as-political-practice may be a winning strategy after a decade of populist far-right chaos. The middle classes can get back to obsessing over buy to let investments whilst the few who still bother with the Telegraph and Spectator can vigorously chop one out into their morning kedgeree over endless "Sir Kier brings back the 1950s" op-eds

Vote For A Good Sleep with Kier Starmer

Achingly Dull Tax Reform (a conference fringe meeting sponsored by Slumberland and Travel Lodge UK)

Moderate Progress for a Moderate, Hard Working Nation

Middle of the Road Policies for Middle of the Road Hard Working Families

There's Merit in Mediocrity, You Know (boozy conference 'provocateur' slot chaired by Sir Stephen Fry)

Rebuilding the "Red" Wall in a Grey Shade of Fuschia

How Green Was My Platitude Valley (The Richard Llewellyn Memorial Lecture sponsored by ExxonMobil)

Portesting in the Right Way, Which Means Not Very Much at All (speech by Lord Kinnock)

the empty slogan possibilities are literally endless

 

[ska invita]

Pity poor Keith, for he is a triangulator.

minus the left corner of the triangle...more of a plank really

 

[Chilli.s]

Vote For A Good Sleep with Kier Starmer

lmfao

 

[elbows]

 

[two sheds]

Johnson's finished Starmer has him over a barrel

Starmer the lawyer is back – and this time Johnson has nowhere to run | Zoe Williams

The Labour leader has blocked every possible exit for the Conservatives, who are now stuck with a duff prime minister and a broken party

www.theguardian.com

The Labour leader has blocked every exit for the Conservatives, who are stuck with a duff prime minister and a broken party

Starmer’s speech, perhaps for the first time since he became leader, performed a jujitsu move: yes he is a lawyer, and Johnson could have at it. He conveyed this explicitly, his patriotism mediated through his hinterland as the “country’s leading prosecutor”. He also did so implicitly, framing his relationship with voters as a “contract” – about as lawyerly as it comes. And he laid a very simple, yet nevertheless lawyerly trap for Johnson: the prime minister himself is unfit for office, yet the problem is with the entire party, not just one man.

finished using jujitsu

 

[elbows]

finished using jujitsu

 

[not a trot]

Written above the urinals in local Tesco bog.