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Keir Starmer's time is up

I’m a life-long member, but haven’t yet left in disgust. I understand the sentiments being expressed, but what I don’t know is what is the proposed solution (following on from abandoning the Labour Party) that doesn’t result in the country being trashed by decades of Tory rule?
The problem is that Labour has ceased to have any possibility of being a vehicle for meaningful change, and voting for them anyway just encourages them in that failure.

There are only two possibilities. Either New Labour itself performs so disastrously that the party itself feels a need to head in a new more progressive direction. And to encourage that we need to not vote for it. Or else the only real hope of change is destroy and replace it, however long it takes. And to encourage that we need to not vote for it but find alternatives.

There are enough of us out there who recognise this to ensure no majority Labour government. And if the price of Labour forming a minority government or coalition is PR, then that will change everything going forwards.
 
Every Blair, Brown and Starmer supports the idea that the system can only go in one direction, thus acting as destroyers of social rebellion. Their presence is a ratchet (not to say a racket), either in or out of power. The Tories trash, Labour maintain and confirm the new status quo, then the Tories trash some more. And all the while, the power of the ballot box to change things is simultaneously promoted while manifestly not doing so. To butcher a good line:

Self-serving stasis, for reactionaries, is whatever decreases the confidence, the autonomy, the initiative, the participation, the solidarity, the equalitarian tendencies and the self-activity of the masses and whatever aids in their continued mystification. The ideal action is whatever reinforces the passivity of the masses, their apathy, their cynicism, their differentiation through hierarchy, their alienation, their reliance on others to do things for them and the degree to which they can therefore be manipulated by others.

Elections to a tee.
 
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You know a leadership is entering its carrion stage when a floating voter in Wakefield calls for Dan Jarvis to become leader.

Shur Kieth unfortunately comes across as a voter-repellant oddball even in the most favorable of electoral circumstances. As awkward as itching powder in a mediavel suit of armour, and with all the genuineness of a spam caller's opening gambit on loft insulation.
 
Someone needs to take one for the team, I got ten seconds in. Christ.

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Someone needs to take one for the team, I got ten seconds in. Christ.

I watched the entire minute and 18 seconds.

Wish I'd used that time to do something more constructive like taking a dump or having a wank.

I don't buy into this guy at all. A proven liar pretending to be a man of integrity, an establishmentarian defender of the status quo, and all with the charisma of a rocking horse.
 
I watched the entire minute and 18 seconds.

Wish I'd used that time to do something more constructive like taking a dump or having a wank.

I don't buy into this guy at all. A proven liar pretending to be a man of integrity, an establishmentarian defender of the status quo, and all with the charisma of a rocking horse.
That'd be an easier shit than a wank!
 
I watched the entire minute and 18 seconds.

Wish I'd used that time to do something more constructive like taking a dump or having a wank.

I don't buy into this guy at all. A proven liar pretending to be a man of integrity, an establishmentarian defender of the status quo, and all with the charisma of a rocking horse.
Many rocking horses have more charisma than that
 
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