Keir Starmer's time is up

[hitmouse]

I think this was during his campaign to become Labour leader.

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And his own tweet:

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Of course, that was back when Starmer was pretending to be into BM Blob:


Anyway, for what it's worth, this week was the final straw for my dad in terms of party membership, would be interested to know what the current membership figures are.

 

[Chilli.s]

would be interested to know what the current membership figures are.

Dropping like a stone I would think.

My housemate was all paid up until about xmas last year, they cancelled and didnt even have any acknowledgement or what did we do wrong type communication, just nothing

They so have their head up their own arse

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Iron fist squad levels up

 

[oryx]

Iron fist squad levels up

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I recognise Tarry, Corbyn and McDonnell - are any of the others Labour MPs, anyone know?

 

[Duncan2]

Was expecting to see Michael Foot in the pack somewhere

 

[agricola]

I recognise Tarry, Corbyn and McDonnell - are any of the others Labour MPs, anyone know?

that bloke in the shorts, white jacket and brown brogues has a senior job in PR for a charity, and an occasional column in the New Statesman*

*probably

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Of course, that was back when Starmer was pretending to be into BM Blob:


Anyway, for what it's worth, this week was the final straw for my dad in terms of party membership, would be interested to know what the current membership figures are.

Never been a party member, but cancelled my union donation to Labour as soon as I figured out what Starmer is.

 

[platinumsage]

What a diverse bunch.

 

[Calamity1971]

Hotel room service for din dins ?

 

[Calamity1971]

FFS. Like she'd want to be in it anyway.

 

[magneze]

Wtf

 

[kabbes]

They have such a surfeit of members that their only option is to throw some away.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Pretending they decided this in February and just forgot to tell her. How fucking craven can you get.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I see they're also now saying they didn't fire Sam Tarry for standing on a picket line but for 'making up policy'. You know, like the completely unfired shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves did.

 

[brogdale]

I see they're also now saying they didn't fire Sam Tarry for standing on a picket line but for 'making up policy'. You know, like the completely unfired shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves did.

Maybe Starmer needs to issue all his MPs with pagers so that they can stay rigorously on message?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Remember when Starmer forgot the longstanding Labour party policy on Irish unification and instead declared his support for unionism?

Remember when he pulled a ludicrous brexit policy out of his arsehole and single-handedly sank Labour's chances of winning the 2019 election?

Cunt should've fired himself a dozen times by now.

 

[two sheds]

Maybe Starmer needs to issue all his MPs with pagers so that they can stay rigorously on message?

or adopt scientology policy and have the top people sign an unsigned resignation letter as soon as they start their jobs.

 

[Wilf]

I'm almost in awe of how politically inept Starmer has been. Johnson has been given the boot by his own party, the Tories' succession process has been a toxic clusterfuck, the economy is tanking, Dover is a Brexity car park, and millions upon millions of people are starting to realise that they are not as comfortable with the status quo as they thought (fuel, food and energy bills); all Starmer had to do was not give anyone an excuse to make the prevailing narrative about "divided Labour".

He chooses now to give a graphic demonstration of his authoritarian nature and the rightward lurch of the Labour party, completely committing to keeping the boot firmly on the neck of the working class. And in doing so he's given the right wing press every reason to jump all over him and make every day about how shit Labour are, focus off the Tories. It's almost genius, it takes a special talent to be this bad.

It was always said New Labour courted the middle class whilst leaving the working class nowhere else to go. Starmer is somehow making a pitch to just about no one at all. There's certainly no coherent messaging or set of policies, there's only distancing - fanatical distancing from Corbyn, followed by this inept distancing from even the most nominal symbols of working class unity. Working class voters still won't have anywhere else to go, just end up not voting or going for a mixed bag of libscum, greens and even the vermin themselves. Labour's problem now, in a first past the post system is that it still exists and can't easily be replaced.

And what a fucking moment it would have been to link people's experiences of the cost of living with the notion that trade are all about fighting for working class interests (and more).

 

[ska invita]

Heard Frankie Boyle describe Starmer as "looking like someone playing a Prime Minister in an old Spice Girls video". like that.

It was always said New Labour courted the middle class whilst leaving the working class nowhere else to go. Starmer is somehow making a pitch to just about no one at all. There's certainly no coherent messaging or set of policies, there's only distancing - fanatical distancing from Corbyn, followed by this inept distancing from even the most nominal symbols of working class unity. Working class voters still won't have anywhere else to go, just end up not voting or going for a mixed bag of libscum, greens and even the vermin themselves. Labour's problem now, in a first past the post system is that it still exists and can't easily be replaced.

then again, pathetic a strategy though it is:

 

[Chilli.s]

Im coming round to liking Starmer (I jest), starting to think what a good PM he could be, easily as great as BJ. Could really go a long way to showing people how useless our decision making processes are

 

[two sheds]

easily as great as a BJ

 

[Wilf]

Heard Frankie Boyle describe Starmer as "looking like someone playing a Prime Minister in an old Spice Girls video". like that.

then again, pathetic a strategy though it is:

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Worth noting that Labour's poll leads are slightly in decline, when you trace specific polling companies back over the last 2 or 3 polls. As always, it's best to look at longer term trends in the polls but still, what a moment for them to start edging away from Labour. More to the point, I doubt that many of those saying they will vote Labour are doing so as a result of anything starmer is saying or doing. It will be a mixture of lifelong or natural Labour voters sticking with or going back to Labour - along with the impact of boris johnson.

 

[steeplejack]

All it will take is for Liz Truss to be a bit light and fluffy, tell a few jokes at her own expense, sit laughing on a Challenger tank as though she's in an adults-only episode of ~It's a Knockout! some softfocus Strictly Come Dancing stuff, and the humourless parson will be trailing by 10 points again. You watch.

The only benefit for Starmer is that Liz Truss has the common touch and natural charm of a drunk Buster Bloodvessel who's soiled himself. She's as authentic as a seven euro note. Both achingly fake and unmoored from any sense of daily reality for a long time.

Margaret Thatcher cosplayer versus Tony Blair cosplayer. Choose your weapon, folks.

 

[planetgeli]

Utter utter cunt. How can anyone vote for them?

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[SpookyFrank]

All the comments on his tweets are just relentless mockery and abuse. And all of it from lefties, the people who should be voting for him.

 

[Orang Utan]

The Lionesses wtf?

 

[Puddy_Tat]

The Lionesses wtf?

england (female football players of the opposite sex)

 

[Orang Utan]

england (female football players of the opposite sex)

ah ok - that sort of thing always passes me by so I'm perpetually confused.

 

[two sheds]