Keir Starmer's time is up

[TopCat]

Starmer's in charge so takes ultimate responsibility - does this mean he's an anti-semite? By previous logic it does.

He is just an opportunistic wanker on the make.

 

[Knotted]

Kim Johnson: Labour MP apologises for calling Israeli government 'fascist'

Kim Johnson was ordered by Labour Party bosses to retract her description of Israel's government.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ms Johnson also apologised for saying that right group Amnesty International had described Israel as an "apartheid state".

"Whilst I was quoting accurately Amnesty's description, I recognise this is incentive and I'd like to withdraw it," she added.

I guess that should be "insensitive". But in any case wow.

 

[JTG]

I await SKS's statement of support for half a million workers on strike any minute now

 

[ska invita]

Reporting is annoying - mainly painted as a teachers strike
not seen a mention of 'Right to Strike' at all

 

[TopCat]

Reporting is annoying - mainly painted as a teachers strike
not seen a mention of 'Right to Strike' at all

Those bastard billionaires and their newspapers.

 

[Pickman's model]

I await SKS's statement of support for half a million workers on strike any minute now

The half million workers should all be issued with an sks

 

[belboid]

Reporting is annoying - mainly painted as a teachers strike
not seen a mention of 'Right to Strike' at all

well, technically, it isn't about the right to strike at all, we've all got our own specific issues (tho they tend to be about the same thing)

 

[belboid]

Kim Johnson: Labour MP apologises for calling Israeli government 'fascist'

Kim Johnson was ordered by Labour Party bosses to retract her description of Israel's government.

www.bbc.co.uk

I guess that should be "insensitive". But in any case wow.

Saying 'fascist' was always gonna lead to the obvious retort and should be avoided, even if some of the early Zionists were massive fans of Mussolini.

'Apartheid state' tho - just fucking yes. Every front bencher should be using the term, because thats what it is.

 

[brogdale]

YG seeing Starmer's numbers rising, but what took my eye and made me laugh out loud was that Truss line!

 

[Pickman's model]

YG seeing Starmer's numbers rising, but what took my eye and made me laugh out loud was that Truss line!

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They should have kept truss like spurs should have kept auld moany and Christian gross

 

[Serge Forward]

Saying 'fascist' was always gonna lead to the obvious retort and should be avoided, even if some of the early Zionists were massive fans of Mussolini.

'Apartheid state' tho - just fucking yes. Every front bencher should be using the term, because thats what it is.

Quasi fascist?

 

[ska invita]

Quasi fascist?

yeah i think with the current lot in power thats being polite

 

[oryx]

YG seeing Starmer's numbers rising, but what took my eye and made me laugh out loud was that Truss line!

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Unless I've wildly misinterpreted the graph (always a possibility) it looks like Starmer and Sunak are polling about 55% between them, so there must be an awful lot of 'don't knows' (on the grounds that there probably aren't an awful lot of 'Ed Daveys').

 

[The39thStep]

Kim Johnson: Labour MP apologises for calling Israeli government 'fascist'

Kim Johnson was ordered by Labour Party bosses to retract her description of Israel's government.

www.bbc.co.uk

I guess that should be "insensitive". But in any case wow.

 

[JTG]

Yeah I know it's Bastani but anyway

 

[ska invita]

Labour Winning Here

 

[Cerv]

And when he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, ‘Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep that was lost.’
Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

 

[oryx]

Labour Winning Here

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I heard this guy on the radio a couple of hours ago.

My first thought was 'never had the guy from Jethro Tull down as a Tory'.

 

[belboid]

I heard this guy on the radio a couple of hours ago.

My first thought was 'never had the guy from Jethro Tull down as a Tory'.

could be worse, another Ian Anderson used to be a leader of the NF and then BM.

 

[TopCat]

could be worse, another Ian Anderson used to be a leader of the NF and then BM.

 

[TopCat]

He was a weird one, at a time when a lot of their leadership were distinctly odd.

 

[PR1Berske]

 

[PR1Berske]

Story now up:

Back me or quit Labour, Keir Starmer tells hard left
We’re never going back, says leader in ultimatum to Corbynistas
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Steven Swinford, Political Editor
Tuesday February 14 2023, 10.00pm GMT, The Times
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Winning back voters who turned away from Jeremy Corbyn is central to Starmer’s electoral strategy
Winning back voters who turned away from Jeremy Corbyn is central to Starmer’s electoral strategy
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Sir Keir Starmer has issued a challenge to the hard-left Labour MPs who oppose his plans for government to either back him or leave the party.

Labour is due to be taken out of special measures over antisemitism by the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Wednesday morning, more than two years after a report identified “serious failings” under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

Writing for The Times, the Labour leader says the changes he has made to the party are “permanent, fundamental, irrevocable”, describing the party as unrecognisable from the one he took over in 2019.

“There are those who don’t like that change, who still refuse to see the reality of what had gone on under the previous leadership,” he says. “To them I say in all candour: we are never going back. If you don’t like it, nobody is forcing you to stay.”

• ‘My party is not for protest’: read Starmer’s piece in full

The commission’s investigation, which ended in October 2020, found that Labour had breached equalities legislation in areas including the “unlawful harassment” of Jewish members, political interference in the handling of complaints and a lack of adequate training.
It identified 23 instances in which Corbyn’s office or other Labour Party staff had interfered directly with complaints and said there was a culture that “at best did not do enough to prevent antisemitism and at worst could be seen to accept it”.

Corbyn was suspended after the publication of the report, having said that concerns about antisemitism within Labour had been “dramatically overstated”. Starmer has made clear that his predecessor as leader will not be a candidate at the next general election.

Corbyn’s eventual expulsion will be a critical point for Starmer’s relationship with the party’s left wing. Thirty-one Labour MPs are members of the Socialist Campaign Group, but five have been enticed on to the front bench.

 

[ska invita]

Which five SCG are on the front bench?

 

[belboid]

Which five SCG are on the front bench?

Olivia Blake is Shadow Nature, Water and Flooding Minister! Which I didn't know until just now.

Rachel Hopkins is Shadow Cabinet Office Minister.

Imran Hussain, Shadow Minister of State for Employment Rights.

No idea on the other two. Several resigned at the end of 2021 to vote against the covert operations bill, so maybe The Times are confused.

 

[oryx]

The reference to left wing Labour MPs (presumably the Campaign Group) as 'hard left' annoys me. They're not hard left. They're democratic socialists.

'Hard left' is the extra-parliamentary left - the SWP, whatever the Communist Party call themselves nowadays and so on (must admit I don't keep up with extra parliamentary left wing sects these days) - not Labour MPs. Obviously the media have their biased tale to tell but should be called to account on this. It paints a false picture.

 

[ska invita]

The reference to left wing Labour MPs (presumably the Campaign Group) as 'hard left' annoys me. They're not hard left. They're democratic socialists.

'Hard left' is the extra-parliamentary left - the SWP, whatever the Communist Party call themselves nowadays and so on (must admit I don't keep up with extra parliamentary left wing sects these days) - not Labour MPs. Obviously the media have their biased tale to tell but should be called to account on this. It paints a false picture.

The Times: the paper of a broken record

 

[Artaxerxes]

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The Labour Party I lead is patriotic. It is a party of public service, not protest. It is a party of equality, justice and fairness; one that proudly puts the needs of working people above any fringe interest. It is a party that doesn’t just talk about change – it delivers it. The hard work we have done over the last three years is what allows us to confidently say all those things again. But there is not a hint of complacency in that confidence. I know there is still much to do. That’s why my third promise to you is that we will keep grafting, keep working, keep delivering. We will not rest for a moment until not only have we changed the Labour Party for the better, but our country, too.

Keir Starmer: My Labour is patriotic, a party of equality not protest…

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[Chilli.s]

Im sure it is whatever you say it is this week Keir

 

[Elpenor]

Exactly how much change has he delivered in opposition?