Keir Starmer's time is up

[Elpenor]

Good template for election manifesto though.

1. Promise whatever you think is necessary to get elected

2. Say events meant your promises are now no longer possible

3. Maintain neoliberal agenda to satisfy donors and lobbyists from big business

 

[SpookyFrank]

He was keen to stress that Labour are the party of tax cuts and wasn’t willing to commit to taxing the rich more in case it harms growth.

Protecting growth at this point is like doing CPR on a fucking skeleton.

I really don't understand how anyone smart enough to tie their own shoes can possibly think that letting the rich take everything they want and hoping they give some of it back is ever going to create growth, when all it has ever done is the exact opposite of that. It follows that they know they're full of shit, and that their whole schtick is just about buying the patronage of the rich so they can weasel their way into power. Why even bother is the thing I don't get. Most of them could make more money for less effort as consultants or whatever. I'm sure the likes of Chuka Umunna is fucking coining it in despite having achieved nothing in politics and having about as much talent for it as a partially decomposed halibut.

 

[teqniq]

Good template for election manifesto though.

1. Promise whatever you think is necessary to get elected

2. Say events meant your promises are now no longer possible

3. Maintain neoliberal agenda to satisfy donors and lobbyists from big business

Fucking repellent, whether or not I vote for my Labour MP is really hanging by a thread.

 

[UrbaneFox]

Perhaps not, but this obsession with shutting down any and all dissenting voices is new. Dent Coed isn't exactly a fringe lefty loon either.

She was our MP for a short time, and is an excellent councillor. We are all really pissed off.

 

[brogdale]

Starmer gets an endorsement from this horny handed son of the soil.

 

[two sheds]

Well this will put all concerns to rest

Sue Gray refused to cooperate with inquiry into her Labour role

Civil servant won’t answer questions on whether she accepted offer from Keir Starmer while investigating Partygate

www.independent.co.uk

 

[magneze]

The whole student fees reversal is enraging enough but the sheer incompetence of announcing it just before the local elections is breathtaking. I mean he doesn't even set out what they will do! WTF. Is this Sue Gray advising him?

 

[ska invita]

The whole student fees reversal is enraging enough but the sheer incompetence of announcing it just before the local elections is breathtaking. I mean he doesn't even set out what they will do! WTF. Is this Sue Gray advising him?

Maybe in this day and age thats a vote winner hence the timing

We should we pay to make young people woke, they should pay for that their whole lives, student scum

 

[Raheem]

The whole student fees reversal is enraging enough but the sheer incompetence of announcing it just before the local elections is breathtaking. I mean he doesn't even set out what they will do! WTF. Is this Sue Gray advising him?

They've undoubtedly got a whole schedule of u-turns that they don't want to have to pile up closer to a GE.

 

[mojo pixy]

This is the 'opposition' ffs .. opposed to what, exactly? Not opposed to anything the government are doing anyway.

I suppose it's an obvious outcome, the worst government we've had for a very, very long time deserves only the worst opposition we've ever known

 

[Chilli.s]

This dickhead has had so many open goals hes failed to score in the last 3 years that it is obvious hes part of the problem and nowhere near the solution

 

[magneze]

It's 1992 isn't it. "We're alright!"

 

[brogdale]

Maybe in this day and age thats a vote winner hence the timing

We should we pay to make young people woke, they should pay for that their whole lives, student scum

Yep, going for the 'red-wall' "We love Boris" demographic

 

[Chilli.s]

Yep, going for the 'red-wall' "We love Boris" demographic

Who even knows what his next plan will be... get people to write in with ideas?

 

[Elpenor]

Who even knows what his next plan will be... get people to write in with ideas?

Or perhaps carve them onto a monolithic stone tablet?

 

[two sheds]

Or perhaps carve them onto a monolithic stone tablet?

they'd have to be erasable though

 

[pug]

Who even knows what his next plan will be... get people to write in with ideas?

Visit a local conservative club to speak to his supporters.

 

[two sheds]

One of the People Suing Labour Over Leaked Antisemitism Report Used Antisemitic Slurs | Novara Media

Julie Cattell, a non-Jewish Labour candidate in Brighton & Hove, told Jewish people they weren’t real Jews. Rivkah Brown reports.

novaramedia.com

A would-be Labour councillor in Thursday’s local elections who is suing the party for identifying her as an antisemitism complainant used antisemitic slurs via an anonymous Twitter account, Novara Media understands.

In a formal complaint submitted to the party yesterday, a Jewish woman Labour member accused Julie Cattell of antisemitic and abusive behaviour. Cattell, a former Labour councillor for Brighton & Hove who lost her seat in 2019, hopes to rejoin the council tomorrow.

The complaint cited a number of Cattell’s tweets, including one from 2019 in which she describes a number of prominent Jewish figures – including formerConservative speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow, academic Noam Chomsky and actor Miriam Margolyes – as “AsaJews”.

interesting to see whether the anonymous account is linked to her.

 

[two sheds]

Now isn't this genuinely surprising if he's giving the starmer policy

Labour WON'T repeal Tory anti-protest laws if they win next election, says MP

Lammy said it would take up "too much parliamentary time" and that Labour would put across a "positive agenda"

www.thenational.scot

David Lammy: "“We can't come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it,” he said. “It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda."

 

[Pickman's model]

Now isn't this genuinely surprising if he's giving the starmer policy

Labour WON'T repeal Tory anti-protest laws if they win next election, says MP

Lammy said it would take up "too much parliamentary time" and that Labour would put across a "positive agenda"

www.thenational.scot

David Lammy: "“We can't come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it,” he said. “It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda."

Maybe they'll flip-flop on this like they do so much else

 

[inva]

Now isn't this genuinely surprising if he's giving the starmer policy

Labour WON'T repeal Tory anti-protest laws if they win next election, says MP

Lammy said it would take up "too much parliamentary time" and that Labour would put across a "positive agenda"

www.thenational.scot

David Lammy: "“We can't come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it,” he said. “It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda."

Of course they won't have time they'll have too much of their own anti-protest legislation to pass.

 

[ruffneck23]

Maybe they'll flip-flop on this like they do so much else

I'm not entirely sure the ex head of the CPS would want to repeal such laws.

 

[Pickman's model]

I'm not entirely sure the ex head of the CPS would want to repeal such laws.

Yeh but you can hope

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Now isn't this genuinely surprising if he's giving the starmer policy

Labour WON'T repeal Tory anti-protest laws if they win next election, says MP

Lammy said it would take up "too much parliamentary time" and that Labour would put across a "positive agenda"

www.thenational.scot

David Lammy: "“We can't come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it,” he said. “It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda."

Starmer's probably rubbing his hands with glee that he can inherit such a thing.

 

[mojo pixy]

Indeed, just as 'new' Labour didn't repeal the CJA 1994, instead building on it with the CJA 2003. Labour under an ex-DPP is going to be a repressive nightmare worse than anything Blair, Brown and Blunkett could come up with.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Who even knows what his next plan will be... get people to write in with ideas?

Then quietly shred the 350,000 postcards with 'tax the rich' written on them.

 

[teqniq]

Lammy, 'I have other principles if you don't like these' is a complete scumbag as is most of the labour front bench. I am pretty much done with them.

 

[teqniq]

Oh what a surprise:

Labour criticised for giving global banks access to parliament

Exclusive: HSBC and NatWest staffers seconded to shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds’s team

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chilli.s]

Gotta keep that revolving door spinning

 

[gosub]

Now isn't this genuinely surprising if he's giving the starmer policy

Labour WON'T repeal Tory anti-protest laws if they win next election, says MP

Lammy said it would take up "too much parliamentary time" and that Labour would put across a "positive agenda"

www.thenational.scot

David Lammy: "“We can't come into office, picking through all the conservative legislation and repealing it,” he said. “It would take up so much parliamentary time. We need a positive agenda."

Just cos it's our job as opposition to say we disagree with stuff, doesn't mean we mean it