Keir Starmer's time is up

[andysays]

Thousands flee Labour Party amid Keir Starmer's rightward drift

LABOUR has lost around 10,000 members in just two months, according to reports.

www.thenational.scot

Eta: Cutting down the membership to make the party slimmer and more efficient while getting rid of all the anti-semites

To lose one member may be regarded as misfortune, but to lose 10,000 etc...

 

[SpookyFrank]

To lose one member may be regarded as misfortune, but to lose 10,000...

....should be seen as a deliberate policy. Because it is.

 

[andysays]

....should be seen as a deliberate policy. Because it is.

thanks Oscar

 

[Karl Masks]

thanks Oscar

But it is though. Deliberately kicking out the many because they are the wrong sort for capital to approve of

 

[mojo pixy]

More like kicking out anyone with a conscience. Conscience is a burden when power is your aim. Starmer knows this and so did Blair.

 

[JimW]

Four times, ITV News asked Labour whether it stands by its past public commitments to abolish the bedroom tax if the party took power.

And four times, Sir Keir Starmer's party didn't respond, on a policy its MPs had in the past labelled "cruel."

But ten years after the bedroom tax was introduced, the national social housing stock continues to shrink.

https://www.itv.com/news/2023-07-27/ten-years-on-and-no-plans-to-axe-the-bedroom-tax

It's not u-turns, he's recklessly donutting in the car park of the body public.

 

[Calamity1971]

I worked with this dickhead briefly.
I'm sure the women who are hiding because of domestic abuse applaud her photo shoot .

 

[Calamity1971]

I worked with this dickhead briefly.
I'm sure the women who are hiding because of domestic abuse applaud her photo shoot .

Her and her mother run wearside women in need. There's some really toxic shit going on. I left when a staff member bragged about going for married men was a buzz for her. Yet men aren't allowed in the building for IT purposes etc.

 

[two sheds]

Kent councillor suspended from Labour after watching Jeremy Corbyn film

morningstaronline.co.uk

What the fuck is he going to be like if he gets to be PM?

 

[Chilli.s]

What the fuck is he going to be like if he gets to be PM?

Sir Keir?

Untrustworthy and self serving?

 

[The39thStep]

 

[two sheds]

He'll be giving the same lack of respect and awkward pause in the conversation if someone says things like "I want a fairer Britain"

 

[Chilli.s]

Couldnt even build a better Labour Party let alone a better Britain

 

[Sue]

Hang on, he's never mentioned his dad before. I wonder what he did for work..?

 

[The39thStep]

Hang on, he's never mentioned his dad before. I wonder what he did for work..?

There’s no way a skilled tool maker would be looked down upon . They were part of the work force aristocracy pre WW2 . Anyway he owned his own business .

 

[Chilli.s]

so just a load of starmer bullshit as usual

 

[krtek a houby]

Kent councillor suspended from Labour after watching Jeremy Corbyn film

morningstaronline.co.uk

What the fuck is he going to be like if he gets to be PM?

A party stacked with sycophants, too scared to speak out against him?

Feels ... familiar.

 

[Cid]

There’s no way a skilled tool maker would be looked down upon . They were part of the work force aristocracy pre WW2 . Anyway he owned his own business .

I mean he was born in 1934 (assuming he is the toolmaker Rodney Starmer who resigned as director of the donkey breed society in 1994), so probably not working pre ww2. That said it is so weird how quiet he is about the whole thing... I mean toolmakers have always been respected. There will have been some (very) rough patches that many small artisans didn't survive (e.g collapse in little mester numbers, I think late 60s, up here in Sheffield etc), though it seems he did. But not respected? Maybe it's because he was in fucking Oxted, not exactly the beating heart of industrial Britain. Maybe it's because he's talking about his own son, who to my knowledge has never shown us any of his father's tools. Which in itself is odd; I'd be up there drawing analogies between 'this honest bradawl my father made' and puncturing the illusion of conservative economics or some bollocks. He probably threw them all away when clearing the old family home. Dumped all the blanks, dies etc in the old wooden tool trays, scrawled out a sign with 'free scrap' and got back to talking to the estate agent. Possible they were just very boring tools I suppose - I guess the main use of 'toolmaker' is machine tools. Still, that's proper engineering work. Just odd.

 

[Calamity1971]

Fucking. Hell.
I can't be the only one that didn't make it to the end of that horse shit.
Ones dad was a toolmaker and proud of it. He definitely wasn't short of a few Bob either. Fuck me.
ETA. He also got out of national service because his work was apparently too important.

 

[two sheds]

"We knew what it was to not have a lot of money. That went for food as well ..."



Worth making it through to the end of the second video though

 

[Pickman's model]

Kent councillor suspended from Labour after watching Jeremy Corbyn film

morningstaronline.co.uk

What the fuck is he going to be like if he gets to be PM?

Imagine thatcher crossed with johnson, on steroids. Maybe that's unfair. Imagine a tory Lenin.

 

[Calamity1971]

"We knew what it was to not have a lot of money. That went for food as well ..."



Worth making it through to the end of the second video though

I'll try again later. Haven't the stomach for it now.
We're so fucked aren't we!

 

[krtek a houby]

Imagine thatcher crossed with johnson, on steroids. Maybe that's unfair. Imagine a tory Lenin.

Sir Keir Stalin?

 

[Artaxerxes]

There’s no way a skilled tool maker would be looked down upon . They were part of the work force aristocracy pre WW2 . Anyway he owned his own business .

Cosplay poverty

 

[_Russ_]

His dad certainly succeeded in creating A notable tool

 

[teqniq]

Nicked from Twitter:

 

[not a trot]

Will Labour ever rid itself of the stench of Corbynism ?

 

[gosub]

There’s no way a skilled tool maker would be looked down upon . They were part of the work force aristocracy pre WW2 . Anyway he owned his own business .

Depends on the tool. Making a Keith isn't that skilled

 

[brogdale]

There’s no way a skilled tool maker would be looked down upon . They were part of the work force aristocracy pre WW2 . Anyway he owned his own business .

Not denying the background, but I've never actually seen any hard and fast evidence that Starmer snr did own a factory. Is this nailed down anywhere?

Should add for transparency, that one of the Brogdalettes did a bit of volunteering at the little local theatre in Oxted, and Josephine & Rod were elder patrons of the theatre. Maybe not what you might ordinarily expect from "a toolmaker who worked on the shop floor"? I dunno?

 

[The39thStep]

Not denying the background, but I've never actually seen any hard and fast evidence that Starmer snr did own a factory. Is this nailed down anywhere?

Should add for transparency, that one of the Brogdalettes did a bit of volunteering at the little local theatre in Oxted, and Josephine & Rod were elder patrons of the theatre. Maybe not what you might ordinarily expect from "a toolmaker who worked on the shop floor"? I dunno?

I've never seen any hard and fast evidence that I said that he owned a factory.