Keir Starmer's time is up

[red & green]

KS always looks like he is about to draft a letter before claim ....

 

[Shechemite]

Pained yet Restrained

 

[Shechemite]

Kiss of death

 

[teqniq]

Certainly is. But as if it was needed.

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Why doesn’t someone just tell Blair to shut the fuck up?
Oh, they have.
(puzzled expression)

 

[teqniq]

This does indeed seem to me to be the hight of folly:

Keir Starmer has pushed the self-destruct button on the Labour Party - Dorset Eye

I’ve got to ask all the Starmer supporters if they think the people acting on behalf of some of the staff exposed in the leaked Labour Report actually care about the Labour Party? If you’ve followed events this week you’ll know that some of these people are looking to bring another 20-30 cases...

dorseteye.com

 

[Sasaferrato]

This does indeed seem to me to be the hight of folly:

Keir Starmer has pushed the self-destruct button on the Labour Party - Dorset Eye

I’ve got to ask all the Starmer supporters if they think the people acting on behalf of some of the staff exposed in the leaked Labour Report actually care about the Labour Party? If you’ve followed events this week you’ll know that some of these people are looking to bring another 20-30 cases...

dorseteye.com

That is skirting very close to libel in my view.

That said, I spent quite a while last night reading the leaked report... ferrets in a sack doesn't quite cover it.

 

[teqniq]

This may already have been posted, somewhere. Apologies if so:

Jeremy Corbyn’s Opponents Burned the House Down to Stop Him — Now Keir Starmer Is King of the Ashes

By sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey on a trumped-up pretext, Keir Starmer has set the seal on a drastic shift to the right for the British Labour Party. That shift comes just as the key arguments by Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents to justify a break with his left leadership have been falling apart in the...

jacobinmag.com

 

[SpookyFrank]

That is skirting very close to libel in my view.

Starmer won't have the funds to launch any legal cases of his after he's coughed up to settle everyone else's.

Oh well, lay down with dogs and you get fleas. Starmer got his job because of the actions a bunch of wreckers and backstabbers, if he gets cleaned out and ruined by the same now, that's just a necessary narrative consequence. Just a pity the country now has to endure its worst ever government without even a token opposition.

 

[mauvais]

But Keir, the school is on fire!

NO IFS, NO BUTS

 

[strung out]

Has he put Boris on notice to get a grip again?

 

[tommers]

Jesus christ. Hell yes I'm tough enough.

 

[CNT36]

No ifs, no buts, no equivocation, no fucking idea.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Absolute state of it.

 

[two sheds]

Not bothered about whether there are measures in place to make kids and children are safe then, not even a mention, certainly doesn't seem to want or expect that.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Morals

 

[SpookyFrank]

As ever his only objection to anything Johnson does is procedural, not ideological.

Have we heard anything from him on the A level fiasco? He had quite a promising shadow education minister at one point, I wonder what happened to her?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I can imagine the high fives in his office once the Mail on Sunday agreed to run the story. But if they think that this is what the ‘red wall‘ is thinking they are miles off the mark. People are scared and want their kids (and therefore schools) safe before they send them back.

 

[mauvais]

Someone pointed out that it actually somehow puts him in an even worse position than the Tories if/when this goes wrong.

 

[Smangus]

Yes, but isn't he looking soooo Prime Ministerial!! swoon.....

 

[SE25]

I hate him so much

shame on those who fell for it

edit: seriously though, this cunt is like having the fkn worse Miliband as leader. How did anyone buy his snake oil?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I hate him so much

shame on those who fell for it

edit: seriously though, this cunt is like having the fkn worse Miliband as leader. How did anyone buy his snake oil?

What’s astonishing is the rapidity with which Labour has retreated from any vestiges of a social democratic project, and has re-entered the terrain of competing to be the most effective managers of the neo-liberal orthodoxy. That’s the real achievement of the first 100 days of Starmer.

It’s says something about how deeply embedded the social democratic project was, and also how effectively organised the battalions of the left that emerged under Corbyn were and just how shaky its political education footings were.

And, I think this is the key point, that as we emerge into the second economic crisis of the decade that the forthcoming debate is going to be limited to how to save the orthodoxy and patch it up rather than a debate about whether or not now is the time to take a step away from it.

 

[Pickman's model]

What’s astonishing is the rapidity with which Labour has retreated from any vestiges of a social democratic project, and has re-entered the terrain of competing to be the most effective managers of the neo-liberal orthodoxy. That’s the real achievement of the first 100 days of Starmer.

It’s says something about how deeply embedded the social democratic project was, and also how effectively organised the battalions of the left that emerged under Corbyn were and just how shaky its political education footings were.

And, I think this is the key point, that as we emerge into the second economic crisis of the decade that the forthcoming debate is going to be limited to how to save the orthodoxy and patch it up rather than to take a step away from it.

The lesson from all this ought to be reiterating the auld adage don't waste time in or indeed in the labour party

 

[Smokeandsteam]

The lesson from all this ought to be reiterating the auld adage don't waste time in or indeed in the labour party

It should. But I suspect the penny still hasn’t dropped for some.

 

[brogdale]

Even Blair's people think that Captain creosote is shite.

 

[belboid]

What’s astonishing is the rapidity with which Labour has retreated from any vestiges of a social democratic project, and has re-entered the terrain of competing to be the most effective managers of the neo-liberal orthodoxy. That’s the real achievement of the first 100 days of Starmer.

It’s says something about how deeply embedded the social democratic project was, and also how effectively organised the battalions of the left that emerged under Corbyn were and just how shaky its political education footings were.

And, I think this is the key point, that as we emerge into the second economic crisis of the decade that the forthcoming debate is going to be limited to how to save the orthodoxy and patch it up rather than a debate about whether or not now is the time to take a step away from it.

it isn't astonishing at all. It is the entire history of the Labour Party and reformism. Just how bad Starmer is at it is slightly surprising, but that's all.

 

[Raheem]

Even Blair's people think that Captain creosote is shite.

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He's not wrong, but I bet he is also disgruntled that they are not asking for his advice.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

it isn't astonishing at all. It is the entire history of the Labour Party and reformism. Just how bad Starmer is at it is slightly surprising, but that's all.

That’s true, but I can’t think of a comparable point in its history when the shift has been so rapid and met such limited resistance.

Agreed that Starmer is bad at it.

 

[tommers]

Things like this are making me laugh bitterly today. There is lots of it about.

 

[tommers]

Imagine undermining a labour leader. Bloody liberty.