Keir Starmer's time is up

[Dystopiary]

There's still no minister for disabled people.

This is an extract of a letter Disability Rights UK wrote to Starmer last Friday:



Labour Fail to Appoint Minister for Disabled People One Week After Election | Disability Rights UK

The new minister is Stephen Timms.

Starmer and co didn't bother telling disability charities the news, as per my post above. I've been looking online every day since the election results, but although the appointment was made on the 8th of July, have only just managed to find out. (I posted, wrongly, in the election thread that former Shadow Minister Vicky Foxcroft had been picked, but the information I'd read was incorrect.)

The title of the role has been changed again, this time from "Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and Work" to "Minister of State for Social Security and Disability."

Minister of State (Minister for Social Security and Disability) - GOV.UK

A former chair of the Work and Pensions Select Committee, Timms has supported benefit "sanctions" and forcing people off disability benefits, so not a great surprise he's been picked unfortunately.

"What the current [Conservative] government is doing is going through a process we established," he said.

He is also known to be a homophobic bigot who supported the war on Iraq.

It's great that the Tories are out.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

and more important is what he's going to do with it

I think this matters more than semantic arguments around the word mandate tbh…

 

[bluescreen]

The Eye

 

[Pickman's model]

I think this matters more than semantic arguments around the word mandate tbh…

I suppose you're entitled to your opinion

 

[steveseagull]

Meanwhile at the Guardian there is a Starmer love in...

How the Guardian Lined Up Behind Starmer | Novara Media

At the Guardian’s election endorsement meeting, a senior columnist argued that anything less than full-blown Starmerism risked losing credibility with the incoming government, while the lobby closed ranks behind Labour in a seemingly pre-agreed position. Rivkah Brown reports.

novaramedia.com

 

[T & P]

The Mail seems to be gravely concerned about Starmer’s plans for government. To the extent whereby they have used their trademark double plus signs of Doom reserved for the most serious of events only



On an unrelated matter, is there an actual typographical definition for such character usage? I only ever recall the Heil using them in such fashion.

 

[Dystopiary]

The Mail seems to be gravely concerned about Starmer’s plans for government. To the extent whereby they have used their trademark double plus signs of Doom reserved for the most serious of events only

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On an unrelated matter, is there an actual typographical definition for such character usage? I only ever recall the Heil using them in such fashion.

England flags?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The Mail seems to be gravely concerned about Starmer’s plans for government. To the extent whereby they have used their trademark double plus signs of Doom reserved for the most serious of events only

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On an unrelated matter, is there an actual typographical definition for such character usage? I only ever recall the Heil using them in such fashion.

Pretty standard isn’t it? The right scream it’s a socialist revolution, the left shout it’s just Tories in new clothing…

 

[Puddy_Tat]

On an unrelated matter, is there an actual typographical definition for such character usage? I only ever recall the Heil using them in such fashion.

it's almost but not quite

 

[krtek a houby]

The Mail seems to be gravely concerned about Starmer’s plans for government. To the extent whereby they have used their trademark double plus signs of Doom reserved for the most serious of events only

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On an unrelated matter, is there an actual typographical definition for such character usage? I only ever recall the Heil using them in such fashion.

"Extra power for the unions"
"Rights to work from home"
"Anti-strike law scrapped "
"More diversity monitoring "

They say these like they're bad things...

 

[BristolEcho]

"Extra power for the unions"
"Rights to work from home"
"Anti-strike law scrapped "
"More diversity monitoring "

They say these like they're bad things...

BUT HOW WILL FIRMS GROW?????

 

[krtek a houby]

BUT HOW WILL FIRMS GROW?????

Honest toil, means of production and love of the common people

 

[Elpenor]

a picture of Red Robbo Rayner from the Union on the front too for maximum scare points

 

[ska invita]

"Extra power for the unions"
"Rights to work from home"
"Anti-strike law scrapped "
"More diversity monitoring "

I'm not sure how much any of those things are being proposed. The report I read this morning didn't mention any of those and explicitly said the right to WFH wasn't included in the new workers' rights bill.

 

[Elpenor]

I'm not sure how much any of those things are being proposed. The report I read this morning didn't mention any of those and explicitly said the right to WFH wasn't included in the new workers' rights bill.

There was some talk about diversity monitoring, not sure as haven’t read the detail but had the impression it might be an ethnicity / disability version of Gender Pay Gap reporting

 

[ska invita]

There was some talk about diversity monitoring, not sure as haven’t read the detail but had the impression it might be an ethnicity / disability version of Gender Pay Gap reporting

I can well imagine theres diversity monitoring....very Blairite way of (not) solving a problem...league tables to follow

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Diversity - people whose dads were toolmakers and people whose dads weren't toolmakers.

 

[Elpenor]

I can well imagine theres diversity monitoring....very Blairite way of (not) solving a problem...league tables to follow

Here’s a report, now we can let the market sort out the structural issues

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The Starmer honeymoon continues…

 

[BristolEcho]

The Starmer honeymoon continues…

Considering the shit show from the Tories since Covid is that really good?

 

[Pickman's model]

Considering the shit show from the Tories since Covid is that really good?

no, it's pretty shit but ke is definitely not known for his political nous

 

[belboid]

The Starmer honeymoon continues…

wooh! 36%. I appreciate they would have killed to get that high in the actual election, but, wow, that is a shit score.

 

[Pickman's model]

wooh! 36%. I appreciate they would have killed to get that high in the actual election, but, wow, that is a shit score.

and it is unlikely to go up, if as the unfortunate kid eternity tells us this is the honeymoon period

 

[Elpenor]

and it is unlikely to go up, if as the unfortunate kid eternity tells us this is the honeymoon period

hey, he’s worked in politics y’know

 

[Sue]

no, it's pretty shit but ke is definitely not known for his political nous

He used to work in politics I'll have you know!

 

[belboid]

the fucker is clearly senile, he has to go and pass the baton to his female deputy

PM Starmer calls Sunak 'prime minister' in Commons slip-up

Sir Keir Starmer jokes that "old habits die hard" as he appears to give the leader of the opposition his old job back.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[two sheds]

Once again I can't tell whether he's serious (from bluesky) but from his posting history I think he is:

Isn't it nice to have some national pride again, rather than cringing every time our so-called leaders opened their mouths and stuck in their collective feet over some exceptionalist claim or other misstep?

that really is a low bar: whether he's got a coat. Churchillian

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Hmmmm this could be a very good thing against the far right but against far left protesters?

Far-right riots: Keir Starmer announces new violent disorder unit — The Guardian

PM and police agree plan to boost intelligence gathering as social media firms told to clamp down on misinformation

apple.news

 

[Idris2002]

 

[nino_savatte]

Euan Philipps's gang is doing two things here: first, they conflate Jews with Israel and second, they seem to believe genocide and ethnic cleansing is fine and should continue.

Labour Against Antisemitism (LAAS) – a group of predominantly Jewish party members who campaign against anti-Semitism – has written to Sir Keir raising concerns about Labour’s stance on the Middle East.
The letter said: “Disappointingly, during the recent campaign election candidates from several parties – including yours – sought to exploit existing racial and religious divisions and ran campaigns centred on the conflict between Israel and Hamas, a foreign conflict thousands of miles away.

https://archive.is/uzmMv

Original article here.

Keir Starmer accused of worsening anti-Semitism after Israel arms embargo plans exposed

Prime Minister’s posture towards Israel resulting in ‘domestic fallout’ for British Jews, warns Labour Against Antisemitism

www.telegraph.co.uk