Keir Starmer's time is up

[Knotted]

If this year has taught me anything, it really is that most anarchists are just wet bloody liberals


He didn’t talk about racism. He made a decent case about continuing to take a knee to highlight the need to oppose racism. But he didn’t talk about it, he just took it as read that everyone thinks racism is bad. Anyone listening who didn’t already agree with him would just think he ignored the question about white people becoming a minority in ‘our own’ country. Because he did. It only required a brief retort Along the lines of ‘people have been saying that since the war, that white people would be a minority by the eighties, the turn of the century, whenever, but it’s just not true’. Ignoring it does nothing to change the terms of the debate and just risks further alienating victims of racism.

Alright, good reply and sorry about saying you were being stupid. I still think Starmer's response effectively frustrated the "groyping" efforts, but I'm not wasting anymore time on it. (Also looking at it again, he appeared to say that all countries have something equivalent to Israel's citizenship laws ).

 

[killer b]

The revisionist Starmer clique has suspended Liverpool momentum Merseyside activist Alan Gibbons. Unclear why at this stage, but it seems pretty kafkaesque.

I googled Alan Gibbons to find that not only is he a socialist, he's also a well regarded children's author, and one of his books - Shadow of the Minotaur, a tale of nerdy kids, greek myths and computer games - looks like exactly the kind of thing my 11-year old would love for Christmas. I ordered a copy. Thanks for that Kier Starmer!

(in between the book going into my basket and actually paying for it, I discovered Gibbons was is also ex-SWP, a central committee member no less, so I had to spend some time checking his position on the SWP rape gang thing, and he seems to have left the party at the right point and has been vocal about it on twitter, so I - relieved - bought it. Who imagined such an ethical minefield around buying children's literature?)

 

[steveseagull]

Another Jew suspended

 

[hitmouse]

Who imagined such an ethical minefield around buying children's literature?

Tbh, between Michael Rosen and the author of a certain series of wizard books, it's not like the last few years have been short of high-profile political arguments involving children's book authors.

 

[brogdale]

As the nation slips even further into a co-morbidity of crises it seems that Starmer's image as a Prime Minister in waiting is also slipping:

 

[Shechemite]

He has been fucking useless

 

[hitmouse]

As the nation slips even further into a co-morbidity of crises it seems that Starmer's image as a Prime Minister in waiting is also slipping:

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The pedant in me is cringing at that title. Also, is there any polling on "Does Kier Starmer look like a bit of a twat?" for comparison purposes?

 

[brogdale]

The pedant in me is cringing at that title. Also, is there any polling on "Does Kier Starmer look like a bit of a twat?" for comparison purposes?

Yeah, IKWYM; the actual wording according to YG was:

FULL QUESTION

People often say that the Leader of the Opposition does, or does not,"look like a Prime Minister in waiting". Do you believe that at the moment Keir Starmer does or does not look like a Prime Minister in waiting?

 

[mauvais]

As the nation slips even further into a co-morbidity of crises it seems that Starmer's image as a Prime Minister in waiting is also slipping:

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Prime Minster?

 

[ska invita]

i wonder what the total for suspended members is now? several hundred id guess

 

[Sprocket.]

Tosh McDonald’s had enough with the look of it.
I haven’t seen him for a while due to the Covid restrictions, but I had heard he wasn’t a happy comrade.

Former Aslef president Tosh McDonald: I can't stand as a Labour councillor amid Starmer's purges

morningstaronline.co.uk

 

[steveseagull]

There probably is not many people left he has not fucked off apart from his hardcore Stans. The #FBPE cult are raging at him now. And he is literally going to whip the vote to take ownership of this Tory mess.

Truly a controlled opposition.

 

[The39thStep]

I googled Alan Gibbons to find that not only is he a socialist, he's also a well regarded children's author, and one of his books - Shadow of the Minotaur, a tale of nerdy kids, greek myths and computer games - looks like exactly the kind of thing my 11-year old would love for Christmas. I ordered a copy. Thanks for that Kier Starmer!

(in between the book going into my basket and actually paying for it, I discovered Gibbons was is also ex-SWP, a central committee member no less, so I had to spend some time checking his position on the SWP rape gang thing, and he seems to have left the party at the right point and has been vocal about it on twitter, so I - relieved - bought it. Who imagined such an ethical minefield around buying children's literature?)

Gibbons has been around for years as an activist

 

[brogdale]

Yep, Skinner knew that was the moment...

 

[The39thStep]

"Hello ? Is that the Labour Party I would like a copy of Starmer's manifesto please."

' We've sold out '

"Yes I know that but can I still have a copy of his manifesto?"

 

[teqniq]

 

[The39thStep]

Starmer “We will always be European...we will always have shared values, a shared history” True ; colonisation, empires and the slave trade spring to mind.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Fascinating stuff from Kieth. The speech he’s given is the one corbyn should have made four years ago but was unable to, in large part because of the manoeuvres of Kieth and other continuity remain cranks

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Bastani, for once, is spot on....

 

[brogdale]

Bastani, for once, is spot on....

Future historians of the former left party of capital may well look on Corbyn's instant, gut reaction as the clearest position on the topic ever taken by the party.

 

[nogojones]

Tosh McDonald’s had enough with the look of it.
I haven’t seen him for a while due to the Covid restrictions, but I had heard he wasn’t a happy comrade.

Former Aslef president Tosh McDonald: I can't stand as a Labour councillor amid Starmer's purges

morningstaronline.co.uk

Is that Gandlf the Red?

 

[Artaxerxes]

Future historians of the former left party of capital may well look on Corbyn's instant, gut reaction as the clearest position on the topic ever taken by the party.

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Please don't remind me about the fucking chicken coup.

Jeremy with a free hand the months after the Conservatives exploded could have seen us sorting this shit out rapidly.

 

[ska invita]

Finally, a concrete political position from the Director of Prosecutions

 

[NoXion]

@ Kieth

 

[Lord Camomile]

Starmer's resigning tomorrow, 4pm announcement.

Heard it on Twitter

 

[two sheds]

Starmer's resigning tomorrow, 4pm announcement.

Heard it on Twitter

Got a text from a mate about #StarmerQuits apparently it was a typo and he's getting into quilting. Though he is apparently resigning to spend more time doing it.

 

[Pickman's model]

Bastani, for once, is spot on....

Every day is a day of utter humiliation for the labour party

In the last fifty years they have been in power for 18 years while the tories have governed for 32.

 

[steveseagull]

Anyone seen Keith this weekend? #starmerquits seems to be trending on Twitter

 

[MrSki]

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[a_chap]

Apparently this is the Tweet that started all the #starmerQuits malarkey on Twitter...