Keir Starmer's time is up

[tim]

If you plan to fake authenticity, it's probably best not to publish that plan in a Labour Party policy document.

 

[JTG]

Meanwhile:

Ex-officials suspended over leaked report have been readmitted to Labour - LabourList

Former Labour officials suspended over a controversial internal report on the handling of disciplinary cases during the Jeremy…

labourlist.org

 

[SpookyFrank]

“The use of the flag, veterans, dressing smartly at the war memorial etc give voters a sense of authentic values alignment.”

Sounds great.

'Authentic values alignment' is a phrase only someone with no values could come up with.

 

[Raheem]

"We're still flagging."

"Well, that's exactly what the consultants said we should do..."

 

[teqniq]

It's all just so completely fucking dire.

 

[SpookyFrank]

If you join up, setting your membership direct debit date a month in the future, can you then resign in protest at all this patriotic bollocks before your subscription gets taken from your account? Will that count as a resignation?

Keith will have you purged before you get the chance to resign.

 

[JTG]

'Authentic values alignment' is a phrase only someone with no values could come up with.

I was always suspicious of the sort of people who went on about 'Labour values' when I was in the party

 

[hitmouse]

'Authentic values alignment' is a phrase only someone with no values could come up with.

I enjoyed the person in the comments of one of the linked posts above saying it was one of the weaker late period Fall albums.

 

[SpookyFrank]

It's all just so completely fucking dire.

Keep trying to think of something else to say but this is the crux of it really.

 

[Raheem]

Keep trying to think of something else to say but this is the crux of it really.

At least they're incompetent enough to have allowed it to be leaked, though.

 

[SpookyFrank]

At least they're incompetent enough to have allowed it to be leaked, though.

They're probably too dense to even get why it makes them look bad.

 

[ska invita]

“The use of the flag, veterans, dressing smartly at the war memorial etc give voters a sense of authentic values alignment.”

Sounds great.

I wonder just how they'll use veterans

 

[JTG]

Some people are pleased anyway:

 

[Raheem]

They're probably too dense to even get why it makes them look bad.

They can always hire a consultancy firm to figure it out for them.

 

[tony.c]

Keith will have you purged before you get the chance to resign.

I cancelled my direct debit before they could suspend me for supporting Palestinians.
I got an email asking me why I had ceased membership and I told them. I got a reply saying someone would ring me to discuss it. That was six months ago.
I guess I'm on a list to be denied membership if I should ever apply again.

 

[JTG]

They're probably too dense to even get why it makes them look bad.

Dunno about dense. Completely vapid hollow vessels whose souls were traded away long ago in return for a safe seat and a turn on the Question Time treadmill. Dense doesn't really come into it. I mean, at least the Tory cabinet appear to have some personality and/or motivation, even if that's "self interested spiv on the make". At least it's an angle that people can relate to. The Labour front bench though... they're just empty.

 

[Lord Camomile]

They're literally trying to cosplay as Tories.

 

[JTG]

I cancelled my direct debit before they could suspend me for supporting Palestinians.
I got an email asking me why I had ceased membership and I told them. I got a reply saying someone would ring me to discuss it. That was six months ago.
I guess I'm on a list to be denied membership if I should ever apply again.

I left when Debonnaire held meetings with the Landlords Association but couldn't be arsed with Acorn until they kicked up a fuss. Not that that was particularly surprising or egregious by their standards, just that it was clear at that stage that whatever chink of light there had been was gone forever. The CLP secretary asked me why I left, I ignored her because she's a massive Terf and I cba. They still send me begging emails every now and again. Fuck off like.

Today some centrist dad type on Twitter told me he was glad I'd left and not to come back. Which was fine as it pretty much persuaded me to vote against the cunts rather than just abstain. Fuck em

 

[BristolEcho]

I left when Debonnaire held meetings with the Landlords Association but couldn't be arsed with Acorn until they kicked up a fuss. Not that that was particularly surprising or egregious by their standards, just that it was clear at that stage that whatever chink of light there had been was gone forever. The CLP secretary asked me why I left, I ignored her because she's a massive Terf and I cba. They still send me begging emails every now and again. Fuck off like.

Today some centrist dad type on Twitter told me he was glad I'd left and not to come back. Which was fine as it pretty much persuaded me to vote against the cunts rather than just abstain. Fuck em

Didn't know that about Thangham and Acorn. Is there anything about it online?

 

[JTG]

Didn't know that about Thangham and Acorn. Is there anything about it online?

Erm, maybe on Acorn's twitter timeline from last spring? She did eventually meet with them after they put a lot of pressure on but it's that her natural instinct was to just talk to the landlords.
Of course now she's busy ignoring one of the biggest student rent strikes in the country in her own constituency on the grounds that supporting them would be illegal or something

 

[BristolEcho]

Erm, maybe on Acorn's twitter timeline from last spring? She did eventually meet with them after they put a lot of pressure on but it's that her natural instinct was to just talk to the landlords.
Of course now she's busy ignoring one of the biggest student rent strikes in the country in her own constituency on the grounds that supporting them would be illegal or something

Ah okay last year! I did miss it to then. I'm not on social media much at the moment. Not entirely surprised as you said.

 

[brogdale]

They're literally trying to cosplay as Tories.

and even the lamest tories are laughing at them...

 

[Flavour]

The labour party is so dead.
This is pathetic. Nobody is going to be convinced to switch to voting Labour from whatever it was they voted before by this crap-guest-on-Would-I-Lie-To-You impersonation of tories. It's deeply tragic.

 

[JTG]

Ah okay last year! I did miss it to then. I'm not on social media much at the moment. Not entirely surprised as you said.

Yeah it was during the early first lockdown as various groups were trying to appeal for support. No surprise that the Tories prioritised landlords over renters and then Labour fell into line as well. It's an instinct I guess

 

[JTG]

The labour party is so dead.
This is pathetic. Nobody is going to be convinced to switch to voting Labour from whatever it was they voted before by this crap-guest-on-Would-I-Lie-To-You impersonation of tories. It's deeply tragic.

Quite a few people will be turned off however

 

[Humberto]

I guess Starmer is what he is; a no-hoper result of constant Labour capitulation to a rigged system.

 

[Wilf]

I can't be arsed even reading what Labour is planning, it's all so shit, so desperate, so awful. Whatever it is, it's actually a stick for the tories ot beat them with. Labour does some toe curling stuff about flags and patriotism and the next time they fail to back the monarchy, the army or fuck knows what, boris johnson has a ready made line in place about the patriotism being merely a cynical ploy (as indeed it is).

 

[krtek a houby]

Let him dangle.

 

[JTG]

An oldie but always a goodie

 

[mx wcfc]

Quite a few people will be turned off however

I was writing what I thought was an astute political comment in reply to this. I then realised it was half past 12 and I was pissed, so it was probably a good idea to leave it.

Rock on Comrade.