Has anyone posted this yet?
Keir Starmer's time is up
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ska invita
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Fast lane
They literally have no ideas other than somehow rewinding the clock back to 1997
ska invita
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If Starmer's new policy announcements next week include Sure Start Im going to cry
Just maybe this is all a historic dead cat bounce for the Blairite spawn - hope springs
Just maybe this is all a historic dead cat bounce for the Blairite spawn - hope springs
Sure Start and deport all the forruns faster than Patel will
Great piece here in the New Socialist - anyone know who George Peacock is? Google reveals only a dead mathematician...
newsocialist.org.uk
A Bad Week for Starmer, or worse?
The big "sell" of Starmer during his leadership campaign was competence. We aren't seeing much.
newsocialist.org.uk
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Just a brief reminder of how some in the Labour Party left can sell anything from a 2nd referendum to Starmer and make it sound left
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Bristol West Labour members describe AGM as a ‘complete farce’
The Zoom meeting lasted six-and-a-half hours and ended at midnight
The CLP's social media manager saying there was 'no time' for speeches in a meeting that lasted six hours plus
lazythursday
Well-Known Member
I'm looking forward to reading, at some point, Mason's mea culpa for backing Starmer. As he must have been thoroughly convinced that Starmer would be more left-oriented than has turned out, he must have been pretty heavily lied to. As whatever his faults I don't buy that he was deliberately shafting the left and expecting events to play out the way that they have.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
More than a feeling.
steeplejack
trapped lbw for a duck
Appointing a guy who knew how to win elections 25 years ago, really screams that the Labour Party are all over the critical challenges facing the electorate in 2021.
[Mandelson 1996] Let's get it clear. No more old Labour, but a welcome in new Labour for those colleagues who recognise that they have to change"[/Mandelson1996]
Next Tony Blair will put on a brown wig, grow back his early 80s 'tache and stand for Sedgefield with a cod Durham accent.
He'll be back leading the party by 2023.
[Mandelson 1996] Let's get it clear. No more old Labour, but a welcome in new Labour for those colleagues who recognise that they have to change"[/Mandelson1996]
Next Tony Blair will put on a brown wig, grow back his early 80s 'tache and stand for Sedgefield with a cod Durham accent.
He'll be back leading the party by 2023.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
unwanted ear worm alert!
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Guacamole, guacamole, men have named you. . .
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Just recite the lyrics to the Pink Panther, that'll shift it.
A mea culpa for saying Becky Long Bailey would be beholden to the Pope if she won the leadership would be nice as well
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Revisionist Starmer Clique more popular amongst neo-liberal voters than Labour voters.
ska invita
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This is UK parliamentary politics in a nutshell: Labour is basically full of Lib Dems who only join Labour because its a route to power under FPTP (or because their parents named them Keir).
At the very least in the mainstream we should have the choice of a three horse race of Torys, LibDems and a Democratic Socialist Labour party, but instead its Tories plus two Lib Dem parties, one of which is propped up by disgruntled trade unions.
The most important stat there to me is only 24% Lab voters think unfavourably of Starmer. I expect he'd be happy with that!
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
If there was some kind of Dallas style, walk out of the shower and history resets itself, I'd guess that the Labour party membership might just about go with Burnham over Keith right now. Trouble is I don't see any way for that to happen. Starmer would need 12 months of awful polls before replacing him even becomes a public issue in the party. Then, at about 2 years out from an election, there wouldn't be much appetite for spending a few months on a leadership thing, particularly amid a covid 'recovery' period. They're stuck with him.
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Sir Kieth.At least spell his name right....it's Kieth ffs...
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
Elevate some god awful centrist MP in a safe seat to the House of Lords and call a by-election
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Starmer is fucked. He is about 400x more fucked than I had imagined him to be in a year. The man could not be any less fucked. Will it be a quick 'off with the head' or death by a thousand cuts?
I am calling early, Starmer's time is up.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
He's basically the bloke they should wheel out to do the forensic thing. Wheel him out every few years when there's a major report and you want someone to go through it line by line (while everybody else nips out for a cig).
Purely at the level of performance, you need someone with a sense of humour for a kick off. It's been a while since Labour had anyone leading them who seemed happy in their own skin. Blair was, but that was because it was a lizard skin and he could shed it when it got too tight.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
Thing is he definitely appears fucked. But I can't see any reason why he won't just carry on being fucked until the next election.
Labour have suspended the Liverpool mayor selection process with ballot papers due out today. Candidates to be reinterviewed on Friday.
Left candidate Anna Rothery has the endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn amongst others
All completely normal and not a stitch up I'm sure
Left candidate Anna Rothery has the endorsement of Jeremy Corbyn amongst others
All completely normal and not a stitch up I'm sure
steveseagull
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