Who will be the next Labour leader?

[fakeplasticgirl]

What specifically do you think he did pretty well?

The fact he answered all the questions eloquently. He held his own for the most part apart from the funding bit.

 

[Sasaferrato]

I haven't heard (no pun intended ) of this lot, but an interesting article.

How Labour's Left has stitched up selection

Local constituencies are powerless as favoured candidates are parachuted in by the new regime

unherd.com

 

[Sasaferrato]

The fact he answered all the questions eloquently. He held his own for the most part apart from the funding bit.

One would think that who is funding him should be transparent.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

One would think that who is funding him should be transparent.

It’s all published here:

House of Commons - The Register of Members' Financial Interests (2 March 2020: Starmer, Keir )

publications.parliament.uk

Updated every 2 weeks

 

[belboid]

It’s all published here:

House of Commons - The Register of Members' Financial Interests (2 March 2020: Starmer, Keir )

publications.parliament.uk

Updated every 2 weeks

but you dont have to submit for two weeks, and then its updated every two weeks, so its four weeks behind in a six week contest.

I saw a nice quote about Starmer saying something like 'he speaks so eloquently, you come away thinking how marvellously eloquent he is, and only realise the next day you can't remember anything he actually said'

 

[killer b]

I saw a nice quote about Starmer saying something like 'he speaks so eloquently, you come away thinking how marvellously eloquent he is, and only realise the next day you can't remember anything he actually said'

that sounds like a solid skill for a politician tbh

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

but you dont have to submit for two weeks, and then its updated every two weeks, so its four weeks behind in a six week contest.

I saw a nice quote about Starmer saying something like 'he speaks so eloquently, you come away thinking how marvellously eloquent he is, and only realise the next day you can't remember anything he actually said'

And that is the process agreed & set out by the Labour Party, so what’s the problem?

 

[belboid]

And that is the process agreed & set out by the Labour Party, so what’s the problem?

The LP didnt agree and set out the HoC register. The other two contestants aren't waiting four weeks to say who is funding them. That's the problem.

 

[SpookyFrank]

The fact he answered all the questions eloquently. He held his own for the most part apart from the funding bit.

And the actual content of his answers?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

The LP didnt agree and set out the HoC register. The other two contestants aren't waiting four weeks to say who is funding them. That's the problem.

I think it was agreed by the NEC?

if you’re really worried that a certain T. Blair has bunged starmer a million quid in the past couple of weeks don’t vote for him... but I think the people screaming “dark money!!!” aren’t likely to vote for him anyway.

 

[killer b]

if you’re really worried that a certain T. Blair has bunged starmer a million quid in the past couple of weeks don’t vote for him... but I think the people screaming “dark money!!!” aren’t likely to vote for him anyway.

I think there may be other people beyond the people screaming dark money who might consider voting elsewhere, depending on who's funding him. A calculation he's surely made himself, or he'd say who's funding him.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I think there may be other people beyond the people screaming dark money who might consider voting elsewhere, depending on who's funding him. A calculation he's surely made himself, or he'd say who's funding him.

Maybe the front runner doesn’t want/have to bow down to RLB’s demands. I see people like Aaron Bastani on twitter becoming increasingly hysterical and they look ridiculous.
Anyway, I’ll check that link again in a couple of weeks. Have already voted for starmer anyway

 

[killer b]

I’ll check that link again in a couple of weeks.

lol no you won't.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

lol no you won't.

Why wouldn’t I? I’m pretty sure there’s going to be nothing dodgy on it? I want to prove bastani wrong

 

[killer b]

I look forward for your explanations why actually it's just fine he's taken cash of this cunt or the other, in that case.

 

[JimW]

Must be someone pretty grim as the secrecy is a terrible look.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I look forward for your explanations why actually it's just fine he's taken cash of this cunt or the other, in that case.

Fine. I can’t think of anyone who might plausibly have donated that would bother me though. It’s not going to be Donald Trump!

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Must be someone pretty grim as the secrecy is a terrible look.

Not secret though House of Commons - The Register of Members' Financial Interests (2 March 2020: Starmer, Keir )

 

[killer b]

I can’t think of anyone who might plausibly have donated that would bother me though

I know.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

There will of course be thousands of people who donated under £1500. Those don’t have to be registered. I am one of them! I am a “dark donor”

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Honestly, do people really think that meticulous cleanshirt, former head of the CPS, keir starmer is going to be money laundering funds from the trilateral commission via the dark web?

 

[JimW]

No, just some run of the mill odious tycoon or he wouldn't be so coy.

 

[killer b]

I think people imagine he may be being funded by people who's political aims are at odds with theirs, and that this funding may indicate something about what they can expect about the future direction of the party under Starmer.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Honestly, do people really think that meticulous cleanshirt, former head of the CPS, keir starmer is going to be money laundering funds from the trilateral commission via the dark web?

Do I think he's above such behaviour? No. He's establishment to his boots and the establishment is corrupt beyond redemption. Taking dodgy money might be a bad tactical move for Starmer, but ethics is not a consderation for him. He knows all about the prison system he sent thousands to rot in, he doesn't have any ethics.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

I think people imagine he may be being funded by people who's political aims are at odds with theirs, and that this funding may indicate something about what they can expect about the future direction of the party under Starmer.

I’m one of the people that thinks that fakeplasticgirl

What other reasons would he have for the secrecy?

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

I’m one of the people that thinks that fakeplasticgirl

What other reasons would he have for the secrecy?

But you loathe him no matter what.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

Do I think he's above such behaviour? No. He's establishment to his boots and the establishment is corrupt beyond redemption. Taking dodgy money might be a bad tactical move for Starmer, but ethics is not a consderation for him. He knows all about the prison system he sent thousands to rot in, he doesn't have any ethics.

Yeah, the guy who spent a huge proportion of his life working for free to eradicate the death penalty has no ethics.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

But you loathe him no matter what.

That’s true. But the fact remains there must be a reason as to why Starmer is loathe to make the same disclosure as Nandy and RLB. What is the reason??

 

[brogdale]

That’s true. But the fact remains there must be a reason as to why Starmer is loathe to make the same disclosure as Nandy and RLB. What is the reason??

My guess is because some of the folk yet to vote are Labour.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Yeah, the guy who spent a huge proportion of his life working for free to eradicate the death penalty has no ethics.

Christ. He's got you bad hasn't he