re akehurstnow would be good for those journalists to leak who said "shaking off the fleas" quote and "MP for Gaza" (sic?) to them
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 30 May 2024 21:27 (one month ago) link
They agree, so they won’t.Heard a Labour ad on YouTube while watching Boston sports radio, Starmer starts in his horrible nasally voice“I came into politics to get things done”Then there’s a clip of him at Labour conference“I grew up” small pause “working class”applauseGenuinely came across like someone fed Calz’s most pointed comments about him into an ai ad generator
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Thursday, 30 May 2024 21:45 (one month ago) link
He's a bandit and a heartbreakerOh, his daddy was a toolmaker
― oh the crime nowadays back in my day you could leave your door unlocke (Matt #2), Thursday, 30 May 2024 21:50 (one month ago) link
during the cultural revolution in China ppl like Starmer's dad would have had struggle board with "bourgeois capitalist roader scum" on it tied around their neck and the red guard's might have thrown him off a bridge after cutting his balls off. Sometimes extremely easy decisions have to be made!
Could you imagine being such a dishonest operator, so lacking in self-awareness and basic human decency that your dad owned the Oxted Toolmaking Company and you went to a posh school, and yet you allude to "struggles" that you have experienced. Fuck and die Kieth.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:21 (one month ago) link
Starmer's dad apparently campaigned for Corbyn in 2017!
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:23 (one month ago) link
(fuck off and die I meant - no more fucking, kieth!)
in 2017 Corbyn was hot!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:27 (one month ago) link
Well okay but Keir resigned from the shad cab in 2016 so it's fair to assume his dad had/has different politics from him, but of course I don't know more than that. I do remember reading somewhere that his dad was disgusted at his son's behaviour at that time
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:37 (one month ago) link
Err, had, obviously. He died in 2018
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:39 (one month ago) link
wasn't Kieth one of the first chicken coupers to come back into the fold? can't remember. It's not a stretch to imagine his dad wasn't as awful as him, few are.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:43 (one month ago) link
Uma Kumaran, a Starmer loyalist and former Starmer speechwriter, has been selected for the ultra-safe seat of Stratford and Bow
If I could vote I'd vote for Halima Khan, the whistleblower in the Al-J doc "The Labour Files" - standing as an independent - https://www.ajiunit.com/investigation/the-labour-files/
We also have a candidate from the Revolutionary Communist Party but i'm not sure i'm ready for that
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:44 (one month ago) link
If not now, when?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:52 (one month ago) link
I dunno I tried looking up what they stand for and they seem kinda confused themselves
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2024 22:57 (one month ago) link
the current uk rcp are some other trotskyist group that just renamed itself that recently and have no connection to the old living marxism/spiked weirdos afaik
but why would they choose that of all things to rebrand themselves as lol
― ufo, Thursday, 30 May 2024 23:11 (one month ago) link
let's see who my Green candidate is
https://www.clairesheppardlondon.co.uk/about
aww she seems nice i think? mind you, posed with count binface after the may elections, not ideal. am scouring her socials for anything terfy, can't find much in the way of that or trans rights support so mark it inconclusive but probably okay idk
― imago, Friday, 31 May 2024 09:14 (one month ago) link
Brent West bringing the 'best-named candidate' fire mind you
https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/92712/baston-demedici-jaguar
― imago, Friday, 31 May 2024 09:33 (one month ago) link
the al jazeera doc lady had a bit of a headbanger whiff of her in that doc imo, just something about the way she looked at the camera and I feel like she was doing a bit of engagement farming immediately after.
― plax (ico), Friday, 31 May 2024 09:40 (one month ago) link
These ludicrous cunts
Pressed on whether he was suggesting that Abbott wasn’t fit to stand as an MP again, Kyle said:
These are real issues about standards, and I’m not going to apologise for the fact that Keir Starmer, when he became leader of the Labour party, raised the standards by which sitting MPs, candidates, anybody that represents the Labour party and speaks on his behalf, are held.
That is why just today another Tory MP endorsed the Labour party That is because of the standards that we’re holding ourselves to and we are holding ourselves to extremely high standards.
― nashwan, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:01 (one month ago) link
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 30 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink
Yes we had communists standing for London assembly and their leaflet just mentioned nice social democratic things. One guy was invested in freeing Julian Assange so er..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2024 10:03 (one month ago) link
I feel like she was doing a bit of engagement farming immediately after.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2024 10:37 (one month ago) link
Keir Starmer says Diane Abbott is “free to go forward” as a Labour candidate at the election.
stability
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:42 (one month ago) link
Lmao
― Roman Anthony gets on his horse (gyac), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:47 (one month ago) link
Concerned they will go after Zarah Sultana next. Concerned for her stuck in this shithouse party too tho.
― nashwan, Friday, 31 May 2024 14:49 (one month ago) link
how magnanimous
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:50 (one month ago) link
re: starmer's quote
You literally cannot trust a word that comes out of Starmer's mouth.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:50 (one month ago) link
What are the odds on a hung parliament because this cunt is going get rumbled the longer this campaign goes on?
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 14:51 (one month ago) link
"Lets bear in mind that Keir Starmer can't be trusted. He is a pledge breaking, double crossing, political prostitute"@SholaMos1 dropping truth bombs on BBC News pic.twitter.com/ZMcbgrZLtm— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) May 31, 2024
Sublime. Apparently the BBC presenter's husband is Phillip Collins, erstwhile speechwriter for Starmer
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 31 May 2024 15:04 (one month ago) link
Minimal! Don't give him much hope for being in situ as long as Blair was though.
xpost
― oh the crime nowadays back in my day you could leave your door unlocke (Matt #2), Friday, 31 May 2024 15:05 (one month ago) link
prime minister wes streeting by the end of 2025 imo
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 31 May 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
I'll write the headline for you now, 10 DOWNING STREETING.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 31 May 2024 15:50 (one month ago) link
The thing that's not being spotted around all the selection outrage is that the new Labour parliamentary party is going to have *a lot* of talent in it. Plenty of really impressive people standing.— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 31, 2024
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 31 May 2024 16:47 (one month ago) link
I'm glad we can now put a measure on exactly how stupid you have to be to repeat that line
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Friday, 31 May 2024 17:01 (one month ago) link
By getting back room dealers seats they will consume themselves on their temporary factional victories while the country floods in shit. No clue whatsoever.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2024 19:44 (one month ago) link
to big Dunty "talent" really means white and politically and morally vacuous to the point of unquestioning compliance and maybe sometimes they've also got nice hair
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 31 May 2024 19:55 (one month ago) link
maybe this election is could be similar to 1992, would love to see a Kieth "We're Alright" moment just before he realises he's fucked it.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 31 May 2024 20:17 (one month ago) link
*As the rivers flood the country with shit* how do we manage the Prime Ministerial ambitions of Wes Streeting..
The post-election parliamentary Labour party is going to contain more people with ministerial ambition that any governing party to date (including 1997 + 2010). Going to be a hell of a management challenge.— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) May 31, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2024 20:28 (one month ago) link
By encouraging people to vote for Leanne Mohamed :)
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Friday, 31 May 2024 20:42 (one month ago) link
tweet is a lovely way of saying it's going to be a carnival of backstabbing bastards from several different shades of ring-wing factions, and it will make the end of goodfellas look like a tea party
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 31 May 2024 21:12 (one month ago) link
🔴 HACKNEY NORTH & STOKE NEWINGTON: It's now official on the Labour Party candidate site. Diane Abbott is the Labour nominee. pic.twitter.com/LZdqYBiDR0— @Tomorrow'sMPs (@tomorrowsmps) May 31, 2024
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 31 May 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
Finally some good news
This isn't just about independent challengers. It's about a lack of enthusiasm for the Labour Party. Many Muslim members left the party over Gaza. These are the foot soldiers Labour usually relies on to knock the doors, leaflet and get the vote out. Losing their core base.— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) May 31, 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/31/labour-will-struggle-birmingham-ladywood-voters-gaza-poverty?CMP=share_btn_url
“If I do vote, I won’t vote Labour. And that’s not because of Gaza, that’s because I don’t see them really changing anything,” said Ifthakhar Hussain, a 40-year-old pharmacist who used to back the party. “For me, you’ve got to look at home as well as abroad.“People can’t access the healthcare system, and inequalities are growing because people can’t get simple medicines. People are coming in here and they’re shocked at the price of paracetamol, liquid for the children and stuff like that. So they’re just not buying it.”He said Keir Starmer’s decision not to commit to abolishing the two-child benefit cap made him feel like Labour would do little to help places like Ladywood. It has the highest child poverty rate of any constituency in the UK, according to End Child Poverty. More than half the constituency’s children (54.6%) live in poverty, compared with the nationwide average of 30%
“People can’t access the healthcare system, and inequalities are growing because people can’t get simple medicines. People are coming in here and they’re shocked at the price of paracetamol, liquid for the children and stuff like that. So they’re just not buying it.”
He said Keir Starmer’s decision not to commit to abolishing the two-child benefit cap made him feel like Labour would do little to help places like Ladywood. It has the highest child poverty rate of any constituency in the UK, according to End Child Poverty. More than half the constituency’s children (54.6%) live in poverty, compared with the nationwide average of 30%
― glumdalclitch, Friday, 31 May 2024 21:32 (one month ago) link
Good morninghttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/things-can-only-get-better-group-ban-labour-from-using-song
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 1 June 2024 09:20 (one month ago) link
Lmao at Peter Cunnah being told he had blood on his hands after Iraq
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 1 June 2024 09:43 (one month ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GO2wFYlXMAAmraq?format=jpg&name=900x900
such a white area, N Islington innit? One Asian poster amusingly captioned it: that's me at an Oasis concert!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 1 June 2024 09:44 (one month ago) link
That’ll be Highbury people and/or some of Praful’s South Islington fauxmrades.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Saturday, 1 June 2024 10:12 (one month ago) link
they've abbreviated the dystopian slogan of the uk pol thread title, just using "Change" invokes that unfortunate joke party.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 1 June 2024 10:39 (one month ago) link
lol maybe chuka will rejoin
― subpost master (wins), Saturday, 1 June 2024 10:48 (one month ago) link
LOL, if you take a walk down Holloway Road the last time it looked that white was sometime in the 17th century.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 June 2024 11:17 (one month ago) link
They are just not very good at this politics thing are they?
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, 1 June 2024 11:18 (one month ago) link
Just as with Starmer's leadership vote, they are good at getting elected precisely once, and after that they have to deal with the consequences of their voters realising they lied about everything. One term will not be enough to loot everything they want to. They will do their best to game democracy in power just as they are doing now, but the above resistance among the core vote bodes well, imo.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 1 June 2024 13:02 (one month ago) link
lmao
Graham Stringer is a trustee of the 55 Tufton Street climate change deniers Global Warming Policy Foundation, a former Board Member of Vote Leave, and the *Labour* candidate for Blackley and Middleton South. https://t.co/RmrxpJE9Tk— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) June 1, 2024
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 1 June 2024 13:44 (one month ago) link