have you quit the labour party yet?

(fuck off and die I meant - no more fucking, kieth!)

in 2017 Corbyn was hot!

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

Err, had, obviously. He died in 2018

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.

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

If not now, when?

I dunno I tried looking up what they stand for and they seem kinda confused themselves

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

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

Brent West bringing the 'best-named candidate' fire mind you

https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/person/92712/baston-demedici-jaguar

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.

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.

I dunno I tried looking up what they stand for and they seem kinda confused themselves

― 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..

I feel like she was doing a bit of engagement farming immediately after.

Keir Starmer says Diane Abbott is “free to go forward” as a Labour candidate at the election.

stability

Lmao

Concerned they will go after Zarah Sultana next. Concerned for her stuck in this shithouse party too tho.

how magnanimous

re: starmer's quote

You literally cannot trust a word that comes out of Starmer's mouth.

What are the odds on a hung parliament because this cunt is going get rumbled the longer this campaign goes on?

"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

Minimal! Don't give him much hope for being in situ as long as Blair was though.

xpost

prime minister wes streeting by the end of 2025 imo

I'll write the headline for you now, 10 DOWNING STREETING.

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

I'm glad we can now put a measure on exactly how stupid you have to be to repeat that line

By getting back room dealers seats they will consume themselves on their temporary factional victories while the country floods in shit. No clue whatsoever.

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

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.

*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

By encouraging people to vote for Leanne Mohamed :)

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

🔴 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

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%

Good morning

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/01/things-can-only-get-better-group-ban-labour-from-using-song

Lmao at Peter Cunnah being told he had blood on his hands after Iraq

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!

That’ll be Highbury people and/or some of Praful’s South Islington fauxmrades.

they've abbreviated the dystopian slogan of the uk pol thread title, just using "Change" invokes that unfortunate joke party.

lol maybe chuka will rejoin

such a white area, N Islington innit? One Asian poster amusingly captioned it: that's me at an Oasis concert!

LOL, if you take a walk down Holloway Road the last time it looked that white was sometime in the 17th century.

They are just not very good at this politics thing are they?

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.

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

Everyday it's like the line of villains signing up in Blazing Saddles

It's not great, but the reason he's the candidate for Blackley and Middleton South is that he's been the MP for Blackley & Brougton since 2010. And for Manchester Blackley since 1997.

In 2009, Stringer denied the existence of dyslexia, calling it "a cruel fiction" invented by "the education establishment" to divert blame for illiteracy from "their eclectic and incomplete methods for instruction

finally, someone with the courage to say what we’ve all been thinking

time to break the stranglehold of Big Dyslexia

One of those parliamentary mavericks the media like to cherish, except he's hardly a maverick in the current Labour Party.