What worries me is that despite whatever he said during the leadership election I don't think Starmer will be interested in scrapping UC. He strikes me as someone who would be more interested in reforming it and just making slight adjustments to make it slightly less horrible. I know events have changed everything now, but Corbyn and McD were attacking them on UC every day nearly, even though events might bring radical reforms to UC from the Tories now as too many people have been exposed to it and the clash of UC and the middle class was not something planned for. But if there is any radical changes it won't be down to pressure from the opposition any more that much is for sure.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
post more please, Left
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/sDGUglK.jpg
― ogmor, Monday, 6 April 2020 18:03 (four years ago) link
A lot of this to look forward to:
Our @Adamstoon1 @EveningStandard as Starmer forms his Shadow Cabinet pic.twitter.com/NgLP5Usqfg— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) April 7, 2020
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure antisemitism is over now.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
now there’s nothing standing between keir starmer and a colossal landslide victory in the next general election
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, April 7, 2020 4:05 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
:D
It astounds me more than it amuses me that, no matter what current global news or crisis takes up the biggest headline at the Graun site, a bit smaller to the right of it is, and forever and always, will be: Labour antisemitism.
BREAKING: 'WORLD DESTROYED BY METEOR, RIP'Also in the news: 'Labour promises to tackle antisemitism in party'
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
A lot of this to look forward to:🐦[Our @Adamstoon1🕸 @EveningStandard🕸 as Starmer forms his Shadow Cabinet pic.twitter.com/NgLP5Usqfg🕸— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) April 7, 2020🕸]🐦
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
I was talking more about the Standard's ability to flip from castigating Labour antisemitism to proudly publishing an antisemitic caricature of the most prominent Jewish man in the Labour Party without even blinking.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
(xpost)
Yeah I was responding to the original link because it’s depressing how obvious and shameless it is.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
Ofc Ayesha Hazarika won’t be disgusted enough by this to stop working there
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link
You are both correct obv.
― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 14:36 (four years ago) link
🤔🤔🤔Interesting tweet you liked, @MikeGapes ??? pic.twitter.com/JAA0B70W3p— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) April 7, 2020
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:28 (four years ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/d197YT52/12-D8-AE91-016-A-47-BA-B9-A1-2-C17-D73-ED14-B.jpg
― gyac, Monday, 9 May 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
RLB 100/1 now apparently
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 9 May 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
I’m putting a fiver on Tom Tugendhat.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 9 May 2022 18:27 (one year ago) link
Rab Butler not running this time? Still dead and a Tory?
― Was Hitler a Hobbit? (Tom D.), Monday, 9 May 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
I don't think Burnham is going to happen despite the bookies fav status, it's like when you get the same usual suspects placeholder fav football mangers popping in all the next manager betting, despite the clubs involved not even interviewing them for the job.
― calzino, Monday, 9 May 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
In some ways Kieth was right to bring in the NEC voting threshold reforms that shifts the power back to the PLP away from the membership. Just in the sense after voting for him in such great numbers they can't be fucking trusted ever again!
― calzino, Monday, 9 May 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
I don't think Burnham is going to happen despite the bookies fav status
Is it even feasible? He wouldn't be a very effective LOTO if he wasn't an MP and it's not as if he could be parachuted in in the next month or two.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Monday, 9 May 2022 22:24 (one year ago) link
If he wasn't such an uncompromising street-fighting rebel rouser then ..maybe lol! But now the the PLP can effectively choose the leader, I don't think there is a big enough soft-left voting bloc there to Make Burnham Happen.
― calzino, Monday, 9 May 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
In the 70's tv drama Bill Brand there is good ep about all the shenanigans during a Labour leadership election. Spoiler: the character who is possibly based on Michael Foot goes close, but loses and accepts a place in the cabinet.
― calzino, Monday, 9 May 2022 23:04 (one year ago) link