Labour Party Desolation v2: a beige loafer stamping on a human face forever

[jobotic]

For the Few Again, Sorry Rupert.

[Paul Calf]

Staggeringly shit slogan, surely it brings to mind restaurants that gave a load of people salmonella trying to relaunch with "under new management"

Being cynical, I suspect that's exactly what they're aiming for.

I feel a bit sorry for Keith. He's obviously the sacrificial lamb offered to New Labour's backers to atone for the sin of democracy.

EDIT: although in the sense that this is where all of his conscious and deliberate choices have led him, and that he has been and will continue to be handsomely rewarded for his role as gatekeeper of all political activism to the left of fascism, obviously I think he's getting everything he deserves.

[jobotic]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/19/sir-david-garrard-quit-labour-antisemitism-rejoin

Phew! We've got the multi-millionaire property developer tax avoiders back on board.

Look at what he says - it's not antisemitism he objected to, it was criticism of apartheid Israel.

[BlodwynPig]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/19/sir-david-garrard-quit-labour-antisemitism-rejoin

Phew! We've got the multi-millionaire property developer tax avoiders back on board.

Look at what he says - it's not antisemitism he objected to, it was criticism of apartheid Israel.

Scum

After leaving the party, he has provided funding on several occasions to Tom Watson in addition to his support for The Independent Group

[Paul Calf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-yRKfD2GIk

[phantom_power]

Fuck off you spineless fucking frog boy.

Because obviously they would be paying him all that money to curtail their profits by instigating responsible gambling. That's who business works isn't it. You pay consultants to find ways for you to not make as much money by curbing any unethical behaviour

[BlodwynPig]

I hope Tom Watson wakes up one morning and he is back to gargantuan fatness and then he sees a winch coming through his window and hears sirens outside.

[imitationleather]

It's impossible to justify a Labour person having any involvement in the gambling industry.

Of course, it was Labour who massively relaxed the rules on gambling in the first place. That was a huge mistake and something that needs to be corrected. It brings misery on to the exact people that Labour is supposed to be improving the lives of.

Tom Watson is such a tosser. It's almost unbelievable what a bad guy he is.

[olliebean]

Very underwhelming performance from Starmer on Marr this morning. Basically refusing to commit Labour to any policies other than "Whatever the government does, we'll support it."

[BlodwynPig]

Very underwhelming performance from Starmer on Marr this morning. Basically refusing to commit Labour to any policies other than "Whatever the government does, we'll support it."

Dawn Butler confirmed yesterday that this was a strategy to avoid any voting group turning against them.

[NoSleep]

Is there an upcoming election then?

[BlodwynPig]

Is there an upcoming election then?

"Primed and ready for 2024"

I assume they think the voters have short attention spans and I guess that is true. But they are really canning people like us and going after the people who don't give a fuck about others.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Dawn Butler confirmed yesterday that this was a strategy to avoid any voting group turning against them.

Have they realised various voting groups are already turned against them?

[BlodwynPig]

Have they realised various voting groups are already turned against them?

You'll have to ask them, I work for the government now.

[bgmnts]

See you in Strasbourg!

[olliebean]

Dawn Butler confirmed yesterday that this was a strategy to avoid any voting group turning against them.

Apart from the voting group that would rather the opposition didn't promise to support whatever measures the government takes, presumably.

[Johnny Yesno]

Is there an upcoming election then?

Starmer seems to be blissfully unaware that the tories are already building the narrative for Austerity 2.0, as mentioned in this thread on the public sector pay freeze. He's going to let them do what they did after the 2008 financial crash, isn't he?

[Famous Mortimer]

Apart from the voting group that would rather the opposition didn't promise to support whatever measures the government takes, presumably.

Who, as has been proved by numerous posts in this thread, will never not vote for Labour. They don't care about them because they don't have to.

[Johnny Yesno]

Dawn Butler confirmed yesterday that this was a strategy to avoid any voting group turning against them.

Here, she states that she's missing the fight with the tories: https://youtu.be/bW28JkVtU84?t=2059

And from the same video, one of the Left Out journalists expresses the same doubts that we have been expressing here about this strategy: https://youtu.be/bW28JkVtU84?t=1576

[olliebean]

Starmer seems to be blissfully unaware that the tories are already building the narrative for Austerity 2.0, as mentioned in this thread on the public sector pay freeze. He's going to let them do what they did after the 2008 financial crash, isn't he?

I'm sure he'll eventually get around to criticising them for not doing it well enough.

[idunnosomename]

would you like to be angry about the state of political commentary? then click here and shake your fist with gay abandon!

https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1307732305876848641

[Paul Calf]

I saw that. Wee JOBby admitting that he thought that a lazy eugenics-touting fascist with a track history of lying and cheating was a better bet than a mainstream social democrat.

This should be the end of his credibility, but obviously it won't be.

[SpiderChrist]

That's fucking amazing. Unbelievable that you would consider Johnson a preferable choice to Corbyn.

This country really is completely fucked, isn't it? No hope anymore. Just keep drinking and taking drugs until it all inevitably collapses. Feel utterly ashamed that I brought a child into this world. She started Uni on Saturday and has nothing to look forward to.

[Bazooka]

She started Uni on Saturday and has nothing to look forward to.

Not with that attitude she won't! Freshers fair.

[idunnosomename]

She started Uni on Saturday and has nothing to look forward to.

28 months old she is

[jobotic]

That's fucking amazing. Unbelievable that you would consider Johnson a preferable choice to Corbyn.

This country really is completely fucked, isn't it? No hope anymore. Just keep drinking and taking drugs until it all inevitably collapses. Feel utterly ashamed that I brought a child into this world. She started Uni on Saturday and has nothing to look forward to.

No hope at all. I have two small children. Can't even fall back on drink and drugs.

[holyzombiejesus]

We're doing our CLP nominations tomorrow. Think we get 9 votes each in a secret ballot and the 6 on the Momentum slate are already nominated and seconded. Any recommendations for another 3 that are standing? Think I'll be giving Vince "Centrism incarnate" Barry a swerve.



https://labour.org.uk/activist-hub/governance-and-legal-hub/ballots-and-nominations/candidate-statements-2020/nec-clp-section-div-iii-statements/

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

That isn't a real person surely. His head and neck are about sixteen times the size of the rest of him.

[pancreas]

You could go with the Labour Left Alliance top three?

Roger Silverman
Chaudhry Iqbal
Carol Taylor-Spedding

[holyzombiejesus]

I think I will do. Steve Maggs and Alec Price seem pretty good too.

Mohammed Hemmatjou seems a bit of a wild card...

Hello there, I left party twice because of Ed milaband and Jermyn Corbyn. I been my local branch 90 percent old or middle age white peoples own them house nice comfortable life . I have had enough now my time we need party for 21 century not anymore those old fashioned idea or people.