Labour Party - Any other leader would be 20 points ahead

[Chollis]

Tony Blair backs Starmer's plan to tax the homeless

[thugler]

Raising corporation tax is a pretty popular policy, even among the soft right that Starmer is showing his stocking tops to. Allowing the Tories to be more left wing than them is fucking ridiculous. The only reason this would work is if he was proposing a tax on high earners instead, which he isn't

He's not proposing anything at all. He proposes nothing. It's comically shit. He waits until something is happening anyway and then goes 'I CALL FOR THIS TO HAPPEN'

[NoSleep]

Forget listening to focus groups; Starmer should take advice from this chap:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/25/man-accused-email-threats-mps-crown-court-trial-paul-ritchie

Paul Ritchie, 34, from Dolphinton in Lanarkshire, is accused of 28 counts of sending a letter, communication or article conveying a threatening message against a number of prominent political figures including the former home secretary Amber Rudd and the Jeremy Corbyn.

Court documents show Ritchie is accused of sending the former Labour leader an email in March 2019 containing the message: "You should be hung for treason you fucking terrorist."

Salt of the earth.

[Paul Calf]

Please don't vote Green.

[Buelligan]

Please don't vote Green.

Would you vote Green to stop Akehurst?

[biniput]

I've signed up to volunteer for the Oxfordshire Green Party as much as I can, despite not being a member.  I have my misgivings with the Green Party as a whole, but the local branch does good work and I really do want to see Akehurst lose.  From the local left-wing Whatsapp groups I'm in, a lot of current and former Labour members feel the same way.  Plus, there's a very slim chance that a strong Green performance will give the right wing shitlords of Labour some pause for thought.

What exactly did the Greens do?

[Buelligan]

They didn't select Luke Akehurst to stand as a councillor, for one.

https://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.com/2016/09/what-is-covert-agenda-luke-akehurst-is.html

[Mr_Simnock]

https://www.freethenorth.co.uk/

Oh dear god. From their twitter byline "We're not English, we are Northumbrian", no you are fucking not you clowns.

[Zetetic]

Who even is English? Marine A?

[Buelligan]

I think she was a mermaid.

Oh dear god. From their twitter byline "We're not English, we are Northumbrian", no you are fucking not you clowns.

Also, old bat, I think it would do people some good to reflect on why people feel like this.  I'll give you a clue, it's not the EU.

[Zetetic]

I've checked and the other English people are Jimmy Savile and Winston Churchill.

[Buelligan]

No Ann Widdecombe?  Bit sexist.

[Zetetic]

Catholic, I think.

[Buelligan]

You're correct.  Thank God someone's on the ball.

[Johnny Yesno]

Forget listening to focus groups; Starmer should take advice from this chap:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/25/man-accused-email-threats-mps-crown-court-trial-paul-ritchie

So much for the tolerant left.

[Paul Calf]

https://www.freethenorth.co.uk/

[Paul Calf]

Oh dear god. From their twitter byline "We're not English, we are Northumbrian", no you are fucking not you clowns.

I imagine they probably just don't want to be thrown in prison.

[NoSleep]

So much for the tolerant left.

Keith will tolerate anything the Tories propose.

[Buelligan]

Just thought I'd mention this

The recall conference campaign is also backed by left-wing groups such as Momentum, 'Don't Leave, Organise', and Labour4Clause4.

The aim is for this demand to be discussed at the upcoming Labour NEC meeting in March. This gives Labour members and trade union activists one month to build up pressure on the NEC, in order to ensure that they take heed of this call.

Momentum co-chair Andrew Scattergood stated that:"Hard-working Labour members are being unjustly suspended, while CLPs have had their rights and freedoms undermined. A national recall conference will give us the opportunity to put a stop to this and ressert the democratic principles on which our Party was founded."

Labour NEC member Nadia Jama, meanwhile, asserted that:"The very fabric of our party democracy is being ripped apart. Conference, our sovereign body for decision making, is the only way out of the mess we find ourselves in. I'm fully behind this call to reclaim democracy by calling for a recall conference."

Richard Burgon, secretary of the SCG, has also added his support for the idea of a recall conference. "This is a grassroots campaign we should all support," the left-wing MP commented. "We need democracy not diktats," added Jon Trickett MP, underlining the point

John Taylor, who represents BFAWU on Momentum's leading body, stated:"Most importantly, tens of thousands of the rank and file are united in the demand for democracy in the Party. A national recall conference of the Labour Party should be convened immediately, with the express purpose of dealing with this escalating crisis."

The campaign is calling on local Labour parties and affiliated organisations to pass emergency motions over the next month, calling for a recall conference.

https://www.socialist.net/recall-conference-campaign-launched-let-the-members-take-back-control.htm

[holyzombiejesus]

Would you vote Green to stop Akehurst?

In a council election, I'd be prepared to vote tory if it meant stopping Akehurst.

[Twit 2]

Sorry if this has already been posted but this is absolutely brilliant:

https://youtu.be/NIxcJlHZOBY

[Ferris]

Sorry if this has already been posted but this is absolutely brilliant:

https://youtu.be/NIxcJlHZOBY

Buelligan posted it last thread I think? I meant to say how good it was but forgot like a twat.

Well worth a watch anyway.

[Buelligan]

I'm glad it touched you, I think its message is so incredibly important, more important than any party - it goes right to the heart of what's wrong and how our approach needs to change.  We see it in the US and we're actively moving back again towards that same political landscape.  Now is the time to resist.  Recall conference, whatever it takes, we have to rise up like lions.

[Buelligan]

And whilst we're talking Burtenshaw stuff, saw this in Tribune - https://tribunemag.co.uk/2021/02/mental-health-is-a-political-problem - worth reading.  And Tribune is only £10 a year now, worth supporting.

[lipsink]

Anyone see Owen Jones' interview with Alexei Sayle? I'm really starting to lose respect for Jones as he seemed to be arguing that there was a serious problem with antisemitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn. What the fuck is he playing at?

[king_tubby]

Not seen it but Sayle was badmouthing Jones on his chat with Stewart Lee.

[BlodwynPig]

Forget listening to focus groups; Starmer should take advice from this chap:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/25/man-accused-email-threats-mps-crown-court-trial-paul-ritchie

Salt of the earth.

"the Jeremy Corbyn" (what did they edit out? the former leader of the Labour Party, or given its the Guardian, the fucking terrorist prick who should be hung)?

[BlodwynPig]

Oh dear god. From their twitter byline "We're not English, we are Northumbrian", no you are fucking not you clowns.

you're just a racist southerner. Leave us alone, we've got ferrets to trouser.

[BlodwynPig]

Not seen it but Sayle was badmouthing Jones on his chat with Stewart Lee.

that's something I'll listen to all day long.

[Rizla]

Anyone see Owen Jones' interview with Alexei Sayle? I'm really starting to lose respect for Jones as he seemed to be arguing that there was a serious problem with antisemitism in the Labour Party under Corbyn. What the fuck is he playing at?

Just watched it, OJ made quite the tit of himself ("goysplaining" was painful enough, but then he did the "feisty one we have here!" thing from the Inbetweeners, then explained it was from the Inbetweeners)