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Labour Party - Any other leader would be 20 points ahead

Started by king_tubby, February 24, 2021, 02:45:05 PM

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Buelligan

Which cup is the ball under?  That's the question.



Quote from: holyzombiejesus on April 06, 2021, 08:29:03 PM
Ah, just noticed the 'by phone for @CWUnews' bit. That explains why loads of wanky MPs have been firing off snarky tweets to Dave Ward today.

https://twitter.com/DaveWardGS/status/1379427961632288780

https://twitter.com/DaveWardGS/status/1379422850151424005

Heheh, yep, saw.  What a bunch of creeps.  Those answers though, made me laugh.  They deserve everything they get.

Zetetic

Quote from: bgmnts on April 06, 2021, 08:32:17 PM
That data cant be right, that would indicate a desire for socialist reform.

It's being reported that Paul Williams is withdrawing his candidature from the by-election - "the people of Hartlepool have forfeited my confidence".

DeadJefferson

Quote from: Fambo Number Mive on April 06, 2021, 12:08:34 PM
https://twitter.com/BritishGQ/status/1270701309516283910

I mean, Corbyn could do all of those and try to change the world for the better.

What next "Starmer can go five minutes without farting in public. He can speak words. He can use the toilet without crapping all up the walls. He doesn't steal a car. He doesn't run around machine gunning toddlers. He can avoid making jokes about golf. He can ensure the Tories remain in the lead after totally failing to mitigate the effects of a pandemic. Those skills look simple, but they're not, and they're vital"

I wonder why terminally online midwits are so angry about the article.

QuoteStarmer's "always online" critics, hastily positioning themselves for clicks and giggles to his left, can berate him all they like: the resemble a fire brigade who's already burned down his house and have now come back to suck their teeth and tut over the smouldering pile of rubble they've left behind.

Oh.


idunnosomename

Quote from: king_tubby on April 06, 2021, 06:55:12 PM
Labour MP Stephen Timms tweeting about how ace Jesus House is. Did he not get the memo or is this the right giving it the big 'fuck off' to Starmer?

Timms is an evangelical and voted against the last reading of the gay marriage bill

https://www.theyworkforyou.com/divisions/pw-2013-05-21-11-commons/mp/10596

also got stabbed for voting for the Iraq War.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

Just dropping by to say that Tommy Corbyn's relationship with his Dad gives off a wholesomeness and humanity that I am lucky enough to feel in my own relationship with my father.

Am I a little jealous? Well, yes and no. I suppose the point is that the loyalty and honest normality shines through. Hey ho.

#notacunt


Sebastian Cobb



Quotewhy did a newspaper think it would be a good idea to make it look like Starmer dreams about holding a knife


https://mobile.twitter.com/IanDuntIsBald/status/1379459145544392710/photo/1

idunnosomename

Quote from: jobotic on April 06, 2021, 11:37:19 PM
Fucking cesspit of a party

https://mobile.twitter.com/LordPhilofBrum/status/1379451262538670083
jesus fuck

i mean i dont know what control the party has over its lords. nearly all of the decent lords are crossbench

Shoulders?-Stomach!

The Lords is an absolute shower of stinking pissing fucking shit, if that helps.

jobotic

Keith would have something to say if he'd liked Maxine Peake.

Rosie Duffield isn't a lord.

idunnosomename

better than the commons then. despite boris ramming it full of some absolute weapon-grade turds

jobotic

There's a Labour Party facebook post saying tell us why you'll be voting Labour on May 6th. Replies are illuminating. We're not alone.

Buelligan

Owen Jones just did an interview with Dave Ward, Gen Sec, Communication Workers' Union, some very interesting thoughts about the way forward.  He talks specifically about Starmer and Labour later in the discussion - we are definitely not alone.

Quote"Labour is at risk of becoming irrelevant"

https://www.owenjones.tv/video/labour-is-at-risk-of-becoming-irrelevant-cwus-dave-ward/



imitationleather



A ghost watches over his children from beyond the grave.

BlodwynPig

Quote from: imitationleather on April 07, 2021, 04:23:27 PM


A ghost watches over his children from beyond the grave.

There is a video of that. The girls pass out of view to the right but Ghost Kieth continues to grimace straight ahead before fade to black.

Buelligan

Enjoyed this -

Quote from: Northern Independence Party@FreeNorthNow
@Keir_Starmer: Good Afternoon Fellow Humans

@Thelma_DWalker: Alreet pet?



https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1379824723631075329

Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: BlodwynPig on April 07, 2021, 07:08:45 PM
There is a video of that. The girls pass out of view to the right but Ghost Kieth continues to grimace straight ahead before fade to black.

I was hoping once the girls wandered off it ended exactly like Falling Down.

imitationleather


Shoulders?-Stomach!


QuoteThe Labour MP Jon Cruddas is also about to publish The Dignity of Labour, a trenchant reassertion of the centrality of work in the politics of the common good, with an endorsement by Keir Starmer on its cover.

I don't know about you folks but I have a very very very big erection at the prospect of this shitstorm of a tome landing


Sebastian Cobb

Can they not just cut out the middleman and pulp it to make a more useful book?

Fambo Number Mive

Some utter tosh from Polly Toynbee. Apparently politics is on pause due to the vaccine rollout, so it doesn't matter how unpopular Keith Starmer is.

Quote..."Why doesn't he define himself?", ask some critics impatiently, as Labour's public approval ratings tumble. Where's his vision? Do something! Reshuffle, turn left, shout louder, attack!

What these critics forget is that politics is a seesaw with simple political physics. When the government is up, the opposition is down, and vice versa. This government now has an 86% approval rating – yes, 86% – on the vaccination programme, the only subject in town. Rob Ford, professor of political science at the University of Manchester, tells me he can think of virtually no similar approval rating happening before on the top issue of the day. Scientific genius and the efficiency of the NHS have gifted Boris Johnson an undeserved bounty. Parked at the other end of the seesaw, no amount of political vision could rescue Starmer from this downward bump.

He hasn't wasted the year. Mending the sinking ship he inherited from Jeremy Corbyn holed 20 points below the waterline, he has scrubbed at the stains of antisemitism, cleared his HQ of those who delivered the car-crash election, taken control of the national executive, installed a serious shadow cabinet and has a strong new leader in Scotland. At PMQs he skewers prime ministerial bluster.

Naturally the Corbynites don't like it, but he is polishing the party's armour for when politics properly resumes. Starmer supporters are taking fright at the polls, mistaking his strategy for vacillation. Itching to charge full tilt and fire all their ammunition, they ignore the doctrine of the right time...

So there is no politics until Starmer stars doing well in the polls again, people only care about the vaccinations (what about the economy, rising unemployment, nurses' pay or billions being spent on more nuclear warheads, to name but four) and Starmer should be praised for Scottish labour

Oh and "Sleaze is what fells Tory governments". I'd argue the recession was as big a factor as sleaze for the Major government, and Heath's government didn't fall due to sleaze.

Comments are off on the piece, of course.

idunnosomename

Quotepolishing the party's armour

I BET HE IS THE DIRTY OLD BOLLOCKS. I BET HE FUCKING IS


Fambo Number Mive

It's just revolting all these people doing all right saying that politics is on hold and all people care about is the vaccine rollout while ordinary people are dealing with more issues than ever.

It's like how many of the most vocal FBPE people were fine with how the world worked until Brexit happened which affects everyone no matter how wealthy. Vaccination is important but it's not the only issue that Labour should be making waves about.

Shoulders?-Stomach!

QuoteWhen the government is up, the opposition is down, and vice versa.

Like in 2017 when the Tories and Labour both increased their share of the vote.

These cunts don't stop to think about what this shit looks like.

They are panicking and struggling to compartmentalise the fact that people don't want managerialist drivel from Labour anymore.

idunnosomename

so there's cunts in belfast throwing petrol bombs on to buses but still glad we discouraged everyone not to vote for Corbyn eh. this is clearly the second best of all worlds (the best being where girlboss Jo stopped Brexit)