Labour Party: Kieth Stalin: The Gammon Panderer (and Blackpool Cock)

[idunnosomename]

long corbyn so looooong

[greencalx]

Whilst it's impossible to read anything into any one council by-election result I agree that the thing that is clear is this doesn't look good for Corbyn.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

https://skwawkbox.org/2021/07/29/ipso-finds-against-jewish-chronicle-for-smearing-jewish-left-labour-councillor-jo-bird/

Yet another defeat.

All baked in by the bankrolled Chronicle.

[Paul Calf]

Oh my god.

IPSO is antisemitic.

[pancreas]

And another:

East Retford South (Bassetlaw), council by-election result:

CON: 40.1% (+25.2)
IND: 39.7% (+39.7)
LAB: 20.1% (-47.7)

Conservative GAIN from Labour.

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1421016965485842432?s=20

But I guess we should have suspected the people of East Retford South to have been antisemites, in retrospect.

[pancreas]

State of it:

Knaresborough Scriven Park (Harrogate), council by-election result:

LDEM: 56.6% (+19.6)
CON: 34.3% (-4.2)
LAB: 8.1% (-16.4)
UKIP: 1.0% (+1.0)

Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.

(8.1%=91 votes)

https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1421017401819287553?s=20

[jobotic]

You go Keith! At least the people of Fellgate and Hedworth can see that there's a new leader in town!!!


Fellgate and Hedworth (South Tyneside), council by-election result:

LAB: 49.1% (+9.6)
IND: 32.0% (-15.8)
CON: 9.1% (+4.7)
LDEM: 7.2% (-1.0)
GRN: 2.5% (+2.5)

Labour GAIN from Independent.

[idunnosomename]

Incredible result. Labour's coming home! It's coming home! Awoooooga!

[Fambo Number Mive]

Wonder how many Guardian journalists will scamper to South Tyneside for articles on how Kier's "turning things around for Labour"

I think the result may have more to do with the independent candidate becoming a bit less popular than Starmer's Labour:

@BritainElects
Worth noting the now defeated IND candidate...

> Drove his lorry into a council building, causing £160,000+ worth of damages
> Received 40 weeks in prison for the trouble
> Forced his own resignation, attempted to retract it, then discovered he couldn't

Kier Starmer's Labour - more popular than people who drive lorries into council buildings and go to prison. Although not that much more popular, given the independent candidate still got 32% of the vote.

[Sebastian Cobb]

Has his misery tour started yet? That should be fun.

[Ferris]

Has his misery tour started yet? That should be fun.

I'm still waiting for the policy blitz "in the coming weeks" announced in February and then again in May.

[Sebastian Cobb]

I'm still waiting for the policy blitz "in the coming weeks" announced in February and then again in May.

I think that might've been turned into an 18 month enquiry now lol.

[Ferris]

I think that might've been turned into an 18 month enquiry now lol.

In fairness I knew that, but thought it was too funny not to mention

[Sebastian Cobb]

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1421075679580463112

[idunnosomename]

looks like it's one of those bad NTSC transfers from the 90s

[Sebastian Cobb]

looks like it's one of those bad NTSC transfers from the 90s

My mind initially went to:

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Christ, Alex Jones eating a steak at a court hearing.

[Blumf]

Has he gone for one of them fake tans, but picked inflamed gammon instead of orange?

[DrGreggles]

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Alky death soon

[greencalx]

Looks like the attempt to get Apsana Begum jailed and her seat made available for Burnham to challenge Starmer (if the Eye be believed on the latter, though it seemed a little too keen on the former for my liking) has failed.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jul/30/labour-mp-apsana-begum-cleared-of-housing-fraud-tower-hamlets

[Sebastian Cobb]

Looks like something's brewing with people around him being on the take from the gambling industry:

1/5. Keir Starmer's Shadow Minister for Health & Social Care, Alex Norris, previously warned that the "online gambling space is like the wild west"

But he accepted £1,500 worth of tickets & hospitality to see England v Czech Republic courtesy of Gamesys. https://private-eye.co.uk/hp-sauce

https://twitter.com/PhillipsBarrie/status/1421106322225893376

SLEAZE though eh?

[pancreas]

It's not in itself the worst thing. I wouldn't do it, but mainly because it's football. You could say:

'This evil company makes money off the suffering of the most destitute in society. In taking their tickets I allowed them to do some good for a change.'

That would be the play.

If Shell offered me tickets to Bayreuth ... I have no doubt I could take as many freebies as they'd give me and fuck their faces the moment I was in a position to do so, but I don't rate most people's chances of maintaining such cynicism.

[BlodwynPig]

Hitler beating his dogs, not the worst thing

Panc, it smacks of contempt and leaves the door open for further corruption.

An honest man is hard to keep

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Is there a specific reason Bayreuth is a desired destination?

[chveik]

the operas of wagner i reckon

[pancreas]

the operas of wagner i reckon

^ he knows

[pancreas]

Look, it would be a way to piss off the establishment by taking some fabergé eggs off some lobbyists for absolutely fuck all return—which I may even tell the cunts in advance—and I'd get to go to Bayreuth.

How many times do I have to tell you? I know what I am doing.

[Mr_Simnock]

Look, it would be a way to piss off the establishment by taking some fabergé eggs off some lobbyists for absolutely fuck all return—which I may even tell the cunts in advance—and I'd get to go to Bayreuth.

How many times do I have to tell you? I know what I am doing.

an anti-semite you would be

[Buelligan]

I'd really hate to go to Bayreuth.  If I ever get offered tickets by Shell, I swear on Alberich's ghastly ring, I shall offer them to you pancreas.