Starmer's Labour: Ghouls and Tools on the Ship of Fools

[Fambo Number Mive]

I imagine all Labour will offer councils is that Kier will come to your local county hall and give an inspiring speech about his father being a toolmaker, including a couple of mentions of local institutions.

"My dad was a toolmaker...and I'll tell you who is a massive tool, the local Tory MP".

"Sit up straight and hands out of pockets when you listen to me. I'm the leader of the Labour Party, and I'm better than you"

[pigamus]

Still parroting your opponents attack lines. So shit, so thick.

Oh that's a good one to steal

[greencalx]

Keith has finally come off the fence and opined that Johnson is not the messiah, but a very naughty boy. Not sure why he's not pressing for the Met to pull its finger out of its arse, having acknowledged that the internal inquiry won't establish any criminality.

Talking of which, where are we with Forde again?

[imitationleather]

Talking of which, where are we with Forde again?

Last time I checked he's still an unfunny twat.

[mattyc]

Invoking the magic money tree, very promising stuff from Reeves. It's a beautifully elastic concept as well. When it comes to increasing the budget for border patrols, the police or bailing out the wealthy, this magic money tree never gets a mention. Yet when it comes to increasing NHS pay properly, nationalisation or levelling up (aka nice things), up sprouts the magic money tree again.

[Johnny Yesno]

Invoking the magic money tree, very promising stuff from Reeves. It's a beautifully elastic concept as well. When it comes to increasing the budget for border patrols, the police or bailing out the wealthy, this magic money tree never gets a mention. Yet when it comes to increasing NHS pay properly, nationalisation or levelling up (aka nice things), up sprouts the magic money tree again.

And it's a bloody stupid thing to say, given everyone has seen the evidence over the past couple of years of the existence of a magic money forest.

[pigamus]

That Test and Trace woman got a magic money rainforest

[Fambo Number Mive]

There are always billions of pounds for defence as well.

[mattyc]

The cheek of an MP sneering about a magic money tree! Westminster is like the magic money forest, with that salary of 80 grand, expenses, severance pay and a cushy job awaiting even when they lose their seat (yes, Change UK turncoats, I'm looking at you). Heaven forfend that a magic money tree rain its bounty upon the poor, it's not like they need it or anything!

[king_tubby]

Once again. Lol. Lmao.

[beanheadmcginty]

Looks like Duke Nukem at a christening.

[idunnosomename]

COME GET SOME (Prosecco)

[Psybro]

Surely some intentional psyops having a rare Starmer headline accompanied by an insomnia header?

[idunnosomename]

he is so incredibly fucking bad (WHY I SIRK EIR AM AGAINST LEGALISING IT)

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1483006601850236932

county lines (how illegal drugs are distributed) kill children, that is why legalising drugs would be bad

he is a fucking idiot. at least the tories can lie properly.

it's doubly bad because not only doesn't it make sense, it means that he also seems to wish to maintain the status quo of children dying

[chveik]

lol he's so shite

[Video Game Fan 2000]

"I was prosecutor for five years" "it was personal to me" all about him and branding. Kier the focus group loves it when your answers to specific policy questions sound like Adele lyrics

Anyone who answers questions about specific substances with shite about "drugs" should be publically flogged.

[pigamus]

The kind of career droid whose CV is his whole personality

[Buelligan]

This push-button berk act might have gone across thirty years ago but there are increasingly larger number of humans who know far more about the subject than he does.  He should shut his dimwit chat and educate himself. 

Shameful twat of a man.  Embarrassing.  And fucking peoples' lives with his dim.

[Blumf]

It seems to be a core component of right-wing Labour to be completely against cannabis, no matter the evidence. Weird why they seem hung up on it. The other stuff (tiny Union Flags for all and whatever rich businessmen want) make a certain depressing sense for their position, but the diehard weed stance is odd.

It's why I've always suspected the Tories would be the ones to legalise it. The old dears in the party may clutch their pearls, but the rest must see the business and tax opportunities. Surprised they haven't already.

[chveik]

prosecutors are basically cops

[Sebastian Cobb]

It's why I've always suspected the Tories would be the ones to legalise it. The old dears in the party may clutch their pearls, but the rest must see the business and tax opportunities. Surprised they haven't already.

They have they just sell it overseas.

[mattyc]

The title of that video is really misleading, he didn't explain why he's against legalising cannabis at all. In fact it was a slickly delivered but very incoherent argument. A couple of real Blairesque moments in there when he said 'Hear me out' and 'This is personal to me'. Someone's been firing up the video player, sitting down with Mandelson and watching some old Blair speeches and wanking, haven't they?

[Sebastian Cobb]

I get the idea that given his background he would have the utmost respect for law and order but what I don't get is that by and large his idea of it is that it's immutable for the most part.

[king_tubby]

I get the idea that given his background he would have the utmost respect for law and order but what I don't get is that by and large his idea of it is that it's immutable for the most part.

Well he doesn't think the law is immutable, he's very up for it getting more draconian.

[Psybro]

It seems to be a core component of right-wing Labour to be completely against cannabis, no matter the evidence.

We're even behind the Hated United States on this, where both parties talk out of both sides of their mouth at national level but are much more willing to countenance it.

[Johnny Yesno]

They have they just sell it overseas.

Let's remind ourselves of who 'they' are:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-44109060¹

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tories-blasted-links-medical-cannabis-12701871



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¹lol at her now being the Minister for Afghan Resettlement... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-cannabis-idUSTRE62U0IC20100331

[Johnny Yesno]

In fact it was a slickly delivered but very incoherent argument. A couple of real Blairesque moments in there when he said 'Hear me out' and 'This is personal to me'.

I misread 'slickly' as 'sickly' and was going to agree with you, but the man is completely incapable of sounding genuine.

[Buelligan]

[shoulders]

"I was prosecutor for five years" "

Can only hear The Iain Duncan Smiths' impression.

[machotrouts]

I get the idea that given his background he would have the utmost respect for law and order but what I don't get is that by and large his idea of it is that it's immutable for the most part.

I suppose a former prosecutor can't soften over time without being forced to reckon with the fact that their past self was an evil cunt. "It's personal to me"... I don't doubt it!