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Starmer VIII: Labour will set you free

Started by pancreas, March 16, 2022, 08:54:56 AM

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Mr_Simnock

Just checked the latest polling and at least Labour seem to have a slim lead of the idiots. UK polling Report, a web site I used to frequent quite a lot has now folded, I now stick to 'Britain elects'

king_tubby


king_tubby

Quote from: king_tubby on March 24, 2022, 08:30:09 AMAre they 20 points ahead?

No.

https://twitter.com/OprosUK/status/1506955188527108109

QuoteLAB: 36% (-3)
CON: 36% (+2)
LDM: 12% (=)
GRN: 6% (=)
REF: 3% (+1)

via
@KantarPublic
, 17-21 Mar

Ferris

English voters are astonishing. Imagine the level of madness required to vote tory, these tories, in 2022.

It boggles the mind.

Blumf

Seen some ranting today that suggests a fair few people still think Labour is in the thrall of anti-white loony lefties, with Diane Abbott in full control.

So... Keir having a big impact on those Tory voters.

greencalx

Your one stop shop for keeping track of the polls (if that's the sort of person you are) is this Wikipedia page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election

Has a nice graph with a moving average that smooths over the bumps of individual polls and lets you see the trends. Right now, Labour have a commanding 3pt lead. Of course polls don't necessarily reflect what would happen if an election were called tomorrow and a campaign ensued but a 20pt lead is the established benchmark and we've not seen one of those for a while.

shoulders

#66
Starmer has gone so far so quickly that the public have been scattered and divided into

1) people who hate Starmer for neutering Labour, suspending Corbyn and being a general cunt

2) people not knowing what the Labour Party is supposed to be given it now bears no resemblance to Corbyn's Labour

3) Labour now being so milquetoast the purpose of their existence as either opposition or potential government is unclear

And this is without even 5% of the bad press or internal sabotage to cope with.

The answer from the centrists will be as ever: ADD MORE RIGHT WING POLICIES

At least by moving to the centre you'd look to take some of the Lib Dem vote away, but hasn't even done that.

Paul Calf

It's funny that a 2022 centrist is economically to the right of a 1980s non-Thatcherite Tory.

Blumf

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/politics/2022/03/24/labour-suspends-dudley-councillor-for-six-months-following-internal-disciplinary-investigation/
QuoteCouncillor Zafar Islam, who represents the Brierley Hill ward, was suspended this week.

It is believed his suspension followed an investigation into several inflammatory comments relating to posts he made on social media.

It is understood that Councillor Islam has received a six-month suspension of party membership as a "punitive sanction" following the conclusion of an internal Labour Party disciplinary investigation.

A new Labour candidate in the Brierley Hill ward for May's election will be announced in due course.

This guy has always been great in the party meetings we've attended. Interesting timing, with May's council elections coming up. And from a purely practical standpoint, we're struggling to find candidates to stand for council anyway.

I attended a trade union branch meeting the other week where someone cited cases being raised against her and other incumbent councillors on the same day - deliberately timed so the disciplinary timetable would overshoot the next election. In all cases they had a shiny suited cunt in the wings ready, who no one had ever previously heard of in each case. Rotters.

Pink Gregory

Never has so much been done to ultimately achieve fuck all.

Fambo Number Mive

Quote@paulwaugh
.
@Keir_Starmer
 on Will Smith hitting Chris Rock:
"I was pretty shocked at it...anybody who insults family members excites something quite emotional in all of us..."

BUT "to go up and hit someone in that way is wrong.."

@LBC

No condemnation by Starmer of Rock mocking someone's medical condition?

shoulders

I think that's been played perfectly to be honest.

idunnosomename

Sir keir would punch your fucking lights out if you made fun of the hair of Rachel Reeves

Video Game Fan 2000

Quote from: idunnosomename on March 28, 2022, 02:34:21 PMSir keir would punch your fucking lights out if you made fun of the hair of Rachel Reeves

Corbs won one little pole and Mandy got scared
He said "we need to elect a leader exactly like Blair"

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: Video Game Fan 2000 on March 28, 2022, 02:44:21 PMCorbs won one little pole and Mandy got scared
He said "we need to elect a leader exactly like Blair"

Mandy, the Dark Prince of B-lair.

Twit 2

Quote from: Video Game Fan 2000 on March 28, 2022, 02:44:21 PMCorbs won one little pole and Mandy got scared
He said "we need to elect a leader exactly like Blair"

Superb

Johnny Yesno

The Purge continues:

QuoteThe Labour Party is set to proscribe three more organisations – the Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), the Labour Left Alliance (LLA) and the Socialist Labour Network – at a key meeting of the ruling body on Tuesday, LabourList can reveal.

LabourList sources say AWL members are being banned from Labour on the basis that the group has acted as a separate political party, while LLA and Socialist Labour Network are being proscribed due to their close links to already proscribed organisations.

QuoteLabourList can also confirm that neither Martin Forde QC nor his report, the Forde Report, are expected to come to the Tuesday meeting despite previous assurances. NEC members from across the factional spectrum have expressed frustration over the latest delay.

QuoteLabourList has also been told that a Labour development fund panel decided on Friday that the party will put £1m towards hiring 20 trainee organisers. Labour left members raised concerns that community organisers were being replaced by the new staffers, but those supportive of the leadership say the hires are separate.

https://labourlist.org/2022/03/exclusive-awl-among-three-more-groups-to-be-proscribed-by-labour-nec/

mattyc

The fact that more organisations are being proscribed for their links to already proscribed organisations makes it pretty clear where we're headed here.

Martin Forde's dog ate his report so he can't hand it in this week...

dissolute ocelot

Quote from: mattyc on March 29, 2022, 11:42:33 AMThe fact that more organisations are being proscribed for their links to already proscribed organisations makes it pretty clear where we're headed here.
Proscribing the Labour Party for its links to proscribed organisations?

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: mattyc on March 29, 2022, 11:42:33 AMMartin Forde's dog ate his report so he can't hand it in this week...

The Trilateral Commission require some further edits.

Buelligan


king_tubby

Lebedev's just said Kieth texted him to say 'congrats on becoming Lord of Siberia, your oligarchness' and boy, this is some cat amongst the pigeons.


Sebastian Cobb

Labour sources are briefing Pippa Crerar this text was 'just good manners' while Rayner simultanously briefs 'we always knew he was a bad sort'.



https://twitter.com/iammightor/status/1508828598681145346

king_tubby

Crombles, of course, famed stooge of the USSR's Putin, refused to go to Lebedev's big party so they hired a Corbyn impersonator.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/22/johnson-visit-to-lebedev-party-after-victory-odd-move-for-peoples-pm

QuoteJohnson was one of several top politicians who turned up to the event, held at the Lebedev family's £6m stuccoed mansion overlooking Regent's Park. Guests included David and Samantha Cameron and George Osborne, now a Lebedev employee as Evening Standard editor. From the Blairite left, Peter Mandelson and Tristram Hunt were also in attendance.

Others invited to the vodka and caviar birthday party included Mick Jagger, Princess Eugenie, the actors Matt Smith and Rosamund Pike, and the model Lily Cole. Comedians Eddie Izzard and David Baddiel, the artist Grayson Perry and sculptor Antony Gormley were also there. Missing this year was the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

As grand as the list was, the newly elected prime minister's presence – the night after his election win – was eye-catching. Johnson has long been a celebrity as well as a politician – but for a leader who promised to lead a "people's government", to rub shoulders with such an exclusive elite as one of his first public acts after victory might seem a little incongruous.

Jeremy Corbyn was invited, but didn't attend. (The invite, for the record, shows a youthful Alexander holding a toddler Evgeny.) In the Labour leader's absence the Lebedevs hired a Corbyn impersonator, who mingled with guests as they sipped Ruinart champagne and tucked into plates of caviar.

shoulders

QuoteLabourList sources say AWL members are being banned from Labour on the basis that the group has acted as a separate political party, while LLA and Socialist Labour Network are being proscribed due to their close links to already proscribed organisations.

That were proscribed due to close links to already proscribed organisations.

Guilty by association of guilt by association.


Pink Gregory

I swear if those godless press hacks keep using terms like 'tucked in to' and 'munched on' like the Billy Fucking Bunters that they are I am going right down to Oxford and [redacted]ing their tuck shop.

Sebastian Cobb

they'll be munching on a knuckle supper if they're not careful!

idunnosomename

Quote from: Pink Gregory on March 29, 2022, 05:21:56 PMI swear if those godless press hacks keep using terms like 'tucked in to' and 'munched on' like the Billy Fucking Bunters that they are I am going right down to Oxford and [redacted]ing their tuck shop.
those babyish verbal tics the british press have are just the superficial aspect of how they talk to us like the big adult talking to an idiot child