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Joined April 2009
The videos of hordes of dull-eyed pensioners violently swarming some lone young person (and presumably gorging themselves on their flesh afterwards) is a bit of an on-the-nose depiction of the current UK social contract
This is utterly disgusting. Reform supporters assaulted a heckler at the conference, including hitting her with the handle of a crutch and pulling her hair. They’re like a pack of hounds attacking a fox at one of the fox hunts they love so much.
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It's 42°C and you have no air conditioning because you live in Europe - Survive 14 days in a Paris flat - Bake by day or get devoured by night - Scalpers sell a €9 fan for €240 Game is Europe Heatwave Simulator
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My controversial WC take is there's more honour in having a nightmare game where nothing works & you lose 7-1 than getting to the final in controversy, fail to make a single shot on goal, try to get rival players expelled after making awful fouls & beat them up at the end
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Starmer calling Corbyn's Labour morally bankrupt in his resignation speech — from a man who defended collective punishment in Gaza, fed intelligence to Israeli génocidaires, and had activists trying to stop it arrested as terrorists. Not a decent man. An indecent sociopath.
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to paraphrase my pal @owenjonesjourno is a pity starmer only found tears for the end of his own career and not for those affected by his support of genocide, his welfare cuts, his rollback of trans rights, his authoritarian crackdown on human rights and more…
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Starmer has been awful, even worse than predicted. Don’t care how “dignified” his exit now, he should be remembered as a compulsive liar and disgrace to the office of Prime Minister. After zero media scrutiny as opposition leader it took less than 2 years for him to be found out
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Starmer’s Labour spent its time and energy in the lead up to the 2024 election harassing people like me and destroying the left in the party rather than focusing on policy and a clear vision for change. This is the consequence of that immoral and factional project. I hope for all of us that whatever comes now finally moves this country - and the Labour Party - in the right direction. Otherwise that Reform/ Reform-Tory coalition gov is inevitable.
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In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?".
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Are they really still doing this in 2026? Protesting the term 'Labour Right' is pathetic. Just own it!
Chris Curtis, a Labour MP and Wes Streeting ally, gets very tetchy when you suggest he might be right-wing.
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He was right wasn't he? And of course it was Harold Wilson who famously said that the 'The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing'.
"The Labour Party under Keir Starmer will abandon its core idealism and principles and won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it." - David Graeber (from 2020)
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he did everything American centrists want to do to the left flank, and it’s worked out precisely as anyone with two brain cells to rub together expected
One of the worst acts of hubris by any British politician.
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This is an incredible result. McSweeney’s people spent years actively undermining Corbynism in order “to save the Labour Party”, only to throw away swathes of Greater Manchester, and fucking NEWCASTLE to a chaotic mix of liberals + Right and Left populists. And they don’t even seem to realise what they’ve done. They’re in a collective state of denial. They still think a “big offer” or a “reset” or a “bold” King’s Speech will save them. And they’ve blocked their only life raft, their only small chance of deliverance, their most popular asset (according to consistent polls by multiple organisations) from re-entering the fray. Just an unbelievable story.
Newcastle City Council Results (all up) LDM: 25 (+2) GRN: 24 (+22) RFM: 24 (+24) IND: 3 (-3) LAB: 2 (-44) CON: 0 (-1) Labour LOSS to NOC Changes w/ 2022/23/24 (new boundaries).
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This version of the Labour Party is losing councils Corbyn held at his most unpopular and hasn't done quite as badly in London as people expected. And that's good, apparently.
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The Labour leadership will soon consist of a narrow sect comprising of the Liz Kendall leadership campaign that won 4.5% of the vote, and a litany of mad bastards quoted in the Labour leaks describing anyone to the left of Gordon Brown as a “Trot”. Starmer has utterly fucked it
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Theyre still running with the "Labour vs reform" line... deluded. He needs a firmware update
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he can win the next general election for Labour "I think we can... it’s likely to be Labour versus Reform. An election where the defining question is, what is it to be British?"
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that zack polanski overheard not feeling confident on a train tweet is so fucking funny in hindsight
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EXCL: Zack Polanski overheard on a train shouting loudly into his phone, “Hannah Spencer. No Surrender. A four-day week and a 3-day bender!”
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EXCL: Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members. And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May. Join.greenparty.org.uk
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a terrible thing about uk politics is that every moment of longed for schadenfreude is always tempered by the knowledge that there's yet another truly horrible cunt waiting in the wings
💥💥💥 BREAKING 💥💥💥 Keir Starmer's allies have accused Wes Streeting of plotting to oust him from office, warning that any attempt to do so would trigger a market shock — as supporters of Streeting go to war with No10. The extraordinary developments in a series of furious briefings to media outlets tonight signal Downing Street is increasingly concerned the PM may face a leadership challenge. Cabinet unity has fractured, possibly to the point of no return between Starmer and Streeting. A spokesperson for Streeting said: “These claims are categorically untrue. Wes’s focus has entirely been on cutting waiting lists for the first time in 15 years, recruiting 2,500 more GPs, and rebuilding the NHS that saved his life.” A government source said: “Number Ten has gone into full bunker mode, turning on their most loyal cabinet members for absolutely no reason. Unfortunately there is a pattern of Keir's team briefing against his own people- they did it to Angela, Lisa, Lucy, now it's Wes's turn. A circular firing squad won’t help the government out of the hole we’re in." But a supporter of Starmer says tonight that they conducted a recent exercise with investors where they were told that any alternative to Starmer and Rachel Reeves would result in a significant rise in gilt yields, meaning higher government borrowing costs. That would be ruinous for the public finances and plunge the UK into an economic crisis, the person added, a clear indication that No10 is seriously concerned about a leadership plot.
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If were an agent of the state trying to ensure that a new left wing party didn't become any kind of threat, I would simply do everything in my power to prevent alliances with other parties and to exclude individuals or media organisations with large popular followings.
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