Centrist ex-Labour Councillor Independent post coup. Labour must either deliver its 2024 manifesto or call a General Election to have any legitimacy or mandate.
Joined March 2009
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:
"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.
"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.
"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
Have you seen this French video on this subject? Brilliant.
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
DARREN JONES: I WAS ASKED WHETHER I WOULD CALL FOR KEIR STARMER TO RESIGN
By @PronouncedAlva
Jones has a fascinating way of delivering sharp criticism or warnings in a casual, matter-of-fact way, as if unaware he is doing it. He says he always knew he wasn’t getting a job in Burnham’s cabinet. When he tallied up the number of people the incoming Prime Minister owed jobs to – “people who had evidently done deals, or called for Keir to resign in public or had resigned themselves, plus people he needed to bring back who had not been in the cabinet and had supported the coup… the numbers didn’t add up”. He doesn’t shy away from the idea that some of the most prominent figures in the cabinet knifed Starmer in the back in return for a job at the top table.
He reveals, still ever-so-casually, that he was asked to make a deal himself. “I was approached indirectly and asked whether I would call for Keir to resign in return for something, but I was very clear that I wasn’t going to do that.” Something being a cabinet job? “I mean, that was my interpretation of the message. But that’s just not how I conduct myself.”
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
It has been left to John Healy this morning to announce that, after 38 gruelling days in the job, he and Andy Burnham have given up.
When Healy resigned in protest at Keir Starmer's defence spending plan, it was part of a coordinated plot to remove Starmer and pave the way for an Andy Burnham premiership.
But after taking office to high fanfare and media praise, the Burnham machine seems to have ground to a complete halt.
This morning, Healy has admitted that they are a continuity government; that they cannot do things differently.
Oh, and you know that devastating defence spending plan that Healy resigned over … they have cancelled plans to increase it to 3%.
I am slightly perturbed by this for many reasons but, primarily, it now feels as though we have gone backwards in leadership.
Like Starmer or loathe him, things had steadied. Progress was slow, granted but, as Burnham and Healy have just admitted, there was no other way to move.
What was the point in this coup? Just a shuffle of deckchairs on the Titanic?
Keiron M 💭 retweeted
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
Y Viva Espana!!!
… PS: Dear Argentina - you’re crap at football, you cheat, and oh yes, those islands are called the FALKLANDS - and they’re BRITISH 🇬🇧
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
In my view this is one of, if not THE goal of the World Cup.
Just 5 minutes earlier he gave up on the opportunity to take a penalty which had he stored would have made him England’s greatest World Cup goal scorer. He sacrificed that opportunity, in order for his teammate Bukayo Saka to score a hat trick, which he did.
He then went on to deliver a masterclass in sublime ball control culminating in this brilliant goal to make it 6 - 4 to England against France.
Sometimes the good guys DO win. Jude Bellingham is an outstanding human being as well as a talent of a generation. I salute him.
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
So Labour MPs gave support to the coup that ended Starmer’s premiership. So for the record ….
Keiron M 💭 retweeted
Will you still be leaking cabinet details to the press like you did to undermine Starmer?
Andy Burnham has a plan to rewire Britain so it works better for ordinary people with more power in the hands of local areas to shape their futures, and more public control over life’s essentials.
My latest for @MirrorPolitics
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Keiron M 💭 retweeted
The story apparently is …. “There I was minding my own business when suddenly and unexpectedly @joshsimonsmp resigned his seat. I was walking along and suddenly I had been nominated for the vacant seat … with hardly any campaigning I was elected with such a “national” mandate … that the PM felt he had to resign. At that stage … people said I had to stand as Leader … so of course I felt I should “respond” … but don’t worry everyone will love me …” ….
Keiron M 💭 retweeted
Lucy Powell has just sent all Labour members an email asking each member to invite someone to join the party this weekend. Is that to try to make up for all the members that have left in the past month?
Keiron M 💭 retweeted
I can’t help it but I really don’t care who gets which Cabinet position in Burnham’s Gov. Only to have confirmation of who was stabbing my PM in the back the most.
I’ve lost interest in Labour. I see them as no different to any other Party now.
Keiron M 💭 retweeted
A figure of 22% was inadvertently published last week. Me, one. You, two. My wife, three.
