“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

Apologies to my snake brethren, you are without any hyperbole morally and spiritually superior to Sir Keir Starmer

Sir Kieth must apologise

As the world records its hottest ever week, Labour sources brief the Sunday Times that Keir Starmer "hates tree huggers" and wants to ditch the party's green agenda pic.twitter.com/8XIrbNZFVT

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) July 9, 2023

lol we're all very much gonna die

Just the stupidest cunt imaginable

Oh no. I'm going to go all whiny centrist dad. But I can't help it. This is just a horrible thing to do on someone's wedding. Just maybe leave them the fuck alone. https://t.co/vxcmaWeBMk

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) July 9, 2023

Oh the humanity! Someone's attacked George Osborne with confetti!

this is a real 'If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face for ever' of an image

https://i.imgur.com/q1MrGcQ.png

New campaign song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLalJpRsrGQ

it's just a pity they weren't throwing confetti at Gideon's funeral

The cause of Labour is the no hope of the world

Dunt is toxic jelly

Bet you Dorian agrees with him. Hi Dorian! If you see this, you’re still a cunt!

I genuinely thought this was a parody when I first saw it.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0k396dXgAEmUdi.jpg

The melts are questioning the source but it's easily as likely to be Labour spin as it is those nasty Tories

even with a work of fictional dialogue they always have to portray Ed as the chumpish loser

https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1678037291502120974?t=c6aG-AWH0KR50rcX9iyqVA&s=19

twitter embeds broken now?

https://i.postimg.cc/gjVXSBrf/20230709-150044.jpg

🚨NEW: Railway workers on Eurostar have secured a significant pay rise following negotiations between @RMTunion and management.

All staff on £45,000 or below will get a minimum uplift of £4,300.

Pay deal is worth between 8-17% depending on grade and role.

— Taj Ali (@Taj_Ali1) July 11, 2023

hell fucking yes

that would have been a lot harder if the UK still had a 50% stake…

Meanwhile...

https://www.independent.co.uk/business/labour-does-not-rule-out-rejecting-public-sector-pay-advice-from-review-bodies-b2363603.html

Better vote for them anyway tho #GTTI

because of the economic devastation caused by the Truss mini-budget and Putin's invasion of Ukraine ... blah blah ad infinitum. Regretfully, now a prospective centre-right Labour govt led by someone just as evil and dishonest as any Tory. They will have to commit to the damaging and dangerous austerity/PFI ideas that is in the party's DNA and the watered down to meaningless flagship green policy - all shit stuff that they were going to do anyway, under any circumstances. Oh such difficult decisions for them to make.

as a non-economist I'm curious why these sensible pragmatists can't offer ballpark aspirations for public spending based on forecasts for tax take etc. even within the framework of their own arbitrary rules they seem evasive and dishonest and unable to articulate any kind of positive vision - their rhetoric betrays their nihilism at every turn

sorry, I'm in a stupid place, I know they answer to my own half-baked thoughts. this is a party machine run by people with absolute contempt for voters and they operate on the principle that ideas are bad and confusing.

also of course they are nihilists but

i can't remember where i read this but we're still living in the reagan "regime". politicians believe that in order to be taken seriously they must make sure that the principles of the market are the principles of society. all the hedging of starmer et al, the abdication of any vestige of corbynism, is obeisance to this regime. there are signs of regime change - the appetite for state action is growing, there's a trend there - but rather than get ahead of this wave starmer is determined to stay behind it, where he thinks the water is safe, which, to be fair, politically, it essentially has been since the early 80s

please let this happen

Hahahaha pic.twitter.com/MvmJfU9xAa

— j (@jrc1921) July 12, 2023

Perfect.

lol, amazing.

I'm guessing they feel they need a "name" candidate because they're being told by people on the ground that Corbyn is likely to win. Which reminds me that I was phoned by a polling company about a year ago and asked, among other things, if I'd vote for Corbyn if he ran as an independent.

heard they are also considering Luciana Berger, which would be the same result but less funny

you need a mission specialist like Paul to take on Corbyn, some low value person who the party doesn't give a fuck about and has previous experience of rejection and failure.

LB is the epitome of a spoiled Habs old girl, let her lose there too.

apparently she was appalling to her staffers and she's a dreadful melt

but I think the party will see her as too high value to waste on a lost cause

Would imagine Berger is being lined up for somewhere she can actually win, probably not Liverpool this time lol. But if they did put her up against Corbyn then there would obviously be a certain discourse we would have to go through again.

also relevant to note

As a student activist and new Labour MP, Berger was romantically linked to Tony Blair's son Euan and with Chuka Umunna

Tonty took her under his wing at an early age and she seems to have stayed there

Are there many Welsh speakers in Islington North?

The whole world is represented in Islington North.

being the anti-Corbyn candidate in Islington N requires either great stupidity or hubris - qualities Mason has plenty of in equal measure!

I think LB wants to stand in Golders Green and Finchley? She ran there last time as a Lib Dem but it’s where she’s actually from or where she has lived as an adult.

She totally dated Chuka but always denies her friendship with Euan Blair was a relationship.

So she moved to 2 different opposition parties, stood for the Lib Dems, and is now fine to stand as a Labour MP again.

When you have it laid out in front of you the hypocrisy is comical.

at least she didn't make a single tweet broadly in support of tactical voting a few years ago eh?

Whenever anyone on the right of Labour is described as ‘talented’ by others in that group, I’m always left wondering what they could possibly mean. Talented at opening and shutting briefcases?

The talent is not being seduced by dumb shit like humanity or wanting to reduce inequality

BBC journalists constantly talking about "junior doctors say they've had below-inflation pay-rises for years" - this isn't a question of opinion, it's on the historical record and you can look it up and report it as a fact. obviously somebody prefers to present it as doubtful claim

Millions of public sector workers, including teachers, police and junior doctors to get pay rises between 5-7%, UK government sayshttps://t.co/3U2SzSrR6A

— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 13, 2023

The government will help fund public sector pay increases by “significantly” raising fees for migrants’ visa applications and NHS access, Rishi Sunak said.

Setting it up nicely for an incoming Lab govt to continue along the same path

There is no new money there apart from the idea of getting migrants to pay for it, which is so utterly craven - and, I think, delusional - I can absolutely accept that it came from this government.

Hilarious that Rishi kept saying he couldn't agree to the 6% pay recommendations because it would be inflationary, and now he says he can after all - as long as austerity is reimposed. It's not about inflation at all. It's about squeezing the state dry.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/strikers-agency-workers-high-court-verdict