Rachel Reeves was saying last week that a Labour government might also ignore the recommendations of pay review boards - what's she saying now the Tories have accepted then?
― Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Friday, 14 July 2023 12:58 (one year ago) link
god knows i nod off every time she opens her mouth
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 14 July 2023 13:00 (one year ago) link
I can barely hear her over my screaming.
― Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Friday, 14 July 2023 13:02 (one year ago) link
So much for the most popular minister in the cabinet.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/15/ben-wallace-says-he-will-step-down-as-defence-secretary-and-quit-as-mp
― Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 July 2023 18:48 (one year ago) link
Frankly, the left has to start caring a lot more about growth, about creating wealth, attracting inward investment and kickstarting a spirit of enterprise,” he says.“It is the only show in town for those who dream of a brighter future.
“It is the only show in town for those who dream of a brighter future.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/15/keir-starmer-we-cant-spend-our-way-back-to-power
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 15 July 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
LOL TIL he entered politics via the scottish parliament
xpost
― conrad, Saturday, 15 July 2023 19:20 (one year ago) link
is the RIP act of 2000 still in force? because that had a prison sentence for failing to disclose passwords and 'I've forgotten it' wasn't a valid response. People were prosecuted under it.
― koogs, Sunday, 16 July 2023 00:02 (one year ago) link
Senior Labour insiders said they agreed that the policy was “horrible” and would not exist “in a perfect world” but said the party was not making any spending commitments it was unable to deliver on. “I can see why colleagues might feel uncomfortable with this but we’ve got to be realistic about the state of the economy,” they said.One shadow cabinet minister said Starmer had to be able to “slay shibboleths” over public spending but admitted it was a tough position for MPs with constituents in poverty to defend.“These things are not easy for the MPs because they do genuinely hurt families in their constituencies,” they said. “But we can’t end child poverty unless we have more money to do it – and that’s not going to happen, frankly, in the first term of a Labour government.”
One shadow cabinet minister said Starmer had to be able to “slay shibboleths” over public spending but admitted it was a tough position for MPs with constituents in poverty to defend.
“These things are not easy for the MPs because they do genuinely hurt families in their constituencies,” they said. “But we can’t end child poverty unless we have more money to do it – and that’s not going to happen, frankly, in the first term of a Labour government.”
https://i.imgur.com/XjBzkbW.png
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Monday, 17 July 2023 09:03 (one year ago) link
this insistence on refusing to commit to actually improving anything in any way reminds me of this joke Jeremy Hardy made in the late 90s about New Labour coming to power and the public feeling like someone who had waited 18 years for an organ transplant only to find out that the donor had the same condition
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Monday, 17 July 2023 09:07 (one year ago) link
Can't remember the last time I've had a thought reading this thread that wasn't "these fucking cunts" (nb not the thread contributors).
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 17 July 2023 09:08 (one year ago) link
The funniest thing about lack of commitment is how quickly old that will get when we have droughts/flood/fires and the like.
Sleepwalkers, the lot of them.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 July 2023 09:12 (one year ago) link
enlightening article (for some Americans) about the NHS in the NYT today
― youn, Monday, 17 July 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
A good person.
I’ve decided to resign from @UKLabour and serve as an Independent Mayor.People are tired of being controlled by Westminster and Party HQs. They want someone to stand up for them. Let the people decide. £25k by end of Aug & I’ll stand as North East Mayor👉https://t.co/WuDEGd3xxJ pic.twitter.com/kscPeMmlX5— Mayor Jamie Driscoll (@MayorJD) July 17, 2023
― the pinefox, Monday, 17 July 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
All power to Jamie.
Those quotes from the "Senior Labour insiders" (Mandeldroids like Akehurst and McSweeney) won't convince anyone. We've all learnt by now that these people take active pleasure in the suffering of natural Labour voters. It's punishment for the enthusiasm for Corbyn, for wanting fairer policies, for being impudent and not accepting what they're told. The level of hatred these people are going to start to see directed towards them in a Labour gov may well surprise even them.
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 17 July 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
Jamie has raised 20k in barely 24 hrs.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 July 2023 13:42 (one year ago) link
How many of those are giving bits of spare cash they shouldn't but are doing so anyway just bcz they want someone who cares?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 17 July 2023 13:44 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1PkNG3XsAA9uhb?format=jpg&name=medium
the replies to Kim McGuiness announcing her candidacy is mostly ppl saying fk off they are voting for Driscoll, what a charming Labour person she is.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 17 July 2023 14:11 (one year ago) link
This has every chance of being this decade's Thatcher Milk Snatcher pic.twitter.com/GIuMf1umLW— Samplo Corvodina QC (@TreborRhurbarb) July 17, 2023
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Monday, 17 July 2023 17:13 (one year ago) link
I can't imagine seeing a classic like that on bluesky!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 17 July 2023 17:20 (one year ago) link
But one shadow cabinet member said: “It’s possible to both be critical of the two-child policy but also say we can’t make spending commitments. We have to be fiscally disciplined.”
make no mistakes, Labour's "fiscal discipline" is going to make them more dangerous than a Tory party that is on the ropes. Despicable people.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 17 July 2023 17:54 (one year ago) link
Driscoll now on 53k in half a day. Astonishing
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 17 July 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link
Good for him. He was pretty impressive on C4 news tonight.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 17 July 2023 21:33 (one year ago) link
Unhinged to keep going on about that note after all the covid support people and businesses got.
Lucy Powell holds the line on the two-child limit on Times Radio: "There's no money left, to coin a phrase." Liam Byrne's note not so much a millstone for this Labour leadership as a philosophy for government.— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) July 18, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:12 (one year ago) link
The Labour Party using a stick the Tories have gleefully used over the years to beat the Labour Party, to beat... the Labour Party? Self-clowning or what?
― Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:17 (one year ago) link
Have they used the Winter of Discontent and the Enemy Within yet?
― Body Odour Ultra Low Emission Zone (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:18 (one year ago) link
Give's department literally* 'gave back' £2Bn last week.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:25 (one year ago) link
Gove lol. First he Goveth.
not seen any signs of this imminent "Shadow Cabinet revolt" against Kieth that was reported yesterday, if any of them had a shred of integrity they'd have already been booted out.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 18 July 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
‘I don’t think the idea of keeping people in poverty is fiscally responsible'North of Tyne Mayor Jamie Driscoll says Labour is ‘storing up problems for the long term’ with its new policy to keep the two-child cap on benefits if it gets into government https://t.co/P0zxS1DNGF pic.twitter.com/Zj5EfMhT9e— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) July 17, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 18 July 2023 10:49 (one year ago) link
The Westminster Think Tank scene
This is both dumb and disgraceful - Policy Exchange is an important part of the Westminster think tank scene and shouldn’t be intimidated in this way https://t.co/cBABHJ5ECa— Sebastian Payne (@SebastianEPayne) July 20, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 20 July 2023 11:35 (one year ago) link
bloody Camden scenesters
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 July 2023 11:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uivPpzCGo
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 July 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
JSO protesters getting assaulted in the street meanwhile.
― nashwan, Thursday, 20 July 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
https://t.co/DvPMVDLefs pic.twitter.com/BOfFqTVWP8— Samplo Corvodina (@TreborRhurbarb) July 20, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 July 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
lmao
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 20 July 2023 16:33 (one year ago) link
The scene that celebrates its health (fiscal only)
― I fell asleep at kabuki (Matt #2), Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
Nice
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 20 July 2023 17:25 (one year ago) link
Tories HOLD Uxbridge & South Ruislip!No idea whether this is good or bad, probably bad because everything is bad. Bad in that they are already pinning it on ULEZ I suppose.Bad that I'm still awake at this time.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 21 July 2023 01:46 (one year ago) link
Gonna need to offer to starve more kids
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 01:55 (one year ago) link
LET’S GOOOOOOO https://t.co/C562GtQOHJ pic.twitter.com/NyRHbJSwXs— El Borto 🔥🔥🔥 (@leo_hutz) July 21, 2023
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 02:06 (one year ago) link
Sadiq Khan will be shitting himself.
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 06:23 (one year ago) link
Spot the unconvincing puppet with Keir Starmer's hand up his arse.
https://e3.365dm.com/23/07/768x432/skynews-keir-mather-labour_6225140.jpg
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 06:50 (one year ago) link
Lol @ this nerd
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 07:00 (one year ago) link
Starmer Boy
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 07:03 (one year ago) link
My God, he's even called Keir!
― John Donne In Concert (Tom D.), Friday, 21 July 2023 07:04 (one year ago) link
Some of this shit will be swept away so fast. A decrease in inflation and interest rates should do it
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 07:06 (one year ago) link
fucking Rovers fans
― orcas who sign their posts like it's a freaking email (Noodle Vague), Friday, 21 July 2023 09:44 (one year ago) link
can he make up his mind whether being murdered by a 19 year old is embarrassing or a clear act of self defence https://t.co/ykySp50nrV— tyron (@thetyronwilson) July 21, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 21 July 2023 09:53 (one year ago) link
I know it’ll have been a fair amount of tactical voting there but Labour losing their deposit whilst the greens double their vote share isn’t a great look for the impending Labour landslide https://t.co/UDaJAf3NSy— Chris Duffy (@OtherChrises) July 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 21 July 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
Current headline on the guardian...
Starmer urges Khan to ‘reflect’ on Ulez rules after Uxbridge defeatLabour leader hails Selby byelection victory but says London mayor must consider expansion of ultra-low emission zone
Labour leader hails Selby byelection victory but says London mayor must consider expansion of ultra-low emission zone
God I hate this prick. Yeah tory voters don't want environmentally progressive policies, big fucking surprise. How to address that? Be more tory! Fuckhead.
― NickB, Friday, 21 July 2023 17:03 (one year ago) link