Remember folks, Corbyn Labour having a detailed, fully costed manifesto is 'making impossible promises' but Starmer Labour promising to 'deliver economic stability' with absolutely zero detail is grown-up politics.
There’s no such thing as the establishment it’s just that Allegra Stratton went to public school then Oxbridge, and without once changing her politics went from the Guardian to the BBC, to the Tory government and when she resigned was eulogised by Peston and Ruth Davidson.
Bless all you dear people who thought that Fiona Bruce would let Mick Lynch speak and that an invitation to Question Time was a gesture of good faith by the BBC. Have you learnt nothing since 2008?
The ICJ ‘takes note’ of the ‘dehumanising’ language of the Israeli Defence minister about cutting off electricity and water - dehumanising language which Keir Starmer publically defended and said was right.
I gather Keir Starmwr, who failed to disclose the donors to his leadership campaign, is now attacking Liz Truss for failing to disclose the donors to her leadership campaign.
@RebekahLove27
I am a big, burly skinhead, rough shaven cishet man with lots of facial piercings & tattoos (& female friends do tell me I am scary at first glance) and I regularly paint my nails just because I like having painted nails 🤷
@margarethodge
So to clarify - CAA attacks left-wing Labour - all good, you’re on board. CAA attacks right-wing Labour - the CAA are making disingenuous politically-motivated attacks -got you
Genuine question - does Starmer have Dissociative Identity Disorder ?
He says one thing and 48 hours later says the precise opposite, seemingly unaware of what he has previously said
'Palestinian statehood is not in the gift of a neighbour, it's the inalienable right of the Palestinian people'
Labour leader
@Keir_Starmer
hits out at Israeli Prime Minister
@netanyahu
Starmer issues new list of proscribed orgs.
Labour members can no longer be a member of:
Republic
Labour Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Palestine Solidarity Campaign
CAMRA
The Women’s Institute
The Tufty Club
The AA
AA
(Members of Conservative Party always welcome)
Haaretz is reporting explosive stuff from declassified Israeli government docs.
An Israeli newspaper saying things that if you were a UK Labour politician/member & even hinted at would see you hounded as an antisemite, expelled & put on trial by media.
This is where we’re at.
Starmer’s Labour thinks it is unacceptable for shadow cabinet members to stand on picket lines (unless of course those shadow cabinet members are trying to get elected as party leader)
A couple of days ago I tweeted the ‘you just know Paul Mason is compiling lists of leftists to give to MI5’ - yesterday his actual list actually got leaked. Mason proposes law fare, PR stunts, stings, shadow bans, denial of PayPal usage & more to silence these which includes MPs
@LBC
@AndrewMarr9
@Keir_Starmer
‘We’ didn’t draft a green paper on employment rights at all, did ‘we’ Keir. Andy McDonald drafted it and then resigned from the Shadow Cabinet when you whipped him to argue against higher pay and better conditions for workers.
@MarkAPaine1970
I think you have misunderstood. I will vote for many, many people who aren’t Jeremy Corbyn. It’s just that Keir Starmer isn’t one of them.
@TheBazGaz
@thetimes
Which is a fairly obvious point when you think about it (which brexiteers don’t) A pint at the pub or a pint of milk has never changed throughout our EU membership
@PaulBrandITV
I thought ‘British Jews were more fearful than at any time since WW2’ during the 2019 election because someone who believes Palestinians are human beings might be elected - that’s what he said then.
Now that Paul Mason’s hitlist is increasingly looking verified, it is highly interesting that Owen Jones isn’t on it - he’s far too useful as a gatekeeper of respectable ‘left’ opinion.
@Women4Wes
What telegraphs this as an empty threat is that it involves the premise that the Labour party is able to competently handle someone’s personal data
And she is married to the politics editor of the right-wing Spectator (former editor Boris Johnson, former chair Andrew Neal (former BBC political frontman). Peston was the BBC’s economics editor and also writes for the Spectator. The Spectator is owned by the Barclay brothers
@Keir_Starmer
Keir says ‘pride in hard work’ -fine, but he also says ‘trade unions are not in the public interest’. That is pretty much the definition of an exploitative capitalist.
The National Executive Commitee of my extended family has voted 6-0 to never vote Labour ever again and to dedicate themselves to campaigning against them at every opportunity.
Look I would love to share these chocolate bars but my fiscal rules won’t allow it and anyway, if I do, it will just encourage dependency.
#SirKidStarver
@GeorgeMonbiot
@BootstrapCook
‘We're stuck between Ukip-lite Tories & Jeremy Corbyn. How is that a choice?’I like Jack but like many ppl, yourself included George, she didn’t take the chance 2 actually support a government that would tackle poverty through the power of the state rather than through cook books
@JohnRentoul
One of the many unreported things about Kuenssberg is that her Dad was a notorious union busting boss in a Peruvian garment business at the same time a Jeremy Corbyn was working with Peruvian trade unions. Sure her Dad never mentioned it.
Current Affairs editor Nathan J Robinson got sacked by the Guardian for a single tweet in which he mentioned military aid to Israel being tacked onto a Congressional Bill. Does anyone think Owen Jones has the balls to risk his only regular gig by doing a show on
#ItWasAScam
?
How British media works - discuss at length & give credence to claims that Jamie Driscoll should be deselected b/c of a brief meeting with Ken Loach
Don’t mention at any point that Keir Starmer personally appeared, at length, in a Loach film - McLibel
Lots of reporting about politicians’ compromising relationships with Lebedev - but strangely the media didn’t talk about the one man who has had a relationship with every Russian oligarch around - Petie Mandelson
For some electing a Labour Government was never their ambition, because to protest and shout from the sidelines is all too easy & comfortable for them.
If they can’t accept the Labour Party is a party of government and not of protest, then their membership will not be missed 👋🏾.
lots of revisionism from Starmer supporters in response to
@OwenJones84
column. I would therefore draw attention to John McTernan’s (who was involved in Starmer’s leadership campaign) response when asked if Starmer's campaign was deliberately dishonest - he said :
@jonlansman
@UKLabour
Let us hope that the derisory 1.6% of the votes won by Labour’s candidate Natasha Pantelic in the Chesham and Amersham by-election, will persuade Unite to sever its ties to the ‘Labour’ party.
'I don't think 35% is affordable'
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer agrees that the pay demand from junior doctors is too much, but says the government must 'get round the table'
@SpitfireVC
My ancestors literally invaded Britain. In 1066.
My wife invaded Britain 15 years ago as a medical student and has spent every year since then working in the NHS treating people. Bloody immigrants.
@KateOsamor
Kate you are denying that Roma, disabled people, LGBTGI people, autistic people, people with mental health problems, communists and Jehovah’s witnesses were also victims of the holocaust.
You are a holocaust denier
Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting speaking at a lunch with reporters: “In the Labour Party, the cranks have been kicked out or left. In the Conservative party, the cranks are sat around the Cabinet table.”
@driandunce
It’s true - I was at an RSPB hide recently and heard a birdwatcher say ‘where’s that bird come from’ - it’s clear they were asking if it was from Israel. Antisemites all of them
@adamlangleben
You are saying that the criticism of Starmer has been dramatically overstated for political reasons. I disagree - he must acknowledge the pain he has caused.
If you are one of the 13 million people who voted Labour under the leadership of Corbyn - Starmer is telling you to fuck off he doesn’t want your votes.
@Bearcub52
@ashleyljames
Rory Stewart, the opium-smoking spy who was a part of the UK’s debacle in Afghanistan. Am and whose voting record as an MP is horrific - he’s a dyed in the wool Tory who attacked the poor every chance he got.