Sir Keir Starmer - Labour Party Leader

[ooh aah]

The people he's been trying to impress (boomers, brexit voters, homeowners etc) clocked that he was deeply untrustworthy a good 6 months before he became leader. So on that score they were well ahead of the rest of us.

[Nefertiti2]

Keir Starmer has angrily rounded on “cowards” who brief against his staff and warned shadow ministers that they should quit if they’re unhappy with his leadership team.

The Labour leader told the weekly meeting of Labour’s shadow cabinet that he was appalled by recent criticism of his aides, saying those responsible should “either stop now or have the guts to get out” of his frontbench team.

[DCI Harry Batt]

Hahahahaha

[Nefertiti2]

Thread

not necessarily a criticism of Starmer, but the toxic idiocy of the centrist mates

https://twitter.com/jrc1921/status/1382970775116845056?s=21

[DCI Harry Batt]

Some Times dickhead calling this a result of "vaccine bounce". Ridiculous people.

[E10 Rifle]

As someone else pointed out somewhere, the more Labour go on about this "vaccine bounce" the more it becomes associated with the government, and actually delivers said bounce. It's absurdly self-fulfilling. Planting the idea that the success of the vaccine is in fact down to the government, especially if you make insufficient reference to the government's many fatal failings throughout the whole crisis.

The Labour centre-right is fundamentally politically incompetent now.

[Nefertiti2]

As someone else pointed out somewhere, the more Labour go on about this "vaccine bounce" the more it becomes associated with the government, and actually delivers said bounce. It's absurdly self-fulfilling. Planting the idea that the success of the vaccine is in fact down to the government, especially if you make insufficient reference to the government's many fatal failings throughout the whole crisis.

The Labour centre-right is fundamentally politically incompetent now.

All good points.. Except for that "now"- when were they last competent? perhaps 1997-2001? that was 20 years ago.

[E10 Rifle]

Yeah that's about right.

[wingco]

14 points. It's all so screamingly obvious but there are so many commentators with so much invested in Starmer/anti-Corbynism that they are loath to admit how bad he is, leading to some desperately warped, sanguine takes.

[Snake Plissken]

A “bounce” would be the gap is widening because Tory vote was going up , instead of it actually being steady and Labour dropping.

Someone pointed out that he’s only five points off Labour at its worst polling under Corbyn and that’s with favourable coverage.

[Lang Spoon]

Ah but he's losing the voters Labour don't want or need! Sacrifice the cities for the already lost Oop North Towns! Or something.

[Nefertiti2]

They're at it again

"a senior campaign insider" briefing against Liam Byrne

Shouldn't "senior campaign insiders" be working for their candidate- at least during the election, anyway?

https://twitter.com/etymologic/status/1383356331470462981?s=20

[Benjm]

I really don't understand what their game is. Liam Byrne ought to be a revered figure with the serious party of government nostalgia crowd.

They aren't going to tempt the king over the water back with the promise of an army of six party hacks, three of whom will knife him in the back before the first week is out.

[Nefertiti2]

I really don't understand what their game is. Liam Byrne ought to be a revered figure with the serious party of government nostalgia crowd.

They aren't going to tempt the king over the water back with the promise of an army of six party hacks, three of whom will knife him in the back before the first week is out.

maybe they are just addicted to moaning and badmouthing.
I wonder what the interview procedure is for senior party hacks- do they have an anti-bonding exercise?

"I'm sorry you look like a good team player. You're not Labour party head office material"

[Benjm]

"Can you give us an example of when you have determinedly undermined a project from the inside, while taking a generous salary and benefits?"

[Nefertiti2]

Do you have good media contacts and are you prepared to use them to leak details of party activities to ensure they are presented in a negative light?

[DCI Harry Batt]

They're cross with the Labour candidate because he disagrees with the Tory mayor he's trying to beat in am election?

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/keirmilburn/status/1383491453184143361?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

Maybe appointing a Blairite with links to dodgy business as general Secretary wasn’t a very good idea

https://twitter.com/simon_vessey/status/1383713795797749761?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

The greens are competing for Labour votes in Scotland

https://twitter.com/tommycorbyn/status/1383854953098141697?s=21
i guess the advisors reckon it’s important to show Labour doesn’t care about any of that stuff anymore

[Lang Spoon]

To be fair to the ice cream hair prick...

https://twitter.com/no1guncle/status/1383776664711176208

[MsD]

I've watched the video clip from Bath (GET OUT OF MOI PUB!!!) about ten times and laughed heartily each time.

[beak]

I'm just glad to finally see a Labour leader sticking it to the landlord class.

[Benjm]

Is this what they mean by bad optics?

[delicatemoth]

I've never had an MP who had to issue a statement about being kicked out of a pub before. Then again I've never had an MP whose name, in response to the question "Actually, who is your MP?" from a friend (and Labour member), prompted hearty laughter.