Sir Keir Starmer - Labour Party Leader

[Duncan Gardner]

My late mother (lifelong Labour even though they wouldn't let her vote for them) saw it the other way round. For her, every leader from Gaitskell to Brown had sold out. She spared only Callaghan, but I think that was more down to the twinkle in Stoker Jim's eye than any great commitment to the Social Contract

[Nefertiti2]

The party of business and the party of workers

https://twitter.com/labourlist/status/1350435470195490817?s=21

[DCI Harry Batt]

I guess calling corruption "cronyism" has been focus-grouped.

[Snake Plissken]

Probably they prefer sticking to the quaint convention where you don't accuse people who blatantly and provably lie a lot of being liars and people who blatantly give favours to their friends of being corrupt. I'm sure that the other side will respect that when the time comes.

[ursus arctos]

I guess calling corruption "cronyism" has been focus-grouped.

Still on a improvement on "chumocracy"

[DCI Harry Batt]

I saw a thoroughly fatuous and vacuous thread of drivel reporting on Rayner and some godawful Fabian do. Hang on...

https://twitter.com/LabourList/status/1350486276194131971?s=19

Some actual content may have been added since I stopped reading in horror, I guess.

[Diable Rouge]

Only Starmer could manage to increase Labour's Opinium lead and simultaneously see his own net approval rating slashed by five points to +10:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ay-in-new-poll

[Nefertiti2]

Hmmmm

https://twitter.com/michaeljswalker/status/1351498738297167872?s=20

[MsD]

Fucking hell. As I’ve said on Twitter I’d be raising eyebrows at the appointment of a former military intel officer of ANY foreign power being appointed to that post.
Don’t tell me they don’t have people with the skills who’ve been in the Party for years, or would that go against equal ops?

[MsD]

That was enough to get me off the fence, I'm not renewing my subscription, and in the second survey asking me why, told them to go fuck themselves, which is kind of my catchphrase for the week.

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/jeremywh0rebyn/status/1351615203537014784?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1351516614253015041?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

This is fucking outrageous _the Chakrabarti report was praised by the Chief Rabbi at the time - and until Ruth Smeeth intervened.

it was also practical by the EHRC

https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1351882665738309638?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

must be libellous, surely

https://twitter.com/0calamity/status/1351880388306759682?s=21

[johnr]

[QUOTE=Nefertiti2;n2405239]This is fucking outrageous _the Chakrabarti report was praised by the Chief Rabbi at the time - and until Ruth Smeeth intervened.

it was also practical by the EHRC

https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1351882665738309638?s=21[/QUOTE

Tugendhat and Smeeth are good buddies, going by an article in the Guardian a while back, and he backed her appointment to the Index on Censorship. .

[Nefertiti2]

It was an extraordinary appointment

[Nefertiti2]

Obviously confident -and in Shami’s case it’s not that she doesn’t know any good lawyers

https://twitter.com/montie/status/1351879983187292162?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

Andrew neil too

a man who was happy to employ David Irving

https://twitter.com/essopie/status/1351918384087265287?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

This can fuck off as well

https://twitter.com/UKLabour/status/1351887061851242499?s=20

[Nefertiti2]

Let’s have more docile mps appointed by the leadership.

the Last lot were so impressive

https://twitter.com/mish_rahman/status/1352639215176212480?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

If you’re looking for a leader to the right of Corbyn may I recommend E Miliband

https://twitter.com/g_gosden/status/1354063116242448389?s=21

[Antepli Ejderha]

How gullible are British workers?

Sadly the answer is very. But an excellent speech.

[wingco]

I like Miliband a lot, despite 2015. That, I ascribe to the overpowering, behind the scenes right wing bureaucracy who are currently ensnaring Starmer. If Miliband were allowed his head he could be very potent.

[Nefertiti2]

Agreed. A decent man. Voted against the Iraq war.

sadly lost his nerve to endorse Glasman and employ the likes of Ayeshika Whatagrifta .

[wingco]

Yeah that's the problem; Burnham, also. Fatal lack of nerve at the vital hour. Which is why people turned to Corbyn for all his failings; historically, unswervingly, absolutely, of the left, a rare creature left in Labour in 2015. You knew he was a lefty, basically. Harder to say that of subsequent aspirants because of their lack of history.