I know exactly what you mean. Starmer and the wokey Labour brigade have ruined the NHS, especially last year by spending so much on translators and illegal immigrants. I'd argue that over the last twelve years Labour have done more damage to the UK with their lefty ideals than the party who are actually in power and making decisions. Just yesterday when I was looking at how much my gas bill was I KNEW it was because some wokey cnut in Bristol with a foreign sounding name was eating avocado toast.
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@rimaldo I'm pretty sure it's against the rules to have two accounts, even if one of them is a parody.
I think it's just an excuse to go after any left MPs.
Well this is awful
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You forgot to include the £14.7 billion the tories spent on helping their mates and other wasted money in the last couple of years.
Regarding those expense figures (and I don’t know whether they are accurate), the Bank of England had to promise to spend up to £65 billion to clean up the entirely predictable mess caused by Truss and Kwarteng. Anyway, it makes a change at least to see Daily Mail btl comments here.
Which one is the parody account?
Cool story bro
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At least it wasn't £60,000,000.99 That would be a disgrace.
On another note, your post is deluded.
They're in hotels because there's no social housing... because it's all been flogged by successive neoliberal governments. And if "illegal migrants" are a net drain at any point on the public purse it's because the government doesn't let them work. Skills shortage but they're not allowed to work FFS, just sit there costing public money having to survive in disgusting conditions because of inhuman, incompetent, wasteful government.
Fair points.
My town has recently started housing refugees and I did wonder if there is any particular reason they are not able to work in the country even if they wanted to?
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01908/
I guess they might be in danger of integrating if you didn't take years to give them the right to work while they wait indefinitely for their asylum claim to be processed. God forbid.
He's a weakling
For the basic among us here, can you describe exactly what happened and the implication?
Very popular local black Councillor, life long anti racist, endorsed by the unions, applied to be on the long list of candidates for the seat of Camberwell and Peckham as ******* Harman is retiring.
Labour HQ then set out to find any reason to kick him off the long list because he was going to win.
Local party not happy.
Similar is happening at CLPs across the country.
Cheers. Why exactly? Too left or too black?
I would say too left wing. There is an obsession with getting "reasonable" MPs that won't offend the electorate which will likely lead to a middle aged white guy getting chosen.
But this exacerbates the fact that Labour have a big problem nationally in not selecting people of colour for councils let alone for Westminster. Down in the south east region an independent report into selecting Council candidates found the process was institutionally racist.
Thanks.
I haven’t been in this thread for a while and thought given everything that’s happened in Westminster, plus the massive poll lead, that it’s be a fairly happy read. Oh boy
Isn't this to ensure Labour doesn't spend another 12 years wandering in the wilderness and in the process continually letting its people down. True the Tories are to blame, but who has been giving them a free ride at GE's?
You have to deal with the electorate you have, rather than the one you would wish for!
The constant internal battles within the Labour party are tedious.
I imagine the leadership know that if they win the next election, there's a very good chance they'd need to form a coalition or would have a pretty narrow majority (I'd be shocked if they can win a majority along the lines of Blair's 3rd win in 2005). Under that scenario the block of left-wing Labour MPs would wield a lot of power, and be able to make demands in exchange for not inflicting numerous Commons defeats on the (still hyopthetical) Starmer government. On the flipside, had the last election 'somehow' (as increasingly far-fetched as that looked during the campaign) for a Corbyn led administration, the sizeable number of 'centre left' / 'centrist' Labour MPs hostile to him (much larger than the current block of 'left wing' MPs) would have had tremendous power and surely have forced him to water down his programme significantly.
So from their perspective, the fewer MPs / candidates at the next election on the left of the party, the better.
I imagine the leadership know that if they win the next election, there's a very good chance they'd need to form a coalition or would have a pretty narrow majority (I'd be shocked if they can win a majority along the lines of Blair's 3rd win in 2005). Under that scenario the block of left-wing Labour MPs would wield a lot of power, and be able to make demands in exchange for not inflicting numerous Commons defeats on the (still hyopthetical) Starmer government. On the flipside, had the last election 'somehow' (as increasingly far-fetched as that looked during the campaign) for a Corbyn led administration, the sizeable number of 'centre left' / 'centrist' Labour MPs hostile to him (much larger than the current block of 'left wing' MPs) would have had tremendous power and surely have forced him to water down his programme significantly.
So from their perspective, the fewer MPs / candidates at the next election on the left of the party, the better.
I think the elephant in the room is that, in the Labour Party as well as in the country at large, there's a degree of latent racism (both conscious and unconscious) and a general level of small-c conservatism which combine to lead many to look upon left-wing POC more negatively (or perhaps, even more negatively) than they see POC or radical politics individually. You don't have to look hard to see that our political culture, at all levels, is a rough ride for POC who dare to voice left-wing beliefs, criticise powerful institutions or generally talk about racism in the present tense.
In 'progressive' middle class liberal circles, such as the Labour Party, that sentiment often manifests as a tendency to infantilise left-wing POC and ascribe their opinions to ignorance or irrationality.
The Labour Party internally is still in the perpetual 'Mexican standoff' state it was when I left years ago and consequentially it has given the Tories a free ride for years; and as a result, has let down millions of people across the country, but in particular in the areas outside the major conurbations.
Him... the guy who opposes the IHRC definitions then plays the race card then when its pointed out its an all BAME list plays the left wing card
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The Starmer Party comes out against Gillick Competence.
Unironically posting Luke Akehurst tweets, huh?
You mean a member of the Labour NEC directly commentating on the issue people were talking about - yeah I think thats pretty valid - though if you want to explain to me which flavours of antisemitism you feel would aid a labour candidate feel free
https://labourlist.org/2022/07/luke...-to-represent-local-parties-on-labours-nec-2/
Luke Akehurst is despicable and anyone who endorses what he says should not be listened to.
Tbh theres about a 95% chance that @sun_tzu is Luke Akehurst
At times like these the veil between the worlds grows thin and @sun_tzu's deep commitment to the fight against anti-semitism is briefly allowed to manifest in the mortal realm
How about this gem?
"I can justify arms for Saudi Arabia. I absolutely do not want Iran to win in Yemen or anywhere else."
He's also known affectionately as Luke Nukem on Twitter and Reddit for his consistent support for the arms industry and nuclear weapons.
"@TinaTeapot27 Trident could be used anything from 1 warhead in an uninhabited area as a warning shot, to 40 aimed at cities"
That would make sense.