Labour isn't working - Thread 25

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The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

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Talking of elections Labour doubling down on postponing local elections in areas being reorganised.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/councils-granted-flexibility-to-finish-reorganisation

scroll down a fair bit to get to the list of those councils where elections look likely to be postponed, plus those - and credit to this second group - who look committed to holding their local elections due in May.

Given all these Councils are being reorganised it seems to imply that the ones who’ve requested their elections be cancelled are particularly inept. Given running elections on a fairly fixed schedule is something they do as standard. Or perhaps I’m missing something.🤔

And coincidentally (not) East Sussex is one of numerous places that won’t hold local elections in May 😡😡

And re Burnham - he was only going to go for a safe seat - natch.
Agree about getting the popcorn out watching for the NEC to approve 😂😂😂

Apparently, there was an interview with the home secretary and she said she had a vision of having a "panopticon" state.

Wont all the criminals just put on masks?

Who’d have thought it.

Disappointingly East Sussex is a conservative controlled council who actively asked the government to cancel their local elections. For the second year in row.

Doesn’t matter what flavour of council they are -it still stinks!

Sure the govt were happy to oblige.

Yup. That will make it easier to pin it on people who look similar I guess. I wonder if she knows about facial recognition and ethnicity problems but at this point I feel like most people in government don't know much.

Gwynne has resigned, now confirmed.

If the NEC want to block Burnham from standing, they will probably use the prospect of a mayoral election as an excuse. I guess we're about to find out how much influence Starmer and McSweeney have over the NEC.

Count me in 🍿 🍿 🍿 😁

Me too

Idk much about them but here it says who they include, surely they’ll be pro Burnham. Although I guess McSweeney might have more say, not sure

1. Composition: The NEC includes leaders/representatives from the Shadow Cabinet, MPs, Councillors, Trade Unions (major funders), CLPs (grassroots members), Socialist Societies, Young Labour, and BAME Labour, providing broad representation.

No idea how the NEC works. From a piece by Sam Coates:-

If Burnham is granted permission to apply for the seat, the NEC creates a long and a shortlist. The long list is done over email, then the shortlisting is done by a panel. The panel has three members of the NEC, one member of the board and a local constituency representative. The panel is chosen by the office of the general secretary, Hollie Ridley, who is close to McSweeney, and decides the panel.So it's far from clear he wins this.

Thanks. They could possibly block him somehow but that would look really bad for Starmer. Scared he’d be ousted.

Oh to be a fly on the wall in the Starmer household tonight. 🤣🤣🤣

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😂😂

This week's FON polling.
Should make you smile @redange

Starmer gang won’t like that one.

More in common's January MRP poll shows a Reform gain in Andrew Gwynne's former seat.

Reform on 381 seats, Labour reduced to 85 seats, Conservatives 70 seats. Labour might not even make it to official opposition at this rate of decline. The colours on the map are staggering.
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/latest-insights/more-in-common-s-january-mrp/

Blimey look at those colours. The poll below won’t go down well either with the Labour lot.

Just reading on Burnham it looks like the unions might have a view, to start BBC -

Steve Wright, general secretary of the Labour-affiliated Fire Brigades Union, said: "It would be a democratic outrage if Andy Burnham was blocked from seeking selection as Labour's by-election candidate in this seat.

"Our union will fiercely resist any attempts to stitch up the selection."

But there is no crisis in the Labour party?

This is going to provide some entertainment…

Ooh, the FBU are flexing their muscles there.

😂😂