Labour isn't working - Thread 27

[TheNuthatch]

A chat thread for those who don't like this Labour government. 💙 🩵

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

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Sorry to interrupt our lovely delicate dog stories

I wonder if anyone is up-to-date with information about Crewkerne Gazette?

Here's my short version - I started to get a bad feeling about him. I couldn't really tell you why. Possibly because I nearly - nearly - befriended somebody last year who turned out to be a wrong 'un and I got a similar vibe from him.

Anyway, it turns out he has actually done time, quite substantial, for antisemitic hate crime and malicious communications.

I have had a quick look and it seems possible he's one of these people who has posted hateful content about absolutely everyone, or every group you can think of

I can't be bothered to look into it further. He's saying on his X account, linked to a full interview on YouTube, that he now works against hate crime.

I really resent these people who do stuff like this and then claim they've seen the error of their ways

No more views from me. Not trying to police what anyone else watches. Just wondered if others were aware. I saw it completely by chance this evening.

Wow. I just googled this and I won't be viewing or following any more, Joshua Bonehill-Paine has some deeply abhorrent views and changing your mind due to legal trouble doesn't convince me.

@SpaceRaccoon it's not just the views
It's the comprehensive list of actions that freaked me out. I didn't even finish reading it!

It's a shame that somebody with such a talent and 'daring' to take the system on is himself a bad one. I only wish we had never found out who Crewekerne Man was, so we could 'laugh' at any further videos.

I believe a pp has mentioned the Sunday Times story about Labour Together (the Labour group that supported Starmer for leader) targeting journalists who’d broken the story about the group’s undeclared £750,000 of funding.

Apparently in its report the ‘investigating’ firm that Labour Together employed tried to smear the journalists as users of Russian hacking.

This looks like a very big scandal indeed. I hope there are decent people within Labour and Labour Together who are willing to expose this fully.

More parochially, can you imagine the noise that Labour posters would have made about it - reasonably enough - had the group been Tory? It would be nice to think that MN Labourites will loudly and repeatedly condemn Labour Together and call for its disbandment and the resignation of anyone who benefitted from it. I’m not hopeful about that though.

I'm not shocked. Their track record this term, nothing is out of bounds if they can get away with it.

Apologies for O/T but...

We have tried this @EmeraldRoulette

Whilst knowing DelicateDog would be much more comfortable curled up on the sofa on my cashmere scarf (her current preferred sleeping arrangement), than out in a muddy field, the minute my DH took DurableDog out of the door without her, DelicateDog let out such wails and howls of unhappiness (for many long, long minutes) that I’m sure the neighbours thought we were sticking pins in her.

To say she has some separation anxiety on being parted from her sister would be like saying Starmer is a little bit useless, and DurableDog bounces off walls furniture, and us, if she does not get a daily gallop. It’s a quandary. One that will be alleviated once the weather returns to DelicateDog’s preferences (which align with mine).

I am currently paralysed by the choice of colours on the Equafleece website @TheNuthatch ! The ’seeds and twigs’ protection is a bonus, as Delicate Dog also does a good impression of VelcroDog when she disappears into hedges 🙄

I suspect some of the Labourites on here will justify Labour Together's actions as just and moral ! This, on the premise that ensuring anyone who questions the Labour Party and its motives, must be stopped on the basis of virtue ..

That’s a very succinct way of putting it. 👍

I think that’s ultimately what disgusts me most about the left. Their preachiness and holier-than-thou attitude is a colossal hypocrisy. There’s no more virtue in the left than the right.

@DameProfessorIDareSay I really enjoyed that post, thank you

I now picture you, DelicateDog and DurableDog as a kind of cartoon strip! 😂

It's just as well I've got a busy week because the amount of crazy gaslighting and outright lies I have seen online this week is really alarming.

And it does seem to be mostly coming from the left....

I think that’s ultimately what disgusts me most about the left. Their preachiness and holier-than-thou attitude is a colossal hypocrisy.

This, with bells on!

redange · Today 09:59
I suspect some of the Labourites on here will justify Labour Together's actions as just and moral

Exactly - like the BBC tried to justify its ‘editing’ of the Panorama show about Donald Trump and the Capitol.

I think it’s a Labour on here thing in particular too. Tg we can get away from it on these threads, will always appreciate it.

They are now blaming AI for the job slowdown resulting from their jobs bill and tax increases.

https://spectator.com/article/dont-blame-ai-for-this-jobs-bloodbath/

I dunno. I think it's endemic throughout the hardcore support. I see it on our local Facebook group as well.

I bet. I‘m not on FB so can at least escape that!

Breaking, Telegraph:

"Starmer abandons plans to cancel local elections"

Lying bar stewards.
Hospitality and retail have been hardest hit for job losses. Thats on Starmer and Reeves.
Q4 of 2025 saw a 46% increase in construction firms marked as critical compared to the year before.

Perhaps they could ask AI to run the country. It would do a better job than this bunch.

Thats big news!

Is Starmer not dizzy from all his u-turning yet?!

So true. What lies they tell.

Great news on the campaign for democracy working well done to them.

Bad luck ‘I never lose a fight’ Starmer.

Maybe the meaning of 'fight' has changed?!

Good. And of course it was just in time before they had to justify this anti-democratic reflex in court.

Maybe if they knew it was so bloody unsafe that it wouldn't stand up to scrutiny then they shouldn't have done it in the first place.

Just how much time and money have Labour ploughed into things that they never should have started in the first place now?

They are a bag of dicks. Thankfully the u-turn came in time for voters this May.

From Sky:

The government has abandoned their bid to delay the local elections to 30 councils in England.
Local Government Secretary Steve Reed has decided to "withdraw his decision" to postpone the elections, due to take place in May, "in the light of recent legal advice", according to a letter from the Government Legal Department shared by Nigel Farage.
It is a victory for Reform UK and Farage, who had taken the government to court in a bid to prevent the elections being delayed.
A two-day High Court hearing was due to start
on Thursday, but the government will now "seek to agree an order" with Reform UK to end its case, and the government "will agree to pay the claimant's costs of these proceedings".