Labour Isn't Working - Thread 30

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

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I saw that clip played on TV. What a hypocrite, but delicious irony.
Hoist by his own petard has never been so apt.

I don't remember the Labour lot calling for Johnson to stay in post for 'stability'.

What stability? lol.

From Aubrey Allegretti, Chief Political Correspondent for The Times on X:

"Here are the “lines to take” given to Labour MPs for Keir Starmer’s statement.

Going all guns blazing on blaming the Foreign Office

• For a 63 week wait between Mandelson being granted DV status to the PM being told by about the UKSV recommendation
• “An appalling and inexplicable lack of judgement”

- Quoting an Epstein abuse victim to attack Mandelson”"

Kemi currently doing cold rage very well...

Brilliant from Kemi 👏

Starner is a dithering fool. Stuttering and furiously leaving through his folder.

Now Davey sticking the knife in.

Decided to listen, go on Diane

Brilliant.

Ik! "MORE" for Diane from the opposition 😁

I just went yeh! Brilliant from DA

Why didn’t he ask indeed

So why did he make the unequivocal statement about due process and vetting being thorough when he didn’t know?

That was a lie.

When I find myself agreeing with and cheering on Diane Abbot…WTF

Lee Anderson kicked out by the Speaker for saying Starmer is lying, refusing to withdraw it, and saying ‘that man couldn’t lie straight in bed!’ 😁

😂😂

He only said what we all think. Good on him.

do we think Angela Rayner will be next PM ?

Im just catching up with this.

Diane Abbott asking the question we all want the answer to.

She was great, but so was John McDonald. He said SKS owed his position to PM and MMS, and that is why they got the positions that they did.

DA can really deliver a great line, she held the house for sure.

Yep, Starmer is a post turtle:

"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he sure as hell isn't goin' anywhere, and you just wonder what prick put him there in the first place."

I think he and the attorney genaral were positioned years ago.

Zarah Sultana just kicked out for calling Starmer a bare-faced liar (can't argue with that), refused to go so it went to a vote, which was unanimous.

Finished now.

Tomorrow’s Matt cartoon:

Love the Matt, and also 'post turtle' 👌😁

I can't disagree with either of the MPs who called Starmer a liar. Labour MPs looked stoney faced and left quickly. Bollard didn't have much support behind him.

That was awful for Starmer. Good.

Yeh the last question and his answer just showed he didn’t convince many of much.

After that I think he’ll go if Labour MPs decide to oust him at some point.

I’m glad he struggled, after what he’s held others to.

No idea. Whoever is popular with Labour activists will be awful for the country though, that I'm sure of.

I wish I could see beyond the hypocrisy and form a reasoned judgment, but I just can't 😞
How anyone can stand in the HoC and say what he did after his attack on BJ for the same thing is utterly beyond me.
I honestly think if Labour had been less judgmental and supercilious in opposition, I might have been more reasonable in my opinions. But I can't forget Yvette Cooper's endless concern about everything (she's learning now that concern doesn't solve problems), SKS's superiority and Angela Rayner's endless carping about everything and everyone. They thought they would be better, and so, unfortunately, did a lot of voters.
I wonder how long Labour fans will be able to trot out the 'The Tories Were Worse' response to everything?

It’s exactly what I think, he’s a liar, and incompetent. It’s not a or b, it’s both. Isn’t it a question of whether it’s Burnham or Streeting next?

i can’t see Rayner winning overall, some people felt sorry for her over her tax affairs / but let’s face it at best she was a bit foolish, her getting the top job seems unlikely to me, being pitied isn’t a strong position.

The question is whether Streeting is too tarnished by association and whether he’ll do a deal with AB or they’ll go head to head…to my mind anyway.

I listened to TRIP and I do reckon AC thinks KS is toast - no time line but the lady bracknell’s handbag attack is conclusive and clear AC thinks so too, that KS is a shit people manager.

Yeah he's a lame duck now. Its when, not if.

Everything I've read this week suggested that Labour MPs were OK with Starmer staying.
They didn't look happy to me!