Labour isn't Working - Thread 42

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

We're gearing up for the Burnham budget. 😬

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

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That’s not really what’s happening, though

Mahmood suggested stuff which frankly I think she doesn’t believe in, and the party certainly doesn’t believe in, and AR is pushing back on that.

(It may be that SM believes what she’s saying, but she will counteract it by making a more official scheme which will allow everyone in)

Regardless, neither of them have any intention of amending policy on immigration - at least not in a way that reduces it.

I’m actually quite surprised that they would disagree over it. Because their underlying beliefs are probably exactly the same.

I think you are right Saphire.

Madeline Grant, always amusing:

https://archive.ph/neHJM

😂

The Burnham cartoons are getting better by the day.

Welcome 😊

Thank you. Much appreciated. 😊

I hope we're not faced with this

So true. Its having the opposite effect if anything.

Yep, you were right about Mahmood.

I ignored the initial red flags and believed her for a while. Not anymore.

They were taught to argue that it is a “racist narrative” to claim migrants “put strain on underfunded services” and that worries about “bogus” asylum seekers must be undermined, with a nod to Antonio Gramsci, the Communist theorist. Above all, they were told: “How accurate these stories are is less important than the power of their narrative.”

So everything people have said about the far left doing anything to control the narrative has been proven to be true in this one course alone

Oh this is fab. She's nailed Burnham and Davey is this piece.

Loved reading that, thank you. Had me giggling through my coffee break. 😂

Oh God, no thanks!

Yep. Jaw dropping stuff.

Can't they just all move to Cuba and live their communist dream over there? Leave us in peace.

Always remember their are still far left antisemitic politicians in the Labour Party. Yes they cleaned up their act to some extent but that was mostly the loud nutty ones. Many of the ones left very much supported and defended this guy:

https://x.com/JakeWSimons/status/2109953994135331019?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Many of the ones left very much supported and defended this guy:
Including Burnham, and Starmer once upon a time. My deep dislike of Keir Starmer started when he was in Corbyn's shadow cabinet.

Jeez. "Our friends from Hezbollah", "our friends from Hamas". 🤢🤢🤢

I have seen on various threads lately people talking about Jez's old mates getting kicked out of Labour or moving to different party. That Labour cleaned the party of his stench type comments or discussions. Just wanted to remind people the Labour party was not totally cleansed. Many of the ones that had an eye on the prize are actually still there.

Head of MI5 comments:

Sir Ken McCallum, the director-general of the Security Service, warned that revisiting the debate on the extent of Moscow’s influence over the 2016 vote risked empowering Russia.

His comments appeared to be a reference to the row that has engulfed Andy Burnham since he told the Rest is Politics podcast it was important to get “on the record” that Russia had interfered in the referendum.
The Prime Minister has since been forced to clarify his comments and insist that he respects the result of the referendum.

Sir Ken, speaking at the agency’s Thames House headquarters on Tuesday, said it was “up to us how far we allow our adversaries to divide us”.

He said: “I’m a little bit worried that [if] we all stay in this debate for another few days, the Russian trolls who didn’t appear to do all that much at various points over the years, they’ll be delighted they are front page news once again despite the comparative unimpressedness of what they do at all points along the journey.”

So basically he is saying that the PM is a complete muppet

He's having to tell the prime minister to stfu.

How embarrassing.

Well no Russians offered the Welsh free bottles of vodka to vote their way obviously 😁 😁

Brilliant, thanks 😀

You know what is doubly annoying about this?

There is some really poisonous rhetoric, genuine racist rhetoric, around. I bet they’re not even acknowledging that - never mind addressing it.

Because here we are, however many years after Gordon Brown and Gillian Duffy. I don’t understand how politics systematic manages to be about 20 years behind the rest of society.

There is some really poisonous rhetoric, genuine racist rhetoric, around. I bet they’re not even acknowledging that - never mind addressing it

Mahmood and Burnham both roundly condemned the nonce bonnets, tbf. So that's a start.

Who are you referring to here with 'nonce bonnets'?
Did Burnham or Mahmood use that term?

I don't think Ed Davey will survive through to the next election. Very few of his MPs have come out to support him.
I wonder if 'irrelevant' Kemi will be the last leader standing?

Looking forward to PMQs today.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/3a9a052f-4176-4596-a81f-2c4b17f94fd7?shareToken=38d9615f88df32d59aed035d797c2260