Would you vote for Angela Rayner?

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Sounds like she's throwing her hat in the ring.

She says she's paid off the tax she owes and is no longer under investigation.

This apparently means she's free to run - and is going to.

A comedian on TV last night put it into perspective. If the Labour Party were a family, they’d have been assigned a social worker by now.

So a Labour Boris Johnson?

Most people know that there was shady dealing about her tax affairs; apart from those who want to be deceived, those who are under 20 and those who should not be allowed to leave the house without their mother.

This. I heard Angela speak years ago and she was great. It's about time we had a fearless working class woman. She'd make mincemeat of Farage. We desperately need some one who can relate to the vast majority of people who aren't millionaires.

As for Wes he thinks it's OK to hand over all our NHS details to the US giant spy tech Palantir company run by Mosley, the grand son of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists.(The Tories handed Palantir the contact in Nov 2023.)

Meanwhile Wes is axing patient watchdogs and professional groups that oversee contracts in NHS England, replacing them with AI - a move which could hand yet more influence over health systems to firms like Palantir.

The good law project ( a UK non-profit organisation, focussed on government accountability) estimate that Wes has received £372,000 of donations from donors linked to private health between 2015 and 2025.

BTW Palantir has worked with US agency accused of separating children from their parents, wrongfully detaining thousands of US citizens. Trump has chosen this firm to build a central data of US citizens.

What’s annoying is that this poster clearly knew that’s what you meant but went to all the effort of writing this out anyway. Both things are true, obviously.

What do you mean "this poster knew"?
I was clarifying for someone who perhaps doesn't understand how it works, based on their post.
Don't imagine something extra.

what do you think social workers actually do….?!

I just can’t imagine her dealing with Trump.

Never

Sorry, what ???

Thank you! I'm pretty certain she's in the Labour Friends of Palestine, anyway.

Starmer was voted in as leader because Labour knew that Corbyn would never win an election.

He was never PM material just an unknown and 'acceptable face' of the Labour party.

He's not been able to make any significant changes (hello U-turns) because he is controlled by his left-wing back benches.
He's had to drop every possible change because he never had their support.

He has no philosophy.
He has no vision.
He talks in worn out cliches.
He is a technocrat performing day to day management , of a sort.
He is too weak to stand up to the far left.

If Labour choose a leftie now, they will definitely lose the next election.
If the hang on to KS they will lose.

Its win win if you're not a Labour supporter. But the pain of the far left for two more years will leave us in deeper shit than we are now.

Can you clarify? Do you think that they're worse than any other political party?

There's a thought!

https://www.declassifieduk.org/israel-lobby-funded-half-of-keir-starmers-cabinet/

A previous poster is correct and I think the journalists have a lot to answer for. Starmer is not alone having terrible local elections midway through.
To overreact and change leader now is pandering to Reform, adding to the chaos we have seen for so long in British politics. Wes, Angela and whoever else is considering a leadership contest needs to pipe down and get behind Starmer and do what they were elected to do.
The journalists are whipping everybody up into a frenzy and it is not needed. Chris Mason on the BBC is possibly the worst of them.

Angela Rayner has just been installed as favourite to be the next leader of the Labour Party

She's an embarrassment. No.

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I had no idea Angela Rayner was trans, I suppose you can't always tell...

If Labour actively want to lose the next election then go for it 😂

I don't understand how to read this? Can you explain it a bit please?

Interesting, thank you.
She's definitely got support. I had thought Streeting would be more popular.

But his majority at the last election was tiny. In terms of actual votes (you can look up the figures) it was hardly a success. He won seats, sure, but the turn out was low and many were protest votes at the Tories not an endorsement of Labour.

I can't recall such a dire mid term result in my life time.

Don't blame the media. Not everyone watches the BBC, goes online or reads newspapers.

I would not. Don’t trust her, don’t think she’s up to the job.