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Two Tories defected to them, and neither of them were standing for election this time, it was just a gesture against Sunak (although I do wish Labour had told them to fuck off).
And as for the S*n, they just put their weight behind whoever is going to win.
Labour and Starmer are far from perfect, but I think they will be far better, even if just from a competence and basic human decency standpoint.
It’s a tricky one, I want the Tories annihilated, but less so if it brings Reform in, shudder.
Not a website, but here’s a (low res, sorry) bingo card:
Peter Mandelson? I think he had a point in that Starmer has changed the party from unelectable with Corbyn (which sadly, they were) to a more than realistic prospect for a sensible alternative to the Tories.
You’re right of course that the Conservatives have utterly fucked the pooch (not to mention the country) but Starmer has nonetheless made a massive change in making the party palatable to many, many more people (not that I personally agree with quite a lot of his policies and policy reversals)
“humans - such as I am”
PMSL :-)
A party like Reform getting even a single seat is bad for the long-term prospects of this country.
Yeah, puts a real damper on seeing the Tories get the electoral shit kicked out of them to see those fucking Reform loons given access to the Commons.
130 too many, but I’ll take it!
Possible attempts here to undo some of the damage: Keir Starmer expected to push for Palestinian state in Labour manifesto [Guardian]
If they do, that’d be a pretty bold step, not what I was expecting tbh.
What an absolute muppet.
Even the BBC’s Chris Mason is having a pop at him for this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4nnz0w41kvo
Yes, that’s right - the prime minister left D-Day events early in order not to apologise for misleading claims about his opponents, only to apologise for leaving early in the first place.
Not sure if memes are allowed here, apologies if not…
And that’s what they have done apparently:
In a way - it’s part of the John Lewis group, in which all the staff are technically ‘Partners’ and the group is run in their behalf by a trust.
I don’t really know how it works, but there’s info on it here (which I’ll say now, I haven’t read!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Partnership?wprov=sfla1
Would have thought though that if any voting bloc would be apathetic, it’d be the Tory voters.
Cleared by HMRC now as well and the council.
Looks like the Tories using the police to smear an opponent. Again.
If Starmer says it’s not true and she says that Labour “haven’t communicated with me personally”, then where is she getting the info from?
Like, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Labour were trying to bar her but… is it at all possible that she’s read it in the Times and believed it without any official word?
I wouldn’t put it past them to simply make that part up to try and sow division in Labour ranks. Which it most certainly has done.
Labour’s best move here is to quickly clarify that she’s not banned and announce her as the candidate, if she wants it.
They bring that up regularly, but it’s a false equivalence. At the time of the independence vote it was absolutely true to claim that voting No was true best way to stay in the EU. There was no expectation, none, from anyone that Brexit was on the way. So, at the time, if Europe was the issue then voting to stay in the UK was the logical choice to make.
As for now - well, Swinney (and before him Sturgeon herself) was talking in terms of winning a majority of seats being a mandate for opening independence talks. That’s clearly nonsense, since a majority of seats is possible with a fairly small plurality of votes. And, it’s looking like it’s a moot point anyway, since the SNP seems to have taken a right good kicking this time round.
So Sturgeon is probably not bringing this up tonight because she’d look ridiculous to do so given the (apparent) results in Scotland tonight. If this was a referendum on independence as she and Swinney have suggested, then the result would appear to be a solid No.