Keir Starmer

[Bruce Spanner]

37 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

I was just wondering about that. Presumably the local CLP will have already had a good idea of who they wanted for their candidate; y'know, someone who can stand against the Tories. They're not going to rally around this twat.

 

https://www.indy100.com/politics/natalie-elphicke-labour-defection-dover

 

They already have a candidate, Mike Tapp, she will not be standing.

 

Its performative.

[Jairzinho]

Nigel Farage could do a job.

[Arniepie]

bit of a meltdown on twitter

ideally no tory would join labour,but I cant see how this doesnt damage them 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

19 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

bit of a meltdown on twitter

ideally no tory would join labour,but I cant see how this doesnt damage them 

Someone has pointed out that, under Starmer, Natalie Elphicke is a Labour MP and Diane Abbott isn't ; and that anti-racists can draw their own conclusions.

[Arniepie]

2 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

Someone has pointed out that, under Starmer, Natalie Elphicke is a Labour MP and Diane Abbott isn't ; and that anti-racists can draw their own conclusions.

if she was actually standing,id agree,

like bruce says,its performative. He cant even keep his own mps happy.

[Megadrive Man]

One thing he has managed to keep his word on.

 

[Creator Supreme]

1 minute ago, Megadrive Man said:

One thing he has managed to keep his word on.

 

Protect our way of life.

 

Keeping the poor poor and making the rich richer. What a way of life!

 

I hope Labour are pulling a massive rope a dope here.

[Arniepie]

18 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

Protect our way of life.

 

Keeping the poor poor and making the rich richer. What a way of life!

 

I hope Labour are pulling a massive rope a dope here.

you have to hope so

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I haven’t really followed Elphicke’s career but I’ve seen her described as a “right wing” MP with it also being said that she’s a frequent migrant basher. 
 

What next for Starmer’s purple posse? This? 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

 

[Anubis]

20 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

I hope Labour are pulling a massive rope a dope here.

 

1 minute ago, Arniepie said:

you have to hope so

 

 

Its the hope that will kill you. 

[Section_31]

Ah, that changes things.

 

Elphicke, MP for Dover, has accepted that she will not be Labour’s candidate at the general election, when the constituency will have a new name because of boundary changes.

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I think that the whole Elphicke thing is embarrassing for both Sunak and Starmer. 
 

 

[Arniepie]

she apparently campaigned against free school meals aswell.

so has she left because,she thinks sunak isnt right wing enough?

 

[Bjornebye]

The pictures of Starmer shaking hands with her looking like a delighted coach signing a star player make me feel nauseous. Starmer had a chance there to be performative as well and lift her by the back of her jacket and plonk her right back on the Tory benches. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

In other news… 

 

I think we’ve seen enough now to drop the “let’s see what they do when in power” optimism? 
 

 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

https://www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/news/2024/may/labour-s-draft-new-deal-for-workers-now-unrecognisable

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

 

[Dicko]

And the last bastion of hope for any kind of even centre left alternative evaporates into thin air.

Other than the ERG lunatics and a few on the left of Labour the two party's are completely interchangeable.

[Anubis]

What are the odds on Jonathan Gullis being next to cross the aisle? 

[Mudface]

1 hour ago, Anubis said:

What are the odds on Jonathan Gullis being next to cross the aisle? 

 

Hearing Badenoch has been speaking to the Greens.

[Creator Supreme]

8 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

Hearing Badenoch has been speaking to the Greens.

I know this is a joke, but I've just been sick in my mouth.

[sir roger]

4 hours ago, Section_31 said:

Is she any relation to Michael? Genuine question.

 

 

 

No, slightly different spelling ( an e on the end )

Used to love Boon , a slightly more low-key Equaliser.

 

Elphicke is not standing as an mp, but like that other gobshite a week or so back they are both talking about working with Labour in the background on Housing and Health respectively. Just shoot me now.

 

 

[Mudface]

22 minutes ago, Creator Supreme said:

I know this is a joke, but I've just been sick in my mouth.

 

Sorry mate, I went way too far there.

[Bobby Hundreds]

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.