Analysis finds the rise of “muscular unionism” is out of step with public opinion and there is a “striking ambivalence” to retaining the union in its current form

#UKPol #Wales #England #Scotland #NorthernIreland #RishiSunak #KeirStarmer #BorisJohnson #Labour #Tories #GreenParty #PlaidCymru #SNP #SinnFein #MuscularUnionism #Independence

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ippr-government-wales-brexit-scottish-b2406800.html

Starmer assistant among active corporate lobbyists working for shadow cabinet.

Staffer for #Labour leader has senior Grant Thornton role while Dodds and Reynolds have taken secondees from lobbyists.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-grant-thornton-weber-shandwick-corporate-lobbying/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=Labour_lobbyists

#UKPol #Politics #UK #Lobbying #KeirStarmer #GrantThornton

When Johnson was PM and lied at the Despatch Box, everyone groaned and rolled their eyes, but nothing happened. He was a known liar anyway .. it's only Boris being Boris, what do you expect, etc etc.

Sunak was supposed to be different, straightforward, business like, controlled, honest.

But today he was, shall we say, careless with the facts. And not for the first time ...

Seems he's closer to Johnson than first advertised.

https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1699389951329309047

#ukpolitics #rishisunak #keirstarmer #pmqs

#KeirStarmer rewarded #AngelaRayner for her disloyalty to Corbyn. He hates her actually.

[‘Little Green Bag’ plays]

Cut to:

Liz Kendall, fading fast, cradled by a weeping Keir Starmer: “I…I’m a socialist….Keir… I’m sorry… I’m so sorry”

#Labour #LabourParty
#UKpol #UKpolitics #KeirStarmer
#LizKendall #ShadowCabinet
#ReservoirDogs

The leader of the UK’s Opposition Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, has demoted Indian-origin shadow ministers Lisa Nandy and Preet Kaur Gill.

#UK #KeirStarmer #LisaNandy #PreetKaurGill #UKLabourParty #ShadowMinisters #IndianOrigin #WorldNews

https://www.ganganews.com/world/uk-labour-party-leader-demotes-indian-origin-mps/

Almost two-thirds of voters support funding further cost-of-living support through taxes on the wealthy, a new report has indicated, just days after the Labour Party ruled out Labour introducing a wealth tax if it wins the next election. 'The Labour Party declined to comment.'
https://labourlist.org/2023/08/cost-of-living-support-wealth-taxes-labour-policy-rachel-reeves/
#labourparty #keirstarmer #ukpolitics

An actual former Tory and banker says Labour needs to focus on increasing investment rather than trying to balance the books by restricting it. He and other economists urge the opposition to move away “from an out of date, economically and socially destructive approach towards a model which improves wellbeing, works in alignment with our environment, and achieves social justice”. Labour's response to them is just appalling & vacuous.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-policies-benefit-cuts-reeves-b2399406.html
#keirstarmer #labourparty #ukpolitics

@gpollara

They'll be a lot of people hoping that you are right on the first point & too pesimistic on the second.

As I've said before, it comes down to trust... do we trust #KeirStarmer & his shadow cabinet to do the right thing by their core voters in the aftermath of an election win... and how would they signal that?

And Labour's stepping back from Labour-like policies continues with #RachelReeves assurance to the Telegraph that she & #KeirStarmer are ruling out any #wealthtax if they win the #election

I know they need to neuter the right-wing press, but at some point they may realise that you can only take your core vote for granted for so long....

With a commitment to 'fiscal probity' & no wealth tax, what hope have Labour of reversing the effects of a decade to #Tory wrecking?

This does not bode well!

Starmer has taken more freebies than all Labour leaders since 1997 combined.

Labour leader’s 28 junkets include Spurs hospitality, two Coldplay concerts and a £380 dinner from Google at Davos.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-freebies-junkets-tottenham-hotspur-chelsea-coldplay-adele-google/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=newsie_social&utm_content=starmer_freebies

#UKPolitics #UK #Labour #KeirStarmer #Spurs #Coldplay #Google #Davos #Adele

Keir Starmer has taken more freebies than all Labour leaders since Tony Blair. Says it all about him that amongst these were tickets to see bloody Coldplay for god's sake. And twice.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-freebies-junkets-tottenham-hotspur-chelsea-coldplay-adele-google/
#keirstarmer #labourparty #ukpolitics

Pink News: The numbers don’t lie – Labour is woefully out of touch with its own voters on trans rights https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/08/21/labour-party-keir-starmer-trans-rights/ #LGBT #LGBTQ #Trans #Lesbian #2SLGBTQ #KeirStarmer #Labourparty #transrights #Politics #Opinion #Trans #News #UK

In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges (#ChrisHedges) & Joe #Saco portray “inverted totalitarianism” as a system where corporations have corrupted & subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.

In #Britain, inverted totalitarianism is being played out before our eyes as never before because the elites don’t care any more if we, the poles, know what they are doing to us!

The utterly corrupt @conservatives (#Tories) are bought and paid for by #Putin’s #Russia, #Xi’s #China, #binSalman & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour (#Labour) Party under #KeirStarmer is ‘in hoc’ to the #TrilateralCommission. Also, #Starmer has deliberately lost/ ejected so many of its former ~600k members (and their membership subs) that they’ve had to go, cap in hand, seeking donations from assorted corporate interests who will obviously want their ‘pound of flesh’ should #Labour come to power!

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is designed to entrench the inverted totalitarian system that is our so-called democracy! Nothing will change if #Labour replaces the Tories in the 2024 #GeneralElection - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at #UK #Election24:

1. #Tories *must* be destroyed electorally! This looks like a distinct possibility as they have do royally f#cked up pretty much everything! Nothing works in Britain anymore!
2. #Labour u/ ‘Sir’ Keir #KidStarver *cannot* be allowed to gain a #Blair-style landslide majority! #Starmer would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful #Left presence in Parliament to oppose his #NeoLiberal & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key - not just to wipe out the Tories but, crucially, to #StopStarmer

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/08/13/new-grassroots-stop-starmer-group-launches-with-video/

In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges (#ChrisHedges) & Joe #Saco portray “inverted totalitarianism” as a system where corporations have corrupted & subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.

In #Britain, inverted totalitarianism is being played out before our eyes as never before because the elites don’t care any more if we, the poles, know what they are doing to us!

The utterly corrupt @conservatives (#Tories) are bought and paid for by #Putin’s #Russia, #Xi’s #China, #binSalman & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour (#Labour) Party under #KeirStarmer is ‘in hoc’ to the #TrilateralCommission. Also, #Starmer has deliberately lost/ ejected so many of its former ~600k members (and their membership subs) that they’ve had to go, cap in hand, seeking donations from assorted corporate interests who will obviously want their ‘pound of flesh’ should #Labour come to power!

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is designed to entrench the inverted totalitarian system that is our so-called democracy! Nothing will change if #Labour replaces the Tories in the 2024 #GeneralElection - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at #UK #Election24:

1. #Tories *must* be destroyed electorally! This looks like a distinct possibility as they have do royally f#cked up pretty much everything! Nothing works in Britain anymore!
2. #Labour u/ ‘Sir’ Keir #KidStarver *cannot* be allowed to gain a #Blair-style landslide majority! #Starmer would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful #Left presence in Parliament to oppose his #NeoLiberal & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key

https://tactical.vote/all/

A very important article by Benjamin Pogrund.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/19/israel-apartheid-state-south-africa-netanyahu

(Originally published in Eng. language version of Ha'Aretz)

Perhaps the Jewish Chronicle, the Board of Deputies, Rachel Riley, and crucially, the UK Labour Party would care to comment?

Will they now concede that Israel IS an apartheid state?

#Israel
#Palestine
#Labour
#KeirStarmer

English Labour's former branch office manager in North Britain, Kezia Dugdale, is now indy-curious. Sir Keir will be furious.

#Scotland #indy #KeziaDugdale #KeirStarmer

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/18/my-view-on-scottish-independence-has-moved-says-kezia-dugdale?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Stewart Lee on the next prime minister of England...

"Keir Starmer is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing, but he isn’t accompanied by any sound and fury, just by some rustling and the smell of a Febreze car air freshener."

#StewartLee #KeirStarmer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/this-dying-sweary-tory-government-wants-to-drag-us-down-with-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

🎵 How is the best case scenario Keir Starmer? 🎵

:FaceExhaling: 😞

#UK #England #politics #UKPolitics #Labour #UKLabour #LabourParty #KeirStarmer #meme #memes #BoBurnham

The tory establishment have got #KeirStarmer exactly where they want him, trapped like a scared rabbit in the headlights of their corrupt broadcast and print media, boxed into a corner unable to oppose anything, because he's agreed with almost everything tory since lying his way into LOTO. (or abstained and kept his mouth shut)
A loyal establishment shill with no spine, who takes the majority of his instructions from the Israel lobby.
#StarmerOut
#LabourOut
#TorysOut
Work it out.
#ClassWar