GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@ChrisMayLA6

Reality is: under the @conservatives has become an irrelevance within the context of global superpower power-playing!

It will take the UK a very long time to extricate itself from the wreckage of 14 years of Tory misrule - & I have * zero* confidence that a @UKLabour government under ‘Sir’ Keir () is up to the job of ‘building back better’!

To the contrary, I fear they will just manage our decline slightly more effectively but just as corruptly!

#brexit #britain #kidstarver #starmer #ToryCorruption #ToriesUnfitToGovern #Sunak #johnson #May #Truss #cameron #austerity

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@Gillinger @therightarticle @openDemocracy @UKLabour

Completely agree!

In my view, barring any major political calamity for , they look likely to win the 2024 election!

What gives me more of a “we are doomed” feeling is not just having a government led by an authoritarian liar & charlatan like , but a government led by ‘Sir’ Keir with the kind of huge -size super-majority many of the polls are currently predicting!

Rhetorical question: will it be possible to limit Starmer’s parliamentary majority - even to the point of a hung Parliament - so that his worst power-mad instincts will be severely constrained?

#labour #kidstarver #sturmer #blair

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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Along with & (among others), with full-throated encouragement from @guardian Editor-in-Chief Kath , Rafael essentially led the ’s five-year-long assault on & his leadership team - thereby legitimising the ’s slur and giving the press & state media “permission” to jump on the “destroy Corbyn” bandwagon!

Whilst they won’t admit it, et al & the Guardian fundamentally betrayed what remains of democracy & probably destroyed any future possibility of a government in Britain!

Having helped return both ’s & ’s to power in 2017 & 2019, Behr is today ⤵️ rightly savaging the & for having “no new ideas and nothing to say about the problems facing Britain, most of which are the product of choices made by the party he leads. This is the point of no return, when Conservatives realise that renewal in office is not possible, and that they need to be in opposition almost as much as the country wants them out of government.”

Problem is: after three-years of giving @UKLabour “leader” Sir & his Shadow Cabinet of nondescripts & no-hopers a “free pass”, the Guardian is also belatedly waking up to the fact that the -influenced ‘heart’ of thinking is suffused with such vapidity as to make it utterly clueless in the face of the crises we all now face!

The country is at an historical crossroads heading into the 2024 general election yet, all the evidence available strongly suggests that neither the party currently in government nor the opposition (& potentially the next party in government) have got the “nous” or the “balls” to do what they both know *must* be done for the sake of the country and the future of the planet!

“The Tory mission has failed: British people don’t want a smaller state”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#freedland #toynbee #viner #Behr #guardian #corbyn #zionistlobby #ItWasAScam #fakeantisemitism #farright #bbc #british #democraticsocialist #May #johnson #tories #Sunak #kidstarver #blairite #mandelson #labour

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@AlexGallagher

Not a very high bar of “leadership” to exceed though, is it?

When Nesrine Malik (in @guardian) describes the system that spewed as one “that indulges useless, morally vacuous politicians as long as they don’t threaten to reshape the economy or political culture” she’s also describing one that is indulging Keir ()

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#johnson #kidstarver #starmer #labourfriendsofapartheid #labourfriendsofbigoil #labourfriendsofbigbusiness #labourfriendsofmurdoch #stopstarmer

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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Just read Rafael ’s piece in today’s @guardian: “The Tories are suffering from Dorries syndrome: paranoia steeped in denial”

Behr stood, & still stands (alongside Polly ), at the forefront of those who betrayed & who now lionise the !

He’s describing a party that has run out of ideas, is drowning in its fear of admitting its mistakes & is finding “comfort in pursuit of traitors, scapegoats and in conspiracy theory”.

Yet when you read this ⤵️ paragraph, you’d be hard pressed to know which political party he was describing: @conservatives or @UKLabour - which also has no serious ideas of how to get Britain out of the mess that we’re in!

“A party that dares not incriminate markets in its analysis of unfairness, and that refuses to grasp the levers of tax-and-spend to engineer equal opportunities, looks instead to grievance rooted in culture and identity. That is the appeal of “anti-woke” campaigns.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#Behr #guardian #toynbee #corbyn #starmer #kidstarver #tory #tories #labour #stopstarmer #stoplabour #ToriesOut #labourfriendsofapartheid #labourfriendsofbigbusiness #labourfriendsofpolluters #labourfriendsofbigoil #labourfriendsofbigpharna

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@UKLabour Party’s Love Letter to the Greedy Rich”

via Another Angry Voice

“In an interview with the (that’s hidden behind their paywall), ’s shadow chancellor Rachel has promised not to combat Britain’s appalling inequalities by raising taxes on the greedy rich.

Research has shown that a ‘Wealth Tax’ on Britain’s top 1% of richest households could raise up to £130 billion a year without even affecting anyone with assets below £3.4 million.

Rachel Reeves is demonstrating her fealty to the tiny mega-rich minority by making it absolutely clear that she’s got no intention of applying such a tax.”

open.substack.com/pub/anothera

#torygraph #labour #reeves #redtory #starmer #kidstarver #labourlies #LabourFiles #labourfriendsofisrael

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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The @guardian undermined democracy by stabbing in the back! Now it’s playing grubby by yet again giving “Keir The Authoritarian ” a free pass! He hasn’t “successfully cornered the market in unthreatening banality” Rafael ! He’s mastered the art of being a ruthless, lying !

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#corbyn #sycophant #kidstarver #Behr #neoliberal #quisling #starmer #starmerlies #stopstarmer #labour #labourracism #labourmisogyny #labourislamophobia #labourhierarchyofracism #LabourFiles #guardian

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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“After years of abandoned pledges under Keir ’s @UKLabour Party leadership, the party is now watering down its promises to strengthen employment rights. Labour is siding with employers over workers.”

via Karl Hansen in @jacobinbot

“Labour has consistently enjoyed twenty-point-plus leads in the opinion polls. The Party is utterly exhausted and despised after thirteen years of austerity, a botched pandemic response, repeated scandals, and the worst cost-of-living crisis in living memory.

In this context, ditching workers’ rights policies would be, at best, a staggering act of political cowardice. At worst, it would demonstrate that Labour has sided with exploitative employers and will do little to address the poverty, insecurity, and inequality that blight the nation. We await confirmation that this is the trajectory — but the latest evidence is bleak indeed.”

jacobin.com/2023/08/keir-starm

#starmer #jacobin #conservative #labourlies #labourcowardice #labourhierarchyofracism #starmerlies #kidstarver #apartheidappeaser #apartheidenabler #amazon #gigeconomy #workersrights

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@therightarticle

“Just as abandoned the most progressive policies he embraced during the @UKLabour leadership campaign as soon as he won, he will further moderate even his current modest proposals as soon as he forms a government”

via Jonathan K Cook in @middleeasteye

middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-l

#starmer #labour #kidstarver #labourlies #starmerlies #stopstarmer

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@therightarticle

When @nesrinemalik (Nesrine ) describes the system that spewed as one “that indulges useless, morally vacuous politicians as long as they don’t threaten to reshape the economy or political culture” she’s also describing one that is indulging the useless, morally vacuous Keir ()

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#Malik #johnson #kidstarver #starmer

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@therightarticle Lest we forget: “During the crucial years of his political formation, after a fleeting association with Pabloite Trotskyism and a longer stint at the campaign group Liberty, Keir () worked as a servant of the British security state, domestic & international”

via Oliver in @novaramedia

novaramedia.com/2021/03/02/kei

#kidstarver #starmer #eagleton

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@therightarticle Lest we forget: “[Oliver] ’s account of Keir () [The Starmer Project : A Journey to the Right] shows him, convincingly and at length, to be an unscrupulous, dishonest, and thin-skinned individual. His record as head of the Crown Prosecution Service () indicates that he should not be trusted with state power” via @jvoicelabour

jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/ar

#eagleton #kidstarver #starmer #cps

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges () & Joe 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 , 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 () are bought and paid for by ’s , ’s , & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour () Party under is ‘in hoc’ to the . Also, 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 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 replaces the Tories in the 2024 - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at :

1. *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. u/ ‘Sir’ Keir *cannot* be allowed to gain a -style landslide majority! would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful presence in Parliament to oppose his & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key - not just to wipe out the Tories but, crucially, to

skwawkbox.org/2023/08/13/new-g

#chrishedges #saco #britain #tories #putin #russia #xi #china #binSalman #labour #keirstarmer #Trilateralcommission #starmer #generalelection #uk #election24 #kidstarver #blair #left #neoliberal #stopstarmer

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges () & Joe 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 , 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 () are bought and paid for by ’s , ’s , & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour () Party under is ‘in hoc’ to the . Also, 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 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 replaces the Tories in the 2024 - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at :

1. *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. u/ ‘Sir’ Keir *cannot* be allowed to gain a -style landslide majority! would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful presence in Parliament to oppose his & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key

tactical.vote/all/

#chrishedges #saco #britain #tories #putin #russia #xi #china #binSalman #labour #keirstarmer #Trilateralcommission #starmer #generalelection #uk #election24 #kidstarver #blair #left #neoliberal

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@therightarticle After observing “Sir” for a couple of years, imo we can only describe him as follows:

Duplicitous
Narcissistic
Zionist/ Racist
Coward
Authoritarian
Autocrat
Quisling
Treacherous
Self-interested
Calculating political schemer
Ambitious opportunist
Conservative
NeoLiberal

#kidstarver

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@UKLabour members told they would be reported to party’s London region if they ask questions about massive safeguarding issues surrounding right-winger’s ‘most serious’ child-rape image collection”

[..]

“Paedophile former Hackney councillor Thomas Dewey, who received a slap on the wrist from a court despite being found guilty of possessing the most serious category of images showing rape and abuse of children, was allowed to stand in local elections by the party despite having already been arrested in connection with the possession of images in a category that can include bestiality and serious genital harm.”

via

skwawkbox.org/2023/08/19/membe

#uk #labour #SKWAWKBOX #starmer #kidstarver #stopstarmer #neverlabour #labourracism #labourmisogyny #labourautocracy

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Hazel · @HazelWood
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