GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@therightarticle

Quoting Dan Hind in @openDemocracy

“But a 2024 @UKLabour govt committed to the - status quo, which refuses to meet the ’s accumulating crises with a programme equal to it, will only aid a nativist and authoritarian that offers its own, hallucinatory solutions.

Our likely trajectory, absent fundamental reform, is one that discredits the centre-left in government and empowers the extreme right in opposition.

In these circumstances, our best option at the next general election must be a mobilisation that puts as many ecosocialists and sincere left Keynesians into Parliament as possible. Our priority should be to maximise the number of MPs willing to argue for replacing Thatcherism with a new green and democratic settlement.

Once we grasp that, the question then becomes technical: how?”

[..]

“If we can create the means for voters to communicate among ourselves in pursuit of our shared interests, if we then act with some fraction of the right’s energy and daring, with some fraction of their budget, we can begin to create a new economic and political settlement before the old impoverishes and demoralises even more of us. If we wait meekly for a landslide, we will get nothing, and deserve less”

opendemocracy.net/en/keir-star

#blair #thatcher #uk #right #starmer #labourlies #stopstarmer #redtory #ecosocialism #election2024

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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“Even Laura is concerned that has gone full-on

by John Shafthauer in @thecanaryuk

“Given the amount of time left between now and the next election, Labour doesn’t just have unbelievable odds of winning; it also has time to set out a progressive policy platform, and to use the absolute state of Tory Britain to sell it.

’s not doing that because he doesn’t want to. And the are worried for the same reason we all should be – namely that the right-wing gravy train is going to be stopping exclusively at Labour’s station for the next few years.”

thecanary.co/trending/2023/09/

#Kuenssberg #labour #tory #starmer #tories #stopstarmer #labourlies #labourracism #labourautocracy #labourcorruption

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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figures took £10,000 gifts from and ahead of tax U-turn: Keir ’s Labour Party backtracked on plan to hike to 10% after being showered with freebies”

by Adam Ramsay in @openDemocracy

“Labour’s shadow business secretary Jonathan Reynolds, his senior parliamentary assistant (who is his wife), and Keir Starmer’s political director all attended Glastonbury festival in June as guests of YouTube, which is owned by Google. Including accommodation and ‘hospitality’, Reynolds estimates his Glastonbury package for two was worth £3,377 – significantly more than the cost of two regular tickets, which were £335 each.

The next day, reports emerged that Labour had ditched its proposal to hike tax on digital businesses like Google.”


opendemocracy.net/en/labour-pa

#labour #Google #youtube #starmer #digitalservicestax #labourcorruption #labourlies #labourhypocrisy #LabourFiles #starmerlies #StarmerOut #stopstarmer #labourfriendsofapartheid #labourfriendsofbigoil #labourfriendsofbigbusiness #labourfriendsofzionism #labourracism #labourmisogyny #labourantisemitism #labourislamophobia

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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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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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@Skembear

In the same context, this ⤵️ extract is taken from “How the right took back control of Labour: The Starmer Project review”

by Terina Hine in @counterfireorg

’s close relationship with the state will be a revelation to many. During his tenure [as Director of Public Prosecutions] the [Crown Prosecution Service] acted ‘as a proxy’ (p.29) for the US State Department overseas, with Starmer himself becoming an envoy for the US Department of Justice.

He forged close links with US Attorney General, Eric Holder, at one point going way beyond his remit by promising to secure Gary ’s extradition – a young man who, while looking for evidence of UFOs, hacked into US military databases.

Eagleton describes Starmer’s ‘fury’ (p.31) with [former UK Prime Minister] Theresa May when, as Home Secretary, she stopped the extradition. In one heart-rending passage Eagleton quotes McKinnon’s mother after she met Starmer to plead her son’s case.

In it she tells of Starmer’s response to her pleas: ‘I’m feeling very uncomfortable,’ said Mr Starmer. ‘Speaking to you is making me feel very uncomfortable’ (p.30). His lack of interest and concern in her son could not have been more transparent.”

counterfire.org/article/how-th

#counterfire #starmer #us #cps #mckinnon #starmerlies #stopstarmer #labour #labourlies #redtories

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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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“[‘Sir’ Kid] ’s bank holiday for ‘Lionesses’ would’ve cost more than ending 2-child cap: ‘ leader’ wants to keep more than a million children hungry, but wanted bank holiday for England women’s football team [had they won] – which would have cost (lots) more”

via

skwawkbox.org/2023/08/20/starv

#starver #labour #SKWAWKBOX #starmer #stopstarmer #starmerlies #labourlies #LabourFiles #ItWasAScam #labourhierarchyofracism #labourfriendsofapartheid #labourfriendsodzionism #palestine #freepalestine

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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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GeriatricGardener · @GeriatricGardener
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Another reason, if any more are necessary, why it’s crucial to !

“The Return of Tony : The former British prime minister, who left Downing Street widely unpopular, is back in favor with his party, , which hopes his political skills can be an advantage as an election nears”

“Mr. Blair, now 70, is graying, thinner and his face a little more gaunt than when he left Downing Street in 2007. But he still effortlessly held the stage as he told the audience that Britain would be in safe hands if Mr. Starmer won the next election.

‘It was like the apostolic succession was being declared,’ said John 🤮 a political strategist and onetime aide to Mr. Blair, who added that ‘the chemistry between the two guys made you think they talk a lot and they understand each other.’”

via @NewYorkTimes

nytimes.com/2023/08/16/world/e

#stopstarmer #blair #labour #mcternan #tonyblair #iraq #warcriminal #austerity #classwar #nhsprivatisation #starmer #kidstarver #zionism #apartheid #labourracism #labourlies #labourstinks #ItWasAScam

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Mikewashere · @Mikewashere
81 followers · 1205 posts · Server independent-media.co.uk

He's made a 'promise' in the Guardian yestday, anyone believe him?

#labourlies

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Mikewashere · @Mikewashere
81 followers · 1205 posts · Server independent-media.co.uk

Here's the tory's new establishment pet, talking about socialism and the promises he made to get elected as LOTO.

#labourlies

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Mikewashere · @Mikewashere
80 followers · 1176 posts · Server independent-media.co.uk

We know he's extremely good at ditching pledges, but what exactly are 's next five missions, or is he still busy getting rid of the last lot?



#keirstarmer #missionman #labourlies #uturnkeith

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the trouble with mia :baner:🐝 · @fkamiah17
1961 followers · 29949 posts · Server toot.wales

Reply to Wes Streeting from Steve Peers, Professor of Human Rights Law:
"The fatal motion would NOT have blocked [HoC]. It would have blocked the *executive* from adopting *secondary* legislation that *overturns* what Parliament has already voted against. The result of Labour's abstention is a further restriction of protest rights."

#civilliberties #RightToProtest #ukpolitics #weakassbullshit #labourlies

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Mikewashere · @Mikewashere
69 followers · 848 posts · Server independent-media.co.uk

Labour have zero intentions of banning North Sea oil, they want their corporate donations, same as they take off the private health sector. Just a pack of , they've seen how many people turned to the

#labourlies #greens

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Bob Jamieson · @bobjmsn
879 followers · 14004 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Private Eye.
New Labour campaign advert.

#labourlies #labourrightwingcoup

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Bob Jamieson · @bobjmsn
874 followers · 13868 posts · Server mastodon.scot

Keir Starmer`s pledges: what value can be placed on his integrity?

#labourfiles #labourlies #labourrightwingcoup #SOSNHS

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Nolan Principles · @NolanPrinciples
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RT @Jc4pmTomski@twitter.com

'Historically High membership....'?!!!

@UKLabour@twitter.com now safe in the hands of the far-right, big business & israeli backed zionism.

Sir kieth's new New @UKLabour@twitter.com would make Josef Goebbels blush...





twitter.com/jreynoldsMP/status

🐦🔗: twitter.com/Jc4pmTomski/status

#labourlies #thelabourfiles #NeverForgiveNeverForget #ItWasAScam #CorbynWasRight

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Laird LannRosach 🥃 · @LannRosach
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Things you wont see in MSM. 👉More Scottish students than ever in Scotlands universities 👉Highest number of Scottish first degree students from deprived areas @ScotNational@twitter.com

RT @ProfJWR@twitter.com

More Scottish Students Than Ever In Scotland's Universities talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2023/

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ProfJWR/status/161

#labourlies #torylies #bbcsleekit #youyesyet

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