Life is a constant mix of fantastic - the garden a true haven, family are a joy - & deeply depressing.

UK politics go from bad to worse. The whole of our pulic infrastructure is screwed - by the deliberate actions of the wealthy ruling elite (who, with no sense of irony, accuse those who want to stop their destruction, of being an 'elite')

And increasingly we have 2 conservative parties: deeply conservative. 1 is called Conservative. 1 Labour.

But #StarmerIsATory

Deeply depressing

@emsquared Me neither. Could not vote for them. I'm a life long Labour supporter too, and it isn't me swho has changed. I'm just no longer welcome in the party (though they will demand my vote) because #StarmerIsATory - and a deeply undemocratic totalitarian.

My kids - 24 and 21 - both say they think he is in the wrong party, and both have given up their party membership.

Well done Keir. It's like the MAGA hatred for Hilary: the hatred for Corbyn is so irrational...

@emsquared it is by any view the most urgent critical and pressing agenda item politically - in the world. And yet neither party has any meaningful intention to do anything about it.

In fact it looks as though they are both absolutely determined to do nothing meaningful in care it upsets pay masters Murdoch and big oil.

#StarmerIsATory

@junesim63 I was accused of not really being anti-right here the other day because I insist #StarmerIsATory

And yet he really is. His policies are 100% right-wing populist. Plus he is as dishonest as #Boris - just more sincere

@Lassielmr it does. Well I could add a fair bit more but yes - that’s it in a nut shell

We know we will get serious pressure to vote #Labour over the next year. But I’d rather poke my eye out with a rusty home counties country estate than support that despicable man and his disgrace of a #Murdoch licking party. He is so #Tory! And yet the pressure and slurs will come

Let me get in there 1st: the Labour PLP gave us Boris. I not forgiving them for that

#StarmerIsATory

For those who think that #Starmer and the #Labour party are in any way left, consider this

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/24/neal-lawson-on-the-threat-of-expulsion-by-labour-they-are-making-sure-no-one-on-the-left-has-a-platform

I also - with no change of views - am no longer a fit to the Party I have supported since my teens

For sure getting elected is hard for the left: we don’t own the horrific media. But becoming #Tory to get elected is disgraceful.

And #StarmerIsATory

Keir Starmer has embarked on a policy drive at the National Policy Forum and by drive I mean driving out anything he thinks Tory voters won't like, from walking away from Sure Start, started by his idol Blair as he makes it clear he'll be even worse than he was, to getting the backs of trade unions up to the point they boycott dinner with him and amid all of that he has the nerve to comapre himself to Nye Bevan! #DamoRants #StarmerIsATory

https://youtu.be/P8_tJddq3yA

When even a member of the Labour Party National Executive Committee is deemed to be not a high enough quality candidate to stand as an MP, you know the factionalism in Labour has jumped the shark. Literally a guy who has vetted other candidates, cannot be one himself! Solidarity to Mish Rahman. #DamoRants #StarmerIsATory

https://youtu.be/UWjoI94i4zE

With Sir Kid Starver keeping the two-child limit, Labour is supporting Eugenics https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2023/07/18/with-sir-kid-starver-keeping-the-two-child-limit-labour-is-supporting-eugenics/ #SirKidStarmer #StarmerIsATory #StarmerScum #ToryScum #Inequality #Poverty #Eugenics

So sad to see the demise of @pollytoynbee as a serious journalist:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/17/labour-critics-record-keir-starmer-election-britain

Her joining with stupid & baseless attacks on Corbyn (there's plenty wrong with him that we could criticise: why get it so wrong & jump on the crass dishonest anti-left bandwagon?) and now she is pushing us (repeatedly) to just trust #KeirStarmer

Well: no. Been there before with a pretend #Labour leader. #Starmer is a liar and brutal, totalitarian fraud.

& #StarmerIsATory

So no. Piss off Polly.

Is Keir Starmer literally committed to changing anything from how the Tories run things? For all his attacks on them he doesn't seem to think they're doing anything wrong given he's keeping everything they are, not least one of the most evil poverty inducing assaults on working class families going, in the two child benefit cap. If he can't bring himself to end even this, you aren't voting the Tories out, you're just voting another one in. #DamoRants #StarmerIsATory

https://youtu.be/EVN5MQOJibc

@kemibadenoch But not to be outdone, #KeirStarmer has decided to further push the cruelty frenzy again:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jul/17/labour-mps-keir-starmer-tories-two-child-benefit-limit

It's almost as if he wasn't a #Labour leader at all, but just another appalling #Tory

Oh look at that. #StarmerIsATory

@therightarticle completely right. #StarmerIsATory so can we stop pretending that voting for him is better than voting for Rishi or Boris? In no meaningful way will it be better.

What a truly despicable, immoral, lying, Murdoch-ring-licking utter piece of shit that man really is.

Apart from that I’m sure he’s charming

#Labour

@RichardAshwell
And trickle down economics is just fine with him. And 'Law & Order' (ie locking up poor people and letting the wealthy do what they like); and toadying up to Murdoch (that one is just truly despicable); and screwing the NHS; and backing abusive corporates over their employees; etc. etc. etc.

#StarmerIsATory

@therightarticle

@DKRooke Let's not forget: that list is also true of #Starmer because #StarmerIsATory

@ORIOliver I have to revisit given the article this morning which kind of makes the point:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/30/labour-expelling-mp-activist-neal-lawson

He has kicked Ken Loach out too FFS!

#StarmerIsATory

@ORIOliver

- The Law and Order stuff. As Attorney General he imprisoned huge numbers of poor black kids. He still thinks that is the approach - racist and despicable though it is.

I think it's the totalitarianism which really galls me. The silencing and exclusion of anyone with vaguely left wing views.

So - on any reasonable measure the man is a #Tory. Just - like #TonyBlair before him - is in the wrong party.

So yes - sorry: but I have to insist - #StarmerIsATory - really and truly. /5

Tragic to see that #KeirStarmer speeding over - timed to just miss Rishi doing the same - to kiss the #Murdoch ass when he was in London for his birthday party recently.

The world is fucked in large part because of Murdoch. A #Labour leader must know this. So therefore he has just decided to be pragmatic and suck up to him - as #TonyBlair did in order to get into power. With such catastrophic results for British democracy, the economy, basic fairness and liberal values.

#StarmerIsATory

@blepharon The absolute shame of a #Labour leader who will not defend the basic right to protest...

#StarmerIsATory

@GeorgeCzernuszka Folks should remember that the PLP majority explicitly preferred a #Boris #Tory government than a #Corbyn one. Which is how we ended up where we did.

#Labour is a conservative and #Conservative party now. And #StarmerIsATory