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[Dundee mifflin]

Starmer walking round Brussels in a pair of adidas Gazelle.

He's soooo casual.

Should have opted for Inega bib and brace as well

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I know, its a bit of an easy and vague catch all, which doesn't probably do him total justice
If he (and his supporters) aren't 'that' - left of Starmer, why the alleged 'purge' of whatever 'they' are

Think I’ve mentioned this a few times when we come back to the Corbyn subject, but a guy I know from the militant days says Corbyn was always known amongst them as being ‘soft left’ and there was not a huge amount of love for him.
All relative isn’t it but to me he was never hard left

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I love it when a random ‘Corbyn eruption’ comes out of nowhere

 

[orchard]

Triggered hyperrational centrists go mental over Corbers again...

 

[Drico]

You can only hope that they're saying that so as not to give the Tories "anti-democracy, denying the will of the people" ammunition. Realistically though, we're going to be out for a generation.

Starmer knows the English electorate - at least under first-past-the-post rules - is very right-wing. He's simply trying to get in, get that shower out, and start the process of making things better. That's not the most exciting course right now, but it's probably electable. As regards the EU, there's no appetite to have the UK back until there is a solid, sustainable pro-EU majority in the country.

 

[orchard]

I love it when a random ‘Corbyn eruption’ comes out of nowhere

It's not nowhere mate, like Rory the Tory's jacked twitter for now 'cos he mentioned Corbs without calling him a big nasty racist and got loads of stick from 'centrists'.
What a time to be alive, hahaha

 

[davek]

Should have opted for Inega bib and brace as well

lol

 

[davek]

‘Slogans won’t solve this’: refugee charity staff on Labour’s new immigration policy

Keir Starmer ‘chose to mirror the gimmicks and divisive rhetoric employed by Tories’, Care4Calais says

www.theguardian.com

Starmer has broken silence on immigration policy but electoral risks are clear

While Labour aims for as grown-up a stance as possible, the Tories are attempting to paint them as trying to unpick Brexit

www.theguardian.com

I think Starmer's lot are going to have to rethink their strategy on immigration. They've taken a pounding today on this and although Brexit doesn't have the almighty potency it had back in 2019 it'll still swing a lot of voters against 'Labour' at the next election.

Just watch now as Starmer ditches this plan announced today and cobbles together something more gammon-like.

It's his M.O.

 

[Rita_Poon]

‘Slogans won’t solve this’: refugee charity staff on Labour’s new immigration policy

Keir Starmer ‘chose to mirror the gimmicks and divisive rhetoric employed by Tories’, Care4Calais says

www.theguardian.com

Starmer has broken silence on immigration policy but electoral risks are clear

While Labour aims for as grown-up a stance as possible, the Tories are attempting to paint them as trying to unpick Brexit

www.theguardian.com

I think Starmer's lot are going to have to rethink their strategy on immigration. They've taken a pounding today on this and although Brexit doesn't have the almighty potency it had back in 2019 it'll still swing a lot of voters against 'Labour' at the next election.

Just watch now as Starmer ditches this plan announced today and cobbles together something more gammon-like.

It's his M.O.

He was top council for the judiciary, how much more of a scum sucking knave could he have gotten? its where his sir-hood came from. old old old news.

 

[Blue 1]

Bonkers stuff. It was mentioned earlier that since Brexit the Tories have become like UKIP were, which is undoubtedly true, but there seems a reluctance to accept that under Corbyn Labour had a similar shift to the left, when he has spent his entire career being the left version of Farage.

George Galloway is the Farage of the left,.

 

[davek]

He was top council for the judiciary, how much more of a scum sucking knave could he have gotten? its where his sir-hood came from. old old old news.

He was the spy cops best friend rubber stamping the state allowing it to get away with their coppers raping while undercover; he was the beak who covered up the Charles de Menezes assassination by armed police; he was the man who told everyone "nothing to see here" over British Army torture chambers in Iraq.

This feller is toxic. He makes any Tory leader look like a liberal.

 

[degsy]

Starmer knows the English electorate - at least under first-past-the-post rules - is very right-wing. He's simply trying to get in, get that shower out, and start the process of making things better. That's not the most exciting course right now, but it's probably electable. As regards the EU, there's no appetite to have the UK back until there is a solid, sustainable pro-EU majority in the country.

This - then see what has happened say 1 year in...presuming he wins - and no other catastrophe moves the goal posts

 

[davek]

Starmer knows the English electorate - at least under first-past-the-post rules - is very right-wing. He's simply trying to get in, get that shower out, and start the process of making things better. That's not the most exciting course right now, but it's probably electable. As regards the EU, there's no appetite to have the UK back until there is a solid, sustainable pro-EU majority in the country.

Good Lord.

 

[COYBL25]

Should have opted for Inega bib and brace as well

Showing your age there

 

[Spadge Vernacular]

Come now. Corbyn regularly contributes to Morning Star, which last time I checked was created by the Communist Party. His Head of Strategy was a long-time advocate of communism (as indeed was Corbyn himself). McDonnell likewise was quite open about his communist leanings, and the Corbyn regime had ardent support from the likes of Andrew Murray and the Communist Party itself.

This marked a significant change for the party, which had always opposed communism and through the Attlee administration helped to create NATO in direct response to the communism in the USSR. To portray Corbyn as the true face of Labour is utterly absurd. He was the far left wing of the party.

Corbyn is a great way of identifying who is left of left IMO. Especially once they start getting all defensive.