"The real tragedy here is that the ‘change’ that Keir Starmer promises is no change at all, all he offers is the same corporate private sector bullshit repackaged and rebranded and he will do nothing to change the dysfunctional structures of Westminster upon which he depends as much as Sunak for the near absolute power both of them crave."
"Starmer... said he was delighted with [Natalie Elphicke's] defection, telling reporters yesterday it showed his party was "the party of the national interest"."
"Starmer’s spokesperson defended the decision to admit her to the party. “It’s a sign of the progress that we’ve made that people recognise that on some of the key challenges facing the country, the Tories have failed,” he said."
“Here is someone who is willing to make the significant step of switching across to Keir Starmer’s changed Labour party and that’s something we’re very happy to see.”
And the entire actual left shrugs its shoulders, because what else was anyone expecting at this point?
I really hope she goes through with her threat to withhold funding.
Please, please, for fuck's sake - don't vote Labour.
"The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party, and some fairly unpleasant Free Palestine activists as well."
Peter Mandelson to Matt Chorley on Times Radio, yesterday
Labour supporters: are you really going to vote for a "patriotic" British nationalist party that's in lock step with the apartheid genocidal régime of Israel?
It's the Labour Party that's in close supportive dialogue with and being subsidised by Israel's government. It's the Labour Party that cynically manipulated parliamentary procedure to block a ceasefire motion by the SNP. Starmer is on record on video justifying collective punishment for the residents of Gaza.
Labour is not in government in the UK but Starmer if elected PM will continue to supply Israel with weapons.
The number of frontbench Liebour MPs tweeting pictures of Gaza or shots of huge ceasefire demonstrations and calling for a ceasefire and, in at least one case, having the front to call for an arms embargo, is truly vomit-inducing.
Don't worry, she's going to be drawing on "new economic thinking" when she gets in. I guess fundamentalist free market capitalism is new.
If you compare it to Adam fucking Smith.
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