Doom Owl

Wise enough to hate politicians - the whole fucking lot of them 🦉

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@jacobherbstman @gtconway3d This is why we sing 🎶 Fuck VARrrrrrr, Fuck VARrrr, Fuck VaR, Fuck VAR, Fuck VARrrrrrr🎶

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Why is this Count Binface video better than mine when I've got £5 million?

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@etihwv @PodSaveAmerica @campbellclaret 100% agree

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@anon_opin Use the water in the gravy innit

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@adamboultonTABB @SkyNews @TimesRadio Why would you write this in American English? Did you even write this?

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@PippaCrerar @jessicaelgot But not the members eh

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@lewis_goodall How do we trust a man that undermined and plotting against his colleagues for a year, engineered a by-election and then threatened the sitting PM into resigning, while ignoring the party members and strolling in to number 10 without any form of scrutiny or a plan

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The MP at the centre of Andy Burnham's Westminster comeback reveals she's been planning it with him for a year.

Former transport secretary Louise Haigh tells @BBCNickRobinson's Political Thinking that Burnham's team has a plan for the first 100 days.

Listen here: https://t.co/EDeDdawT47

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@KarlTurnerMP @Keir_Starmer Vote Labour and support undermining and plotting against colleagues for a year, engineering a by-election and then threatening the sitting PM into resigning, while ignoring the party members and strolling in to number 10 without any form of scrutiny or a plan

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@SteveReedMP Why? He’s shown that politics works best when you undermine and plot against colleagues for a year, engineer a by-election and then threaten the sitting PM into resigning, while ignoring the party members and strolling in to number 10 without any form of scrutiny or a plan

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@PreetKGillMP He’s shown that politics works best when you undermine and plot against colleagues for a year, engineer a by-election and then threaten the sitting PM into resigning, while ignoring the party members and strolling in to number 10 without any form of scrutiny or a plan

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@LucyRigby @andyburnham @UKLabour How’s he doing bringing together labour members excluded from this process?

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@DanGreenJourno Were the members consulted? no - it’s a fucking coup

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@PippaCrerar @kiranstacey *Sir Keir Starmer

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@GordonFielden Well said - they don’t give a shit, it’s why both my husband and I resigned our memberships

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@connor_naismith @andyburnham What a load of airy bollocks

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@MichaelPayneUK @andyburnham This is like watching an own goal in super slow motion

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Thanks for replying Alison and for your warmth towards Keir Starmer. But, I'm afraid I don't care what anybody says about Andy Burnham; I was witness to how he went about this. It's inherently dishonest. He and Louise Haigh - according to her - have been planning this coup for a year, 1 year after he won the GM mayoralty 3rd term. He promised those voters he was done with Westminster and he wanted to complete his third term more than anything else. So they gave him their vote. Then he walked out on them, and he'd known for a year that he was going to do it. but they didn't know.

In Jan this year and before Makerfield he promised to support the govt and not undermine it. A blatant lie, because he'd known for 6 months what he was going to do. The NEC had wisdom in Jan. But not in the Makerfield by-election. How many MPs did Andy Burnham try to persuade to give up their seats? 26, I heard, before Josh Simons agreed - for a very sweet deal. Then Andy Burnham trashed Labour and the govt and by default Keir Starmer - and used Labour resources to do it. He repeatedly said he wasn't interested in ousting Keir Starmer, that he was dedicated to Makerfield. Another blatant lie.

He started amassing MP support. He got to 97 pretty quickly, but Keir Starmer had a 150 at that point. Then Louise Haigh told him that if he didn't resign the contest would be "brutal". And the campaign to put pressure on MPs ramped up exponentially. The betrayal was mind-boggling. MPs who owed their status in the cabinet to Keir Starmer stabbed him in the back. Others who owed their jobs as MPs to the fact that he won a landslide in 2024 did the same.

Being the decent man that he is, Keir Starmer didn't want to subject the Labour Party to internecine war. So the bullies won. He resigned. And we've lost the best PM this country has had for decades. What makes it even more revolting is that Burnham is now using Keir Starmer's achievements and trying to make out like they're his own, or at his own ideas.

I think it's clear that not all MPs nominating him are doing so because they believe in him. They're doing so because they don't want Labour to fall apart.

Keir Starmer has been a Prime Minister of exceptional standing who did all the hard and difficult work of turning the country round after inheriting a stinking mess from the Tories, taking all the body blows, never flinching, never giving up, never losing his nerve or commitment to the job and the country. He has elevated the UK internationally beyond our wildest dreams, and been the driving force behind European solidarity and security, liked, respect and admired by all.

And he's been kicked out by a plotter and a backstabber who makes and breaks promises as easily as you can switch a light on and off. Who lies with impunity. Who cost the taxpayer about £5million.

I'm not just angry. It's been traumatising, for me and for many here. And nobody is listening to us. We've been completely disenfranchised.

If you've got to the end of this, thank you for persisting.

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@JenniferJS_ @pippip343 @Alison_S_Taylor @Keir_Starmer An excellent post