@BorisJohnson What you should be asking is
What’s happening to our country when we fight with the Nazi’s, not against them
What’s happening to our country when we are run by war criminals and paedophile adjacents
What’s happening to our country when we put foreign interests above our own
@JoStevensLabour Things the Labour Party will ignore
Genocide
Paedophilia
Corruption
Racism
Austerity
Cost of living crisis
Things the Labour Party get jumped up excited & comment about:
A spelling mistake
Tragic that they’re not intelligent enough to know why the country hates them.
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@PolitlcsUK@guardian Funny when the Labour ‘left’ wing candidate has the exact same policies as the Labour right wing candidate.
Nothing coming out from Burnham, other than some of the rhetoric, seems anywhere close to left wing.
Just another snake oil salesman being sent out to fool the public.
@lewis_goodall All he is doing is copying Zack. ngl Zack’s was better.
Don’t know if you’ve seen it.
Burnham is also not exactly left. Just left of Starmer - but so are most of the Tories.
This is vile, but because it’s targeted at Muslims, the Met Police don’t care.
Imagine if a pro-Palestine march had someone on stage mocking Orthodox Jewish women.
@ToryFibs@kevthecheff I don’t think the controlling faction want Burnham to win. I think they will sabotage it as much as they can. It either keeps Starmer alive or it makes them desperate to accept another right wing candidate/Wes, while being able to say we tried.
@DPJHodges Politics is about time.
Starmer has bought valuable time becos the PLP are inherently naive. He now has time to convince people, sweet talk them with a different story, & use time to dissipate their anger, neutralising them.
Burnham may come in but there may not be a challenge.
@lukeakehurst Under your faction, Labour has become a nest of vipers, engineered by a nest of vipers & led by a nest of vipers. Your corrupt, filthy, venomous politics has come round full circle.
Did you expect warm cuddles. STFU
@ToryFibs@eshelm Though only one of them holds a path to PM, and I wonder how much weight that will carry in the face of disenfranchisement with Labour and the Reform-saviour delusion.
I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election.
I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics.
Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic.
Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures.
However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people.
Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place.
I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that.
Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again.
ENDS
@breeallegretti The fact that the PM is briefing against his SOS- (let that sink in a little about how weak he is) indicates that there is truth in the rumours around Wes mounting a challenge.
@alexwickham If there is anyone more dire than Starmer, it’s Wes. Entire parliament knows that. Starmer knows that. They’re both playing a game
Is Wes trying to save Starmer or blindside him?
Or is it 2 over-confident twats thinking they can beat each other.
A third candidate will swim it
@ToryFibs Given where Labour is in the polls and public perception, any new leader, unless they’re like Zack, will need a good few years to turn it around as the Governing party.
Starmer digging his heels in & Labour looking at end of the year eats out of a roughly 2.5 year clock.
EXCL: Keir Starmer will not lead his party into the next general election, Labour-supporting unions have predicted, in an intervention that threatens to further destabilise PM after damaging few days.
The 11 Labour-affiliated unions – including Unite, Unison and GMB – are expected to issue joint statement today saying “at some stage” party will have to put plan in place to elect new leader.
In leaked copy, they said it was clear Labour “cannot continue on its current path”, and despite some progress it was not doing enough to deliver change people voted for at last election.
All details 👇
https://t.co/u67EXqeWmY