Celia Stanley. #Tories OUT

Artist, embroiderer & Remainer. NoDMs. [email protected]

[Celia Stanley. #Tories OUT @celiamary3]

@JohnHeartWin @dobunni @BenGrahamUK It’s called bullying & it stinks.

[Celia Stanley. #Tories OUT @celiamary3]

@cwestonclark What is the DLS.

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@13thschizoidman @MichelleDewbs I’m in my 80s & need a handrail now. This guy is just enjoying himself taunting her. She’s not acting as if anyone owes her anything. She’s just asking him to move because her balance is poor. Most stairs have people using either side - there isn’t a basic etiquette.

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@MichelleDewbs & why does he keep repeating he’s recording her? So more people can hear what a nasty lowlife he is?!

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@MichelleDewbs I need handrails on stairs (in my 80s) & it amazes me how often someone is sitting on the steps & you have to ask them to move. Most do with good grace. This young lad is just being nasty though - & what does he gain from it. Sad to see such unpleasantness.

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@JeanHatchet That is amazing!

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@MichelleDewbs I never normally agree with you but on this topic you are 100% right!

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@tonyvaughanMP I always carry water but I think it’s unlikely I’d have 8 hours worth even in extreme temperatures. Why on earth couldn’t they get people off the motorway? Surely one lane could be reversed so people could get off at a previous junction.

[💚🤍💜Hoardosaurus 💚🤍💜 @coccinellanovem]

@DrNeilStone No.

It’s also a mystery to me as to why so many Labour MPs think hatcheting their own leader, who they pretended to support up until quite recently, & then standing like grinning idiots around a man parachuted in because none of them were fit to replace Starmer, is a good optic.

[DaddyNeedsCoffee 🇺🇦 🚴‍♂️ 🎨 🇪🇺 @DaddyCoffee73]

This is the bit where all the Downing Street staffers come out and tell us all the awful things Starmer did, affairs with interns, bullying and harassment, regular drunkenness, corruption… No? Anyone? No? Right, so we just got rid of the most decent PM in our lifetime.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Sir Keir Starmer won a massive majority, the British people voted for him and from day one the foreign owned British media together with the BBC did everything possible to overthrow that democratic choice and force him out.
He never lost an election and yet he's gone.

[Gordon Fielden @GordonFielden]

With Darren Jones now confirming that he will not be entering any leadership contest, I find myself, and I suspect many others, reflecting deeply upon our future within the Labour Party.

I did not join the Labour Party to witness a mandate, won through immense effort and entrusted to Sir Keir Starmer by the British electorate, quietly transferred to another individual through pressure, intrigue, and political calculation. Nor did I join in order to endorse a process which appears, at least to many ordinary members, to be drifting perilously close to a political coup rather than a democratic exercise.

Let me be perfectly clear. I do not wish to see Andy Burnham become Leader of the Labour Party, and I certainly do not wish to see him become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

That is not born of personal animosity. It is a matter of principle. Leadership should be earned, not assumed. Mandates should be won, not inherited. Legitimacy should flow upwards from the membership and the electorate, not downwards from a collection of parliamentarians, advisers, commentators, and newspaper columnists who appear increasingly determined to decide the outcome before the contest has even begun.

What troubles me most is the growing sense that some believe the membership should simply acquiesce and accept whatever arrangement is placed before them. Such an attitude betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what the Labour Party is. It does not belong to the Parliamentary Labour Party. It does not belong to newspaper editors. It does not belong to political factions. It belongs to its members.

Those members pay for the party. They campaign for it in all weathers. They knock on doors, deliver leaflets, defend its values, and devote countless hours of their lives to its success. They are not an inconvenience to be managed. They are the very foundation upon which the party stands.

If Andy Burnham genuinely believes he is the right person to lead Labour, then he should place that proposition before the membership and allow them to render their verdict. Let there be a contest conducted openly, honestly, and democratically. Let the 350,000 members exercise the rights afforded to them by the party's constitution. Let us discover whether the enthusiasm proclaimed by certain sections of the media and elements within Westminster truly extends beyond those circles and into the wider Labour movement.

For my part, I remain unconvinced. More importantly, I remain profoundly uneasy at the manner in which this entire affair is unfolding. The Labour Party has always prided itself on being a democratic movement. If that principle is to mean anything at all, then the members must be permitted to determine their own future free from coercion, manipulation, or prearranged outcomes.

Anything less would not merely diminish the authority of a future leader. It would represent a profound disservice to the very people upon whom the Labour Party ultimately depends.

[Celia Stanley. #Tories OUT @celiamary3]

@DeborahMeaden @wesstreeting @AndrewMarr9 Totally agree.

[Kered Ybretsae @Ybretsae]

@markaizatt @uk_sf_writer

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@justdavenow89 Noooooooooooooooo!

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

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@LyraValeSound @Patrici89225734 F

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

All this in two years. @Keir_Starmer.

Feel free to share.

[Celia Stanley. #Tories OUT @celiamary3]

@cliffc100 @PeteUK7 We have an excellent local company that I use for white goods but I had an old freezer in the garage & AO took it away. Very good service.

[Sam @SamCKx]

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated.

On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades.

After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced.

We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...