david stanley

Progressive , Republican, Humanist and Arsenal supporter. Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

By their words ye shall know them:
Wes Streeting: If there’s a leadership contest I will definitely be a candidate.
He’s not running.
Keir Starmer: If a leadership contest is triggered I will definitely be a candidate.
He’s not running.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff.

He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants.

Next?
https://t.co/8Cnj0hIu62

[Howard Beckett @HowardRBeckett]

Reasons for Starmer out are many

But never forget this one:

11th Oct’23

“🇮🇱 does have that right" to cut off water & power from Gaza 🇵🇸

Support for 🇮🇱 starving children

Netanyahu’s 🇮🇱 partner

Starmer is not a ‘decent man’

He belongs in The Hague.

[Aaron Bastani @AaronBastani]

Starmer blocked a heavily pregnant Faiza Shaheen from standing for parliament - after she was democratically selected - for entirely bullshit, factional reasons.

But he nearly cried after resigning so a woman’s magazine says he’s a great feminist hero 💩

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.

Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.

On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.

And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.

But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.

History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.

https://t.co/sGfebPkDXR

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Keir Starmer could have ended child poverty, homelessness and the grotesque levels of inequality in this country.

Instead, he abandoned those in need, destroyed our civil liberties and facilitated genocide in Gaza.

That is how this Prime Minister will be remembered - and that is the legacy of moral and political bankruptcy he leaves behind.

The crises in our society are not going away. Neither are we - and we will keep fighting for a more equal, peaceful and dignified society for all.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

BREAKING: Keir Starmer Resigns

Media sold Starmer as 'forensic, decent & capable' PM. He was NEVER that as we made clear yrs ago:

"Starmer is a LIAR in charge of a brutal, authoritarian, inhuman political machine but you wouldn't know about that if you read or watched UK media"

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Keir Starmer shed tears on resigning but never noticeably did so over the tens of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel with his complicity.

[Faiza Shaheen @faizashaheen]

Yes, expect a rewrite of history over the next few weeks…
Starmer’s regime stripped the soul out of the Labour Party. From authoritarianism and enabling genocide to pro-rich anti-working class policies, his downfall was entirely self-inflicted and deserved.
The thing is, some of his enablers and supporters will still hold senior positions under Burnham. And they assume we will forget.

[Cllr Martin Abrams @Martin_Abrams]

This is what worries me most about Andy Burnham.

Starmer was brought down because he surrounded himself with Labour Together apparatchiks from the right-wing of the Labour Party namely Morgan McSweeney, Steve Reed, Peter Mandelson and Josh Simons (pictured).

Andy Burnham's new bestie is Josh Simons former Director of Labour Together and good friend of Morgan McSweeney.

We can see exactly where this is going.

[Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 @MichaelRosenYes]

I can predict the future: there'll be a phase in the MSM-Westminster merry-go-round when Starmer will sit in TV studios being treated as a wise and humane sage, and the MSM will in effect be asking us to forget that they told us he was a weak, vascillating incompetent.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Let’s all get real. Keir Starmer’s support even in his own cabinet has collapsed & he’d be humiliated in a leadership election.Streeting has even less support & is in a puerile self promotion exercise. The priority now is the construction of an effective radical policy programme

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Josh Simons, one of Morgan McSweeney's hatchet men from Labour Together – the group that took Israel lobby money and secretly broke election laws to get Starmer into power – embraces Andy Burnham after giving up his seat for him.

Watch this space.

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Keir Starmer had one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern British history, won largely because the Conservatives had collapsed.

In just two years, he managed to burn through so much political capital that Labour had to bring in an external candidate, engineering an election to do so.

Itself not surprising given Starmer spent years purging the party and tightly controlling candidate selections, leaving Parliament packed with MPs chosen for loyalty to his project-of-nothing, rather than any sign of intelligence, imagination, independence or political talent.

The result is a governing party with little vision beyond misery.

His premiership will be remembered (if at all) for two things: more economic immiseration at home, as living standards stagnated and public services continued to crumble, and unwavering support abroad for Israel's genocidal war on Gaza, despite mounting international condemnation.

And remember, accounts on here called things like “LeninBalls6969” told you this would happen for nearly half-a-decade. And establishment journalists tried to convince you Starmer was not a hollow, politically talentless man. But a sensible grown-up.

This humiliation is not just on Starmer, but every useless commentator and establishment journalist who banged the drum for two wasted years.

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

This morning @bbclaurak show had Paul Ovenden as a guest

He LIED by saying that Starmer took over a Labour Party "infected with antisemitism". This was not true. It WAS true that many Labour members were expelled for speaking up for Palestinian rights, including many Jewish members

Kuenssberg did not make any objection to Ovenden's lies

Ovenden had to resign in 2025 for vile, racist text messages about Diane Abbott

Unsurprisingly this was not mentioned

[david stanley @davidcstanley]

Farewell Starmer - we won’t miss you

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer is officially set to resign as Prime Minister

Several media reports say he'll outline a resignation timetable on Monday after consulting with his wife and family today

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

💔💔No parent should ever have to live this.
📢No human should ever have to describe it.

🔴 This is one of the most devastating moments at the UN in years.Palestine’s Permanent Representative Riyad Mansour breaks down in tears while speaking about Dr. Alaa al-Najjar, a Palestinian pediatrician who lost 9 of her 10 children in an Israeli airstrike on her home in Gaza.
Their burned bodies were brought to the hospital where she works as an emergency doctor.
Mansour, struggling to speak through tears:
“This is a horror and trauma that the mind cannot comprehend… the heart cannot bear.”

[now.arsenal @now_arsenaI]

Gabriel Magalhaes fought back tears as he thanked every Arsenal fan for the support shown to him since his move to North London and also after the Champions League final.

We love you, Big Gabi. ❤️

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Keir Starmer tells Beth Rigby: "I cam into politics, late in life, only to work to improve the lives of millions of people.. thats what drives me every single day.. look at my record in politics.. I'm only motivated by serving.. that is my motivation"

[Shoaib M Khan @ShoaibMKhan]

Woman acquitted of sending persistent emails to cause annoyance to the PM, foreign minister and her MP about Gaza.

So, she sent emails about Gaza, so her local MP @peterkyle reported her to the police?

Imagine how much time and money was wasted on this.
https://t.co/a1sGeL7Nry