In two to three years time, when Starmer and his government are no doubt deeply unpopular, I hope we in the media will ask ourselves: "Why were we so supine during the long 2024 election; why didn't we hold Labour properly to account while we could, and ask more probing questions, and explore their records, rather than give them such an easy ride?".
he did everything American centrists want to do to the left flank, and it’s worked out precisely as anyone with two brain cells to rub together expected
This is an incredible result.
McSweeney’s people spent years actively undermining Corbynism in order “to save the Labour Party”, only to throw away swathes of Greater Manchester, and fucking NEWCASTLE to a chaotic mix of liberals + Right and Left populists.
And they don’t even seem to realise what they’ve done. They’re in a collective state of denial. They still think a “big offer” or a “reset” or a “bold” King’s Speech will save them. And they’ve blocked their only life raft, their only small chance of deliverance, their most popular asset (according to consistent polls by multiple organisations) from re-entering the fray. Just an unbelievable story.
This version of the Labour Party is losing councils Corbyn held at his most unpopular and hasn't done quite as badly in London as people expected. And that's good, apparently.
The Labour leadership will soon consist of a narrow sect comprising of the Liz Kendall leadership campaign that won 4.5% of the vote, and a litany of mad bastards quoted in the Labour leaks describing anyone to the left of Gordon Brown as a “Trot”. Starmer has utterly fucked it
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he can win the next general election for Labour
"I think we can... it’s likely to be Labour versus Reform. An election where the defining question is, what is it to be British?"
EXCL:
Zack Polanski overheard speaking loudly on his phone on a train saying there's shit loads of new green party members.
And the Greens are going to win elections right across England and Wales in May.
https://t.co/0qbagSvIYp
a terrible thing about uk politics is that every moment of longed for schadenfreude is always tempered by the knowledge that there's yet another truly horrible cunt waiting in the wings
If were an agent of the state trying to ensure that a new left wing party didn't become any kind of threat, I would simply do everything in my power to prevent alliances with other parties and to exclude individuals or media organisations with large popular followings.
Paramount axed Colbert report because Trump didn’t like it, they give $1.5 billion to South Park, who- literally the next day- go after him 10x harder than Colbert ever has. Genius.