Yeah it was a very carefully crafted dogwhistle

Good one. I have many thoughts on the whole "My changed Labour Party is now back in the service of working people" line he was spouting for a while

OK I'm writing a thing on Starmer, as much for my own sanity as anything. Hit me up w something he's done that defines his character for you. My starter: being forced, kicking and screaming, to remove the Two Child Benefit Cap by his own backbenchers, and then claiming it as his proudest achievement

Of course Hodge was also involved in a child abuse scandal so she's a perfect choice to send onto TV to defend nonce-adjacent cronyism

What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza

Israeli genocide scholar Omer Bartov will have his book on Zionism and genocide translated into 9-10 languages, but not Hebrew. He even offered to translate it himself, but not a single Israeli publisher would go near it. Not even the ‘leftwing’ ones.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Starmer is happily stampeding the alternatives into power which is why it’s imperative to get rid of him

Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections

Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Arseholes like you despise the cause

It's an acceptable way to talk to arseholes like you

I've no doubt that for you it's all abstract. Sports team politics. But there are actual people out here fighting for their actual lives

And when a politician comes along who offers a glimmer of humanity, arseholes like you sneer about "populism"

We have had to fight tooth and nail for two decades to get him the basic support he needs. We won't always be around and we have zero faith that governments like this one will look after him when we're gone

We've raised him to adulthood over the last 20 years and it's not until this Labour government that the rhetoric has become explicitly Nazi - The Motherland cannot afford so many disabled people

Autism, learning difficulties, global developmental delay, speech and language disorder, sensory processing disorder. Big, strong and physically able-bodied but prone to episodes of physical violence to express his frustrations

He would like some work but needs expensive support. Why won’t he get the support if the idea is that work brings dignity and freedom

There is, in fact, a right answer. It's the same one that she gave to the hecklers.

Why is immigration going down a good thing

hey look, Wes Streeting is a massive racist liar

My disabled son would enjoy some work but he needs constant 2:1 support

Wasn’t even in the manifesto. The quite remarkable sudden enthusiasm weirdly seemed to begin at the same time as “Gosh aren’t all these disabled people expensive”

Have you not noticed the quite remarkable sudden enthusiasm for assisted dying, preferably with as few guardrails as possible

The Nazi disability policies are definitely in with a shout

Starmer will throw anyone under any bus for any reason to save himself, so it’s not weird at all

"The world is not a nice place which is why we were correct to send someone easily blackmailable to Washington. I am very smart, this is Real Politik"

Four face cybercrime charges over Croydon selection scandal A former councillor close to Tony Newman and Simon Hall and a friend of cabinet minister Steve Reed are among those due in court next month following a lengthy police investigation. By STEVEN DOWNE…

Four local Labour figures due in court next month on charges of conspiracy and computer misuse in relation to irregularities surrounding Labour’s 2023 candidate selection process for Croydon East.

Taken a lengthy police investigation ...
insidecroydon.com/2026/04/21/f...

Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford 1m Sir Keir Starmer tried to make his director of communications - who had publicly supported a paedophile - an ambassador, Olly Robbins revealed This is a problem for Starmer, to put it mildly. He was already under pressure over his eventual decision to elevate Matthew Doyle to the Lords It means that Keir Starmer attempted to appoint two men who had friendships with sex offenders as ambassadors. It comes back to the fundamental question of his judgement The fact that No 10 told Robbins not to inform Yvette Cooper that he was considering an ambassadorship for Doyle is really quite something. Presumably No 10 inferred that Cooper would not appove of Doyle's appointment

The buck stops with Starmer on this, just as it should have done with Savile but didn't for some reason

The entire 2024 intake was vetted by Mandelson, LOL

Yeah he finds it impossible to hide his contempt for her and non-white women in general