Sickbags all round 🤮🤮🤮 as yet another opportunist thinks that an overproduced #podcast by a muppet who shot her own foot is some sort of a remedy for political crisis. The UK's so-called #LabourParty is fooked, with or without Rayner.
One thing is certain […]
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#Starmer
#Rayner
Harriet Harman is complaining calling Rayner's speech "an unhelpful interpretation".
Let's jump in the TARDIS and go back 10 years and read Harriet's...intervention.
www.harrietharman.org/statement_re...
#Rayner
#WeatherCock
You will be waiting a long time, lads...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/left...
#Rayner
Of course, she would be saying none of this if she hadn't messed up her tax arrangements and was still in the cabinet.
The definition of opportunist...
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...
Take a look at this front page of the @dailytelegraphnews.bsky.social – The cartoon by #Matt seems like just a footnote at the bottom. A very funny one, certainly. But see how it effectively supports the main article about #KeirStarmer #Rayner #UK #Migrant - The #art of an #editorial #cartoon
With regards to the next #Labour leader, you may be right with your assumption, but #Streeting would be as bad as #Starmer, likely worse & #Rayner who used to be a working class hero, sold her soul to become #Tory lite.
Can she be trusted? She sold out for money rather than have l/w principles.
Some signs of life from #Rayner & #CliveLewis. But #BlueLabour has killed the party. There will - & should - be defections to the #Greens.
Looking at Angela Rayner speech she gave in a Pub (Nice touch) where she put boot into #KeirStarmer & #RachelReeves. I can only assume #Rayner lawyers have got #HMRC to agree innocent mistakes were made over tax but no actual crminal wrong doing was done.
#r4today #pmqs #PoliticsLive #wato
100% THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👇
The unions simply MUST disassociate themselves from #Labour. They're no longer on the side of the workers & #Rayner, once a darling of the #left, clearly has been bought.
If the unions want to support a #LeftWing caring party, then take a look at the #Greens.
How unusual, no other country has a "Minister of the night" and yet, their nightlife is far superior to the overpriced crap that exists in parts of the UK.
Maybe the fact that most people are f-ing skint has something to do with it, #Rayner.
Angela #Rayner said "remember our values" about a #Labour party that has moved so far to the #right, you can barely tell them apart from the #Tories.
Yes, we DO remember your values, thats's why you're tanking in the polls & many people have moved on to the #GreenParty.
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It would, but #Rayner, I once thought was a 'true working class hero' STILL supported #Starmer when he moved the #Labour party to the #right, did nothing over high bills & cost of living, cosied up to the wealthy & big businesses & continued to support the genocide in #Gaza.
She sold her soul.
Nothing is happening until May & even then #KeirStarmer might survive. Angela #Rayner might end up under #HMRC bus, Andy #Burnham is still the exiled prince across the water with no way back. #Streeting is #Mandelson creature. #Starmer could get out of this yet.
#Newsnight #r4today
The biggest positive for #Starmer right now is that his current successor is the Liz Truss of the #Labour party in the form of #Rayner. And if that happens, we're royally stuffed just like we were with Truss.
This morning's odds on #Starmer's successor as
leader of the UK #LabourParty puts #Rayner in the lead. www.oddschecker.com/politics/british-politic...
And it may all kick off on Monday.
But I have feeling that all these numbers are soft […]
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If #Rayner gets in, first move should be to clean up the old boys club of Parliament. Change the rules to get them to speak plain English, not ask this “Mr. Speaker,” modernise every part of politics, close down the bars. Do all the tricks that #Farage would pretend to do. Set up citizen assemblies.
The Westminster media bubble seems to agree that:
1/ #Starmer recognises that he has last control, and may quit on Monday.
2/ Angela Rayner's pals are briefing that she is ready for a heave.
3/ Starmer is not just crap at politics, but barely interested in politics.
These same commenters spent […]
Torsten Bell next Chancellor (good idea). If #Rayner becomes PM, he would be a good pick as he comes from a think tank that understands cost of living and is smart enough to have pro growth measures. He is also a competent communicator. @torstenbell.bsky.social
Link to 6 think tanks combined work.
Chancers are suggesting that if #Rayner replaces #Starmer as PM 'there will have to be an election - because she won't have a personal mandate'.
These are the same chancers who happily watched #Truss and #Sunak become PM without a General Election
Different rules for lefty women though, eh?!
#TeamRayner
Ed Miliband should do his current job for 20 years!
#Rayner should be leader with a team of all parts of the party (including Wes), promoting some talented junior ministers and having some radical policies. Obviously get rid of #McSweeny
Yesterday was an excellent day for #Rayner, not good enough for #Badenoch & terrible day for #Starmer. If Badenoch had included the ICS in her Humble petition she'd have been the winner, had Starmer included it in his first amendment he'd have mitigated it. As it is Rayner has "saved the day".
UK' #LabourParty is in crisis. Disgraced #Starmer should be gone already, but the succession is broken.
Frontrunner Burham is excluded. #Rayner is most popular alternative, but busy with #HMRC. Ambitious rightwingers #WesStreeting & #ShabanaMahmood can win only if Rayner is still on the bench […]
#AngelaRayner chances of being next Labour leader has tumbled. #KeirStarmer was already in trouble, he then blocked #AndyBurnham return. Now we've #PeterMandelson #Epstein fiasco. Throw in bad local election & by-election result. The Soft Left will rally to #Rayner.
#r4today #bbcpm #Newsnight
I'm by no means partisan.
Before 2018 local elections I had only ever voted @UKLabour, including #Corbyn for leader.
Since then though, I voted:
LE 18 19 21 #Libdem 22 23 #Green 24 #Labour
EU 19 Green
GE 19 Labour 24 Green
And #Starmer #Rayner for leaders
Gorton & Denton will be Starmerism’s grave, argues Will Allen in this patient vivisection of Labour’s decision to cripple its most popular and politically potent player.
#Starmer #Streeting #Burnham #Rayner #Labour #Politics #UKPolitics
Imagine if #Rayner hadn't declared £380k of earnings.
One rule for the women of Labour, one rule for the men of Reform.
1/ Banning social media for under 16s would be the most eye catching policy of this technocratic #Labour government. Yes they have done lots of really good small things, but no ability to communicate any of them. Put #Rayner and #Streeting at the top and hold press conferences twice a week.
