I saw how the Greens channelled voters’ anger – and fused it with hope. That’s why they won in Gorton and Denton | Owen Jones Starmer called the byelection a battle for the nation’s soul. This result shows Labour has lost that – and I think it will lose much more, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

'If #Polanski’s party can capture one of #Labour’s safest seats, then NO #LabourMP CAN feel secure.. But*deceit* is all #Starmerism had- and events in Gorton and Denton show the vacuity of that. In the end, #Labour's war on the #Left has consumed it.'🙌👏
#RIPLabour
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This is the real meaning of #Starmerism. Funnelling UK taxpayer cash to his Zionist mates. How much looting can the country take?

The Guardian's Owen Jones just confirmed what The Whip Line warned from the start: Starmerism had no plan, no politics, and no future.
#Starmer #Labour #UKPolitics #Starmerism
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This is England 2025. #Starmerism. #stopthegenocide #freePalestinefreeusall

Seems #Starmerism is #AuthoritarianLabour re immigration.

Nothing better sums up Starmerism than calling Nigel Farage a pedo sympathiser whilst also making Peter Mandelson, a pedo sympathiser, Ambassador to the US, and then supporting him at the dispatch box for sympathising with a pedo, and then firing Mandelson for being a pedo sympathiser. #starmerism

A Work Permit for Everyone Starmer sells digital ID as border control. In practice it is a work prermit, a programmable gateway to services, and a new lever over labour dressed as migration policy.

#Politics #IDCards #Britain #Starmerism

Mainstream Labour Mainstream is the home for Labour’s radical realists

🚨 Surely, the solution to the very damaging zig-zag between #Corbynism and #Starmerism is #Burnham as leader supported by the #Compass inspired Mainstream project in the party? That, instinctively, feels like where the sweet spot is - and should be - in the #Labour party. www.mainstreamlabour.org

love this, #starmerism

Keir Starmer Is Already Obsolete Starmerism was meant to steady Britain after Tory collapse. Instead it has produced scandal, drift and a government already in retreat.

Starmer at Arsenal while 110,000 march with Tommy Robinson.

Labour has surrendered the narrative.

This is what a political vacuum looks like.
#Britain #Politics #Starmerism #FarRight

Britain’s War Factories: Building Bombs, Not Homes - anti capitalist musings Starmer’s weapons pipeline is less about deterring war and more about embedding militarism into the heart of Britain’s economic model.

Six new weapons factories. £1.5bn in public money. Labour calls it realism. I call it militarised state capitalism. My latest on Starmer’s war economy, NATO doctrine, and why Britain keeps building bombs instead of homes.

#WarEconomy #UKDefence #Starmerism #AntiCapitalism #MilitaryKeynesianism

This is one of the problems of #Starmerism. With some politicians, you wonder whether they really understand nuance and complexity. With others, you know that they do, but still play to the popular narrative rather than challenging it. Should one support politicians with a covert policy agenda?

Britain Does Not Need a Labour Shortage - anti capitalist musings Britain doesn’t need a labour shortage to punish the poor.

The myth of the “labour shortage” is a lie sold by bosses and echoed by politicians like Tice. What they want isn’t more jobs or better pay. It’s desperation. This isn’t tough love. It’s managed collapse.

#ClassWar #ReformUK #LabourCrisis #MigrantLabour #Starmerism

#Starmerism it's in the National interest. No it's in his interest he's a narcissist
pandaring to Multinational Corporations who have a staggering influence politically and financially. Securing his future working for them and not us.
Labour Rip.

Starmer’s response to Trump’s tariffs? Slowing the EV rollout, a short-term fix for a long-term crisis. Britain’s car industry isn’t stalled by transition, it’s stranded in a collapsing global economy.

#Politics #Starmerism #tarrifs

Every MP needs to publicly oppose these new welfare cuts, failing that vote of no confidence, Labour were elected on the basis of change, not to just be a continuation of the Tories. The british public have been lied to. #labour #ukpolitics #starmerism

Blockers, checkers, bats and chainsaws: don’t talk like Musk, Starmer is warned PM has been urged to ‘get a grip’ on messaging after railing against the ‘flabby’ state and the civil service’s ‘tepid bath’

Project Chainsaw? Good God, this Government is embarrassing.

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#Starmerism

good word #Starmerism

Morgan McSweeney’s Labour:

Purge the left ✅
Silence critics ✅
Avoid real policies ✅
Offer the bare minimum ✅
Hope no one notices ✅
This isn’t leadership—it’s marketing. #Starmerism
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Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction | John Harris In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Morgan McSweeney’s Labour:

Purge the left ✅
Silence critics ✅
Avoid real policies ✅
Offer the bare minimum ✅
Hope no one notices ✅
This isn’t leadership—it’s marketing. #Starmerism

Labour under Starmer isn’t about bold ideas or real change—it’s a McSweeney-managed PR exercise designed to say as little as possible while offering nothing to working people. If you want actual transformation, don’t expect it from this lot. #Starmerism […]

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Starmer’s dislike of real politics is plain to see. It’s why his government has no direction | John Harris In power, Labour’s agenda has been stripped back to an empty obsession with growth and an imitation of Reform UK. The public isn’t falling for it, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Labour under Starmer isn’t about bold ideas or real change—it’s a McSweeney-managed PR exercise designed to say as little as possible while offering nothing to working people. If you want actual transformation, don’t expect it from this lot. #Starmerism

Quote from a John Harris comment piece in the newspaper The Guardian, relating to Keir Starmer's New Year's message: "But as ever, there were no moral messages about the government's values".

There are no values to speak of, though, John. That's the problem. Surely you know that?

Why are these apologists for #Starmerism still trying to tell us otherwise? Why are they still pretending that the leadership clique are "social democratic"?
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Who killed Sue Gray?

What few understand, though, is that this wasn’t just the usual clash of personalities, but a “proxy war for control of the Starmer project”.

#Starmerism

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“Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.” 
Terry Pratchett; Men at Arms
#Discworld #FreeTheSausages #Starmerism #LabourPartyConferenceSpeech

#Starmerism doesn't exist because he doesn't stand for anything.