"be less Right wing and shit" basically
I don't think Starmer is capable of that, he is not a leader.
#KeirStarmer #Starmer #AndyBurnham #UKPOL #UKPolitics #Labour #EpsteinClass
Keir Starmer shored up his position as U.K. prime minister during a dramatic day in Westminster that at times seemed like he might be forced to step down, a reprieve that is likely to be only temporary. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/10/world/politics/starmer-position-uk-rivals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #uk #keirstarmer #labour
Gonna go out on a limb and say that the #UnitedKingdom should definitely let #KierStarmer just serve his term rather than force him out.
After five different Tory leaders, all of whom got worse and worse after the last was forced out, surely you've learnt something?
I'm no #Starmer fan but I don't see anyone else from #Labour doing a better job. He's been the most "strong and stable" PM for over a decade.
Open warfare in the Labour party. With elections to the Scottish parliament in May, it's understandable that Scottish Labour is so concerned.
"Anas Sarwar says he's calling for Starmer to quit because 'failures' in No 10 means SNP failures 'continue here in Scotland'".
Keir Starmer’s future is in the balance after a crisis over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as ambassador to Washington claimed the U.K. prime minister’s closest aide. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/09/world/politics/starmer-uk-aide-quits/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #keirstarmer #petermandelson #uk #morganmcsweeney #jeffreyepstein #labour
“[UK] Labour beg Polanski to stand down in Gorton & Denton”
by Willem Moore in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@thecanary
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@thegreenparty
“In an act of desperation, Labour deputy leader Lucy Power has asked the Green Party to stand down in Gorton & Denton”
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/02/07/labour-beg-polanski/
#Press #Labour #Greens #GortonAndDenton #ByElection #Powell #Reform #Polanski
@Obscure_Rebel @thecanaryuk @thecanary @uk_politics @UKLabour @thegreenparty 🤣 Not Going To Happen. #Labour can withdraw their candidate, or face utter humiliation at the polls. Interesting that they didn’t ask #Reform to withdraw their candidate…. Current Labour policies are much closer to those of Reform than those of the #GreenParty
“[UK] Labour beg Polanski to stand down in Gorton & Denton”
by Willem Moore in The Canary
@thecanaryuk
@thecanary
@uk_politics
@UKLabour
@thegreenparty
“In an act of desperation, Labour deputy leader Lucy Power has asked the Green Party to stand down in Gorton & Denton”
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/02/07/labour-beg-polanski/
#Press #Labour #Greens #GortonAndDenton #ByElection #Powell #Reform #Polanski
Discontent over Keir Starmer’s handling of revelations about former U.S. ambassador’s friendship with pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein has members of the Labour Party contemplating a change of leader. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/08/world/politics/labour-figures-replace-starmer/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #keirstarmer #uk #edmiliband #labour #shabanamahmood #angelarayner #wesstreeting #andyburnham
Chip Butty
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McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
Jürgen Hubert
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Yours truly on AI adoption, the media's existential crisis, epistemic injustice and erasure, AI-facilitated gender-based violence and devaluation of women's labour in the media.
https://zenodo.org/records/18506103
#AI #LLMs #media #EpistemicInjustice #EpistemicErasure #Gender #TFGBV #labour
Yours truly on AI adoption, the media's existential crisis, epistemic injustice and erasure, AI-facilitated gender-based violence and devaluation of women's labour in the media.
https://zenodo.org/records/18506103
#AI #LLMs #media #EpistemicInjustice #EpistemicErasure #Gender #TFGBV #labour
Chip Butty
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"That is why #Labour is so comfortable competing with #ReformUKLtd and the Tories over bashing migrants. It is not because Starmerites are instinctively xenophobic or racist. Most are urban middle-class professionals who find such sentiments distasteful. But if forced to choose, they would rather indulge anger directed at migrants and refugees than anger aimed at bankers and CEOs." -- Owen Jones
He's correct. I hadn't seen this before, but it rings true.
Unnamed TNG skant beefcake
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🇨🇦 #McGill found $1 million to fight its own workers rather than bargain with them. Imagine what that $ could do for teaching, research, or student support.
https://therover.ca/mcgill-spent-over-1-million-fighting-unionization/
#education #canada #montreal #cdnpoli @democracy @politics #labor #labour #union @workingclasshistory @workersrights
🇨🇦 #McGill found $1 million to fight its own workers rather than bargain with them. Imagine what that $ could do for teaching, research, or student support.
https://therover.ca/mcgill-spent-over-1-million-fighting-unionization/
#education #canada #montreal #cdnpoli @democracy @politics #labor #labour #union @workingclasshistory @workersrights
This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the #kleptocrats I'd completely missed.
/Continued
"That is why #Labour is so comfortable competing with #ReformUKLtd and the Tories over bashing migrants. It is not because Starmerites are instinctively xenophobic or racist. Most are urban middle-class professionals who find such sentiments distasteful. But if forced to choose, they would rather indulge anger directed at migrants and refugees than anger aimed at bankers and CEOs." -- Owen Jones
He's correct. I hadn't seen this before, but it rings true.
This is a really good analysis of how #Labour became a right wing party.
I was aware of their courting of rich donors, but I'd missed the revolving door between Labour governments and the defence and private healthcare industries, and the point about Labour directing anger towards immigrants in order to divert it from the #kleptocrats I'd completely missed.
/Continued
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Oh wow, they're comparing this scandal to the Profumo Affair, it's that big!
(It's kinda like 'Watergate' size for UK Politics)
#Starmer #KeirStarmer #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #PeterMandelson #MorganMcSweeney #Labour #JeffreyEpstein
Oh wow, they're comparing this scandal to the Profumo Affair, it's that big!
(It's kinda like 'Watergate' size for UK Politics)
#Starmer #KeirStarmer #UKPOL #UKPOLITICS #PeterMandelson #MorganMcSweeney #Labour #JeffreyEpstein
Chip Butty
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Voting systems, representation and Labour cowardice (and it was not the membership)
But then Labour nowadays only makes a poor pretence at listening to the party membership - funding is really sought from the rich and powerful.
