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Capitalism is killing us | The #HousingCrisis is deliberate | The 1% control the media & MPs
Like Starmer before him with his “I like watching football down the pub and my dad was a toolmaker” bollox, Andy Burnham is pushing out this kind of patronising manufactured “man of the people” guff, while doing nothing to change the fundamentals of the rigged economy.
Under the latest centrist saviour, Labour is now polling 18% below the 40% that voted for Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership in 2017 #burnhambounce
None of this touches the "four decades of neoliberalism and trickle-down economics" that he said he would bring to an end
In the normal run of things you might expect the leader of the party that wins a majority in a GE to be PM until the next GE The last 13 PMs were either appointed by their party mid-term, or stepped down mid-term Should there be rules about this? E.g. PM resigns means a new GE?
Starmer's resignation lies: Under Corbyn's leadership, Labour raised record sums, £55.8M in 2017, and at the close of his leadership, Labour had £13.5M in reserves Under Starmer, the party lost close to 200,000 members & their associated subscription fees & was close to bankruptcy by late 2021 1/3
It's expected that Sir Keir Starmer will now write his political memoires. Here's an enactment of the likely scene when his editor reviews the first draft. #StarmerResigns
Message from @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social : Put your cross alongside Martine Richards (the first ever @thisisyourparty.bsky.social candidate in Wales) in the Grosvenor by-election this Thursday Local, community-based, active, determined Will speak up for the community on all she does on the council
So after 15 years of benefits claimants being squeezed, scapegoated, tormented and vilified, while the rich have trebled their wealth, Andy Burnham wants to … squeeze benefits claimants
Unlike would-be PMs Streeting & Burnham, Jeremy Corbyn speaks for millions who want peace AND spending on people, not bombs "I don't support Russia in Ukraine, I want to see an end to that war, which drives more arms spending, & cuts in health, education, housing and rising poverty & unemployment"
War criminal representative of billionaires, Tony Blair, thinks the Labour gov't should: * follow Trump * spend more on weapons * ditch net zero * crack down on benefits & pensions * outsource more NHS And the supposedly liberal media are going "ooh, he makes some good points!"
He really wants him to lose 😂 "Keir Starmer says he will go to Makerfield to campaign for Andy Burnham in the by-election"
Starmer's King's speech today failed to propose public ownership of water - just an extension of the 30 years of failed regulation @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social Corbyn tells @politicsjoe.bsky.social that he would have pursued public ownership of rail, mail and water as a start 1/2
. @politicsjoe.bsky.social asks Jeremy Corby if those standing in the parliamentary Labour Party are tainted by the "war" in Gaza NB the evidence given at the @peaceandjustice.bsky.social Gaza Tribunal will soon be published in a book 1/2
.@politicsjoe.bsky.social asks Jeremy Corby if he would support a bid by Andy Burnham to run for the Labour leadership One aspect of Burnham's proposals fills Corbyn with horror... 1/2
Jeremy Corby answers @politicsjoe.bsky.social 's question about whether, if there was a chance to bring Labour back to socialism, he would consider re-joining... 1/2
Jeremy Corby talks to @politicsjoe.bsky.social about the success of @thisisyourparty.bsky.social-endorsed Independents in the east end of London in the local elections 1/2
The way Starmer uses his family to claim credibility and boast of 'making good' from supposed adversity is pathetic You'd think was a shoeless orphan in grinding poverty He grew up in a nice house, in a leafy suburb, in a well-off middle-class family, his dad owned a business
Keir Starmer bringing in Gordon Brown after Labour's disastrous local elections is digging in further into the anti-left position that has opened up the huge void that has been taken up by Greens and Your Party-backed Independents
As well as bringing in new faces, with fresh new ideas, Keir Starmer will make a speech on Monday revealing what his dad did for a living These measures are expected to turn Labour's fortunes around, uniting the whole country behind his corporate-friendly, pro-genocide government
More congratulations to this team of Briefcase Labour heavyweights. The adults in the room. Making the tough decisions to support genocide and side with corporate parasites against the rest of us. Never doubting their path, never compromising. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Your Party's Cassi Bellingham on why Labour's vote has collapsed, and why, while Reform might shout the loudest, and have got many desperate people's votes, they haven't got people's backs #LocalElections2026 l @thisisyourparty.bsky.social
When watching hostile TV interviews of non-neoliberal, non-Zionist politicians like Jeremy Corbyn and Zack Polanski, it's interesting to remember what Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston were like in the presence of Boris Johnson
For anyone who hasn't heard the recording of Mandelson saying he works every day to 'rescue Labour' (return it to neoliberalism)
So the anti-Corbyn entryists in Your Party are now discussing new breakaway parties and groupings - to add to the 30 or so small left parties and groupings that already exist... yourpartyvoices.substack.com/p/following-...
Senior London Labour figures charged after criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging Croydon - the heart of Labour Together archive.ph/2026.04.21-1...