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There& #39;s just no credible defence for the approach Starmer has taken in this context. You cannot professionalise the party when you defend- and indeed hire- people who are verifiably incompetent, and you can& #39;t talk about unity while waging open war on behalf of their faction. https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1279377222852317184">https://twitter.com/joncstone...
If a Labour leader (although possibly not Starmer, because as much as he& #39;d like to pretend otherwise, he& #39;s likely tainted by Remain) actually did what was gestured at during the leadership election they might have a chance, but not with these right wing loons pulling the strings.
It& #39;s not just his advisors either- the front bench is basically a competence-free zone now. Thangham Debbonaire has already alienated renters- LABOUR& #39;S BASE- and the big man himself has basically done a racism then said, "No I meant the opposite of that"!
In fact let& #39;s look at how competent the front bench is. First- Jon Ashworth (who I quite like as a bloke): https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-general-election-corbyn-jonathan-ashworth-polls-latest-a9240221.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p...
Tbf to Jon he actually apologised (to me personally, oddly) for this On Here. But it& #39;s a cock-up isn& #39;t it.
Then we have the aforementioned Thangham, who effectively told a large section of Labour’s voting coalition that taking their side would be antithetical to the party’s values: https://labourlist.org/2020/05/cancel-the-rent-policy-would-be-un-labour-says-debbonaire/">https://labourlist.org/2020/05/c...
Thangham also has a bizarre vendetta against, @AyoCaesar, one of the few reliably left wing voices to be platformed in mainstream media:
Then we have Jonny Reynolds, whose bizarre narrativising of welfare as some sort of zero sum game that should require means testing didn& #39;t exactly scream competence:
Then we have Ed, an eminently likeable but preposterous man who allowed himself to be talked out of a 2017 style manifesto by ED BALLS and picked a fight with Len McCluskey just so he could publicly thumb his nose at trade unions, and, well:
A theme emerging here, to be honest, is of fairly likeable people who are just very obviously inept.
We should also remind ourselves that one of Keir& #39;s extremely professional appointments was & #39;Whole Lotta& #39; Rosie Duffield, who& #39;s already had to resign for being a knob: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/may/31/labours-rosie-duffield-right-to-resign-says-shadow-chancellor-anneliese-dodds">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/...
Then we had Annelise Dodds not blaming the architect of austerity for austerity: https://twitter.com/ukdemockery/status/1256305755428446211?s=21">https://twitter.com/ukdemocke... https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/1256305755428446211">https://twitter.com/UKDemocke...
Oh, and Rachel & #39;tougher than the Tories in benefits& #39; Reeves, who isn& #39;t even competent enough to have deleted this, despite it clearly undermining one of the central claims of Starmer& #39;s leadership:
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Three months, it& #39;s been, since the & #39;grown-ups& #39; retook the party. Three months. And already, all this has happened. Does this seem like a slick electoral machine to you?
I honestly wonder if part of the reason it& #39;s been such a shitshow is because they& #39;ve not been able to find a credible economic advisor who& #39;s sufficiently right wing for them.
Oh, I almost forgot this vicious ghoul, who performed abysmally in the leadership election then blamed her advisors. Keir has, of course, hired her. And her campaign manager (Wes Streeting). https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/19/hustings-labour-leader-jess-phillips">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
It& #39;s almost as if putting the pre-2015 crowd- who& #39;ve been losing votes since 1997- in charge of arresting the slide is a bad idea.
Yeah, some really eye-watering lies too, often to placate scab Labour councils who& #39;ve also spent two decades alienating working class voters by shitting on them.
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Angie & #39;White Boys& #39; Rayner, too. Tbf a canny politician and was on Corbyn& #39;s front bench (after the others had all resigned), but pretty gaffe-prone. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/03/white-working-class-boys-left-behind-negative-impact-focus-ethnic/">https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018...
All this on top of the Owen Smith crowd advising.
Oh, and Nandy chaired O-Dogg& #39;s campaign, btw.
Ask yourself- how long would you survive in your job if you were this shit at it?
O-Dogg features quite frequently in this thread, which also details a load of other cock-ups made by politicians from the right of the Labour Party.
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