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There'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't talk about unity while waging open war on behalf of their faction. https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1279377222852317184
If a Labour leader (although possibly not Starmer, because as much as he'd like to pretend otherwise, he'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's not just his advisors either- the front bench is basically a competence-free zone now. Thangham Debbonaire has already alienated renters- LABOUR'S BASE- and the big man himself has basically done a racism then said, "No I meant the opposite of that"!
In fact let'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
Tbf to Jon he actually apologised (to me personally, oddly) for this On Here. But it's a cock-up isn'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/
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'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's extremely professional appointments was 'Whole Lotta' Rosie Duffield, who'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
Then we had Annelise Dodds not blaming the architect of austerity for austerity: https://twitter.com/ukdemockery/status/1256305755428446211?s=21 https://twitter.com/UKDemockery/status/1256305755428446211
Oh, and Rachel 'tougher than the Tories in benefits' Reeves, who isn't even competent enough to have deleted this, despite it clearly undermining one of the central claims of Starmer's leadership:
https://twitter.com/rachelreevesmp/status/1231886779982151680?s=21 https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1231886779982151680
https://twitter.com/rachelreevesmp/status/1231886779982151680?s=21 https://twitter.com/RachelReevesMP/status/1231886779982151680
Three months, it's been, since the 'grown-ups' 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's been such a shitshow is because they've not been able to find a credible economic advisor who'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
It's almost as if putting the pre-2015 crowd- who'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've also spent two decades alienating working class voters by shitting on them.
https://twitter.com/broilster/status/1279428299635281920?s=21 https://twitter.com/Broilster/status/1279428299635281920
https://twitter.com/broilster/status/1279428299635281920?s=21 https://twitter.com/Broilster/status/1279428299635281920
Angie 'White Boys' Rayner, too. Tbf a canny politician and was on Corbyn'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/
All this on top of the Owen Smith crowd advising.
Oh, and Nandy chaired O-Dogg'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.
https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1233500668373147649?s=21 https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1233500668373147649
https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1233500668373147649?s=21 https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1233500668373147649
