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Thread! "Jeremy Corbyn’s politics are fantasy – just like Alice in Wonderland" wrote Tony Blair, much-beloved war criminal
But is it really the Labour left who live in a world of fantasy?
The response to disastrous results under Keir Starmer suggest otherwise...
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According to BBC “political analyst” Iain Watson Sir Keir will use the results to move away from 2019 manifesto and "from some of the policy pledges he made in last year's leadership contest - which had been designed to appeal to the party's left.”
/2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57037839
/2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57037839
Interesting take given that the headline loss was Hartlepool
2015 – WIN 35.6% (leader Milliband)
2017 – WIN 52.5% (leader Corbyn)
2019 – WIN 37.7% (leader Corbyn)
2021 – LOSS 28.7% (leader Starmer)
/3 https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2017-06-08/results/Location/Constituency/Hartlepool
2015 – WIN 35.6% (leader Milliband)
2017 – WIN 52.5% (leader Corbyn)
2019 – WIN 37.7% (leader Corbyn)
2021 – LOSS 28.7% (leader Starmer)
/3 https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2017-06-08/results/Location/Constituency/Hartlepool
Owen Jones was one of many leftists to point out how deranged an analyst would have to be to pin the blame on Corbyn
/4 https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1389505336651010048
/4 https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1389505336651010048
Step forward...Peter Mandelson
Whose ludicrous claims were echoed all over the corporate media with barely a mention that Hartlepool was held under Corbyn
It appears Hartlepool voted for JC's Labour twice in order to show how much they hated him...
/5 https://www.thenational.scot/news/19285952.jeremy-corbyn-blame-labours-hartlepool-vote-loss-peter-mandelson-says/
Whose ludicrous claims were echoed all over the corporate media with barely a mention that Hartlepool was held under Corbyn
It appears Hartlepool voted for JC's Labour twice in order to show how much they hated him...
/5 https://www.thenational.scot/news/19285952.jeremy-corbyn-blame-labours-hartlepool-vote-loss-peter-mandelson-says/
Fully-signed up, card-carrying centrists of the MSM (who’ve built careers upon blaming the left for literally everything) wanted to go even further and “purge” the very foundations of Corbynism
/6 https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1390586566121250817
/6 https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1390586566121250817
There’s so much evidence against this we hardly know where to start
How about with the losing Hartlepool candidate, who confirmed that Corbyn WAS NOT an issue on the doorstep?
/7 https://twitter.com/TheMattWain/status/1389158786552799233
How about with the losing Hartlepool candidate, who confirmed that Corbyn WAS NOT an issue on the doorstep?
/7 https://twitter.com/TheMattWain/status/1389158786552799233
Or what about polling which suggested that department store mannequin Keir Starmer and his policy of “supporting the government” while the “bodies piled up” hadn’t exactly enthused voters
/8 https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1390724467383472130
/8 https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1390724467383472130
Somehow corporate media analysts failed to notice that: https://twitter.com/graceblakeley/status/1390938068346183680
As MP Kim Johnson pointed out https://twitter.com/KimJohnsonMP/status/1391056235051499520
But no. Whispers from Starmer, amplified by MSM “analysts”, indicate that the party will move FURTHER to the right
And they have the support of those analysts
Nothing to see in the next tweet...
/11 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57024995
And they have the support of those analysts
Nothing to see in the next tweet...
/11 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57024995
....just “impartial” BBC journalists applauding the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn (for making a statement specifically protected by the EHRC report) as a positive step
Conquering a foothill!
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Conquering a foothill!
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How Starmer will move FURTHER away from "policy pledges he made in last year's leadership contest...designed to appeal to the party's left” is an interesting question
He has already broken EVERY SINGLE ONE of his “ten socialist pledges”
/13 https://the-free-press.co.uk/2021/03/28/keir-starmers-10-socialist-pledges-forensic-gaslighting/#more-1951
He has already broken EVERY SINGLE ONE of his “ten socialist pledges”
/13 https://the-free-press.co.uk/2021/03/28/keir-starmers-10-socialist-pledges-forensic-gaslighting/#more-1951
Still, nice of BBC journalists to report this WITHOUT questioning whether Starmer is a total snake for promising left-wing policies (to win an internal election) when he clearly had no intention of delivering
MSM take it for granted that the left should be scorned + scorned
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MSM take it for granted that the left should be scorned + scorned
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Which is why they've never questioned Starmer weaponising racism to wage war against the Labour left
“Starmer is determined to conflate support for Palestinian rights with antisemitism” Tribune Magazine note
/15 https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-labour-party-election-uk-corbyn
“Starmer is determined to conflate support for Palestinian rights with antisemitism” Tribune Magazine note
/15 https://jacobinmag.com/2021/05/keir-starmer-labour-party-election-uk-corbyn
The MSM (again following the anti-left narrative that must be a mandatory module on all journalism courses) take it for granted that Starmer “conquered foothills” by suspending Corbyn from the party
These graphs suggest otherwise...
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These graphs suggest otherwise...
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Note the collapse in support accelerating in October - the month Corbyn was suspended
This is completely logical. There's a reason Starmer took charge promising “unity”
Do the electorate want to see in-fighting?
This is completely logical. There's a reason Starmer took charge promising “unity”
Do the electorate want to see in-fighting?
There were many other detrimental results to attacking the left (who, let's not forget, Starmer made promises to while trying to get elected)
Corbyn brought record numbers of new members to Labour, many passionate young activists
Starmer has alienated or directly suspended many of them
While offering the public nothing
Starmer has alienated or directly suspended many of them
While offering the public nothing
So what are we to make of the alternative reality in which Starmerites and MSM journalists live?
Election results clearly show socialist Labour gaining and wishy-washy Starmerite Labour losing.
Team Starmer’s reality-bending conclusion: Move further to the right!
Election results clearly show socialist Labour gaining and wishy-washy Starmerite Labour losing.
Team Starmer’s reality-bending conclusion: Move further to the right!
What are we to make of the fact that Starmer has no discernible policies...other than a desire to ferociously attack the left-wing of his own party?
(Taken as read by the media to be a sound policy) https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/1390602048606019585
(Taken as read by the media to be a sound policy) https://twitter.com/billybragg/status/1390602048606019585
The conclusion is obvious - if depressing
Starmer, like Blair before him, has banked everything on winning the support of Murdoch's gutter press
In order to do so he must crush the forever enemy of the corporate press - even the mildest socialist threat - and serve up...
Starmer, like Blair before him, has banked everything on winning the support of Murdoch's gutter press
In order to do so he must crush the forever enemy of the corporate press - even the mildest socialist threat - and serve up...
...the same gruel of cruel Tory economics with a thin film of disingenuous platitudes over the top
The "labour" has gone from the Labour Party once again
Starmer has bet it all on winning the support of a few cranky xenophobic billionaires
The "labour" has gone from the Labour Party once again
Starmer has bet it all on winning the support of a few cranky xenophobic billionaires
Starmer and the lobby journalists who fete him live in the parallel world of the corporate media, where no matter the facts you can ONLY MOVE RIGHT
It's deranged, ludicrous, a nightmare rather than a wonderland
But the vision we're told to support or we're "Tory enablers"
It's deranged, ludicrous, a nightmare rather than a wonderland
But the vision we're told to support or we're "Tory enablers"
