Emphatic response by Starmer! That is leadership, says something and does it. Can't argue with that.
Keir Starmer Labour Leader
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/jeremy-corbyn-suspended-labour-party-19186557
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Corbyn suspended and the whip withdrawn
I doubt that's the bit he disagrees with. I think everyone was aware at the time the amount of pressure the LOTO was under to interfere with cases to speed them up, and that's a big issue in the report.
Even if Starmer didn't want to do this (and I think he probably did), he had no choice given he accepted the report in full.
tbf if coryn hadnt disagreed with some of the report and said the problem was exaggerated then I dont think Starmer would have had the ammunition to do it... thankfully Jezbollah showed his usual nouce for politics / PR
Absolute banter timeline. Hopefully this tears the party apart and rightfully so.
I never want to see Labour in government again.
I never want to see Labour in government again.
Tories instead?
A permanent Tory Government is not what the Left want, I imagine?
A fair and balanced response.
I want a left wing Government. That's not a Labour government and the past 5 years have revealed that.
You can all keep your neoliberal party and have fun with it.
Quality control
at least hes not blaming UK Covid deaths on Israel so hes getting better
Damage reduction though.
Agreed, the party needs to split. It might be the wrong time to ask, but are you looking at another party, wanting to start a new one, or just giving up for a while?
Say what now?
I hate to say it but I feel the same and now genuinely politically homeless.
I despise the Tories, but can't in good conscience vote for Starmer's Labour, and this is after voting for him as leader in the leadership election. I live in a marginal seat too, ugh.
If the Party splits then surely all the left wingers in the PLP with safe seats get replaced by Starmer's choices in 2024 and the Labour Party remains the only viable opposition, only this time without a left wing voice in Parliament?
Sir Keith acting like a boss bitch.
I hope the party does split. I certainly won't vote Labour again whilst Starmer is leader.
Anyway I won't say any more. We will just end up going round in circles again. It will be interesting to see how many MPs resign the Whip in protest at Corbyn though.
Jesus, calm down.I never did that, but we are now manufacturing allegations of antisemitism in this thread as wellSay what now?
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Say what now?
Guess it was easy to miss with all the other stuff going on
Yes, that is the inevitable outcome. It has already been set.
Any idea on how many might?
Being boss is suspending someone on spurious grounds when the EHRC has just condemned the Labour Party for allowing its disciplinary processes to be politically influenced and determined by the leaders office or political grounds rather than following a set protocol
Can you see how flagrantly hypocritical you all are?
Let's hope it's none.
As always, it was politically naive in the extreme from Corbyn. If UK politics needs the left of the Labour party to fracture from the centre let's hope for everyone's sake their smart enough to wait until the immediate furore dies down and the new party isn't immediately castigated as too anti-semitic for main stream politics.
We don't have a left wing voice of much use in parliament anyway - Marcus Rashford has probably done more than any left winger in the last couple of years to effect change.
I think this "I can't in good conscience vote for Starmer's Labour" is knee-jerk and fatally ignores that greater harm that Johnson's (or Sunak's) are will effect on our country and its people.
Hopefully Burgon and Abbott
Guys, Corbyn knew exactly what he was doing with that statement, and by releasing it before the leader of the party held their press conference. Don't get drawn into his games.
All he had to say was: "I welcome the publication of the Equalities and Human Rights Council report and accept its findings. I apologise for the historic failings of the Labour Party in its tackling of anti-semitism and for my role in that. The leader has my full support in implementing the recommendations of the report in full."
All he had to say was: "I welcome the publication of the Equalities and Human Rights Council report and accept its findings. I apologise for the historic failings of the Labour Party in its tackling of anti-semitism and for my role in that. The leader has my full support in implementing the recommendations of the report in full."
I could see Abbott and McDonnell doing so, given their age and the likelihood of this being their last Parliament in any event.
Not so sure any of the younger members of the Socialist Campaign Group would do so.
Here is the full membership list:
The 34 current members are listed on the Campaign Group’s[77] Twitter account as:
- Diane Abbott MP
- Paula Barker MP
- Apsana Begum MP
- Olivia Blake MP
- Richard Burgon MP
- Ian Byrne MP
- Dan Carden MP
- Jeremy Corbyn MP
- Marsha de Cordova MP
- Mary Foy MP
- Rachel Hopkins MP
- Imran Hussain MP
- Kim Johnson MP
- Ian Lavery MP
- Clive Lewis MP
- Rebecca Long-Bailey MP
- Rachael Maskell MP
- Andy McDonald MP
- John McDonnell MP
- Ian Mearns MP
- Nav Mishra MP
- Grahame Morris MP
- Charlotte Nichols MP
- Kate Osamor MP
- Kate Osborne MP
- Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP
- Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP
- Zarah Sultana MP
- Sam Tarry MP
- Jon Trickett MP
- Claudia Webbe MP
- Mick Whitley MP
- Nadia Whittome MP
- Beth Winter MP
It is entirely possible that as we've been told for the last years, Corbyn is stubborn and naive, and actually does feel that the report is unfair.
I still think he wasn't expecting any action to be taken against him though.
That's undoubtedly the case and has been his consistent position. He doesn't stand a chance.
Putting on my cynical hat, it does conveniently allow that particular strand of the narrative to come to a definitive conclusion at least, assuming that the disciplinary case against him is successful.
Whether he was or wasn't he'd have done it anyway. He has been utterly consistent throughout his political career in that regard.
If the electorate still amazingly decides to reward this corrupt, inept Tory regime with another term then that's their prerogative. I'll vote for whatever party represents my values.