Mastodawn

If so, we might as well give up and book our place in the camps right now.

It is this acceptance that the lumpenproletariat are unreachable bigots that has hamstrung #Labour.

Farage's core is the Thatcherite lower middle class: that hasn't changed. Yes, there are grievances out there, and Labour could, you know, try to address them by tackling inequality, or even promising to do so, but it means taking Reform apart and not chickening out at every turn.

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Isabel Ruffell 39m ago

@RejoinEU

What does "people-led" mean in this context? Aren't the mechanisms for rejoining under the control of politicians?

But #Labour is unable to think past the original Brexit politics and its failure to articulate a coherent position, whether because of ideological division (Corbyn era) or trauma inflicted by the right-wing media (Starmer era)..

TJ1001 1h ago

The actual president of the actual United States just posted this….. I know, but yes, he’s an actual grown up man….. no it’s not supposed to be a joke, he’s serious. The actual man in charge of the United States.
Still, it might make a few people forget his old best mate the pedo Jeff Epstein kept records and recorded video of Trump 38000 times. No, no, I know it’s incredible the president of the United States is a pedo and no one cares…..

#ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #trump #DonaldTrump #MAGA #uspol #uspolitics #TrumpIsAPedo #epsteinfiles #epsteinfury #TaxTheRich #FuckTrump #iran

Simon Flett 1h ago

#Labour, still the party with the most councils under control, has, in the course of a weekend, been panicked into theatrics, to the delight of the right wing media & political chatterati.

Worse, they have permitted their quarreling to be flipped into some sort of kite-flying exercise using #Brexit . Which is absolutely the wrong approach as far as the Electorate is concerned.

#RejoinEU , if contemplated, must be people-led. Not politician-pushed, as a facet of a party internal power-struggle.

TJ1001 1h ago

They love a nonce do the far right and flag shaggers, little tommeh in the Epstein files, sending his mate Jeff funny jokes and having a great laugh, and they’re all over Trump, 38000 times in the Epstein files and best mates for years. I’m serious check out the far right and nonces absolutely full of them ….

#politics #toryscum #tories #conservatives #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #immigration #farageisalyingsackshit #ReformAreUseless #farageisaracist #farageisatraitor #TaxTheRich #TommyRobinson #UniteTheKingdom

World news | The Guardian 1h ago

Starmer is not setting out timetable for his departure, says David Lammy

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/18/keir-starmer-not-setting-out-timetable-departure-david-lammy-andy-burnham-labour

#Politics #UKNews #Labour

Starmer is not setting out timetable for his departure, says David Lammy

Deputy PM says Andy Burnham would be ‘great addition to parliament’, but leadership speculation is ‘own goal’ for party

The Guardian

Political Cartoon Gallery 1h ago

Peter Brookes @BrookesTimes on #AndyBurnham #LabourLeadership #MakerfieldByElection #Labour @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

World news | The Guardian 1h ago

Starmer is not setting out timetable for his departure, says David Lammy https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/18/keir-starmer-not-setting-out-timetable-departure-david-lammy-andy-burnham-labour #LabourPartyLeadership #DavidLammy #KeirStarmer #AndyBurnham #WesStreeting #Labour #Politics #UkNews

Starmer is not setting out timetable for his departure, says David Lammy

Deputy PM says Andy Burnham would be ‘great addition to parliament’, but leadership speculation is ‘own goal’ for party

The Guardian

Opinion | The Guardian US 1h ago

I've interviewed Reform UK voters – and they're much more progressive than you might think | Sacha Hilhorst https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/18/reform-voters-progressive-post-industrial-northern-england #UkCostOfLivingCrisis #NorthOfEngland #Labour #ReformUk #Politics #UkNews

I’ve interviewed Reform UK voters – and they’re much more progressive than you might think

I’ve interviewed at length people in post-industrial northern England. What they are crying out for is more progressive radicalism – not less, says senior research fellow Sacha Hilhorst

The Guardian

Isabel Ruffell 1h ago

So, per the BBC, Mr. Burnham, the Great White Hope for #Labour is unwilling to talk about rejoining Europe because he is afraid of Reform in the upcoming By-election.

Very heroic.

If you can't take on the fascists over a demonstrably failed and unpopular decision in a by-election, how could anyone believe you are prepared to do it nationally?

Why is Labour collectively so craven?

#UKPol