@doctorwhom Yes, but a lot of the #Starmtroopers want them gone too. That would make the #HouseOfLords a chamber solely of cronies and donors. 😡
Obviously, I share the general view that religions should get no special privilege in a legislature. But in this case, the rest of the chamber is so corrupt that the bishops are the least worst part of it.
@ChrisMayLA6 That is horribly likely. Buckingham has always been the Thatcherite university. A teaching machine, with no space for critical thinking or personal development.
Horribly attractive to the visionless #Starmtroopers 😞
What on earth happened yesterday in #ScottishLabour?
Did #AnasSarwar really go solo, calling for #Starmer's resignation without support nailed down?
Or did he have supporters who ratted once the #Starmtroopers turned up the heat?
I haven't seem any decent reporting of the #Sarwar plan. Lots on the aftermath, but no inside info on the plan.
Has anyone seen any credible reports on what was intended?
I don't rate #Sarwar, but this seems unexpectedly daft even fir him.
Wikipedia has a guide for editors called WP:SPIDERMAN ("No climbing the Reichstag dressed as Spider-Man") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_climbing_the_Reichstag_dressed_as_Spider-Man . Basically, don't throw your toys out of the pram.
The #Starmtroopers have gone full #Spiderman. Having driven the #LabourParty's polling numbers off a cliff, they now want to weaponise against #Rayner the unelectability which #Starmer & co created. And they use the #Torygraph as their megaphone: https://archive.is/GHJAs. #YCMTSU.
UK's #LabourParty is in crisis. Disgraced #Starmer should be gone already, but the succession is broken.
Frontrunner #Burnham is excluded. #Rayner is most popular alternative, but busy with #HMRC. Ambitious rightwingers #WesStreeting & #ShabanaMahmood can win only if Rayner is still on the bench.
So the incentives are inverted. Rayner is the most anti-Starmer candidate, but needs him to stay on. #Starmtroopers #Streeting & Mahmood need Starmer gone now.
This will be dirty. #Popcorn!
#Starmer's so-called "#LabourParty" doesn't just provide spectacularly horrible policies such as jailing opponents of #genocide. It also churns out evidence of how it consists of spectacularly horrible people.
Labour In Name Only #LINO
screenshot from https://x.com/AaronBastani/status/2018348884162920604
@ChrisMayLA6 I assume that the #Starmtroopers calculated they had a binary choice between two packages of outcomes:
A/ hold the GM mayoralty, lose Gorton, block #Burnham's coup
B/ lose the GM mayoralty, hold Gorton, get defenestrated by #Burnham.
Not being keen on defenestration, they chose package A. So they have selected a corporate lobbyist as #GortonAndDenton candidate to be eaten alive, but they keep their jobs in #Number10 for a bit longer.
#YCMTSU: Who is the #LabourParty candidate #AngelikiStogia for the #GortonAndDenton #byelection?
#Stogia is Stakeholder Engagement and Communications lead for #Arup, focusing in finding funding and state support for private Energy and Rail contracts. https://www.arup.com/contact-us/angeliki-stogia/
The #Starmtroopers have really done it now. Faced with strong challenges from Greens #GPEW on the left and populist #ReformUK on the right, Labour chose a lobbyist for big business.
#Starmer's comment today on the #GortonandDenton #byelection is nauseating. 🤮 He says "we will fight for renewal, for inclusive communities and bringing people together, and for true patriotism against the plastic patriotism of Reform."
It's typical of the #Starmtroopers' hollow mendacity that they challenge #ReformUK to a #flagshagger contest about slogans, rather than fight on realities such as housing, cost of living.
If #UKlabour is is not about real lives, it is pointless. #ukpol
@chickenlady.bsky.social #Starmer lied his way to power, oversaw a purge using fake allegations of antisemitism, set out to starve kids and freeze grannies, and supported cutting water to Gaza, and procribed anti-genocide #PalestineAction proesters as "#terrorists". His approval ratings are near zero.
So what a treat to get a visit from one of the last remaining #Starmtroopers. 😅🤣
Claire McNab