Act 2 of the Muppet Show, aka #AnyoneButStarmer panic.

Act 1 was a failed return attempt by #AndyBurnham, a reheated #Blairite and twice-failed leadership candidate who quit, to be an okay mayor. Convinced that he'd finally grasped national politics, his return was blocked 'cos the next mayor would be #ReformUK.

Act 2 is open manoeuvres by #AngelaRayner, the loyal deputy to 5½ years of #Starmer / #McSweeney rightwingery.

If the #LabourParty has a future, it's not with these muppets.

#ukpol

Sir John Curtice Explains Green's Win: Labour's Leftward Warning!

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@ChrisMayLA6 There were quite a few people on the #blairite wing of the #labourparty who found #mandelson a useful ally and were prepared to overlook a lot. A tendency to favour #dueprocess for ones friends and #duediligence for everyone else?
It's time to dissolve the US #DemocraticParty. It has proven a wholly ineffective instrument to stop the rise of fascism. It invented this self-excepting #RulesBasedOrder aka #EmpireOfLies. It is wholly an instrument of three cults: #Banderite #Nazism #Kahanite #Zionism #Blairite #RulesBasedOrder
@patrickhadfield It's the wretched #Blairite stooge #JonathanFreedland with his slavishly pro-American, #neoliberal telling of the last 25 years 😞

@newsbeep

They, the #ukgovernment are going to have to proscribe ‘tax the rich’ and ban the eating of apple crumble and custard.

Anyone found with anything remotely resembling nourishment will be thrown in the tower as a suffragette.

That will hasten the #hungerstrike necessary to gain any attention from #authoritarian extreme right wing #starmer.
#ukpol #blairite #thatcher lovers will be rejoicing

After all it is the time of good cheer and redundancies

@jens

It really worrying that so called democratic governments have suddenly gone right wing #extreme. It isn’t just Farage in the UK, the labour party, that we voted in after 13 or so years of tory misrule, is back to #blairite right wing thatcherism again.

#Authoritarianism here, where #starmer is trying to outdo the nasty things #farage is suggesting.

Those compromised over the years have been given some kind of message from Putin? Seems like.

Vote #green ?

Never did like #LizKendall. arch #Blairite who contested for party leadership against #Corbyn & came last with 4.5% of vote. Resurrected under #Starmer she claims too many people are "taking the mickey" by claiming benefits when they should be working.

https://www.itv.com/news/2025-02-06/too-many-people-taking-the-mickey-with-benefits-work-secretary-says

@ChrisMayLA6

There was a period - a few months on both sides of #ukgeneralelection2001 - when #newlabour did look as if it was metamorphosing into a recognisable centre-left government - along the lines of those headed by #attlee or #wilson . However the events of 11th September 2001 provided an opportunity for #blairite #ultras to stop this process in its tracks and indeed reverse it to some extent. We have yet to see which part of the story will repeat itself.