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.
Josh Simons MP embodies a surprisingly high number of the worst attributes of the #Starmer / #McSweeney / #Mandelson axis. He was parachuted into a safe seat by the Labour NEC, when he should really have been expelled.
Now he has been allowed to resign as a minister, when he should have been dismissed.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/28/minister-josh-simons-resigns-labour-together / https://archive.is/wiqwf
UK #LabourParty's #triangulation strategy broke in #GortonAndDenton, after 39 years. The idea was to make the left vote for centrist policies as the only viable alternative to the right. But now the Greens have taken that left vote, and won. No Labour seat is safe.
Labour's only hope of survival is to woo the left instead of attacking it. But it's too late.
The govt is loathed.
Labour MPs were mostly chosen by #McSweeney as anti-left. Most left activists have quit, as #Starmer told them to.
And just in case anyone has forgotten about Labour Together’s behaviour this is sliped into the news
Simons is a minister!
#LabourTogether #JustNotTHEM #Intimidation #Journalism #Labour #McSweeney #UkPol
"Those of us on the left warned this project would disintegrate once it encountered reality. The obvious retort is that opponents always predict failure. But the point is not that we predicted Starmerism would implode: we predicted why.
When Jeremy Corbyn won the Labour leadership in 2015, the party’s right faced a choice. They could admit that their ideas were exhausted, that the financial crash had shattered old certainties and demanded new answers. When Labour secured 40% of the vote in the 2017 general election, overturning the Tory majority on an unashamedly leftwing manifesto, it was fair for critics to say this still fell short. But it was also reasonable to conclude the platform that delivered the party’s biggest surge in vote share since 1945 was something to build on, even as the Brexit culture war overwhelmed it in the lead-up to 2019.
The party’s right chose a different path. McSweeney had run the leadership campaign of the Blairite torchbearer Liz Kendall in 2015, when she offered a political agenda similar to the eventual Starmerite offering. When Kendall secured 4.5% of the vote, McSweeney and his ilk concluded they could only retake the party through deceit. Starmer was the perfect candidate: a politician who wanted to be prime minister for its own sake, who served in Corbyn’s shadow cabinet and opportunistically sounded off against Brexit, and thus could rub the belly of the Labour membership.
It should have been obvious that this project was doomed when the leftwing policy pledges of Starmer’s successful leadership campaign – run by McSweeney – were so swiftly abandoned. As Paul Holden’s recent devastating book, The Fraud, meticulously documented, this strategy exposed that Starmerism was defined by deceit, cynicism and a desire for power for its own sake. And that it lacked any coherent policy vision of its own."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/09/left-starmer-britain-morgan-mcsweeney-labour
#UK #Labour #LabourParty #Starmer #McSweeney #RadicalCentrism
Reggie from the Blackrock Road analyses the downfall of the first man from #Macroom to run the UK.
With McSweeney’s fall, the emptiness of the Starmer project is exposed
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mcsweeneys-fall-emptiness-starmer-project-exposed
MORGAN McSWEENEY’S resignation will not be enough to save Keir Starmer. It will only expose the emptiness of his political project and how unfit he is to steer Britain through darkening economic, social and international crises.In these circumstances sacrificial lambs are usually junior figures discarded to shield their superiors. Technically, that applies when the chief of staff falls on his sword to save the Prime Minister. But everybody knows Starmer was the monkey and McSweeney the organ grinder.The PM will struggle without him.
The #BylineTimes has reprinted a number of Peter #Oborne’s observations (over several years) of #McSweeney’s operation in Number 10. It makes for grim reading, a rudderless PM in thrall to a #Cummings lite chancer who did not understand his own limitations.
“[Labour] Party bigwig says New Labour led to ‘perversion & paedophilia’”
by Willem Moore
“As if this wasn’t bad enough, party rivals have now branded Blairism as the political wing of international paedophilia. There is no coming back from this”
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/02/08/labour-bigwig-says/
#Press #SocialMedia #UK #Labour #Starmer #McSweeney #Epstein #Blair #NewLabour
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