@doctorwhom Yes, but a lot of the #Starmtroopers want them gone too. That would make the #HouseOfLords a chamber solely of cronies and donors. ๐ก
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 ๐
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. ๐คฎ 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. ๐ ๐คฃ
Claire McNab