@ChrisMayLA6 I think It's looking great. 😈

A multi-stage fight between soggy centrist #AndyBurnham and the hard-right #starmtroopers. I'm hoping that #Starmer will block #Burnham's candidacy, triggering early battles in #UKLabour.

Then Manchester native #ZackPolanski can stand against #Starmer's stooge candidate, and wipe the floor with the remains of the so-called #LabourParty.

Result: #GPEW boosted, both #ZombieLabour factions weakened. #Popcorn all round, as #Pasokification looms.

@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6 The question now is largely one of how to define #zombieLabour's point of death.

E.g.

Ethically dead when it expelled Jewish people as antisemites, ignored the Forde report, failed to expel #McSweeney for strategically breaking law on donations to fund his coup.

Politically dead when it failed to censure Starmer for a wholly deceitful party leadership victory.

Socially dead when its approval rating hits 11%.

Electorally dead when it's wiped out in local elections.

@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6 The weird American use of the word "liberal" creates a lot of ambiguity when comparing the USA & UK. (In the USA "liberal" means anything that isn’t actively racist and actively persecuting the poor).

#McSweeney's #zombieLabour is #neoliberal economically. But in every other sense, zombie Labour is deeply illiberal.

The remedy is stop voting for zombie Labour, and stop pretending that it is some sort of tactical alternative to the right.

@ReggieHere @ChrisMayLA6 The "progressive vote" in already split. The previous coalitions that made up Labour are broken, and only 11% of people support the UK govt.

The Labour coalition broke before 2024. It won in 2024 only because of a quirk of FPTP as the right split.

Labour is now a dangerously wasted vote, a toxic right-zooming minority which splits the anti-Farage vote.

The question now for any progressive in England/Scotland/Wales is how to rapidly kill off #zombieLabour.