TottsFeb 28

Today, #Starmer wrote to the #PLP

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Dear Colleagues,

The result in Gorton and Denton is deeply disappointing.

Instead of a Labour MP who can be a local champion delivering for Gorton and Denton alongside a Labour Government and a Labour mayor, the people of Gorton and Denton now have a representative who is more interested in dividing people than uniting them. .....
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He does not understand and has learnt nothing from this drubbing

Oh well

Show threadJörn NettingsmeierFeb 28
@Geri Do you have a source for that?
Show threadTottsFeb 28

@nettings

Here you go

I can't squeeze it all in b/c I have a character limit on my instance. Notwithstanding, it gets quite dull
https://leftfootforward.org/2026/02/read-keir-starmers-letter-to-labour-mps-in-full-after-gorton-and-denton-by-election-defeat/

Read Keir Starmer’s letter to Labour MPs in full after Gorton and Denton by-election defeat

The Greens may have won here, but they simply do not have the resources, the activist base or the local knowledge to replicate this victory across the country

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Show threadJörn Nettingsmeier
@Geri Appreciated. When reading something so utterly braindead, I tend to cling to the faint hope it may be fake news... :,o(
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Show threadTottsFeb 28

@nettings I am not given to telling untruths

Apart from a desperate act of self deception regarding dress sizes and jeans

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