How Keir Starmer Defeated The Left To Seize Control Of The Labour Party Tags:United Kingdom 4 comments Good The far left are just as bat shit insane as the far right But at least the far right don’t want me to hate myself because I happen to be English and born a cis hetro male I’d say he rescued it, not seized control but perhaps it means the same thing? Hmm, the article doesn’t seem to mention that Starmer ran his leadership election on [10 pledges to keep popular Corbyn policies to help with the housing and cost of living crisis](https://keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledges/) which he then promptly dropped to rehire [Mandelson](https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/rzouhj/new_photo_emerges_of_peter_mandelson_partying/) and a bunch of Blair era figures, [took away one member one vote](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-labour-conference-vote-b1923983.html) to stop another left-winger winning – and lurched the party to the right to the point [Union is threatening to remove funding.](https://inews.co.uk/news/unite-boss-threatens-pull-all-funding-labour-party-dispute-bin-workers-coventry-1452415) All the while overseeing [a financial crisis in the party](https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-labour-asl-staff-pay-cut-cash-crunch/) due to a drastic [drop in membership](https://skwawkbox.org/2022/01/14/labour-has-lost-200000-members-and-8-million-in-dues/). I guess this is good news if you like the status quo in the country. Because the party is now essentially Tory-lite, pro neoliberalism, free marketist – the same form of government we’ve had in Britain since the 1980s. *The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the [trade union movement](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement) and [socialist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom) [parties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom) of the 19th century* ‘Yeah, I defeated those lefty cunts, I want me on some of that oligarch tit’ Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment.
Good The far left are just as bat shit insane as the far right But at least the far right don’t want me to hate myself because I happen to be English and born a cis hetro male
Hmm, the article doesn’t seem to mention that Starmer ran his leadership election on [10 pledges to keep popular Corbyn policies to help with the housing and cost of living crisis](https://keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledges/) which he then promptly dropped to rehire [Mandelson](https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/rzouhj/new_photo_emerges_of_peter_mandelson_partying/) and a bunch of Blair era figures, [took away one member one vote](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-labour-conference-vote-b1923983.html) to stop another left-winger winning – and lurched the party to the right to the point [Union is threatening to remove funding.](https://inews.co.uk/news/unite-boss-threatens-pull-all-funding-labour-party-dispute-bin-workers-coventry-1452415) All the while overseeing [a financial crisis in the party](https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-labour-asl-staff-pay-cut-cash-crunch/) due to a drastic [drop in membership](https://skwawkbox.org/2022/01/14/labour-has-lost-200000-members-and-8-million-in-dues/). I guess this is good news if you like the status quo in the country. Because the party is now essentially Tory-lite, pro neoliberalism, free marketist – the same form of government we’ve had in Britain since the 1980s.
*The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the [trade union movement](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement) and [socialist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom) [parties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom) of the 19th century* ‘Yeah, I defeated those lefty cunts, I want me on some of that oligarch tit’
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The far left are just as bat shit insane as the far right
But at least the far right don’t want me to hate myself because I happen to be English and born a cis hetro male
I’d say he rescued it, not seized control but perhaps it means the same thing?
Hmm, the article doesn’t seem to mention that Starmer ran his leadership election on [10 pledges to keep popular Corbyn policies to help with the housing and cost of living crisis](https://keirstarmer.com/plans/10-pledges/) which he then promptly dropped to rehire [Mandelson](https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/rzouhj/new_photo_emerges_of_peter_mandelson_partying/) and a bunch of Blair era figures, [took away one member one vote](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-labour-conference-vote-b1923983.html) to stop another left-winger winning – and lurched the party to the right to the point [Union is threatening to remove funding.](https://inews.co.uk/news/unite-boss-threatens-pull-all-funding-labour-party-dispute-bin-workers-coventry-1452415) All the while overseeing [a financial crisis in the party](https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-labour-asl-staff-pay-cut-cash-crunch/) due to a drastic [drop in membership](https://skwawkbox.org/2022/01/14/labour-has-lost-200000-members-and-8-million-in-dues/). I guess this is good news if you like the status quo in the country. Because the party is now essentially Tory-lite, pro neoliberalism, free marketist – the same form of government we’ve had in Britain since the 1980s.
*The party was founded in 1900, having grown out of the [trade union movement](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_movement) and [socialist](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_socialist_movement_in_the_United_Kingdom) [parties](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_Kingdom) of the 19th century*
‘Yeah, I defeated those lefty cunts, I want me on some of that oligarch tit’