Labour are toast in May. People like me have been saying this for ages getting kickback from Labour loyalists. Now Labour are saying it themselves. It's over for them, the destruction in May is a prelude to their annihilation in the GeneralElection.
Gramsci wrote: "The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters."
He didn't know how right he'd be.
Now we know who the monsters are.
BBC1 6pm flagship news show. Starmer makes a major statement on the attack on Iran, the BBC get reaction from 3 national party leaders. Spot which party is missing?
Clue: they won a by election last week, have been above the Lib Dems in polls for ages.
Only Starmer could manage this.
The one time he actually takes the right stand, it turns out he didn't, he was dragged there by Ed Miliband and some of his own cabinet.
There is nothing genuine about this man. He's not a leader, he's a weather vane with no wind.
2/ The BBC did this the last time there was a big national story involving Starmer during the Mandelson crisis. Reaction from each of the national parties except the Greens.
#BBCBias
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BBC1 6pm flagship news show. Starmer makes a major statement on the attack on Iran, the BBC get reaction from 3 national party leaders. Spot which party is missing?
Clue: they won a by election last week, have been above the Lib Dems in polls for ages.
The two party, Tory / Labour system is dead. The media need to reflect this new reality. Everything from panels, paper reviewers, street vox pops, guests on Sunday politics show needs to represent this. They’ve been doing that for Reform for ages, they now need to start doing it for the Greens.
Two photo ops today.
One, a new face symbolising change. The other with a prison backdrop, the same old divisive politics.
That's the choice in May. Hope or hate.
Away from all the focus on illegal war on Iran , the Labour civil war is getting hotter. Looks like Starmer will use the war as a distraction to sack Streeting while the opposition to his whole strategy is growing inside Labour.
One thing is clear.
Keir Starmer is singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump.
Thoughts and prayers for Kamali Melbourne he’s got to stay sitting on Sky News having his arse handed to him by Zack Polanski. Tried what he thought were gotcha questions, tried fake rage. All batted away calmly and articulately by Zack.
#BrokenMedia
Can we just take a few seconds to reflect on the Tories registered their WORST EVER by-election performance at Gorton and Denton. They lost their deposit. They got 7.9% in this seat in 2024. Now they got 1.9%.
Questions for Badenoch as well as Stramer
Well done to Hannah and everyone who worked on her campaign. So much to enjoy in this victory and many records broken. One minor highlight, watching Goodwin’s face during Hannah’s victory speech. If only we could see Farage’s and Starmer’s faces. Hope is here.
Yes! Yes! Got both despicable Reform and gutter Labour.
Whatever the result in #GortonAndDentonByElection, the old system is breaking down.
Politics, polling and media narratives still assume two-party dominance.
Four-party reality doesn’t fit the model so everything looks chaotic.
Expect more instability before May, not less.
When will the Gorton andDenton by election result come out? No exact answer, this outline from Manchester Evening News gives a likely timeline.
Good luck if you're staying up for it. I'll catch it in the morning.
#GortonandDentonByElection
The state of it has revealed that cabinet ministers privately believe the greens are hammering us by deliberately raising the salience of Gaza in the constituency.
The Labour government object to us talking about Gaza.
Genocide is serious and they should hang their heads in shame for arming it, not complaining to journalists.
Not surprised they're distracting from their other failures - like addressing the cost of energy bills and rent.
Me when I see that Starmer visited Gorton and Denton to "boost" Labour at roughly the same time Mandelson got nicked. Now zero headlines about his visit, they're all about his misjudgement.
Starmer is a disaster magnet.
Starmer clearly needs to go but selfishly I hope he stays until next the May local election in 2027. That should finish off whatever's left of Labour outside Parliament. Setting things up nicely for Labour's extinction at the next General Election.
The Mandelson shambles, like almost every crisis engulfing Labour, leads back to one person: Starmer.
Two men accused of roughly the same offence, leaking sensitive documents from a position of responsibility. One arrested, taken from his home, spent his birthday in a police station. The other free to pursue a luxury lifestyle around London. Shows you who has real power.
3/ 3/ Approaching 40 minutes now. The woman who makes Liz Truss look clever now talking about that much discriminated against minority…white Christian men. Utter nonsense give free, unchallenged airtime.
2/ 20+ minutes on and its still going. Every member of Farage’s team does a speech. Each carried uncritically despite the lies and fake news each speech is packed with. The BBC and Sky gave Johnson and Starmer coronations. They’re doing it again with poundshop Trump.
The weekly live propaganda broadcast from Farage carried simultaneously on both the BBC and Sky. What other party would they give this airtime to, to simply announce Farage’s team?
How many speeches has Zack Polanski made in the last week? Not one was carried live.
#BrokenMedia
Another misjudgment.
Another badly thought out idea.
Another U-turn.
Time for Starmer to go.
Via @aaronjbastani.bsky.social
It's amazing how Zack as the newest party leader has cut through in just a few months. Just 2 points between him and Starmer. A remarkable achievement given how the mainstream media mostly ignore the Greens. This can only get better.
BBC coverage of the Starmer crisis tells its own story:
Tory reaction? Included
Lib Dem reaction? Included
Reform reaction? Included
Greens? Nowhere.
When a major national party is always left out, it stops looking like a mistake and starts looking like deliberate bias.
We need to scrap judging the success of the UK in GDP terms. If a billionaire data centre owner makes an extra billion with no staff, the country looks successful. If we judged the UK by how much tax income we received that’d be far better.
Starmer just can't stop lying, can he? How does a tiny increase in GDP mean "more money back in your pocket"? Nonsense and a total lie. The GDP increase is also pathetic and below target.
Shame on all Labour MPs for keeping this useless liar in a job.
Starmer's "reset" progress update:
