Tag: Kier Starmer
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Blown wide open
We should thank the Tories for filling the vacuum after Britannia’s attempt at democracy with an extended demonstration of just how dishonest and corrosive conservative politics really is. Here, James O’Brien amplifies an example from Liz Truss… … but the idea has been acted out time and time again. Hastings, do you remember our former […]
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I’m on strike – Cormoran Strike
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith If anyone asks, I don’t like detective novels – same way I don’t like spy novels. For one thing they’re menz stories set in a menz world, however many dynamic women you put in them (yes, yes, I saw all the innovative series about females acting like the eternal private […]
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Place the blame, move on
Last night, I posted a Jonathan Pie rant on my social media feed, because his traditional five-minute rant had managed to include more of the salient points in our current affairs than the entire week’s output from the BBC. Tory MPs are lining up to say yes, they too have realised Boris Johnson is irresponsible, […]
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We have got what we need
We wanted a Corbyn government. The others wanted a ‘more electable leader’. No matter. Meanwhile, the Tories wanted to stay in charge, despite not having anyone remotely suitable, so the nation got Boris the Liar, Boris the evil clown who let his friends run away with anything that wasn’t nailed down, then literally sat there […]
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We must rebuild trust – Ha ha ha!
***Long read for the weekend*** I’m writing this as I anxiously await the results of local council elections. It’s been a strange one for me, because it’s the first election since I foreswore party allegiance (I maintain that I didn’t leave Labour, Labour left me) – but the result still matters to me, because I […]
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Keith and Angela: the true story in all its horrible detail
There’s no shortage of passionate criticism of Starmer and Rayner’s phone bank rewards system out there – but let’s try and stop swearing and explain our frustration properly, because there is an important lesson here for these politicians and their followers to learn. When this image of the Labour Party’s idiot scheme did the rounds, […]
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“Told you so” is not the way to success
Lexit is (was) the idea of withdrawing from the neoliberalist strait-jacket of the EU *without* selling ourselves to the USA.
Kay Green 