I have been polite and I have been nice for a Really Long Fucking Time at this point (over a year). My patience just wore out.
At first I didn't have anything but defence for Keir Starmer because the initial Tory attacks were both bollocks and within my capacity to refute.
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At first I didn't have anything but defence for Keir Starmer because the initial Tory attacks were both bollocks and within my capacity to refute.
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Then I kept my mouth shut, because God knows, when the man *I* had wanted to see lead got elected, the little bitches really should have kept it zipped, and I, being a better person, decided to extend courtesy to them such as they had denied me. "Give him a chance" they said.
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And it wore on and I felt like had given it a chance to be fair, and another one, and another one, and where was Keir? Where was the opposing?
Then the Free School Meals debate, which was probably the one important time KS and I aligned.
It was frustratingly fleeting.
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Then the Free School Meals debate, which was probably the one important time KS and I aligned.
It was frustratingly fleeting.
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Time and again, absolutely basic and expected challenges did not happen. For example- there is no way of reconciling abstaining on the spycops bill. I kept my mouth shut at the time, but this choice was and is an abhorrence entirely at odds with socialism and opposition
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There was also, a concerted campaign to demonise and punish the left of the party, bordering on fucking heretical.
I lost sleep wrestling my conscience on if to vote for a candidate who has made, and stands by, offensive attacks on socialists like me, or risk a Tory win.
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I lost sleep wrestling my conscience on if to vote for a candidate who has made, and stands by, offensive attacks on socialists like me, or risk a Tory win.
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All the time, we are told put up with it, shut up for the greater good, if you don't accept this, you keep in power the most ruinous bunch of far right serpents ever to darken the corridors of power.
And I did.
I shut up for over a year.
In hope, for the greater good.
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And I did.
I shut up for over a year.
In hope, for the greater good.
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"Any other leader would be 20 points ahead" they said.
"It's because of Corbyn" they said.
"Give it time" they said.
Enough.
This is bullshit.
It's bullshit that lost Starmer Labour's campaign & canvassing force as much as it lost him Labour's share of the electorate.
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"It's because of Corbyn" they said.
"Give it time" they said.
Enough.
This is bullshit.
It's bullshit that lost Starmer Labour's campaign & canvassing force as much as it lost him Labour's share of the electorate.
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Keir Starmer does not give a flying fuck that the protest rights which brought into being every important social change of the last 2 centuries are being dismantled. Soon you will have no voice at all. At 10PM the night before that vote, he still was whipping to abstain.
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The Labour movement was born in protest. It's first success in protest, was to win the right for the working class to vote AT ALL. Let that sink in. It wasn't just women who had no voice without protest. It was the majority of men too.
Starmer, even knowing that, said meh.
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Starmer, even knowing that, said meh.
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Labour increased the vote share under Corbyn by record amounts in 2017 and even in 2019, he retained a greater vote share than either two leaders before him. The loss of seats was not in any way reflective of the support of the public and the way KS team has endlessly hammered/
/on with the gaslighting that the public didn't like Jeremy is fucking insulting, frankly.
The public are not and never were opposed to socialism.
The oligarchs who run the parliamentary parties, big business and the media from the fucking Cayman Islands, are.
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The public are not and never were opposed to socialism.
The oligarchs who run the parliamentary parties, big business and the media from the fucking Cayman Islands, are.
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I have never seen any one party do so much to prop up their alleged competitors as Keir Starmer has done for the Tories.
This isn't an opposition. This isn't Labour. This isn't even democratic, everything that makes your democracy real, he's letting them take from you.
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This isn't an opposition. This isn't Labour. This isn't even democratic, everything that makes your democracy real, he's letting them take from you.
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Even down to synching with the mechanisms of authoritarianism.
We have the return of actual fascism, racial pogroms the lot, and he's furthering the adoption of symbolism over substance.
The mind BOGGLES.
No One Rational Has a Flagpole In Their House! Not a Coincidence!
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We have the return of actual fascism, racial pogroms the lot, and he's furthering the adoption of symbolism over substance.
The mind BOGGLES.
No One Rational Has a Flagpole In Their House! Not a Coincidence!
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I've watched Labour Leaks lay bare the lengths to which half this party is invested in ensuring that the working class British voter, upon who's blood, sweat and tears, this movement was founded, fought for, built and defended, may not ever experience actual representation.
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And I have watched as actual racists, with irrefutable track records of furthering the oppression of the most vulnerable minorities in our society then ignoring all calls for dialog, get re-platformed, because only *some* people count eh.
Yes Toby Perkins. I mean you.
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Yes Toby Perkins. I mean you.
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None of this is socialism. None of this is the working class representation people have given their blood, sweat, tears, and even lives for.
And what has being quiet, and nice, and thinking of the bigger picture done for me?
To vote for a wanker, naked in his scorn?
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And what has being quiet, and nice, and thinking of the bigger picture done for me?
To vote for a wanker, naked in his scorn?
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All this division, destruction, ripping up of rights people laid down their very lives to gain and to protect, for what?
Turn on the news! It's a disaster.
That's where the Labour Right, Political Elite, have got us, as they sneer downward upon we little people.
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Turn on the news! It's a disaster.
That's where the Labour Right, Political Elite, have got us, as they sneer downward upon we little people.
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Private School to Law/Politics degree to Think Tank pipeline washed us up nothing but patronising and fake career charletans. "Labour" representatives like Chukka Ummuna, who has now been through more parties than Lemmy from Motorhead. Allegedly.
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Ummuna was of course on the list of Labour MPs who, all of about 6 months after Corbyn won in a LANDSLIDE accross every membership demographic, decided to try to take him out of power.
It backfired. Members strengthened Corbyn's majority even harder. But/
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It backfired. Members strengthened Corbyn's majority even harder. But/
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Of course as we all know, that wasn't good enough was it. Ummuna, like so many deeply entitled, arrogant men before him, who can't take no for an answer from those they perceive to be inferior, never ever stopped working to take away the representation the grassroots chose/
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And you know who else was in that coup too don't you.
Starmer.
Starmer, deep down, is no better.
Ultimately, he thinks he knows what you want more than you do. You only *think* you want not to be legally murdered by spycops and other agents of the state. Silly you.
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Starmer.
Starmer, deep down, is no better.
Ultimately, he thinks he knows what you want more than you do. You only *think* you want not to be legally murdered by spycops and other agents of the state. Silly you.
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And now you *think* you just saw a cliff fall. You *think* you just watched Labour lose Northern seats faster than Boris loses £50 notes.
Silly you.
What do you know.
Your betters have said different.
Like I said, Corbyn's fault, takes a long time, whatever it is now
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Silly you.
What do you know.
Your betters have said different.
Like I said, Corbyn's fault, takes a long time, whatever it is now
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I am done being nice. I voted for an arsehole today. An arsehole with 6000 Twitter likes from telling people like me, that we only believe in fairness because we are inferiors.
Inferiors like our forebears who literally built the services, that arsehole wants to control.
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Inferiors like our forebears who literally built the services, that arsehole wants to control.
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The Labour party was built in protest. The Labour party lives, because men, women and children ground more than fucking shoe leather into these streets, for our own protection, and our own advancement.
And I for one, have no intention of handing it back in silence.
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And I for one, have no intention of handing it back in silence.
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Addendum:
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