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Liz Webster
05, June #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: his gives real confidence that @AndyBurnhamGM…

🔴 This gives real confidence that @AndyBurnhamGM means a genuine break from Starmer’s decline. Cutting business rates by 20% for pubs & music venues and scrapping them entirely for small high street shops, cafes & hairdressers, funded by taxing big tech warehouses instead. For farming communities, this is huge: thriving village pubs, shops and rural services are lifelines that support our way of life and local economies. Finally, someone standing up for real businesses and places rather than just piling costs onto them. This is the practical, place-first politics we need. #AndyForMakerfield
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Mark Curtis
05, June #StarmerCrisis

Mark Curtis: Major article by @StarmertheFraud…

Major article by @StarmertheFraud . “But Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is not really a Labour government; it came to power on the back of a secret project to wrest control of the Labour Party back from an ascendant left wing. This secret project was resourced by illegally undeclared money from wealthy donors, funneled through a seemingly anodyne think tank called Labour Together. It involved covertly seeding promiscuous claims of antisemitism against political opponents, attempting to silence independent media that threatened to expose its project, and—ultimately—developing the dishonest leadership pitch that allowed Keir Starmer to trick a left-wing membership to elect him leader”.
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Spectre of Churchill
01, June #StarmerCrisis, #WarSpillover, #CostOfLiving

Starmer’s Great Summer Savings Scheme Is a Mockery of the British Public

Following the announcement of Keir Starmer’s Great British Summer Savings scheme, social media was flooded with angry reactions from across the country. Many Britons accused the Prime Minister of misleading voters, arguing that the promised savings are so modest as to make virtually no difference to households already struggling to make ends meet.
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Liz Webster
30, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: This Starmer graphic is woefully misleading…

This Starmer graphic is woefully misleading. Shrinkflation won’t continue to help skew inflation as it is set to soar again bc of the Hormuz crisis. Claiming “inflation is down” and “growth is returning” while households face another wave of pain from energy bills is exactly the kind of holiday from reality that’s lost Labour so much trust. The double standards on immigration are glaring - Govt talks tough on small boats for headlines and political cover to continue Tory extraction of public funds to billionaires. This is chaos dressed up as toughness, feeds populism, and leaves the public angry and services under strain. We need honest leadership that fixes the cost-of-living crisis, not more of the same Tory oligarchy. That’s why the momentum is with @AndyBurnhamGM . #AndyForMakerfield
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Spectre of Churchill
28, May #StarmerCrisis, #BrokenSystem

Andy Burnham’s Victory Offers Little Hope of Real Change for Britain

Andy Burnham’s Victory Offers Little Hope of Real Change for Britain The outcome of the by-election in Makerfield, where Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham is expected to stand, has sparked heated debate across British social media. Many commentators have reached the same conclusion: even if Burnham succeeds in replacing Prime Minister Keir Starmer, very little is likely to change for the country.
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Alex Wickham
22, May #StarmerCrisis

Alex Wickham: Exclusive with @EllenAMilligan…

Exclusive with @EllenAMilligan @europressos The UK-EU summit pencilled in for next month may be postponed until July because of the UK leadership crisis Starmer had held high hopes for the summit, framing it as a big moment to push for closer ties But the Burnham/Streeting move to defenestrate him has hampered officials’ work to prepare Planning has proved difficult to negotiate because Brussels doesn’t believe Starmer’s government will be in place in the coming months, sources said In any case, French and German officials say Britain has to change its red lines on the single market and customs union if it wants a meaningful reset
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Martin Daubney
17, May #StarmerCrisis

Martin Daubney: LABOUR’S BREXIT BETRAYAL…

LABOUR’S BREXIT BETRAYAL: WHY MAKERFIELD MATTERS In 2016, 17.4million Brits voted to Leave the EU It was the biggest anti-Establishment roar in British political history But the Establishment wouldn’t accept it. They spent years trying to cancel it Top of the pile was the People’s Vote leader Keir Starmer When he failed, he pretended the issue was dead. But he then set about a “death by 1000 papercuts” approach: More pro-Brussels treaties. More surrenders. More freedom of movement. More planned £Billions to Brussels Now he is a dead man walking, enter Andy Burnham & Wes Streeting: two committed Rejoiners One of them is likely to be our next Prime Minister Brexiteers are awake to this betrayal. The cosy Westminster bubble, inc its supportive media chumocracy, would have us believe this is all a conspiracy theory But remember the same Establishment was always stuffed with Remainiacs And now the fate of this grand deception lies with the voters of Makerfield The Brexit battle has been reignited in a 66% Leave constituency The message “stop the Brexit betrayal by stopping Burnham” will be hugely resonant The Establishment has always hated the working classes since they refused to bankroll their globalist bollox. Now let’s see them once again wake up and tell the pro-Brussels quislings to bugger off
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Alex Wickham
16, May #StarmerCrisis

Alex Wickham: NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read…

*NEW: Bloomberg Saturday read* 💥 MPs loyal to Keir Starmer say Ed Miliband and Wes Streeting both plotted against him throughout the last year, destabilising then destroying the government and plunging Britain into chaos. 💥 Miliband orchestrated Andy Burnham’s plot to become PM from within cabinet. MPs loyal to Starmer accuse Miliband of betrayal. It is being compared to when he stood against his brother for the leadership in 2010. 💥 They say it is immensely frustrating that, rather than focus on their very important jobs and rally together behind the PM at a time of global crisis, Miliband, Burnham and Streeting instead acted for personal gain to advance their own careers. 💥 Allies of Miliband, Burnham and Streeting each argue they were motivated by saving Labour from Starmer’s disastrous leadership and stopping Britain falling to Farage. They say he had become the most unpopular PM in history and there is no way he could have led Labour into the next election. 💥 But some people loyal to Starmer wish he had sacked Streeting and Miliband for their disloyalty when he learned of it last year. Some wanted him to do so at the time. Starmer didn’t, fearing instability. 💥 One senior figure expresses their complete disbelief that Labour is behaving as badly as the Tories after only a fraction of the time, descending into factionalism, regicide and collapse. They say they never thought it was possible. 💥 The left of the party is scathing about Starmer’s legacy. A senior person on the left says that from day one Rachel Reeves was out of her depth as chancellor. They say when the history books are written about the Starmer government it is Reeves who will come off worst. 💥 A source close to Starmer blames Trump as the person singularly responsible for the failure of his premiership. They say from the moment Trump was elected the global crises that followed meant Starmer was never able to focus enough on the domestic priorities of voters. They argue no PM in decades has had to deal with a threat to Britain’s interests like that posed by Trump. They wish Labour had pulled together. 💥 They say if the Democrats had won the election things would have been completely different. Starmer wouldn’t have made what he considers to be his worst ever mistake, appointing Mandelson. It was a Bloomberg News investigation that brought down Mandelson, precipitating a period of crisis for Starmer from which he never recovered. 💥 Some on the Labour right consider Starmer’s capitulation on the welfare vote to be the beginning of the end because it emboldened the soft-left to expand their plots against him and ultimately try to take him out. One says Labour has “100 Liz Trusses” on its backbenches. Investors warn a more left-wing PM will be at the mercy of bond vigilantes. Gilts and the pound slumped on Friday as Burnham’s route to power became clear. 💥 Burnham’s supporters say he will be PM by Labour conference in September. A source of widespread amusement across Labour is that Streeting didn’t have the numbers and blew it, handing the leadership to Burnham and Miliband. Those two want what they call an “orderly transition.” Recent experience of British politics suggests the chances of that are slim. How Keir Starmer Imploded and Plunged Britain Into More Chaos >>>
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Dale Vince
15, May #StarmerCrisis

Dale Vince: I think it’s the worst thing Labour…

I think it’s the worst thing Labour could do right now, there’s no reason to panic over some adverse polling less than two years into a ten year project - and some of what we’re seeing is more opportunism than panic - but if there is to be a leadership contest my first choice for the job would be Keir, that’s who I’ll back. The NHS has been battered for 14 years by Tory neglect and underfunding. Just as things are starting to turn a corner, Wes decides to walk away from a job he’s actually good at. Because he’s lost confidence apparently. Hard to square that with his talk of being proud to fight in the trenches with Keir at the general election. When the going gets tough and all that…... People around Ed Miliband have been briefing that he’s urged Keir to set a timetable to walk away - unhelpful enough to say it - worse to leak it to the press. Ed is seen as a potential contender, I’m not convinced. A few weeks ago, he told the country he would finally break the link, the market mechanism that drives our energy bills sky-high in a crisis - the following week he announced the details and he did not break the link or even weaken it. Ed misled the country in my view and the Prime minister. Keir's top team should be standing behind him right now - and not with knives in their hands. How about some policy ideas? This whole leadership circus is a massive distraction from the job, not just at a time of global crisis but at a time when the people of Britain are making clear they want more change, they want to feel the change in their lives. The answer to that, some seem to think - is to have a new leader. That’s a delusion and often enough a conceit, sold to us on the premise it’s in the national interest or the party’s interest - when the truth is much closer to home. Labour has a job to do and a mandate to do it. Let’s get on with it.
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Liz Webster
15, May #StarmerCrisis

Liz Webster: Keir Starmer is the architect of his own political crisis…

🔴 Keir Starmer is the architect of his own political crisis. He entered Downing Street declaring he would do unpopular things. That was the fatal mistake. A huge 2024 majority built largely on anti-Tory tactical voting was treated like a personal mandate for pain instead of a warning to rebuild trust. Winter Fuel cuts. Farm tax on family holdings. Welfare tightening. Brexit trade politics stitched together through executive power while Parliament was sidelined. All delivered by a leader the country never truly knew or emotionally connected with. Starmer governed as if voters owed Labour loyalty simply for not being the Conservatives. 🔥 Now the consequences have arrived with @AndyBurnhamGM as a unifying alternative. Britain wants a different political direction: • end austerity • less Westminster managerialism • end Brexit denial • and less attachment to the post-2010 economic model Starmer hasn’t lost public trust, he never won it in the first place! He mistook relief for enthusiasm and that is why the civil war has begun. #Burnham4PM
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