#blairite — Public Fediverse posts
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"Britain must now unite behind Count Binface" 👍👏🏼👏🏼 https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/07/britain-must-now-unite-behind-count-binface
It's about 30 years since the #NewStatesman was bought out by a #Blairite mafia. Out went the social movement focus, in came centrists to attract buyers of the crates of wine now heavily advertised. Out went my pals on the staff, and my sub.
A generation later, young Ailbhe Rea's anthropological tales from Westminster.can be good. But not worth paying to climb the paywaoll.
But NS for #Binface is a fun twist.
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"Britain must now unite behind Count Binface" 👍👏🏼👏🏼 https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/07/britain-must-now-unite-behind-count-binface
It's about 30 years since the #NewStatesman was bought out by a #Blairite mafia. Out went the social movement focus, in came centrists to attract buyers of the crates of wine now heavily advertised. Out went my pals on the staff, and my sub.
A generation later, young Ailbhe Rea's anthropological tales from Westminster.can be good. But not worth paying to climb the paywaoll.
But NS for #Binface is a fun twist.
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As Europe melts, the #Blairite hard right of the #LabourParty stands heroically against the sinister #EdMiliband.
Ed's dangerous radicalism tries to slow or halt the #climatechange catastrophe. But a brave alliance of billionaire media, fossil fuel megacorps, Labour Right diehards, and (insanely) Unite the Union, are trying to prevent #AndyBurnham appointing Ed as #Chancellor who'd oppose the melt.
Your right to melt is at stake!
Burn oil to burn you!
Stop #Miliband! -
As Europe melts, the #Blairite hard right of the #LabourParty stands heroically against the sinister #EdMiliband.
Ed's dangerous radicalism tries to slow or halt the #climatechange catastrophe. But a brave alliance of billionaire media, fossil fuel megacorps, Labour Right diehards, and (insanely) Unite the Union, are trying to prevent #AndyBurnham appointing Ed as #Chancellor who'd oppose the melt.
Your right to melt is at stake!
Burn oil to burn you!
Stop #Miliband! -
Andy #Burnham has chosen his #Blairite former colleague #James Purnell as his chief of staff. 🤮
No surprise that the Blairism is winning out over his #Manchesterism. But still, 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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Andy #Burnham has chosen his #Blairite former colleague #James Purnell as his chief of staff. 🤮
No surprise that the Blairism is winning out over his #Manchesterism. But still, 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
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Oh gawd. #TheIndependent website is predicting that #AndyBurnham will give #DavidMiliband a peerage and appoint him as UK #ForeignSecretary. https://trib.al/a89tuU0 🤮🤮🤮
I don't regard the Indo as reliable. It's now just a shadow of the newspaper which preceded it. Heavily #Blairite and crudely europhile.
But this is another indicator of how much #Burnham is associated with the disgraced tribe of #Blairites
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Oh gawd. #TheIndependent website is predicting that #AndyBurnham will give #DavidMiliband a peerage and appoint him as UK #ForeignSecretary. https://trib.al/a89tuU0 🤮🤮🤮
I don't regard the Indo as reliable. It's now just a shadow of the newspaper which preceded it. Heavily #Blairite and crudely europhile.
But this is another indicator of how much #Burnham is associated with the disgraced tribe of #Blairites
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Grim!
Wot?
#Starmer.
Toast.
#Burnham
Yeah. Grim2.
#BeeNetwork #Blairite.
Yeah.
Keeping #Reeves spending.
Yeah.
Pro-Israel. Caved to TERFs. No vision.
Yeah.
How you voting?
Burnham.
Da fook!?!?
Green woman sane.
Yeah.
So vote Green!
Nah.
Da fook!?!?
Gotta fulfil da book.
Book?
Like Marley.
Da fook!?!?
Labour thinks Burnham = messiah.
He isn't.
Yeah, they know. But who else?
Fook.
He'll drive 'em off cliff.
Yeah.
Only way 2 summat new.
Via fash.
Yeah.
Fook.
Pint?
20!
Fook yeah!
#ukpol #Makerfield -
Grim!
Wot?
#Starmer.
Toast.
#Burnham
Yeah. Grim2.
#BeeNetwork #Blairite.
Yeah.
Keeping #Reeves spending.
Yeah.
Pro-Israel. Caved to TERFs. No vision.
Yeah.
How you voting?
Burnham.
Da fook!?!?
Green woman sane.
Yeah.
So vote Green!
Nah.
Da fook!?!?
Gotta fulfil da book.
Book?
Like Marley.
Da fook!?!?
Labour thinks Burnham = messiah.
He isn't.
Yeah, they know. But who else?
Fook.
He'll drive 'em off cliff.
Yeah.
Only way 2 summat new.
Via fash.
Yeah.
Fook.
Pint?
20!
Fook yeah!
#ukpol #Makerfield -
The #NewStatesman magazine has for ~30 years been firmly #Blairite. But it's still useful for observers of that tribe.
A few weeks ago, NS editor Tom McTague joined the #Starmer-must-go camp. Now the NS podcast team tiptoes reverentially sround Andy #Burnham in #Makerfield. https://youtu.be/F9mJJslST9k
Like polite agnostics in a church, they don't quite accept Burnham as the messiah, but they don't reject him. They carefully avoid offence to his disciples. Bets are hedged.
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The #NewStatesman magazine has for ~30 years been firmly #Blairite. But it's still useful for observers of that tribe.
A few weeks ago, NS editor Tom McTague joined the #Starmer-must-go camp. Now the NS podcast team tiptoes reverentially sround Andy #Burnham in #Makerfield. https://youtu.be/F9mJJslST9k
Like polite agnostics in a church, they don't quite accept Burnham as the messiah, but they don't reject him. They carefully avoid offence to his disciples. Bets are hedged.
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#AndyBurnham does NOT support #ProportionalRepresentation #PR. 😡
Burnham supports #SupplementaryVote, also known as #AlternativeVote #AV, which is NOT a proportional system
And he will NOT scrap the current #FirstPastThePost #FPTP before the next general election #GE2029. So #ReformUK could win a huge overall majority on 30% of votes.
That makes a vote for #Burnham pointiess. He's a #Blairite who won't even introduce fair votes. 😡
There's no point to Burnham. Reject him, #Makerfield!
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#AndyBurnham does NOT support #ProportionalRepresentation #PR. 😡
Burnham supports #SupplementaryVote, also known as #AlternativeVote #AV, which is NOT a proportional system
And he will NOT scrap the current #FirstPastThePost #FPTP before the next general election #GE2029. So #ReformUK could win a huge overall majority on 30% of votes.
That makes a vote for #Burnham pointiess. He's a #Blairite who won't even introduce fair votes. 😡
There's no point to Burnham. Reject him, #Makerfield!
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Act 2 of the Muppet Show, aka #AnyoneButStarmer panic.
Act 1 was a failed return attempt by #AndyBurnham, a reheated #Blairite and twice-failed leadership candidate who quit, to be an okay mayor. Convinced that he'd finally grasped national politics, his return was blocked 'cos the next mayor would be #ReformUK.
Act 2 is open manoeuvres by #AngelaRayner, the loyal deputy to 5½ years of #Starmer / #McSweeney rightwingery.
If the #LabourParty has a future, it's not with these muppets.
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Act 2 of the Muppet Show, aka #AnyoneButStarmer panic.
Act 1 was a failed return attempt by #AndyBurnham, a reheated #Blairite and twice-failed leadership candidate who quit, to be an okay mayor. Convinced that he'd finally grasped national politics, his return was blocked 'cos the next mayor would be #ReformUK.
Act 2 is open manoeuvres by #AngelaRayner, the loyal deputy to 5½ years of #Starmer / #McSweeney rightwingery.
If the #LabourParty has a future, it's not with these muppets.
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@patrickhadfield It's the wretched #Blairite stooge #JonathanFreedland with his slavishly pro-American, #neoliberal telling of the last 25 years 😞
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@patrickhadfield It's the wretched #Blairite stooge #JonathanFreedland with his slavishly pro-American, #neoliberal telling of the last 25 years 😞
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They, the #ukgovernment are going to have to proscribe ‘tax the rich’ and ban the eating of apple crumble and custard.
Anyone found with anything remotely resembling nourishment will be thrown in the tower as a suffragette.
That will hasten the #hungerstrike necessary to gain any attention from #authoritarian extreme right wing #starmer.
#ukpol #blairite #thatcher lovers will be rejoicingAfter all it is the time of good cheer and redundancies
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It really worrying that so called democratic governments have suddenly gone right wing #extreme. It isn’t just Farage in the UK, the labour party, that we voted in after 13 or so years of tory misrule, is back to #blairite right wing thatcherism again.
#Authoritarianism here, where #starmer is trying to outdo the nasty things #farage is suggesting.
Those compromised over the years have been given some kind of message from Putin? Seems like.
Vote #green ?
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It really worrying that so called democratic governments have suddenly gone right wing #extreme. It isn’t just Farage in the UK, the labour party, that we voted in after 13 or so years of tory misrule, is back to #blairite right wing thatcherism again.
#Authoritarianism here, where #starmer is trying to outdo the nasty things #farage is suggesting.
Those compromised over the years have been given some kind of message from Putin? Seems like.
Vote #green ?
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So now you know. The #blairite #starmerite ghouls never wanted a broad church or consensus based decision-making. They just pretended to want those things in bad faith so that they could seize control of the party and wield it as a weapon.
These people understand one thing well: that the political apparatus of the #uk is profoundly resistant to democracy and is a domain for the pure exercise of power.
Not sure how much clearer they can make the message...
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#Labour’s Winter deselected in ‘total party machine stitch-up’
Welsh left-winger ousted in favour of #Blairite after rigged contest
Here we go again…
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/06/07/winter-deselected-in-total-party-machine-stitch-up/
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#Labour’s Winter deselected in ‘total party machine stitch-up’
Welsh left-winger ousted in favour of #Blairite after rigged contest
Here we go again…
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/06/07/winter-deselected-in-total-party-machine-stitch-up/
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#OpenDemocracy | We deserve better than #Starmer’s #Blairite government. Here’s how we get it
This article gives a reasonably clear analysis, but it ends with an idea to create some sort of #app to allow voters to exchange votes and vote tactically.
But apart from that, there's no solution. Saying 'we should create an online resource' is all very well, but that's not the same as doing it, getting people to use it, and stopping #SocialMedia sites #ShadowBanning it.