You could, y'know, update your priors and position. 🤷♂️
February 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
You could, y'know, update your priors and position. 🤷♂️
Maybe it's because he's a bundle of different bits of Labourness that he fails? As Labour usually has in office.
February 5, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Maybe it's because he's a bundle of different bits of Labourness that he fails? As Labour usually has in office.
That's quite good that, tho in part overtaken by events. You should question your assumptions and judgements more, they seem set in stone.
February 5, 2026 at 3:30 PM
That's quite good that, tho in part overtaken by events. You should question your assumptions and judgements more, they seem set in stone.
You would do well to question your certainties more.
February 5, 2026 at 3:29 PM
You would do well to question your certainties more.
That you were wrong about me in almost every respect - earnings, role, class background, faction, party membership, outlook, loyalties.
February 5, 2026 at 3:28 PM
That you were wrong about me in almost every respect - earnings, role, class background, faction, party membership, outlook, loyalties.
Everything you think you know is simplistic, binary and schematic.
February 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Everything you think you know is simplistic, binary and schematic.
I'm not part of the LP or responsible for it, if there is another vessel for left of centre politics that might prosper also. And left/ right, really in the context whatever.
February 5, 2026 at 3:27 PM
I'm not part of the LP or responsible for it, if there is another vessel for left of centre politics that might prosper also. And left/ right, really in the context whatever.
You said I earned north of 70k as a Prof, that was incorrect and wrong and you haven't even asked what I meant.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
You said I earned north of 70k as a Prof, that was incorrect and wrong and you haven't even asked what I meant.
Everything you think you know is wrong.
February 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Everything you think you know is wrong.
I don't actually, I work half time to help support others' jobs.
February 5, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I don't actually, I work half time to help support others' jobs.
I'm... on the Soft Left and I'd like to mutualise more things, get closer to the EU and shift taxes from earning to wealth? Thanks for saying I'm fronting nonsense, you've engaged in good faith there and it was a good debate in which you were in no way found to be a bit of a troll.
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I'm... on the Soft Left and I'd like to mutualise more things, get closer to the EU and shift taxes from earning to wealth? Thanks for saying I'm fronting nonsense, you've engaged in good faith there and it was a good debate in which you were in no way found to be a bit of a troll.
It would have massively reduced your wages and real wealth via income and capital controls and ended up out of office over Ukraine and with Labour fifth or sixth in polls, so er no.
February 5, 2026 at 2:43 PM
It would have massively reduced your wages and real wealth via income and capital controls and ended up out of office over Ukraine and with Labour fifth or sixth in polls, so er no.
Never more than a tiny splinter in the mind's eye since the First World War, except the later 70s and early 80s. Also, Benn would have adapted, unlike the Jezites.
February 5, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Never more than a tiny splinter in the mind's eye since the First World War, except the later 70s and early 80s. Also, Benn would have adapted, unlike the Jezites.
You know this is public, right? You know people can see this, hide as you might from my prolier than thou-ery behind anonymity? 🤣
February 5, 2026 at 2:41 PM
You know this is public, right? You know people can see this, hide as you might from my prolier than thou-ery behind anonymity? 🤣
Well I would if (1) I'd voted for Keir or (2) I hadn't been v positive where I felt he was good and v critical where I felt he wasn't. It may surprise you to know that the poison in our politics goes far wider and deeper than the mere comings and goings of something as cramped and limited as the LP.
February 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Well I would if (1) I'd voted for Keir or (2) I hadn't been v positive where I felt he was good and v critical where I felt he wasn't. It may surprise you to know that the poison in our politics goes far wider and deeper than the mere comings and goings of something as cramped and limited as the LP.
I forgive you for your presumption and your ignorance.
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I forgive you for your presumption and your ignorance.
I'm not middle class, I was brought up by a single mum on benefits and we had a plastic sofa with tape over the arm where the dog had mauled it and I'm a first generation grad who had to fight for everything. That's why I answer back.
February 5, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I'm not middle class, I was brought up by a single mum on benefits and we had a plastic sofa with tape over the arm where the dog had mauled it and I'm a first generation grad who had to fight for everything. That's why I answer back.
Look it's okay, you don't know much about the left and its traditions and you run a semi-bot account to rile people, that's okay.
February 5, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Look it's okay, you don't know much about the left and its traditions and you run a semi-bot account to rile people, that's okay.
I think you might not have read it *precisely* closely there.
February 5, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I think you might not have read it *precisely* closely there.
I'm not a member of the LP.
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I'm not a member of the LP.
I voted for Lisa? I would not ever vote for anyone who agreed to serve in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet after 2016 and Brexit.
February 5, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I voted for Lisa? I would not ever vote for anyone who agreed to serve in Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet after 2016 and Brexit.
Means Starmer represents the instincts of the Labour Party - gradualist, Parliamentarian, liberal, pluralist, Atlanticist, NATO founders and pro-European - far better than Putin and Assad's friends on the far left who cover mass murder. Bevin, Healy, Crosland, Kinnock in different ways part of that.
February 5, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Means Starmer represents the instincts of the Labour Party - gradualist, Parliamentarian, liberal, pluralist, Atlanticist, NATO founders and pro-European - far better than Putin and Assad's friends on the far left who cover mass murder. Bevin, Healy, Crosland, Kinnock in different ways part of that.
Don't think I ever said, 'vote for Peter for leader'? You however backed the apologists for the child murderers of Ghouta. So that's on you.
February 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Don't think I ever said, 'vote for Peter for leader'? You however backed the apologists for the child murderers of Ghouta. So that's on you.
Thank God for the country and the Left that the Assad and Putin apologists like Farage didn't.
February 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Thank God for the country and the Left that the Assad and Putin apologists like Farage didn't.
People like Corbyn and Farage, who are basically Putin's lickspittles, should in fact have no place in our politics at all and should be driven out of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...
Spy poisoning: Corbyn says UK must still do business with Putin
Labour leader says UK must still deal with Russia despite
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
People like Corbyn and Farage, who are basically Putin's lickspittles, should in fact have no place in our politics at all and should be driven out of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-poli...