RT @Vinc_Ev_: Still seeing "Give Burnham a chance". I have. And after deliberation he's still the narcissistic, vacuous, puerile, egotistic…
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Now that's a true @UKLabour member.
Every day I wake up angry. Every day I wake up saddened. Every day I wake up incensed at what Labour has done to our party. The trust has been shattered. The unity torn apart. @Keir_Starmer values that once inspired so many have been cast aside. I will not normalise it. I will not excuse it. I will not stay silent. Some may have moved on.. i haven't.. because integrity matters... Loyalty matters.... democracy matters. I loved what Labour stood for...I really did.. that's why this hurts so deeply. @UKLabour @andyburnham you have tarnished our party forever..do you actually understand what you have done?
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A letter to @UKLabour For years I gave my time my energy and my voice to the Labour Party. I wasn't just a member I was an active campaigner and a proud advocate. I defended the Party..promoted its values and believed it stood for integrity.. fairness.. compassion and service to others. Today I feel politically homeless. What saddens me most is not simply a difference in political direction..but what I see as the loss of the very values that inspired my loyalty. Integrity..honesty..respect and decency should never be optional..they should be the foundation of any movement that seeks to represent working people. Instead I have watched events unfold that have left me feeling deeply disappointed and profoundly let down. The behaviour I have witnessed has shaken my faith in a Party I once believed embodied the very best of public service. I feel angry because I invested so much of myself. I feel saddened because I believed in something bigger than politics..I believed in principles. To lose faith in that is genuinely painful. Leaving supporters like me politically homeless should concern every Labour representative. Trust once broken is incredibly difficult to rebuild. Loyalty cannot be taken for granted .. it has to be earned through actions as much as words. I never expected perfection. I did expect honesty.. integrity.. accountability and leadership worthy of the people who placed their trust in the Party. I hope one day Labour rediscovers the values that inspired so many of us to stand beside it with pride. Until then I remain saddened by what has been lost. Your behaviour toward @Keir_Starmer no matter how you look at it is unforgivable. Yours sincerely.. A Labour supporter and member who no longer recognises the Party they once proudly called home.
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Politics worked better under Keir Starmer because the focus was on governing.. not performing. His priority was working for the people. with signs of economic recovery and delivering.. in whole or in part... around two-thirds of the manifesto commitments. Leadership is measured by results.. not by social media engagement. Vacuous TikTok videos don't improve people's lives they simply distract from the job of governing. Britain deserves substance over spectacle.. and leadership over publicity. Britain deserves @Keir_Starmer .
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What I want to know is what is @andyburnham going to do when he runs out of @Keir_Starmer 's ideas?
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Tory traitor wants to work with the government to reform social care. Why? They had fourteen years and did nothing, except make it worse. Nothing to say, nothing to offer. @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @MelJStride @Helen_Whately @andyburnham
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Give em a few years and these little cunts will be hanging flags from lampposts & blaming foreigners for their unemployment.
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What don't Labour get..what don't mps get..none of their spin..none of their drivel that they speak and nothing that they do will deter from the fact that they all are a bunch of SELF SERVING BACK STABBING TRAITORS. @UKLabour we see you for what you are.
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What was it people said about Keir Starmer? “ I don’t know what he stands for”! Well HE DID stand on a manifesto that was being implemented. We haven’t a clue what Burnham stands for. All he can say is he’s not Keir, he couldn’t lick his boots! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77y…
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No Cabinet members in @Keir_Starmer's govt had to stab anybody in the back to get their positions. All it took was for Keir to win a historic landslide. Every member of @andyburnham's government will have had to stab Keir Starmer in the back to get there. #IStandWithStarmer
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Thanks for replying Alison and for your warmth towards Keir Starmer. But, I'm afraid I don't care what anybody says about Andy Burnham; I was witness to how he went about this. It's inherently dishonest. He and Louise Haigh - according to her - have been planning this coup for a year, 1 year after he won the GM mayoralty 3rd term. He promised those voters he was done with Westminster and he wanted to complete his third term more than anything else. So they gave him their vote. Then he walked out on them, and he'd known for a year that he was going to do it. but they didn't know. In Jan this year and before Makerfield he promised to support the govt and not undermine it. A blatant lie, because he'd known for 6 months what he was going to do. The NEC had wisdom in Jan. But not in the Makerfield by-election. How many MPs did Andy Burnham try to persuade to give up their seats? 26, I heard, before Josh Simons agreed - for a very sweet deal. Then Andy Burnham trashed Labour and the govt and by default Keir Starmer - and used Labour resources to do it. He repeatedly said he wasn't interested in ousting Keir Starmer, that he was dedicated to Makerfield. Another blatant lie. He started amassing MP support. He got to 97 pretty quickly, but Keir Starmer had a 150 at that point. Then Louise Haigh told him that if he didn't resign the contest would be "brutal". And the campaign to put pressure on MPs ramped up exponentially. The betrayal was mind-boggling. MPs who owed their status in the cabinet to Keir Starmer stabbed him in the back. Others who owed their jobs as MPs to the fact that he won a landslide in 2024 did the same. Being the decent man that he is, Keir Starmer didn't want to subject the Labour Party to internecine war. So the bullies won. He resigned. And we've lost the best PM this country has had for decades. What makes it even more revolting is that Burnham is now using Keir Starmer's achievements and trying to make out like they're his own, or at his own ideas. I think it's clear that not all MPs nominating him are doing so because they believe in him. They're doing so because they don't want Labour to fall apart. Keir Starmer has been a Prime Minister of exceptional standing who did all the hard and difficult work of turning the country round after inheriting a stinking mess from the Tories, taking all the body blows, never flinching, never giving up, never losing his nerve or commitment to the job and the country. He has elevated the UK internationally beyond our wildest dreams, and been the driving force behind European solidarity and security, liked, respect and admired by all. And he's been kicked out by a plotter and a backstabber who makes and breaks promises as easily as you can switch a light on and off. Who lies with impunity. Who cost the taxpayer about £5million. I'm not just angry. It's been traumatising, for me and for many here. And nobody is listening to us. We've been completely disenfranchised. If you've got to the end of this, thank you for persisting.
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Traitor @Josephpowell for aiding in the removal of Keir Starmer. Andy is not uniting us, quite the opposite. North v South, East & West. Starmer supporters v Burnham supporters. #anyonebutburnham
This morning I was proud to nominate Andy Burnham to be the next Leader of the Labour Party and our next Prime Minister. I know Andy has what it takes to unite people in this country in a hopeful vision that rejects the politics of division and negativity. I look forward to supporting him to tackle the cost of living, promote economic growth and improve living standards for all. One of my priorities when I was elected two years ago was to fight in Parliament for Truth, Justice and Change for the Grenfell community. Andy has been a powerful advocate for the Hillsborough families over many years. After decades of institutional failure and cover-up, his commitment to giving ordinary people a voice when powerful institutions have failed them is exactly the kind of leadership that our country needs. Labour must be the party that cleans up politics, restores trust in public life, and ensures that those in power are always accountable to the people they serve. That has never been truer than in recent weeks. Andy has spent his career fighting for those principles, which is why I'm proud to support him.
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Are we going to see the true scale of the post-Burnham exodus in the NEC Annual Report this September, or will the membership figures be buried?
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All the Labour MPs telling us that @andyburnham has earned the job & is likeable need to explain themselves & tell us why 🤔Honestly how can anyone who is so snide & arrogant who has treated SKS,the voters & party members with such contempt be any of these things 🤨#NotMyPM
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Replying to @nexta_tv
Trump has already completely compromised the red card
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"I took the money, I got caught taking the money, I couldn't think of a way of defending taking the money so, with the help of the British media I'm going to divert attention from taking the money by forcing a by-election and pretending I can't talk about the money because of it"
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I’ll say it again for the thickos. Burnham would have been accepted by everyone IF he came in, served for 2 years and IF Starmer hasn’t turned it around (signs are he would) then by all means have a leadership election. This was a PLP old boys coup enabled by Musk & media.
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Roger and Carol lived their retirement dream in Spain. They also voted Brexit, woke up on 24 June 2016 shocked, shocked, they tell @thetimes to find that lots of other people had also voted Brexit. Fearing they'd lose their pension and NHS access they sold up and moved back to Luton. They hate living there. They want to live in Spain but they can't, because freedom of movement has gone. Now they support Reform led by the man who set the ball rolling for their misery. I have every sympathy for Roger and Carol, but an advert for popular democracy they are not.
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And this is what is missed. Banned by Ofcom BUT every quote is real and from Reform That tells you everything you need to know
Reform UK quotes in the banned Labour political broadcast. It was banned by Ofcom, so please share far and wide!!! 👇👇👇
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