refitman wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 6:45 pm
Labour spent so much time shitting the bed over 'anti-Semitism', when they should have been paying attention to the actual scumbags in their party.
I've no idea if the above allegations are true, there's too little to go in in that tweet to come to a firm conclusion, but on the face of it it does look
really bad.
On your wider point though I couldn't agree more. Up until now Andrew Gwynne had long and successful career in the Labour Party before being promoted twice by Starmer despite being warned that he was an absolute prick. If I were an MP I admit I'd probably get pissed off with particularly bothersome constituents and have a few choice words to say about them, I don't have an issue with that (besides the fact he was dumb enough to do it on WhatsApp). What's most notable to me is how he and his witless chums seem to have targetted most of their ire and abuse at the left, whether it be constituents or fellow MPs, often in the most disgusting, childish ways. I mean I've known for a long time how toxic Labour party politics is, it's one of the reasons I never got involved, but even I was shocked at some the shit Gwynne had posted. If I'd done it here you'd have rightly banned me from the forum. And as I say, it wasn't aimed at the Tories, or Farage, it was aimed at people like us.
Why people like Gwynne and his ilk are even in the Labour Party is for someone else to answer, I'm about as soft left as they come (or at least I used to be) and yet he and his idiot pal from Burnley would call me a Trot. When people like these clowns are being promoted and trusted in government it's little wonder that government ends up looking like a slightly tweaked facsimile of the previous Tory shitshow. Because all they care about is sticking it to the left, it's their reason for existence, their petty obsession that trumps all else, and as we're seeing from immigration to disability/child benefits they're perfectly happy to outdo the Tories in cuntishness if it means rubbing the left's noses in it.
There's plenty of political commentators from the left and right pointing out that Starmer's Labour can never satisfy the right, especially the far right, so all this performative cruelty they've begun indulging in is a waste of time, and that's absolutely true. But what they don't fully appreciate is that it's not just a feeble attempt to placate the Tory/Reform right, it's also a gleeful demonstration of their crushing of the left while people like me watch on disgusted and find ourselves once again at odds with a Labour government that promised much but ended up being not just a disappointment, but actively hostile to even the most basic, fundamental left wing principles.
