Zoë Crowther

Well thank you for your meme service if it was! And ah yes it was the top story last night but has changed now

Keir Starmer on the ropes after by-election humiliation The prime minister is urged to veer left after defeat in Gorton & Denton as ministers say a change in leadership is inevitable

This one***

www.thetimes.com/article/c6e1...

Hilarious that I got sent this meme by someone on Bluesky, forwarded it to some ministers, and now it’s in The Times

Don’t let anyone tell you Bluesky doesn’t have influence ✌️

Reference to the meme is in this Times story
www.thetimes.com/article/c6e1...

Sorry I can’t remember who originally commented on my post with this meme, but if it was you please show yourself

Hilarious that I got sent this meme by someone on Bluesky, forwarded it to some ministers, and now it’s in The Times

Don’t let anyone tell you Bluesky doesn’t have influence ✌️

I’m afraid this letter shows why so many Labour MPs think Starmer needs to go. His political antenna is non-existent. If you have just been humbled in a by-election it might not be the best idea to slag off the choices of the voters who deserted you in their droves.

I’ll be on BBC Radio Wales at 5:30pm to discuss the Gorton and Denton by-election result 📻

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics

I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

A damning indictment of the fact Starmer doesn't read my columns.

Keir Starmer Says Greens Won By-Election Off Back Of George Galloway Endorsement Keir Starmer has accused the Green Party of embracing 'sectarian' politics and claimed that its historic victory in the Gorton and Denton by-electi...

Read in full Starmer's letter to Labour MPs after their bruising by-election defeat

Obtained by PolHome, it says Polanski's party embraced the "sectarian" politics of George Galloway to win

It also sought to assure Labour MPs that the Greens won't be able to replicate their success at the next GE

Not sure a 27.5% swing can really be described as 'pushing them over the line', however it's attributed

‘Coalition of socially Conservative working class voters and with middle class social liberals cannot survive an election campaign’. What does Keir Starmer think the Labour coalition is, or has ever been?

Already happening!

A Labour MP tells me: "That letter is what the Greens will use to raise the money. Slow clap"

“His only answer now is to smear the voters as extremists, who wanted the hope and change that he is failing to offer. It is not the election result or voters who are disappointing, it is his Labour government that is beyond disappointing.”

(2/2)

A Green Party source tells @siennarodgers.bsky.social :

“Starmer is clearly coming to the end of his premiership, one that he has barely been clinging to. He has learnt nothing from the Greens’ stunning victory and once again he is tone deaf...

(1/2)

"The next election is too important to let that happen. It’s a fight we can win, and we’re going to win it.

Best,
Keir"

(16/16)

"We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose: the risk of extreme policies like legalising all drugs and pulling out of NATO that most voters strongly reject, and the risk of splitting the progressive vote so that Reform come through the middle.

(15/16)

"We’ve seen it with George Galloway, who won two mid-term by elections but held neither of those seats in a general election.

(14/16)

"We’ve seen that before. We’ve seen it with the Lib Dems, who have often won mid-term by-elections against both the Conservatives and Labour, but never been able to come close to winning nationally.

(13/16)

"The Greens may have won here, but they simply do not have the resources, the activist base or the local knowledge to replicate this victory across the country.

(12/16)

"It will show what we’ve been saying from the outset of this year: the country is turning a corner. These are all Labour policies, putting Labour values into action - policies no other party would or could deliver.

(11/16)

"... more free breakfast clubs opening, Pride in Place funding coming through, NHS waiting lists continuing to fall.

(10/16)

"And look at the policies that are going to make a difference in people’s lives in the coming months: the landmark Employment Rights Act, money off energy bills, the cruel two-child limit scrapped...

(9/16)

"Look at the good economic news we’ve had in the past week: inflation and borrowing coming down, retail sales and business confidence rising, energy bills falling.

(8/16)

"It’s my job to make sure that happens. And I’m working day in, day out to see it through.

Over the coming months, people will feel the benefit of the long-term decisions this government is taking.

(7/16)

"It hurts, but this is the kind of result that we have often seen parties of government face. In by-elections people can make their voice heard without risking a change of government. I get it: people are rightly impatient to see the change they voted for.

(6/16)