Starmer's vision quest
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CXRAndy
Epic Member
He called them in one by one to force them to tweet 
View: https://x.com/i/status/2020882607202820163
View: https://x.com/i/status/2020882607202820163
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
That'll be the interesting thing to watch now, whether the support of the PLP now is predicated on him listening more to them now rather than some imagined genius who got them down to 17% poll rating. That's clearly indicate in the Tribune statement (below).
Seems that the nakedly cynical posturing of Sarwar not only backfired as far as ousting Starmer, but has backfired directly on Sarwar's position in the Scottish Labour Party, not least given his association with Mandelson which he's now highlighted.
And Rayner's unequivocal backing was the right thing to do, rather than try to destabilise now... she's go plenty of time in the future.
icowden
Shaman
Maybe he's Starmer's Severus Snape and this was a self sacrifice to help Keir...
Blazing Saddles
Active Member
Anas is obviously spelled incorrectly. His name needs a different second vowel.
Psamathe
Guru
These things often go through building, each another step towards the aims.
Sarwar was probably never going to get Starmer out of post but another step towards it happening. Somebody has to go public first and one person is unlikely to be enough. Might be he has also diverted some of the Mandleson scandal and Starmer failings away from Scottish Labour for next elections (I don't know enough about Scottish politics to say).
C R
Legendary Member
He's nowhere near that important, he is just a garden variety arse.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
Funnily enough, that's the more common spelling in the wild world of Scottish social media...
Not sure self-sacrifice is his thing - although arguably it could be willing auto-immolation in the face of the probable reality of being a very distant third behind John Swinney (the Toothless Labrador of Independence) & Reform's Baron Offord Of Garvel in the May Scottish election. Better off out of it.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
It's a desperate & obvious attempt to do exactly that, nothing more.
And amusingly, it's blown up in his stupid nepo-baby multimillionaire face.
First Aspect
Guru
I've been busy today so not up to speed. I had guessed it was pretty much a free hit for him,.but perhaps not. How is it being reported up there?
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
He's clearly heroically noble in some (obvious) quarters.
Daily Record
Less so elsewhere:
Bella Caledonia
First Aspect
Guru
The first one was written by a 10 year old, the second one is much better reasoned and probably about right.
Sarwar sounds exactly like an IT support guy we had at my old job, who was capable of reinstalling software, reinstalling drivers and clearing caches, but like early online help bots completely incapable of answering anything other than certain yes no questions. His only use was knowing administrator passwords. Could actually be the same guy, come to think about it.
briantrumpet
Pharaoh
Vaguely amused by today's confected crisis and a lot of journalists trying to whip everyone into a "He's gotta resign now!" frenzy, only to have to pretend tonight that they either
1) really knew all along he'd not resign
or
2) Owen Jones something something something.
Several looking rather foolish.
1) really knew all along he'd not resign
or
2) Owen Jones something something something.
Several looking rather foolish.
Rusty Nails
Country Member
Too many in the press like to feed the frenzy because it makes even more news for them to report on. They love a good story, even (especially) if it's one they've had a hand in creating.
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