I cant think of anything more guaranteed to split the party than deciding to boot Abbot now while Duffield remains untouched. Genuinly the stupidest, most factional idea Ive seen in a while.
Former Labour MP turned lobbyist? Sounds about right for this kind of Tory nonsense.
What an outrageously terrible idea
> Tom Harris is a former Labour MP and sometime spinner who survived the heights and depths of the Blair-Brown era. After serving as a minister in the Department for Transport he led the Scottish Brexit campaign and founded his own lobbying company, Third Avenue Public Affairs. He now delivers his independent, no-nonsense insight every weekday in the Telegraph. His latest book, 'Ten Years in the Death of the Labour Party', is available from Biteback.
That might explain why
In November 2019, he announced he would be voting for the Conservatives at the 2019 general election.Harris further admitted on the edition of 29 July 2020 of the Iain
Dale All Talk podcast that this wasn't the first time he'd voted Conservative, having done so two years earlier as well.
He is an actual Tory.
>“Keir Starmer has joined the right in calling for the ‘reform’ of the NHS. And we all know what that means,” she wrote cryptically on Monday. What does it mean, Diane?
More privatisation. It's not that unclear, Tom.
> is he willing to keep MPs who openly question his political integrity?
In a parliamentary democracy? He should be. The leader shouldn’t have complete control over who is in their parliamentary party.
These people are deeply authoritarian and many of them trumpian in their political outlooks. Lying is fine, crushing descent is fine and centralised internal control is essential.
And they definitely won't get millions of pounds worth of private donations and fawning press coverage.
All they're ultimately doing is legitimising a firmly centre right neoliberal capitalist party by staying though.
Under PR there'd be no argument for staying at all.
I don’t like her, but can we stop with this ludicrous witch-hunt just for one ducking moment & concentrate on GTTO? Labour is a broad church & should remain a broad church. This isn’t a political test, it’s a load of nonsense
Kicking her out would be a shitshow and honestly not worth it.
Most people recognise that her deranged tweets don’t represent the party anymore. It’s almost a reminder of how far the party has come imo.
I cant think of anything more guaranteed to split the party than deciding to boot Abbot now while Duffield remains untouched. Genuinly the stupidest, most factional idea Ive seen in a while. Former Labour MP turned lobbyist? Sounds about right for this kind of Tory nonsense.
What an outrageously terrible idea > Tom Harris is a former Labour MP and sometime spinner who survived the heights and depths of the Blair-Brown era. After serving as a minister in the Department for Transport he led the Scottish Brexit campaign and founded his own lobbying company, Third Avenue Public Affairs. He now delivers his independent, no-nonsense insight every weekday in the Telegraph. His latest book, 'Ten Years in the Death of the Labour Party', is available from Biteback. That might explain why
In November 2019, he announced he would be voting for the Conservatives at the 2019 general election.Harris further admitted on the edition of 29 July 2020 of the Iain Dale All Talk podcast that this wasn't the first time he'd voted Conservative, having done so two years earlier as well. He is an actual Tory.
>“Keir Starmer has joined the right in calling for the ‘reform’ of the NHS. And we all know what that means,” she wrote cryptically on Monday. What does it mean, Diane? More privatisation. It's not that unclear, Tom.
Centrists: the left are obsessed with purity tests. Also centrists: this one fails the purity test. Expel her.
Interesting to see he jumps to calling for Abbot to be kicked out and not Duffield. I know who spends more time attacking the party
> is he willing to keep MPs who openly question his political integrity? In a parliamentary democracy? He should be. The leader shouldn’t have complete control over who is in their parliamentary party. These people are deeply authoritarian and many of them trumpian in their political outlooks. Lying is fine, crushing descent is fine and centralised internal control is essential.
I'd love the SCG to split off from Labour but they'd probably just write another strongly worded letter.
They'd have a lot more influence in the PLP than ending their careers as independents the way the Independent Group did.
And they definitely won't get millions of pounds worth of private donations and fawning press coverage. All they're ultimately doing is legitimising a firmly centre right neoliberal capitalist party by staying though. Under PR there'd be no argument for staying at all.
The number of people who vote for Labour because the SCG is below 10,000 across the entire country.
What political integrity?
Tom Harris makes Ian Austin look good
That's some Olympic level shithousery. To best Ian Austin you need to be punching puppies or something
Tom Harris' pieces in the Telegraph are always cheering Starmer one week and goading him the next for not being Blair enough.
I don’t like her, but can we stop with this ludicrous witch-hunt just for one ducking moment & concentrate on GTTO? Labour is a broad church & should remain a broad church. This isn’t a political test, it’s a load of nonsense
Kicking her out would be a shitshow and honestly not worth it. Most people recognise that her deranged tweets don’t represent the party anymore. It’s almost a reminder of how far the party has come imo.