Red Oktober posted:

Johnson's worth over £3.1m according to an article The loving Sun published a loving week ago. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3760519/prime-minister-boris-johnson-age-net-worth-full-name/

Fucks sake.

Aidan_702 posted:

Keir isn't Jess Phillips and he's not a wrecker, and he's a working class lad.

Barry Foster posted:

We're a true leftist movement, not a true labour movement

Anyone loyal to a party because they're loyal to a party doesn't have principles, they have a football team

The labour party no longer represents my views, and actively works against them. They are our enemy. Why the gently caress would we still support them?

Starmer and the rest of them at least realise that you don't win by being nice, you win by shanking those who opposed you. Corbynism's biggest mistake was applying 'kinder, gentler politics' to politicians, when it should have been reserved solely for the vulnerable of society

we took the moral highground and it hosed us

Darth Walrus posted:

He may be thinking he can pull an Attlee here. I don't have a detailed enough understanding of the wartime coalition to get whether that's workable, though.

Comrade Fakename posted:

Sorry to drag up a topic from pages ago now, but I haven’t been on the forum since this afternoon. Re: Keir and the Trans Rights pledge, I can tell you that on the RLB campaign we received a shitload of emails that were basically a few paragraphs of transphobic wittering followed by “...and that’s why I can never vote for someone who signed the Trans Rights pledge to be leader of the Labour Party”. This happened a lot.

Because he didn’t sign that pledge, Keir was 100% the TERFs’ choice for leader. Does anyone seriously think that Keir or his team weren’t aware of that? They clearly explicitly did not sign this pledge that the other two candidates did in order to court a block of awful people to vote for him.

Bardeh posted:

Jeremy Corbyn just retweeted this, right now lmao

baka kaba posted:

Hey did anybody mention the BBC ran a fake Grand National with computer generated horses and took the whole thing deadly seriously with classical music and everything

all past jockeys and experts weighing in on which of the famous racehorses from history was definitely gonna win the prerendered race. none of the riders started doing dances on the back of the horse or anything! surreal

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Profile: The very political DPP with a past that he doesn't want you to know

Keir Stramer, the left-wing Director of Public Prosecutions, makes an intriguing omission in his Who's Who entry. While describing himself as being educated at Leeds and Oxford Universities, he excludes his years at the fee-paying Reigate Grammar School. Left-wingers view such excellent schools as temples of Tory elitism, and is not hard to see why having gone to one might conceivably be a trifle embarrassing for the New Labour figure whose parents named him after Keir Hardy, the founding Labour Party leader. But aren't we entitled to expect the nation's law chief to be entirely frank about his background? This, after all, is the man who expects us to listen when he expresses the view that, in some cases, relatives should be given the go-ahead to help loved ones kill themselves.

To Starmer, this comes under the heading of human rights, the great cause of his life which has also enriched many lawyers. Yesterday he was chauffeured between television studios to trail his 'clarification' of the legal position on assisted suicides. No other DPP in history has publicly paraded himself quite so enthusiastically. Didn't they used to be relatively-anonymous figures, universally respected for their discretion?

So what else do we know about him? He hated the name Keir as a boy but 'grew to appreciate it later', he has said, revealing the depth and historic resonance of his Left-wing beliefs. Certainly, Keir Starmer is a clever lawyer. But there was widespread surprise when he was appointed by the Government last November at the age of 46, because his reputation since being called to the bar in 1987 was purely as a defender. 'He'd never been thought of as a criminal specialist let alone a prosecutor,' says a colleague. 'But he talks like a man with all the answers. I hope he has an answer if the Conservatives take over next year.' Indeed he has: his appointment, he points out, 'is a five-year contract, so a change of government doesn't make any difference to me'.

In 2001 Starmer was voted Human Rights Lawyer of the Year. As joint head of the Doughty Street Chambers in London specialising in human rights cases, he has represented tree dwellers, road protesters and hunt saboteurs in various legal tussles. He also defended ex-MI5 officer David Shayler in his appeal against conviction for breaching the Official Secrets Act. Two year ago he acted for two terror suspects in the landmark House of Lords case which led to the control order system being declared unlawful under the Human Rights Act. He also examined the Government's legal arguments on the eve of going to war in Iraq and found (in typical courtroom language) 'a problem of credibility'.

Starmer - who is married to Victoria, a solicitor who mentors deprived children - was the first university graduate in his family. In Who's Who he refers to his parents Rodney and Josephine - lifelong, Guardian-reading socialists - as 'Rod and Jo'. Rod, 74, was a toolmaker and Jo used to be a nurse. She has been physically disabled for some years. As well as devoting themselves to rescuing donkeys, Rod and Jo had four children. The other three went to comprehensive school. Starmer has said about his happy home life that 'whenever one of us left home, they were replaced with a donkey'. In fact his parents now rescue various animals full time from their home in the Surrey commuter belt. After Reigate Grammar-Starmer went on to read law at Leeds and up to St Edmund Hall Oxford, before joining the Middle Temple chambers of Sir John Mortimer, the late barrister and novelist. From there he moved on to Doughty Street, immersing himself in human rights issues.

Since then Franz Kafka's The Trial has become his favourite book. It's about a man arrested by a remote and inaccessible authority without knowing what crime he is meant to have committed. But help is at hand from an unexpected source. Could this be how Keir Starmer perceives himself - as the unexpected source of help for those helping a loved one end their own life?

Lambert posted:

The US.

Azza Bamboo posted:

They make no mention because if your charity has party political affiliations it is not eligible for tax breaks.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

There's another form of charitable organisation besides registered charity but for the life of me I can't remember what it is called! Community something or other. But I can't google it because I don't know what to google LOL

Ed: "Community Interest Company"

justcola posted:

We're at 7000 deaths as of yesterday.

Jose posted:

singapore is on their second outbreak after relaxing the lock down

Jippa posted:

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1248179777879621633

Bardeh posted:

There are multiple of these posts on the local FB group every day. The person who posted it literally called the police on this dude

peanut- posted:

Can you imagine the kind of person that would volunteer for this job

https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1248982829607854081

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/HowUpsetting/status/1249365507054108672?s=20

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There are unresolved issues in the Parliamentary Labour Party and we do need to resolve them as soon as possible. We need to be an outward looking confident party rather than inward divided party, so we need to address that. On the other hand I respect colleagues who want to make their voice heard from different places, whether it’s the back bench, the mid bench through select committees or on the front bench. But we also need to remember that forming a strong opposition is what is needed, not just for the Labour Party but for the country.

GordonTheDeadFish posted:

I thought Jonathan Ashworth was one of the better-rated members of Corbyn's cabinet? Bit disheartening to think he may have been involved, though it's not necessarily the case that husband and wife are precisely on the same page on this. Between this, Rayner being a bit poo poo during the leadership election, and even Pidcock getting a bit TERFy, we don't have a whole lot of good MPs to look to.

Braggart posted:

The Question IRL posted:

older relatives ... point them to Ireland.

Szmitten posted:

I hear the Sunday Times is ripping the government and Boris a new one tomorrow.