George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Like Dominic Cummings, Morgan McSweeney helped deliver electoral victory but, in doing so, debased and subverted everything his party claimed to stand for. 761175234
Richard Warren @richardmw1653.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The Tories managed that without his assistance. He's spent his time helping Reform. 020
Niall McAuley @niall-mcauley.bsky.social · 08/02/2026A drunk, blind rabbit could have delivered electoral victory for Labour last time out. 1432
Darren @gredawarha.bsky.social · 08/02/2026media.tenor.coma man is standing in a doorway and says he 's not the messiah !ALT: a man is standing in a doorway and says he 's not the messiah ! 000
Pete Marchetto @petemarchetto.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Having helped to deliver two electoral defeats through internal sabotage under the leadership of Corbyn. 1191
Seumas MacLennan @shambleskye.bsky.social · 09/02/2026To be fair, an old sack on a stick could have beaten the Tories at the last G.E. To credit Morgan McSweeney with that victory is incredibly flattering. What they do deserve credit for is the right wing rot and corruption amongst Labour leadership. 030
SaveTheNHS 💚 🍉 💙 VoteGreenParty @savethenhs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The Tories delivered that victory to Labour far more than anything McSweeney did. 0140
Elkeblom @ellyblom.bsky.social · 08/02/2026And in doing so he managed to achieve the alienation of its core supporters, the loathing of those with a visceral need for a different kind of politics and an absolutely guaranteed trashing at the next elections. Morally vacuous and strategically moronic. 120
bassmadman.bsky.social @bassmadman.bsky.social · 08/02/2026There is something abnormal about these people who seek ultimate power with never having to reveal themselves to those they seek to manipulate and control. These Machiavellian types should not be permitted into public office, even and especially "behind the scenes"! 010
Neil Shima @neilshima.bsky.social · 08/02/2026#Palantir handed everything by the Tories and now Labour...youtu.beThe shady Silicon Valley giant taking over Britain | Carole Cadwalladr interviewYouTube video by PoliticsJOE 002
CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Cummings or McSweeney - spot the difference. Two rags ripped from the same cloth. 1123
pckenny.bsky.social @pckenny.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Important to remember that if he did all this; he did it because he was allowed to by the politicians in the party His resignation must not be allowed to end the matter! 010
John A Gordon @alexagee77.bsky.social · 08/02/2026The only thing "new labour" stand for it ensuring the status quo legacy the Tories left Another bunch of careerist hell bent on lining their pockets and whoring themselves to big corporates 010
J Green @jgreen63.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Well you know as well as I do George, that the party and the governments of countries are not calling the shots. I just wish some brave individual would come clean about what they're told once they take office. 000
David #FBPE #FBSI 🏴 hateTrump hateMusk @areyouyesyet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026FPTP and Reform delivered a Labour victory. Labour barely increased their vote over 2019 GE 1101
FesterMakhno @festermakhno.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I'd like to see them face off in a MMA cage fight... 000
Aled @williamsaled.bsky.social · 08/02/2026There is a cancer within the Labour party and it didn't start, nor will it end, with Morgan McSweeney. It is a party devoid of beliefs or sufficient morality. It is full of people making shady deals and taking backhanders. It is as corrupt as the Tories and needs to be similarly destroyed. 181
Susanita @spanglish51.bsky.social · 08/02/2026He prostituted the Labour brand for what ? Loss of integrity , rejection of socialist values . What a hollow victory … & now to stay alive Starmer has to be a sober Farage . 040
Aidan Cook @aidancook.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Did he though? It’s not like he had some Machiavellian masterplan that outmanoeuvred the other parties - for a lot of people Labour were the least shit option, and the wanker vote split itself between Tory & Reform. The tragedy is that Labour thought they’d won a landslide because voters liked them. 030
Colin Griffin Fan Club @followthetown1.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Along with the rest of the right-wing Labour Together hacks. 090
Hugh Williams @hugh69williams.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Managed a massive 33.7%. They were very lucky rather than competent, as well as being political slurry pits of course. 000
iniseoghain.bsky.social @iniseoghain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Labour need to be in power. But being in power and making no difference to working people's lives is just power for power's sake. Mcfadden, McSweeney, Starmer are the unholy trinity of the status quo. Let's get on with transformation rather than weak tinkering and fawning of Reform. 010
ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Josh Simons next please bsky.app/profile/pete...Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.socialWhen he ran Labour Together, Cabinet Office minister Josh Simons hired a PR firm to investigate journalists After our revelations, and a flurry of news stories, Simons finally gave his side of the story But it doesn't seem to tally with the facts... 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/mcsweeney-...democracyforsale.substack.comMcSweeney goes - but Josh Simons in the frame over targeting journalistsCabinet Office minister hired a PR firm to investigate journalists. His explanation is bewildering - and begs one big question. How can Starmer keep him on? 010
johnw60.bsky.social @johnw60.bsky.social · 08/02/2026A victory that like 1997 was always going to happen ? Who resigns for appointing Morgan McSweeney? 010
judithpgarbutt @judithpgarbutt.bsky.social · 08/02/2026he`s done what he set out to do, break the labour party..... 010
Steve Cambridge @stevecambs.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Everything labour has claimed to stand for has been a lie for decades, perhaps under Harold Wilson they were socialist, but certainly not since then. 130
Walking Pete @walkingpete.bsky.social · 08/02/2026He’s a Judas… And the above is an analogy.. Not to say this is a religious thing.. Surely religion isn’t politics- is it?! 000
ala8.bsky.social @ala8.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Good riddance, take the rest of the clown show with him 071
Paul Kelly @pjthinker.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Winning is extremely important in electoral politics (including referenda) but the idea that it is the only thing that matters has destroyed British politics, hollowed out political parties and left policy making a mess. 020
angelM @angelmsattya.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Starmer reneged on every pledge and every promise made prior to being elected as Labour leader: 040
Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Did he though? I think people merely wanted to #GTTO after 14 years of misrule. 030
itsthesystem.bsky.social @itsthesystem.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Is this just one more sign of the impotence of the established parties? Total lack of ideas about what to do with their power and no ability to implement successful policies 010
Eoin @eoini3s.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I think his GE strategy cost Labour votes when people were looking for any excuse not to vote tory, the majority flattering the vote share. Winning on 34% has left Labour in a precarious position going forward & his policy agenda has resulted in the current disasterous polling. An all round failure. 001
Turux @turux.co.uk · 08/02/2026I think the narrative that he delivered the victory needs to be debunked! The state of the country and the Tory party meant that there was no way they would have not won the election. 030
Ben Granger @bengranger777.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I don't really think McSweeney 'delivered electoral victory', it's giving him too much credit. That was based almost completely on the Tories imploding. 120
azurevista.bsky.social @azurevista.bsky.social · 08/02/2026McSweeney and Mandelson sabotaged Labour's election victory so they could put Establishment Starmer in place when the Tories were replaced. McSweeney is a tool of Mandelson. 140
Donnachadh McCarthy @donnachadhmc.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Am not sure he even did that? Vote share lower than both Corbyn elections. 080
benjvdixon.bsky.social @benjvdixon.bsky.social · 08/02/2026He also only won over 34% of the electorate whilst running against a wildly unpopular incumbent Conservative Party, I’m inclined to believe that Mcsweeney did next to nothing to help Labour win that election 010
cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social @cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Electoral victory, but still more unpopular than Corbyn with the the entire media class smearing him. 1100
davidhmck.bsky.social @davidhmck.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Oh come on....It didn't take a genius for Labour to win power after 14 years of disastrous Tory rule. Voter disillusionment meant such a low turnout. 000
Jonny @jonnye.bsky.social · 08/02/2026One burning question is for each case was the PM fully onboard with the strategists plans and goals or somehow compromised/duped into going along ...? 100
stravaiginboy.bsky.social @stravaiginboy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026As far as Im concerned, both Blair and McSweewney have single handedly destroyed everything the Labour Party once stood for. 160
mikeholf.bsky.social @mikeholf.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Two things that didn't happen. - Morgan McSweeney masterminded Labour's election victory in 2024. - Dominic Cummings masterminded the Conservatives election victory in 2019. 010
aiteall.bsky.social @aiteall.bsky.social · 08/02/2026No! McSweeney, Mandelson's man in Downing St did all he could to drive out the Left and hand the NHS and the public sector over to the US Corporations & Financiers. Now the Blairite project is in crisis. Meanwhile Bliar is an executive on Trump's 'Peace Board', aiming to destroy the Palestinians. 2151
Paul 💙🩵🤍💜🤍🩷💗🌱 @astralfrancisco.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Labour, as it is, is a dead force. The future is with the Greens or, god forbid, the living nightmare that is Reform. 000
grahamxroy.bsky.social @grahamxroy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026It is a tad generous to suggest the election was won by McSweeney’s genius! Starmer was pushing at an open barn door 060
Paul Bittlestone @paulbittlestone.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Reminds me of the hobo prostitute in the Karl Urban - Judge Dread film with the sad cardboard sign: "Will debase for votes" Same outcome later as well. 010
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Oh, and journalists: please stop referring to McSweeney's faction in the Labour Party as "moderates". They are anything but. 1048873
misternatural.bsky.social @misternatural.bsky.social · 09/02/2026But he didn't help deliver electoral victory did he? Perhaps you or one of your Guardian colleagues could point out that the Labour vote only increased by 1.6% from the last GE, while the Tory vote plummeted by 19.9% & that Jeremy Corbyn got more votes than Starmer both times he ran. 000
awish99.bsky.social @awish99.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Labour would have swept to victory with a Chimp at the helm. No credit there. Since Starmer's take over McSweeney has ruined what Labour should have stood for. Good riddance, but I fear the irreparable damage has been done. 040
Tom Jolliffe @thomjolliffe.bsky.social · 08/02/2026" debased and subverted" I think this sort of reaction is foolish and inaccurate. Yes, policy mistakes disappointed Labour Supporters, but it would be foolhardy to play into the hands of the Tories and Reform by faction fighting and leadership challenges. Being pure never helped the poor. 000
Andrew Grainger @andrewclimate.bsky.social · 08/02/2026For progressive politics and solutions to real problems there is now only one realistic option, vote Green. 000
Gerry Doyle 3.0 @gerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/02/2026His contribution to the landslide may have been 1% the Tories definitely contributed the other 99%. 0140
giant-iain.bsky.social @giant-iain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Please excuse my ignorance, but are these unelected, ‘puppeteer’ type strategists a new political phenomenon or have they always been there in the background? Why isn’t having a clear (and ideally honest) manifest enough to win an election, or at least considered enough? 110
Zena Marks @zenamarks.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Actually changing people's lives, making sure hundreds of thousands of lives are saved by pulling the NHS around... and hundreds more positives. Come off it George - are you doing an intentional parody here?! 😆 000
Dave @davidrghendy.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Well, not everything but certainly some things. Let's get a grip shall we. 120
mijimba98.bsky.social @mijimba98.bsky.social · 08/02/2026I think that the people who delivered electoral victory were Boris, Liz etc. It was a catastrophic loss not a great victory. Unfortunately Labour believed the hype that the country gave them a victory rather than giving the tories a loss 010
Cameron Holleran @cameronholleran.bsky.social · 08/02/2026No, McSweeney and Cummings are *exactly* what their parties stand for - they're products of what came before them 000
Diana Jones @dmj24.bsky.social · 08/02/2026He encouraged the Government to go low and follow Reform’s agenda instead of going high and follow proper progressive Labour values 030
Lord JG @lordjongrant.bsky.social · 08/02/2026And like Cummings will not hold himself accountable in any way. 020
Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 08/02/2026But not his party, his party is Glasman's Blue Labour / Labour together and it matches exactly what they propose. It's OUR* party or the generally accepted view of what labour is/was that has been subverted. I'm glad he's gone but the infection remains. 010
Des Ferris @dathiestferret.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Great point,I also believe that a cardboard cutout could have beaten the Conservatives because they had become so toxic. The overall Labour vote seemed decisive because of an outdated FPP election system. Starmer never convinced me of anything other than being an ideal broad church Conservative. 010
pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 08/02/2026They toppled Corbyn to get their perquisites back and handed the whole party over to the lobbyists and the Epstein class bsky.app/profile/clea...pmf@clearlight.bsky.socialSince 2024, Labour has expanded private healthcare, subsidised fossil fuel companies, increased arms exports, deployed mass surveillance, endorsed a genocide, and proscribed protest, none of which appeared in their manifesto Nobody voted for these policies Lobbyist creeps like Mandelson drove them 0101
Graham Perkins @perki.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Frankly electoral victory over the Tories was given. Sadly though and as you say, Labour became debased and subverted in order to appease its paymasters…. which were not gen-pop. 010
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