George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished. 751438372
Michael @mikins.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Sadly none of the current contenders look like they'll be the dramatic departure we need, and in Streetings case, actively worse. Even if he has got his PR team on at the indy and other papers demanding they call him a centrist to go along with everything else that's fake about him. 000
rafaelmelchor.bsky.social @rafaelmelchor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026bsky.app/profile/good...Good Law Project@goodlawproject.orgWe just thought we’d repost this video from last March before the Keir Starmer of it all goes out of date... 000
botrange694.bsky.social @botrange694.bsky.social · 15/05/2026👍I'm not even sure Andy Burnham will be that much better: he'll be better at understanding politics but he's arrogant. Over the years he took credit for policies already implemented in Scotland as if it were his original ideas. He hates the SNP + we have his LFI past. He's not the messiah! 2202
JoJaSciPo @strangetruther.bsky.social · 15/05/2026That is exactly it, with Labour. Unfortunately they won't, and it is. "They" are now the main structure holding Labour up. Oh - in both senses I suppose. 010
keesvanwoerkom.bsky.social @keesvanwoerkom.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It is unlikely to happen - so what’s next 100
Andy Smart @andysmart1948.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You, me and millions of other sons and daughters of toolmakers know what's missing from Starmer's govt: Peter Mandelson's fingerprints. Today a new organisation is launched. Let's all be intensely relaxed about LabourThoughtsandPrayers. 000
Poodle (Scottish Indy Now) 🏴🇮🇪🏴🇨🇦 @poodle19631.bsky.social · 16/05/2026There's a horse's chance of that. Neigh chance. 120
Lysander @lysander1945.bsky.social · 16/05/2026They are already finished, as is the entire UK political establishment who have literally no clue what they are doing 000
Haven Tenerife @janetanscombe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026George, whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us or the country's finished. 080
Sir Andy KBE @andykbe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You mean the UK is finished, as it'll be an empty husk with all its wealth finally extracted by the 0.01% 170
Alex Vijatov @alexvv.bsky.social · 16/05/2026If you want to know who a politician serves, look at his list of donors. We have come a long way from when Labour relied on trade unions for its funding. 010
pckenny.bsky.social @pckenny.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I often find myself wondering who exactly pulls the government’s strings. And not just this government’s. I think there is a bigger O’Regan just a change of leadership. 110
Boris Long @borislong.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I mentioned in a reply to someone else. Easy wins were in his gift. Hillsborough, infected blood, Horizon sub post, WASPI women, all adjudicated on. Grenfell, Covid VIP, should be people in jail by now. Russia report, Leverson? Handed to him on a plate to act on or go deeper. Restore faith? My a**e. 16216
Keith Walsh @ktwalsh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026In Canada we have Carney, who seems eerily similar in that regard, though he speaks in central banker type 'vapid nothings' so it's hard to tell what he talking about sometimes without falling asleep 000
30bob.bsky.social @30bob.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If anyone replaces him it will create unemployment. Fuel charges are ridiculously high. 010
Cowabunga 1.2 @cowabunga1-2.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Why do you think these people are able to become leaders in the first place? 010
Sshhiân will RESIST @sian20.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The Labour party is dead until they stop taking money and working for Israel too. 0381
Simon @adieuanamcara.bsky.social · 16/05/2026And to think people believe Burnham will be different. Why is Josh Simons (of Labour Together) giving up his seat for Burnham. Think long and hard about that. Burnham supported the Iraq war, NHS privatisation(PPI) and many other neoliberal failures... 210
ShaKieran @shakieran.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I think that list is excruciatingly small… and the ones who will wouldn’t ever have the votes to do it anyway. 020
Ashley Frank @brightonbike.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I am grateful that we no longer have Corbyn. He allowed Brexit 240
Jmgr522 @jmgr522.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They won't as anyone out there in that cesspit we call British political establishments are corrupt to the core. Especially Labour Genocide Enabling Party members. Do they forget everyone of them propped up the genocide enabling PM. 080
Chris #ChangeEverything #VoteGreen @chrisl86.bsky.social · 15/05/2026static.klipy.comBryan Cranston's Iconic Mic DropALT: Bryan Cranston's Iconic Mic Drop 000
PJ @septemberrising.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Then that would mean none from his cabinet or the man of the north… 020
Me! (she, her) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈🏴 @meteorgirl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The usual Starmer apologists wailing about how unfair it is that a genocide supporting, trans and disabled people hating PM is finding out that people hate him. He and his right wing stooge cabinet needs to go. A party so bereft of talent they have to gerrymander a vote to find someone suitable. 172
Me! (she, her) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🌈🏴 @meteorgirl.bsky.social · 15/05/2026And his diehard and almost inexplicable desire to support Zionism come what may, despite the genocide. 030
chazgay.bsky.social @chazgay.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I think he’s doing enough to convince enough voters. It’s his coms that is the issue. He needs to set the media agenda, tell them what the story is. He needs to hold weekly press conferences selling the vision of what his government is doing. 200
c-atch22.bsky.social @c-atch22.bsky.social · 15/05/2026All politicians should have one job & one goal only. To work in the public's interest & to have a moral compass! Not to take large sums of money from big groups with agenda's. Not to panda to algorithm-type statistics. Not to have second jobs. Not to make decisions based on fighting other parties. 1295
chris-atkinson791.bsky.social @chris-atkinson791.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Yep, this could be be the last roll of the Labour dice. It could be the last roll anyway. I like Burnham, but if he ever ends up in No. 10 he faces a very long, uphill battle. Whoever replaces Starmer will either be the same/worse or they will be in for a tough fight from within their own party. 010
David McCulloch @photodave.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Our politics are far too stitched up by extreme wealth and power, backed by the non-dom oligarch media. Who is brave enough to challenge financialisation and work for the majority; making the real economy work for the people? 0110
hubertlaneite.bsky.social @hubertlaneite.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Pretty fair summary… he had five or six easy policy decisions to make that’d ensure 20 years of labour government… he blindly ignored these… !!? 0100
Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026They are in corporate pockets. The fact they haven’t even changed the guidance highlighted by the Covid inquiry to safeguard the population from current and future risks is enough for me. They are totally incompetent. 140
GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Labour's finished. No prime minister in my lifetime has put the public interest ahead of the rich and powerful. And I don't expect that to change in the next 3 years. 010
Cordelia de Chair @cordelia-dechair.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Couldn’t agree more George. That’s exactly it. No protection against the Jamie Dimon’s of this world. 000
jeremy12.bsky.social @jeremy12.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Its amazing how everyone that wants a Labour government which reflects their views. But they never mention how much it will cost and how to pay for it. All political ideas , should by law include the amount of public money needed to pay for the change. 000
Joe @joe-jones.bsky.social · 15/05/2026And utter lack of charisma. Shouldn’t be so important, but is 110
Little Richardjohn @littlerichardjohn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Name 3 countries the size of Britain which have effectively: "put public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations & foreign governments" Most get eaten up & spat out. 'Capitalist Encirclement' has never been more real or more ruthless. Every good marxist knows that. Even Starmer. 000
jupite5.bsky.social @jupite5.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Media had a lot to do with it. The right wing media have pushed for his demise almost since he became PM. Recently weeks of speculation who may replace him. 010
brackenhill.bsky.social @brackenhill.bsky.social · 15/05/2026To be honest I think about 80% of his problem is communication. He just can't speak and sound interesting no matter what he says. 020
Jean B Anderson 🍁 @jean-b-anderson.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I mean, that was the whole reason he was allowed to get the role in the first place. As we have seen, anyone who would have behaved in the public interest would have been smeared to oblivion by those same factions and you would have (and did) joined in 020
Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I don’t disagree that that’s an issue but I think it’s a symptom of something more fundamental, as I put here, which I wrote while reflecting on a Robert Shrimsley piece (see what I was replying to).Alistair King@alistairking.bsky.socialYep. And a great conclusion. In my view, Starmer's original sin is his inability and/or unwillingness to effectively and boldly argue the case for what he must know is right for the country on certain issues, leading to bad but (he thinks) easier-to-sell decisions, or good but badly-sold decisions. 060
shrimpero3.bsky.social @shrimpero3.bsky.social · 15/05/2026What failures implementing the manifesto that he got voted in on Economy on the rise NHS wait list falling Unemployment falling Inflation falling Renewable energy highest its ever been But hey jump on the press bandwagon of knocking the best PM we've had in many a year 100
Jago2012 @jago2012.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If Frogface gets in, it's all finished ☹️ I am filled with existential dread. 020
seacide @antiseacide.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Leadership is a rare thing in politics today. Not just in the UK. Society has been effectively abandoned and left defenceless. Whoever replaces these clowns need to be true leaders at any cost to oligarchs, corporations, foreign petrostates, etc. There is already violent conflict resisting change. 020
SuperfuzzBigmuff @alvaroseco.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Labour was never created to abolish capitalism, it was created to contain the working class inside it. Socialdemocracy exists to derail revolutionary organization and reconcile workers with bourgeois rule. Now that socialism no longer pressures the West, even mild concessions are being stripped away 210
Mrs V Smegma @mrsvsmegma.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Key elements of that are being owned by FOI and the RW media. 000
Jeremy Bentham's Ghost @utilitymonster2.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Which foreign governments are you referring to? He didn't drop the Digital Services Tax, despite claims from the likes of you that he would. He did a trade deal with the US (like every other country and bloc) in the national interest to save jobs in the car, metals and whisky sectors. 230
Sandra. @sandratofriends.bsky.social · 16/05/2026You are so right on this, unfortunately I don't see anyone in labour or Tories willing and or able to do this, WM has been bought. 010
falconer59.bsky.social @falconer59.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Perfect analysis but can any of the others be brave enough to create policies that will benefit the many not the few. 010
Philip Machanick 🇿🇦 @philip-mach.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Corbyn, despite being branded a failure, scored more votes for Labour in both of his elections. A Labour back to its socialist roots wouldn’t be splitting the far right vote with the Tories and Reform but would get many more enthusiastic votes. Or: forget the whole thing and go Green. 180
amch.bsky.social @amch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Absolutely. How far are we from any principles of Labour's founders? 2120
Richard Caldicott @richcaldicott.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Although I am a bit dislocated from UK politics over here in the US, my sympathies are more with the Green Party over there these days. Still, it could be cool to see a challenge from Angela Rayner to a Wes Streeting bid, but a recognition from her of the genocide in Gaza would be even better. 010
pmf @clearlight.bsky.social · 17/05/2026I think this view is correct. See also www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...newstatesman.comThe Labour Party is dead, and Starmer has killed itAny progressive new leader will face the task of reviving a corpse 000
Seven of Nine Fan 🌍🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🖖🏼 @sevenofnine3au01.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Pretty much sums it up. And Streeting's record so far and his links to private health will need some scrutiny. 000