Angus Satow

This is huge and points to a scandal potentially bigger than Mandelson. Beyond this alleged attempt to manipulate one Parliamentary selection in Croydon, we could be looking at Labour systematically rigging selections for dozens if not hundreds of MPs 🧵

This is huge and points to a scandal potentially bigger than Mandelson. Beyond this alleged attempt to manipulate one Parliamentary selection in Croydon, we could be looking at Labour systematically rigging selections for dozens if not hundreds of MPs 🧵

Under-emphasised reason why Labour are doomed: they rigged all the Parliamentary selections, so their MPs are mostly nodding dogs who share the exact same awful politics as the Leadership. Ideologically opposed to shifting direction, even if Starmer goes.

He is many things but Keir Starmer is not a liar.

This is an astonishing fact from today’s Sunday Times. At least 224 out of 257 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024 came from either charities or communications/lobbying agencies, or were formerly “political employees”. It explains so much about Labour backbenchers’ priorities.

It’s almost as if McSweeney deliberately misleading the police call handler to sow confusion. Says Belgrave Street, not Road. When call handler thinks it’s Belgrave Street in the East End and mentions Stepney, McSweeney does not correct the handler. Indeed he then confirms the thief turning at Stepney Green Park when the handler mentions that — knowing full well that couldn’t be true.

Under-emphasised reason why Labour are doomed: they rigged all the Parliamentary selections, so their MPs are mostly nodding dogs who share the exact same awful politics as the Leadership. Ideologically opposed to shifting direction, even if Starmer goes.