Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#104959

By Malcolm Armsteen - Thu Jan 29, 2026 6:52 pm

- Thu Jan 29, 2026 6:52 pm #104959

He's now saying he got no help from the party in his mayoral campaigns.

I think he can fuck right off, and I think a lot of other active Labour members will feel the same. He has shot his bolt in the most stupid manner, and I think that's it for him.

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Memento Mori, Caesar.

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#104965

By Oboogie - Thu Jan 29, 2026 8:29 pm

- Thu Jan 29, 2026 8:29 pm #104965

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 29, 2026 6:52 pm He's now saying he got no help from the party in his mayoral campaigns.

That's just daft, it's so easy to disprove. Who does he think he is, Kristi Noem?

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#104991

By Tubby Isaacs - Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:45 am

- Fri Jan 30, 2026 10:45 am #104991

He was a dead cert incumbent. What help did he want?

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#105052

By Yug - Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:47 pm

- Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:47 pm #105052

Andy Burnham has said he stepped forward to stand for the Labour Party in the upcoming Gorton and Denton parliamentary by-election because he wanted to "fight the politics of Reform" and "defend Greater Manchester from being picked apart"...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0lxy4y26wdo

Defending Greater Manchester by jacking in his job as Mayor of Greater Manchester to sit on the back benches as representative of one small part of Greater Manchester?

Burnham, who is widely seen as a potential leadership challenger to Sir Keir Starmer, said he did not try to "undermine the government"but he wanted to "create a more positive path for everybody".

Chinny reckon

It might only be the Imperial Service Medal, but I've got a gong. What's Paul Dacre got?

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#105054

By The Weeping Angel - Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:52 pm

- Fri Jan 30, 2026 8:52 pm #105054

Well, on the one hand, we have much-needed infrastructure; on the other hand, we have wealthy pensioners. So I think I'm going with the much-needed infrastructure.

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Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#105061

By davidjay - Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:28 pm

- Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:28 pm #105061

Malcolm Armsteen wrote: ↑Thu Jan 29, 2026 6:43 pm He's lost a lot of love with his professional northerner schtick, and now he looks disloyal and ego-driven...

As mistakes go it's on a par with Portfolio's phonebank.

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#105062

By Tubby Isaacs - Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:31 pm

- Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:31 pm #105062

I'm assuming he means the £120m a year extra fianance costs. if that's indeed accurate. I'm guessing it's like those "PFI cost this much" takes which gild the lily by assuming that every conventional government project comes in on time and budget.. That amount would barely touch the sides with WASPI, and would have them protesting about an insult.

He might mean cancelling the whole project, I don't know. He's talked like a Green before re development. If he does, as you say, that's a ridiculous idea. Glad to see this bit of populism has gone down badly BTL.

Re: Labour MPs I'd Like To Hit With A Haddock#105065

By Tubby Isaacs - Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:47 pm

- Fri Jan 30, 2026 9:47 pm #105065

And if I'm not mistaken, that's a left wing MP on Twitter. How many of them have left exactly? But it's not OK for the Government? It's one thing to think that Twitter is a cesspit, but quite another to think that the Government shouldn't at least post its own case. Lots of Government business isn't political messaging anyway. It's posting information, in reasonably good faith. It would be ridiculous to argue that it didn't post health information, when every crank is on there posting takes about vaccination etc.