[Abernathy]

This is really very good.

Like the Gallagher brothers, setting out on a tour with a setlist that doesn’t include a song younger than 30 years, Jeremy Corbyn is back. Like the Gallagher brothers he hasn’t changed at all. Jeremy Corbyn who, in 2022, called for the UK to stop arming Ukraine against Putin’s invasion, is back. Jeremy Corbyn who, in 2023, provoked astonishment in a Piers Morgan Talk TV interview with his Denial Of Peter-esque inability to refer to Hamas as a terrorist organisation, is back. Labour and Keir Starmer have given him this foothold, failing to meaningfully address the horrors of the war in Gaza.

Many on the left have never spent a moment since 2019 reflecting on why Labour found so little electoral success with Corbyn as leader. Instead, they chose a stab-in-the-back narrative of internal sabotage. There has been plenty of online abuse of opponents, but never an earnest attempt to come to terms with the ex-leader’s failings. Now there will never need to be.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2 ... ir-starmer

[Crabcakes]

Just in case anyone fancies a laugh

[Oboogie]

This is really very good.

Like the Gallagher brothers, setting out on a tour with a setlist that doesn’t include a song younger than 30 years, Jeremy Corbyn is back. Like the Gallagher brothers he hasn’t changed at all.

Unlike Corbyn, millions are evidently pleased to see the return of the Gallaghers who are at least delivering what they promise.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Oasis comparison is a bit modern. Jez is more like Mud doing a comeback tour.

[Abernathy]

You just wonder what twisted logic could lead anyone to believe that a startup political party, led by a man who in recent memory was actually in the prime position to win power and implement the sort of radical socialist policies that people are allegedly clamouring for but failed miserably to do so, twice, and led the Labour Party to the brink of electoral oblivion, is likely to succeed in doing anything other than opening the door to number ten to Kemi Badenoch or/and Nigel fucking Farage.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Forming new parties is one of the few things people on the Outer Left can do to look purposeful. That's why they do it even when there's already a party doing fairly well in virtually the same political space.