Complete non-entities given a story on a non-entity website.
Why do you keep posting stories from this utter shite?
It’s the largest worker owned paper in this country.
It is also such a “non-entity” that it was targeted by spooks multiple times (and apparently read by Margaret Thatcher)
We’ve had news on Labour councillors stepping down before and the Morning Star is a well-known left-wing source of news. I don’t see a problem with this
Two councillors stepping down in an area where they would vote for a donkey if it wore a red rosette is not a story.
I doubt many people in Sefton itself could name these two. Yet it’s supposed to be of national interest?
I doubt many people in Sefton itself could name these two.
How many people know the councillors from their neighbouring wards unless they are a council bigwig? Personally, I didn’t know one of them but I voted the other one in.
The significance is that this is coming on the back of other councillors stepping down last week and a slow trickle of resignations over the last few months. Individually, it might not be a big deal but it is part of a larger trend that is worth reporting on.
You consider two councillors that make decisions for just under 300K people to be non-entities? What does someone have to be to be worth reporting on for you?
Councillors represent wards within that area. These two probably represent about 10k-ish people each?
A lurch? It’s a tectonic shift!
They’ve not been a left wing party since Kinnock, except for the brief Corbyn years. This just seems like a return to Blairite business as usual.
Clearly not a popular opinion on the internet but… Blairite business as usual is actually winning elections and getting a chance to enact reforms as opposed to preaching to the choir with no influence.
I really do hope we get over this idea that if you’re not a direct descendant of Arthur Scargill himself then you’re some sort of right wing pariah. Starmer (or Blair / Brown) might not be to people’s liking but they’re far from the right wing nutters we have had in power for the last fourteen years.
I hope people are realistic and understand that we need at least a parliament to put into place plans to undo the damage the Conservatives have done. Nothing is instant, nothing is cheap.
Edit: Freudian typo.
Blair times, apart from the war that killed a million odd people were good times in the UK. at least in retrospect
Clearly not a popular opinion on the internet but… Blairite business as usual is actually winning elections and getting a chance to reject reforms as opposed to preaching to the choir with no influence.
Oh indeed. I have one priority and that is to get the Tories out and keep them out as long as possible. If I have to hold my nose and vote Labour then I’ll do it and if tactical voting said the Lib Dems had a better chance then I’d jump at that.
Apparently, one of the local councillors who resigned drinks in my local. If I see her I am unsure if I’ll applaud her for sticking to her principles or if I’ll suggest she should have got her head down and focused on keeping the Tories out.
I can only hope that Starmer’s plan is to keep his head down and not provide ammunition for the Tory press, letting the Conservatives shoot themselves in the foot (it seems to be working). Then when he is elected with a massive majority he feels confident in trying more ambitious projects. If not, he’ll just be John the Baptist to Andy Burnham, and I am fine with that.
Blairite business as usual is actually winning elections and getting a chance to reject reforms
I’m not sure if “reject” was a typo, but it seems accurate.
Blairism is what gave us disastrous PFIs in the NHS.
It amazing that this “you might not like him, but suck it up to get rid of the Tories” attitude wasn’t present when Corbyn was leader. No, it was an endless tide of infighting, coups and splintering. How are we suppose to take these pleas to get rid of the Tories seriously after watching the Labour Right do everything in its power to hand the Tories the last two elections?
I’m so glad to see someone else saying this. On the left, we seem so concerned with our ‘perfect’ candidature that we lose elections and let Tory whack jobs run the country.
Let’s get Starmer into power as he’ll be a damn sight better than Sunak and then we can work within the party to move things even further left.
