After many years as an LP member, I resigned soon after the election, when Starmer started his Farage tribute act. Every day that passes confirms me in my decision.

Ah, Labour, you really are spoiling us with this "change".

LABOUR Home Office minister writes...

Every single time Labour behave more like Reform, it helps Reform. They will have plenty of time to reflect on their car crash level stupidity after they've been obliterated at the 2029 GE. Unfortunately, all the rest of us will be left facing the consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

There’s no point in the Uk anymore

If Labour hand the 2029 general election to Reform, I will dance on the party's grave until my feet bleed. Put plainly: there's no coming back from a betrayal that large, ever. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you're attending Novacon this weekend, be sure to drop by Elsewhen Press in the dealers' room. They're great people, and you'll find some fun reads there too.

Absolutely so. The more Labour dons the Reform mantle, the more "the swithering" are likely to say "we may as well go #Reform and give them a go" without clear gigantic separation from Reform; that risk gets greater South of the Scottish border. Here they're more of a nettle rash irritant for now.

Fucking twats… I’ve voted Labour all my life but never again!

Every single time Labour behave more like Reform, it helps Reform. They will have plenty of time to reflect on their car crash level stupidity after they've been obliterated at the 2029 GE. Unfortunately, all the rest of us will be left facing the consequences. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I have decided to block anyone who pops up REGULARLY on my timeline in response to my posts and defends Labour every time for absolutely everything they do wrong, no matter what it is or how bad it is. No time for cultists, regardless of their political alignment. Life's too short.

I take it all back, McSweeney IS a genius. To make anybody less popular than the Tories is some achievement. Right now, Labour could lose a by-election to syphilis.

Labour fall to fourth. Will the LibDems overtake them before 2029? The way they're carrying on, who knows?

Train conductor explaining to very confused foreign couple behind me that "any permitted route" doesn't mean "any route permitted" and they have to buy £41 worth of new tickets.

"Where's the Brexit Elephant?" 🎶 youtu.be/vNwKIpVlLbc?...

Labour have already been in power 16 months. That's not long enough to fix 14 years of Tory pain. But it should have been waaaaaay more than enough time to gauge the scale of the problem. So to be coming out now with "things are even worse than we expected" as a cover for tax rises is ludicrous.

I am thoroughly ashamed of our country under Labour and the Conservatives, and a future Reform Government would be even worse. The incessant greed and awful policy that sees British arm companies profit from slaughter endorsed by our Government is horrific. It's an immoral stain on our nation.

First Gaza, now Sudan. The Labour ghouls are nothing if not consistent. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Tories overtake Labour. Labour's tactic of appealing squarely to the voter demographic that will never vote Labour is going swimmingly.

Another unforced Labour own goal. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour: "I know what will win back your vote and get you to finally trust us: we're breaking our no income tax rises promise." Stunned silence. Labour: "Is this thing on? WE'RE RAISING INCOME TAX SO YOU'LL LOVE US MORE!" Stunned silence lengthens. Labour: "Pah! Some people are never satisfied."

When will it dawn on Labour, that the current discourse over immigration is about Brexit. The so-called small boats crisis began, mainly, as a result of Brexit. Numbers of refugees/migrants entering by hiding in lorries were much lower before leaving EU.

"Even if they hate our Brexit, they hate the Brexit Farage would deliver more!" seems like a very cunning Labour plan to campaign on next GE. 2/2

I think the omerta around Brexit needs to end. Labour are playing the Reform/far right game but they're (rightly IMO) sticking to the rules whereas oponents do not. What Labour (and the Lib Dems) need to do is change the game - highlight the failings of Brexit and grasp the nettle!

Given Brexit is the main explanation for the mess we're in so it would seem to be a great thing to fight the election on.

So, a possible pay-per-mile tax on electric cars, but banks get to enjoy their juicy profits? So very Labour...

Labour: "We couldn't possibly begin negotiating with the EU to eventually rejoin. That would make the next GE all about Brexit." Reality: "Yes, and so what? At the moment everything is about immigration, and you are LOSING very VERY badly indeed."

"Why we love First Past the Post", by Labour's chief strategist. This is as cynical as it is probably true - at least in England. But what's also true is that Labour, in depending time and again on variants of this line, are doing as much as anyone to disenfranchise and disillusion younger voters.

McSweeney reminds me of those tech bro grifters, who act like they’re high stakes gamblers taking risky bets. But here McSweeney and Labour are risking our country descending into the grips of Reform. These are not serious people.

Mamdani - offering hope Polanski - offering hope Labour - They might hate us, but they hate Reform more. You wouldn't think Labour communications could get any worse, yet somehow they still manage it. I believe Reform will implode before General Election, then Labour will be truly stuffed.

Grief, I knew his logic was probably shall we say, unique, but don't go to Vegas to play poker professionally Mr McSweeney There's just under 4 years until the GE. Pull your finger out and do something that is agreeable to those who dug you out last year (🤚🏼included) Otherwise you can Foxtrot Oscar

Labour appear to be taking a "blindfolded juggling of chainsaws" approach to their 2029 GE prospects. There is a world in which they don't lose a few limbs. But they probably have better odds of winning the Lottery.

Odd framing. I doubt one in a thousand voters has paying down the national debt amongst their top ten concerns. But then, if there's anything we've learned with certainty about this incarnation of Labour, it's that they're out of touch and terrible at comms. Why break the streak?

Labour is shaping up to be the Tories but without the competence

If Labour are willing to bin their manifesto pledges on tax rises, why not on Brexit? That would win them far, far more votes than raising taxes ever will. Indeed, tax rises are likely to crater their weak support even further. What's so magical about Brexit that it must remain untouchable?

Feels like we've reached the "burning the lifeboats on the Titanic to keep warm" phase of Labour's time in office. It's come VERY quickly, thanks to the world-shaking ineptitude of Starmer and his front bench. Get your affairs in order. 2029 will be devastating. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If it’s so luxurious then surely Labour MPs would be happy to spend one of their many holidays in one of these “luxury sites” with the same spending and toilet roll allowance as asylum seekers? Perhaps they can stay there instead of their second homes?

If Labour are willing to bin their manifesto pledges on tax rises, why not on Brexit? That would win them far, far more votes than raising taxes ever will. Indeed, tax rises are likely to crater their weak support even further. What's so magical about Brexit that it must remain untouchable?

Dreadful once again by the Labour Party. I fail to see the correlation between “luxury sites” and a two or three star hotel or hostel.

So it's punishment then, if it costs more the only reason to do it is vindictiveness. My Nan must be spinning in her grave, seeing wanton racist nastiness from a so-called Labour government. Keef is disgusting.

Very much in the spirit of the post-2010 - "the facts don't matter, only the feelings of right-wingers"

Every day I think Labour can't sink lower and then they find a way.

Turns out mould is a luxury if it's experienced in a place labelled as a hotel.

"Luxury sites?" ALso, I don't think plunking all these folks in some out of the way disused airfield is going to help them "integrate" and become "culturally coherent" or whatever.

Labour campaigned in the 2024 GE on the notion they knew exactly what needed to be done to fix the economy. They then took office and said "Gah! It's much worse than we'd expected." A year later, they're gearing up to try that tactic a second time. Problem is, they should have learned last year.

LUXURY SITES god above these people are all-in on racism

It's utterly disgusting for Labour to describe the appalling situation in asylum hotels as "luxury". www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Also astonishing they are openly saying they are fine with solutions that cost more if it signals nastiness. I guess the UK government is awash with cash to be wasted on feel bad solutions like this

Odd framing. I doubt one in a thousand voters has paying down the national debt amongst their top ten concerns. But then, if there's anything we've learned with certainty about this incarnation of Labour, it's that they're out of touch and terrible at comms. Why break the streak?

Labour: Make Brexit Work. Reform: Make Brexit Work. 'Animal Farm' had it right: "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...