General Election 2024

seems like it was less hyper efficient targeting but more a case of labour effectively standing still, not having the labour right maliciously sabotaging their campaign (because their stooge is installed as leader), and the press helpfully kicked fuck out of the SNP and conservatives in the full knowledge they can do for SKSQC on a dime because his support base is v thin

his support base is v thin

He has the largest Parliamentary majority of any Labour PM ever.

but more a case of labour effectively standing still

lol

They just won by a massive landslide, do you not understand how politics works?

^ this

If the Brexit shite taught us nothing else, it's take the win and run with it, however it came about, and make the best of it for your side (unlike them). Because otherwise, the chance to achieve anything can be fleeting and will disappear in an instant.

Let’s just hope labour ditch their new transphobic stance

Despite the recent weird flex by Sir K (I can only think he got a bit carried away with the pre-election don't be seen as woke rheotric) they don't actually have one. If you actually look at their policies, Starmer has said Labour won't change the Equalities Act (which Kemi Badenoch had vowed to amend to make it harder for trans people to access single sex spaces).

Starmer has also said that Labour will 'reset the toxic trans discourse', that treating trans people with respect has “seemingly been lost in the last 14 years” and he is “determined to change that”. He also said in one of the debates that the Tories had been using trans people as a political football.

It is Labour policy to to modernise and simplify the gender recognition law (which they've called outdated) to remove indignities for trans people.

And right now the TERFs are losing their shit on Twitter and calling for Rosie Duffield to get the job because they think Anneliese Dodds is about to be announced as Women and Equalities Minister and SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT A WOMAN IS and the Telegraph thinks she's pushing transgender ideology.

So... I don't think they have a transphobic stance.

Just been reading about the cabinet ministers under this new government. I have so much hope right now. I knew about some, but not all. These people seem real, decent, and have the best interests of those who need the most help at heart. Call me naive, call me whatever, this really feels like such a positive change and I’m going to let my heart and mind rest with that for a while, given what the last 14 years has done. I feel relief, I feel hope.

Agreed. Cabinet ministers who know something about their brief and have a positive interest in it. What a crazy idea.

Of course, that’s the problem up and down the country. People don’t believe that the folk that were in are doing anything apart from filling there boots but I don’t feel like the new ones will either but that’s for them to make the change

... I don't think they have a transphobic stance.

Honestly, these posts all read like an aunt's Facebook echo chamber comments. I'm yet to hear a coherent assessment of why Starmer's Labour are transphobic in rhetoric, policy, or action. Absolutely open to having my mind changed when one emerges.

After 14 years of reshuffling of inadequates, (Grayling, Truss, Shapps, Jenrick, Gove, Coffey, you no doubt have your own exhibits), we no longer remember competence.
I hope this Labour Cabinet is given enough time to start implementing improving policies

Feeling this mate. Despite the stilted delivery I thought Starmer's speech was pretty good

Almost glad Fararge got elected as he’s going to be found wanting by those who elected him.
He’s certainly not cut out to be an MP as can be seen by how he reacts in interviews, he’s worse than Johnson and with even less charm.
The speaker is going to have a field day with him, if he turns up…

And @andyp

I see what your saying, maybe I’m not giving Labour enough credit

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He's really not going to like to have to declare his financial earnings on a regular basis.

Yep, first thing I thought. His expenses will be a laugh too I reckon.

lovely little bit of classism this

The vibes are this…

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oh fuck off.

“We don’t give a damn about the popular vote”

This guy is so overblown it’s unreal. He does not give a shit about democracy, and that he’s considered to be an expert is a travesty.

This isn’t a sport, people’s lives are on the line.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240702085624/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/07/01/labour-frontbencher-refuses-to-answer-trans-toilet-question/

https://x.com/LeftieStats/status/1785290911351550431

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/25/keir-starmer-trans-education-general-election-2024/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jul/28/wes-streeting-apologises-to-labour-mp-rosie-duffield-who-felt-ostracised-due-to-gender-views?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

the fact that duffield is still in the party.

the plan to implement the recommendations of the Cass report "exploratory* therapy" and all.

*conversion

just based on a quick Google, there's plenty more

littlehampton

Ah good memories of underaged cider drinking at a mates sisters 16th, then getting beaten up by the local kids at the end of the night.

u ok hun

This.
Thanks for putting it together.

Trans folks, like migrants, the disabled and poor have been all scapegoated and generally used as punch bags during this campaign from all sides. Whether it’s all just spicy rhetoric to win votes at any cost or genuinely held beliefs or not only time will tell.

Some good friends of ours have received more abuse, discrimination and shitbaggery in the last 6 months than in the last 10 years.

He’s all headline and no copy.

Thanks. Not convinced about some of those sources or what the og statements were, but I echo fox's post.

From everything I've read recently around the Cass Report one thing I know for sure is that I don't have the knowledge to make an informed judgement on it.