Angela Rayner sacked as Labour Party chair and national campaign co-ordinator

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Labour’s Election Disaster Is Keir Starmer’s to Own​

Sat 8 May 2021

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" Keir Starmer has attempted to blame today’s election disaster on Jeremy Corbyn – but his leadership has hollowed out the party, refused to offer a vision for change and left many with little reason to vote Labour."

by Ronan Burtenshaw, Tribune

For weeks, it has been clear that Labour would have a bad night in this week’s election. The only question was how bad. As we awoke today to disastrous losses in local elections, historic defeat in Hartlepool, and a likely mayoral bloodbath to come, the answer is very bad indeed.

The result should not be a surprise. Polls have been on the slide for months, but behind them things were even worse. Throughout this election cycle, Labour activists across the country were reporting the same thing: a lack of bodies on the ground. Starmer’s team will cite Covid as a reason, but it doesn’t reflect reality – people could have campaigned in recent weeks if they wanted to, but too many didn’t.

The party entered the biggest set of elections in over 100 years with a base that wasn’t motivated or energised.It would be easy to blame this on a failure of messaging. Starmer’s focus group approach has worn thin incredibly quickly – leaving Labour looking vacuous, corporate, and insincere. The party has steadfastly refused to outline any policy positions, made supportive noises about even the worst Tory mismanagement during the Covid pandemic, and failed to resonate at all with the deep frustration felt by millions of people facing the brunt of an economic crisis.


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Dodds next to go as women fall to Starmer’s desperation to divert blame for election catastrophe

Labour sources say Dodds also on way out after sacking of Rayner


After the sacking of deputy leader Angela Rayner as party chair and the reported removal of Lisa Nandy as Shadow Foreign Secretary, Keir Starmer is now set to sack Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds, according to Labour sources.
 
Well, she was responsible for a disastrous election campaign......

Starmer will always want to sideline the harder left as the public will simply not want to vote for these people.

Cue the next civil war.

It has become increasingly clear that Starmer has nothing to offer.

So many pressing matters of state and he wants to bang on about wallpaper - nobody really cares about this.


We are in danger of getting into the dangerous position of the government doing whatever they like because there is no viable opposition.
 
Good that there is some fallout, I’d be more worried if there wasn’t.

Time for all these Labour mayors to do a great job like Burnham has and get stuck into Johnson at the same time.

I see Gove has very quickly switched from partisan politics to ‘Team U.K. Covid recovery’ this morning.

After Rishi’s 400 billion spending spree (how quiet is he just now?), there is an economic shxt storm coming down the line, have no doubt about that.

Things will look very very different by the winter.
 
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Jenny Chapman was the architect of the Labour campaign and she was responsible for the selection of Dr Paul Williams. Looking at twitter this morning it seems that the real reason for Rayners sacking was because she spoke against Chapman.
Untrue.

If your suggesting that Angela took the job as campaign coordinator "as a job in name only" then she would deserve to be sacked for that alone.
 
I'm going to start my campaign to get Zarah Sultana elected leader ASAP. I've still got John McDonnell's phone number somewhere and if I can get him onboard then I have a chance of succeeding. Heart condition or no heart condition nobody messes with big John. And then I'll steer her career towards becoming the next prime minister. And then I'll marry her and have her babies.
I don’t think the party is anywhere near ready for Zarah Sultana as leader. I can’t see beyond Ian Lavery. Someone to come in clear the decks, win back support and hold the government to account.
 
Yes. Some of them already left in that laughable attempt to form a new party that fell apart within minutes. Corbyn's biggest mistake was trying to be inclusive and giving top jobs to right wing MPs so that they could stab him in the back, or the front in Jess Phillips's case and try to sabotage from within. he should have done what Starmer has done to the left and kicked them all in to back bench obscurity. But he didn't. Because he's a lovely bloke. No point in having a labour party that is no different to the Tory party. Only about twenty odd decent labour MPs left. Pretty much just the SCG and the rest can all go for me.
Principled to a fault. Until it came to brexit.. where he lost all credibility.
 
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Typical of the peoples Momentum posting that load of tosh, the 2021 election was the only one that was a bi-election which always has a lower vote turn out (41% as against 70% in a GE) plus Starmer had to start fixing the total mess Corbyn left the party in, indeed the worst position since the 1935 general election.
 
The majority of that you could have said about Blair and yet the good he did once he entered Downing Street was immense - I was 12/13 when he became PM and I remember that day so clearly, the overwhelming sense of good is coming and change is coming. The proper funding of public services, the minimum wage, NHS services rebuilt, schools literally rebuilt.
All good things yes but must also be balanced with the thousands of soldiers lives he changed....
 
Tories in trouble in rural Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Kent.

Isn't the real story of this election the collapse of the old Blue Wall?

And should Keir Starmer be given credit for this, as some are blaming him for the so called "red wall" collapse?
 
Typical of the peoples Momentum posting that load of tosh, the 2021 election was the only one that was a bi-election which always has a lower vote turn out (41% as against 70% in a GE) plus Starmer had to start fixing the total mess Corbyn left the party in, indeed the worst position since the 1935 general election.
People need to stop saying this, 1983 was the worst GE result ever for Labour. It was the plotters inside Labour and those who left that caused the party to be such a mess.
 
Tories in trouble in rural Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Kent.

Isn't the real story of this election the collapse of the old Blue Wall?

And should Keir Starmer be given credit for this, as some are blaming him for the so called "red wall" collapse?
It's all the Londoners leaving for the countryside changing the voting pattern. Levelling up I suppose.
 
Tories in trouble in rural Oxfordshire, Surrey, Sussex, Cambridgeshire, Kent.

Isn't the real story of this election the collapse of the old Blue Wall?

And should Keir Starmer be given credit for this, as some are blaming him for the so called "red wall" collapse?
I think there is a lot of bad news for Johnson in this set of elections, his vote share is down 10%, but the media now have a policy of only highlighting anything which looks bad for Labour.

We are in the middle of an ideological war and the establishment are far more worried about Labour than they dare to admit.
 
Tracy Brabin MP set to become West Yorks Mayor, so by-election in Batley and Spen. Labour majority there is 3,500. Rumour is Starmer has already chosen the candidate, again no one local.
 
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