It's like Jeremy Corbyn accidentally joined Reform, having Wes Streeting in the Labour Party. - ThreadSky

jolyonmaugham.bsky.social • 14 days ago

It's like Jeremy Corbyn accidentally joined Reform, having Wes Streeting in the Labour Party.

Ugh. I can’t tell you how much I dislike this. To witness such cruelty, incompetence, contempt for the law and think ‘let’s have some of that’… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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rembetis.bsky.social•14 days ago

He thinks it's 'Centre Left' to cut £6billion from disability benefits and to freeze pensioners in their homes. No credibility.

tricia-a.bsky.social•14 days ago

Great analogy 👍🏼

melonni.bsky.social•13 days ago

They needed Trump to kick them into action? Pathetic

cobieef.bsky.social•14 days ago

"Centre-left" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. The whole thing would collapse if he admitted he's a Christian nationalist.

gillianrodgers8.bsky.social•14 days ago

What imbecilic nonsense. Big change needs some planning if it’s to stand any chance of working well.

tocatchathief.bsky.social•14 days ago

Oh he's been planning a long time 🙈

gillianrodgers8.bsky.social•14 days ago

Not with anyone who knows anything though eh.

tocatchathief.bsky.social•14 days ago

Lol who knows with Mr slippery

chrisarundel.bsky.social•14 days ago

There’s an absence of moral compass and he’s not very good at disguising it.

beatsy.bsky.social•14 days ago

Genuinely doesn't belong there

bettinastruff.bsky.social•14 days ago

I have no love for Corbyn whatsoever but I'd certainly rather have him than Streeting in charge of the NHS, any day.

rachelyn75.bsky.social•14 days ago

That is some wow dumbfukery.. next he's gonna tell us Liz Truss still has her cheese on her cracker still. .. this is chilling stuff.. utterly chilling shilling.

harmoniouslvn.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wes Streeting’s comments are horrific.

I already can’t stand Wes for his barking transphobia and this cements how fucking tone-deaf, disingenuous & rightwing sympathetic he truly is.

davidrobbo.bsky.social•14 days ago

Sadly it's not. He fits in perfectly with most of the people running the Labour Party.

viscountpontypandy.bsky.social•14 days ago

Centre left? Is Streeting on the white powder?

mja66.bsky.social•14 days ago

Musk gives nazi salutes, promotes nazis, fascists and bigots, calls for crooks to be released from UK prisons, pays for a rapist's election and laughs about cutting funding for ebola prevention.

He has actually called for the overthrow of the UK government.

Streeting's response? Emulate him.

jaksays.bsky.social•14 days ago

I have no idea what Streeting thinks he is doing, and zero idea why Starmer gave him any job at all

I have never seen him say anything or do anything that would be seen as a Labour policy

He has to be removed

mcmh44.bsky.social•14 days ago

Agreed, not just him - the whole Labour party needs to go!

upsilonmale.bsky.social•13 days ago

Who's going to remove him? Starmer chose him knowing exactly what he believes. He made the same decision when choosing Cooper as Home Sec and Kendall to head the DWP. And Rachel "fuck the poor lol" Reeves as Chancellor. He picked these people because this is what he supports.

tadaaa.bsky.social•14 days ago

May its his religious fervour

Imo religion should stay out of politics

mjcycle.bsky.social•14 days ago

It's not just him though is it? He's not some rogue figure, Starmer and the rest of the top of the Labour Party agree with him, that's why he's a minister. Many Labour members and some MPs don't agree, but Labour have shown they don't care about that. Getting rid of Streeting will change nothing

clearlight.bsky.social•14 days ago

One of Streeting biggest investors is a guy with half a billion in United Health shares

A private health firm so evil that when an angry customer shot their CEO, millions of US citizens could be heard cheering all the way across the Atlantic

Once you know that, his NHS policies make total sense

liamgall.bsky.social•14 days ago

And Keir Starmer too tbf. The power of the Blair is still strong. And by that i mean anyone willing to pay Tony Blair for access.

thewoodenman.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wes streeting = hard right, Jeremy Corbyn = centre left. You're usually on the money, this is a bad take. It's more like having George Osborne in the LP. I nearly said IDS, but he resigned in 2016 after 4bn disability benefit cuts were announced. Unbelievably LP are now more tory than the tories?

gec236.bsky.social•14 days ago

Blimey .. so Streeting wants to go bigger and better than Trump .. how ugly .. how sick is that

A race to be the most wicked

dustbowl-clickfarm.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wes has said why he's labour many times: it's the only party that could privatize the NHS. That's what he wants to do because it will make him rich.

markslater.bsky.social•14 days ago

No to mention his overt transphobia. A very nasty piece of work.

markslater.bsky.social•14 days ago

^not 🙄

charley50.bsky.social•14 days ago

“They’re not quite the changes we would make from a centre left perspective” mate you left the centre left behind long ago

jonnye46.bsky.social•13 days ago

Really, you read that and come to those conclusions?

navalairhistory.com•12 days ago

Labour was also the party of Frank Field

julrose.bsky.social•14 days ago

Streeting has his fingers in his ears and his eyes shut.

sixesalltheway.bsky.social•14 days ago

Its not just Streeting: its the vast majority of the PLP. We've had neoliberalism rammed down our throats since 1979 and so far it has only inflicted harm to everyone except the wealthiest. Little wonder these mendacious LINOs did all that they could to destroy the likes of Corbyn.

circeseawitch.bsky.social•14 days ago

In the last few days, I have learned that labour has stopped trans people having hormones, wants to cut disabled kids funding (SEND budget), taken heating money from pensioners and now trying to cut 6 billion from disabled people. This is not a left of centre government. It is right wing.

painter247.bsky.social•11 days ago

gross

aiteall.bsky.social•14 days ago

A very poor comparison. Liberals always bend Right. Same happened in the 1930s. Sir Kidstarver's wannabe replacement, owned by the corporations, is likewise crawling to the White Supremacist regime in the US.

amliberale.bsky.social•14 days ago

Wes Streeting is not a Liberal, nor a liberal.

He's an authoritarian, and fits neatly into the socially & economically conservative "Blue Labour" mold of politicians that parade around in a red rosette - and holier-than-thou "socialist" Labour activists lap it up, and elevate these pricks to power.

andrevanes.bsky.social•14 days ago

I think any comparison with Trump is clumsy but the inertia of government to act is a source of populism so Streeting has a point. But better to make that differently.

lightnindave.bsky.social•14 days ago

Centre left my arse.

Another closet tory.

llygodenfawrdur.bsky.social•14 days ago

There is nothing centre-left about Wes let's kill trans kids Streeting, or the wider Labour party.

richard1942.bsky.social•14 days ago

Streeting neither competent nor well intentioned

He is a liability

lancslass03.bsky.social•14 days ago

He is like Trump in more ways than one. His parliamentary interests include people who make money from private medicine

freespeechforpeace.bsky.social•12 days ago

clearlight.bsky.social•14 days ago

I think that now they’ve shown their true colours as a Racist Right, Pro Looter party, like Reform and the Tories, Streeting fits right in

I wish there was a plausibly electable left party though

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