I don't think we should wait for him to cross the floor to Reform, he should be dragged over there to join the rest of the idiots.

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The only thing Labour is doing is turning itself into a Zionist party by booting out critics of Israel and aiding and abetting a genocide. They have done nothing they promised and no longer serve the public interest.

He has a long history of being a wanker. Not Manchester's finest, I'm afraid.

You have him to a T. I used to deal with him when I worked in Manchester, he did harm.

Heywood and the neighbouring parts of North Manchester are some of the most racist places I've ever had the misfortune to spend time in.

It's the current half-decade's route to a cushy number

I know this one Zoe.... is it to get on the property ladder and start a portfolio.

Stringer has never belonged in Labour. He is a climate change denier, if memory serves. UKIP in all but name.

What if he *does* belong in Labour though? What does it say about Labour if he does, and what do we do then

No, this misses the point. The guy was an a**hole under Milliband, and under Corbyn. So quite unconnected to Starmer Labour's issues. Labour's current problems are due to listening to too many lobbyists, and paying too much attention to Farage and the loony right media.

Not untrue, but what if it was Corbyn and Miliband who were the aberrations, and this is what the Labour Party *is*. Not just well-meaning naifs who would be better if they could be convinced not to listen to the right, but just the actual right with red ties, running on the fumes of a dead brand

No, Stringer has always been an outlier - all large parties have them. He's a distraction from what's wrong with Labour. Although its fair to ask why the likes of Corbyn and Abbott were forced out while Stringer was not (I suspect the answer is more about high/low profile than views).

Another outlier?

No, this is the out-Farage-Farage problem, that has gripped the party recently, mentioned in my earlier tweets.

Might be, or it might be these people just telling us who they are and what they believe, and if we don't like it then tough, because their aggressive faction now has the party.

So single MP’s who call for RW idiocy are the fault of Labour, demonstrating they are RW, but MPs who call for Left Wing idiocy are bravely standing up against a RW party? You may wish to check your bias!

Stringer's got previous. He was a massive Brexiter too. It takes a lot for a Labour MP to be regarded as a bellend in Manchester, but he's achieved it.

Stringer is not representative though.

What if he is though? What do we do then

He isn't - he is a hardcore Brexiter - more like a Reform MP.

Ok,but can this be the *start* of our analysis, not the end of it? He's *not* a Reform MP. He's been a Labour MP for nearly 30 years, and a Labour councillor since before I was born. Might that bother us? Does it tell us something about Labour, and who thrives in the party?

Good god Stringer is still an MP? He’s a deranged climate denier who also doesn’t believe in dyslexia and was pretty odd about Covid.

To protect thatcherism and the top 10% that's it nothing more nothing less

Reform's next recruut?

Defection to Reform incoming in 5…4…3…2…

Shocking. I despair.

Once again for the people at the back... bsky.app/profile/neil...

It seems like the Party someone is part of is a much less useful way to judge their morals and allegiances nowadays. Feels like being part of a prominent Party allows politicians to push their own personal agenda and have power instead of meaning they hold the Party values. Truss is a prime example.

Some Labour MPs will be defecting to Reform before the next general election. They're targeting the same voters.

And it’s the welfare rebels that lose the whip. Weird.

Step 1: Run a Tory government that robs and pillages until the people have had enough Step 2: Offer a Clayton's 'progressive' government called Labour as an alternative to robbing and pillaging. Rob and pillage until people want to try Step 1 again.

This is the point www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2A5...

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

MPs salary, pension scheme and spin-off consultancy opportunities? Reason behind membership plummeting. A party that has lost its moral compass. Now just shadow boxing Reform to try and beat it at its own game and ar.. licking Trump

He is another part of the Andy burnham lot who say they are allowed to be anti lgbt because of traditional family values 🤢

Wtaf

To give the illusion of democracy through a very limited choice every election time.

I think politicians in general have lost the plot. To be fair to this one he was a head the ball before it was fashionable

He's obviously never read the Good Friday Agreement, or perhaps he thinks the UK should break international law?

Has anyone asked him which of these he thinks the UK should do without?

Stringer has always been LINO.

I've only just heard of him. My initial instinct would be to assume he's on the radical left of Labour and sees international oversight as a global-capitalist influence, an example of the horseshoe effect perhaps. However, something tells me this isn't the case.

Stringer is a far right monster hiding in a centre left party.

Nothing really centre left about labour anymore

Except for all their voters.

Do you mean former voters?

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Social advancement?

The point of being a Labour MP is to promote the Socialist ideology. Socialism very much with a capital S.

I swear that these people would be happier in the Nasty Party

They are in it already. They just have a different name

Ugh. Sigh.

Deffo looking at LibDems for the next GE

Good to know

But Stringer is hardly socialist in any way. The Labour government has done a few good things (VAT on public schools) but many of their actions are not socialist at all (elimination of the 2 child benefit cap should have been a priority).

The Starmer branch of the media-owned Uniparty was anointed for election with the very specific job of laying out a metaphorical red carpet to welcome in the Farage branch of the media-owned Uniparty.

Better pay and perks than being a warehouse supervisor?

He was on #wato yesterday and quite disgraceful.

Do we really want to split families up to prevent asylum? Even if we do leaving the ECHR is a sledgehammer to crack a nut. #wato

When he was leader of Manchester he tried to sell off half of Heaton Park (where Parklife is now held) to the anti-worker, Eddie Shah. He's always been a bastard.

This is my MP and an utterly transphobic twat. In case you missed it, he was on the boat with Farage and Hoey just after the referendum. Wrote to him recently on trans issues, he didn't answer any points but instead insisted I condemn the bash back attack on Streeting's office. He outed me in 97 too

Tbf Stringer has been like this for a long time... very much Labour In Name Only.

Starmer could take the whip off him then, but he won’t

Lino Ventfury

yeah he's one of the bad ones.

So the likes of John mcDonell are wronguns, but this clown is alright for Labour. Says all you need to k ow about Keir Starmer.

The worry is that he, and other Labour MPs in the rust belt towns, fear losing their jobs at the next election because their wc electorate are being radicalised by the right.

The obvious questioning, why aren't they being radicalised by Labour? Why haven't they been presented with a vision of how their lives can be better? Why aren't Labour driving home the message that their energy bills, their prices, their inability to get on the housing ladder isn't down to migrants?

Why haven't the BBC been told to do better, to question whether the protesters outside migrant hotels are just "concerned citizens" or racists intimidating vulnerable people?

Because BBC editorial has been annexed by the right?

And they can still be told to do better. Nandy - who I think has been disappointing, at best - shouldn't get into the Tory game of putting puppets into place. But she can demand that they examine news selection, amount of time devoted to minority parties, makeup of discussion panels.

Stringer has long had this nationalist-populist strain to his thinking, as far as I can recall. I think he was one of the handful of Labour MPs to back Brexit.

Yes. I was thinking of Nandy. Similarly enthused. I never cared for Stringer as head of Manchester council. Though I guess he was effective?

Graham Granger - Labour Friends of Israel supporter Shocked I tell you

We're hearing very little from Labour Friends of Israel at the moment. You'd think they'd put out a statement in support of Netanyahu or something.

Sound plan to endorse the narrative of your opponents on immigration then.

The best 30p Lee perhaps

Are there good ones?

Yes, but he’s not one of them: he’s not only long been antagonistic to human rights, but he’s a climate denier - a trustee of The Global Warming Policy Foundation no less - as well as being a Eurosceptic. He’s basically Reform but in Labour colours

Didn’t get his whip removed for this position? Other Labour MPs have been removed for a lot less.

I don’t know why he’s in the Party, but he’s been like this for years. He has said some pretty wild things in the past - eg, denying the existence of dyslexia - so he’s known for being an objectionable prick

Maybe Labour needs people like him for their new image and communication of their new values?

Heard the second half of an interview he gave on world at one yesterday, name checked at the end and I assumed he was something to do with reform by the tone of his comments.

LINO. There to be walked all over…

he's been a Labour MP since 97 and was a Labour councillor from 1979 to 1998 and was Labour leader of Manchester city council 1984-1996, though

Like a retarded 30p Lee then?

Stringer is a trustee of The Global Warming Policy Foundation, an organisation that promotes climate change denialism. Deformer in spirit.

I guess for GS the labour party was something to cash in on, regardless of his inner prejudice.

David Blunkett (yea I know - who's he!) on BBC Radio 4 PM just now banging on about it too. #bbcpm

exactly Zoe how on earth did so many of Starmer favourite MPs minsters ever end up in Labour party I ask. It seems many just used it for their own career advancement rather any values morals that once were assocaited with bein a Labour MP

It’s becoming a bit like politics in the US. Self-enrichment. He’ll be terrified of losing his seat to Reform & thereby losing his ticket to ride the gravy train.

It’s like how Kate Hoey was able to hide in the Labour ranks for years when she was actually UKIP.

He's always been a pain in the arse and a dishonest brexiter.

Thanks for that information👍🏿

Christ, is that reactionary old fool Stringer still there?

Helping all of Scotland's arguments for #independence.

The human rights lawyer in chief should withdraw Stringer's whip! But he is too busy pandering to reform contingent and fighting grandmothers who come out to support human life! He is losing his core voters while letting fartage set the agenda. He needs to grow a pair and start leading!

Well most of them aren’t Tories or Deform company bigots. Which one of these are you?🤫

Here we go again. Trying to out-Reform Reform. Surely at some point Starmer will not be able to criticise Farage over anything 🤷

And he's still to the Left of Yvette Cooper!

He's the MP for Tufton St. Pro-Brexit, climate denier, he 'left' the party a decade ago

The leader doesn't seem to have the first clue, so why would the MPs?

NVLA - Never Vote Labour Again

Can someone ask him does he understand the God Friday Agreement and the role of it in Northern Ireland when it comes to human rights act and laws?

None. This fella is obviously burnishing his Reform credentials.

Words fail me

This current crop of Labour MPs are the thickest yet. Trying to outdo the Tories and Reform idiots but fortunately have some way to go to catch up on these numpties.

Labour is all about Class War. They're just fighting for the wrong class.

Red-washing Tory policies

networking and recruitment scheme for lobbyists

Unfortunately, since 1992, existential panic following election losses has forced the Labour party to stop being a political party and start being an undefined entity that'll say & do anything to get your vote. Even if it's diametrically opposed to the founding principles of the Labour party.

Labour has been infiltrated

No 💩 🤣

Why are there so many deluded idiots in this country convinced that our lack of investment in infrastructure, denuded public services, unambitious education, failure to plan strategically - or plan at all, stupid political decisions... Can all be fixed by preventing refugees from seeking asylum?

They should change the name. The idea of ‘The Labour Party’ has gone. They’re the tories now, more or less.

The purpose of a system is what it does

We need a referendum if they want us to leave that! It shouldn't be down to a PM to tell us. #RejoinEU

From Wikipedia: "Stringer is a trustee of The Global Warming Policy Foundation, an organisation that promotes climate change denialism." Ergo: the man is a complete moron.

Stringer's always been a certifiable lunatic - out of the Hoey/Field/Gisele Stuart mould of Labour Brexit nutters.

The Trade Union Movement began here in what is now Greater Manchester where Graham Stringer was once Lord Mayor. Manchester disowns Graham Stringer - he's now a corporate arse licking Tory twat.

The debasement of Little England continues.

To further a right wing agenda set by Tories and Reform

Graham Stringer is wrong !

Labour under Starmer is an Establishment party that supports and promotes the ruling class and the prevailing economic doctrine.

He called for us to abandon the Refugee Convention too. Why not? The post-war period & the laws we put in place to prevent it ever happening again are over, my friends. We're onto a new pre-war period right now. And our only choice is whether we, or the powerful, burn.

Surely we have to recalibrate our outlook:a significant proportion of the global population is, though climate change, conflicts, and extreme weather, effectively nomadic or stateless. The ECHR is not just essential, we have to stop it being a political football, or a dogwhistle for the worst of us.

Leader of Manchester council at a time when the council was acting like reactionary idiots. His wiki page doesn't tell a great story.

You know how much I support your/the position on asylum seekers, refugees and ECHR. But the left/liberal groups allowed Farage Cruella RW media to run away with the narrative like a runaway train. It’s heading for a collision. How to mitigate for post-disaster is where the focus should be

When the leader of the party has no convictions and just reacts to whatever is in the press this week it’s hardly surprising. I think we’re seeing the end of 2 party rule as Starmer makes it harder and harder to support them I’m lucky. I’m a libdem with a libdem MP

I feel like Labour need to get rid

We must burn them

It's not Tories or labour it's the ruling class and the rest of us.

When the "Your Party" forms it should have a list of the most egregious faux-Labour MPs to stand against, ideally with understandings with the Greens and LDs. Starmer included naturally.

Labour seems to have become a home for Conservative politicians who aren't quite ready to make the jump to Reform yet.

But not even all of the Tories are calling for this...

Well that's the irony, isn't it? The conservatives have lurched right but are still a broad church for right-wing views. I'd argue that Labour have effectively abandoned their traditional beliefs more than the Tories now.

He's also a climate change denier

He was an ardent Brexiteer as well

Happy to appear with Farage on stage. He should join REFUK already.

This is contrary to party policy. I expect to see swift disciplinary measures? Or are these some of those special "legitimate" concerns?

Kate Hoey was tolerated for years, I expect this idiot will be too.

To be seat warmers for incoming Reform MPs as they are all interchangeable fascist twats at this point.

Blackley (with a long ‘a’) and Middleton is one of the poorest constituencies of North Manchester and needs a younger MP to fight for it. Reading fb one comes away with despair at some of the bigotry but there are many good people too.

They provide an excellent way for each generation of voters to earn their “fell for it again” awards

All that Israeli money has got to go to someone

Labour, who started off as socialists, moved to left of centre, are now moving into the realms of National Socialist ideology.

To warm the seats of 2029 R W winners .

Self advancement and personal enrichment. That's it, Zoe! Sadly.

Labour is a misnomer here

All about self fricking preservation that's all,if the cap fits let them wear it.

It's like a fly trap for vaguely left leaning people with no strong principles

Gravy train I suppose 30 yrs ago most of them would be sitting on the benches opposite

God knows. They seem to have decided to let their leadership become Neo-Tories.

He needs to lose the Whip. What a divisive idiot. He can join Reform. It looks suitable for him.

He is a Brexiter, a climate change denier and wants to curtail human rights so Reform fits his profile!

Standard tory.

Well might you ask, Zoe.

Well I suppose you get to use the House of Commons bar and appear on tv as someone ‘important’. Can’t see any other point to him.

Mr Stringer would look better in Reform. Useless garbage.

There won’t be many of them left after the next election. From the ashes we might get a Labour Party worth the name.

The bars and restaurants in parliament are excellent and heavily subsidised. Lots of other perks as well.

Zoe the Labour party has been taken over by 'the establishment ' ... it's plain to see.

Graham Stringer is also a climate change denier, a Covid-sceptic, a Brexiter, and a racist/xenophobe. Probably as aligned with Labour as Hoey. He seems nice... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_...

sounds like he is perfectly aligned with the current day labour party tho.

so he's cabinet minister material.

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to keep their job as long as possible, never mind what vile acts

It’s for betraying the working class. Works every time!

These people aren't Labour they just seen an easier way to get their seats If they admitted they were Tories they wouldn't have gotten elected

To be a tory but wearing a red tie?

A life 3% less awful than under the Tories? The lowest of bars.

Getting a lucrative career in lobbying and after-dinner speeches when you inevitably get booted out by an indignant electorate

I agreed with Mitch Benn about Corbyn here But now it seems like it applies to the entire party 😢 m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtUi...

British political parties. Musical chairs with authoritarians

Grifting and grasping mostly.

This lot are more in line with Tufton St than Coronation St.

Oh no, here we go. How long until Hoey & Gisela call him over to the other side?

Theyre little more than human shaped rubber stamps for Starmer's fascist agenda.

To serve the Parasite Class while running cover for Israel. That's it!

Do these people not value the right to life, a family, a fair trial?

For being an awful little grub it would seem

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I just wish they’d ask everyone who says this “she should we join only Russia and Belarus outside the ECHR?” And “Who’s human rights is it you’d like to remove that the ECRH is stopping you from?”

when Farage wins the next election, these Labour MPs will rewrite history and claim they were fighting against him, despite being so useless and subservient that they expedited his ascent to power

If you’re a “red wall” Labour MP the solution is to be proper Labour not imitation Reform Constituents want safe secure communities, decent affordable housing, good schools, proper social services, investment in the NHS, secure well paid jobs and enough food money. Few lie awake worrying about ECHR

So utterly disappointing. How can a labour government even entertain the idea of leaving a convention that protects the very human rights they profess to protect. It’s all in fear of losing power to the poundshop nazi.

It’s not the Labour Government. It says “the first Labour MP”. There are looneys in every Party.

He is a supported of Labour Friends of Israel as are many of his party colleagues Supporters of & facilitators of genocide

You may not like it but this is absolutely the Labour government

You can probably tell I don’t

Gateway party to full-fat right wing fascism?

There is no intention by this government to leave the ECHR. Stringer hasn't been listening to the PM.

Better question.what is the point of being Graham Stringer? (He has form).

The people who became MPs for personal gain rather than public service are now running scared and are showing their true colours. Instead of standing up and fighting the right they are trying to placate them to save their seats.

It's for a very nice salary and excellent pension

Why am I not surprised that it's Graham Stringer.

Hupocrites of the highest order.

It seems the job of a Labour MP these days is to stand just to the left of Reform and the Tories (who now occupy the same space) but not far enough away that anyone notices the difference.

Exactly. I’m ashamed of them.

"What Enoch Powell says today, the Conservative Party says tomorrow, and the Labour Party legislates on the day after." - Ambalavaner Sivanandan

Taking bribes and pursuing a right wing agenda

Don't ask them: they truly do not know. Including the PM and the cabinet.

Not this.

how else are you going to get Taylor Swift tickets

Self enrichment. 3 hours a year jobs at 250K a pop. And power over others. To them its all a game of "what can I get for myself; fuck you poor people". For a brief moment a different way seemed possible... till everyone in the press shat themselves with rage and made shit up to get angry at.

Graham Stringer is hardly a surprise, I have no idea why he is even in the Labour Party. Have you seen the vile trash he comes out with via Labour Future, along with Glasman, obvs. Yuck.

Stringer has always been hard right adjacent. Like his fellow travellers (climate change denier, Covid sceptic, anti-immigration/human rights, pro-Israel) he has become emboldened by an increasingly insane world, thus this latest idea. In that sense he’s a Starmerite to his boots - deeply unhelpful.

There’s too many bigots and anti-rights and equality, they’d be better with the Tories or some other hateful party Labour shouldnt be hateful and Tories in red

He’s a rogue expressing opinions he thinks might be popular with the National Front.

They have completely lost the plot!

It’ll be the mainstream Labour policy by the next election but all that will ensure is the political right will move deeper into fascism.

There isn't anymore. These are just closeted Tories who thought pretending to be Labour would get them elected. Every Liebour MP is tainted. Shame on @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social

Perhaps he wants to switch sides to the rightwing extremist MAGA - oh…. It’s called Deform UK ?? 🤷‍♀️

Free trips to Israhell

It's like that Invasion Of The Body Snatchers film where you go "Oh no, not you as well!."

Though in Stringer's case he has history that makes this totally unsurprising. He was always like this.

Greed

75 years old - what the fuck is he doing as an MP in the first place.

Should defo pension them off at the next election post their 65th birthday.

Or do a Logan’s Run 😉

Only when they accept a directorship 😜

I don’t even understand their game plan, if people want these right wing policies they’ll just vote Reform or Tory. Labour has become their best recruitment sergeant.

The Labour Party had one aim and one aim only, which was to stop Jeremy Corbyn. With any luck, it has failed

if there ever was a good reason for withdrawing the whip... what a donkey

This plan to capture all the reform voters by being a more extreme version of the reform party is getting out of hand.

It’s in name only, this f**king nimrod is trying to tell a lawyer to leave an international treat a treaty that guarantees rights to 100s of millions of people & this f**k, wants people to have less, as if enough haven’t been taken already with Brexit! Is there such a thing as a 4th class European?🤦🏼‍♂️

Paedophilia seems to be popular in Labour circles, with a recent conviction in Scotland.

Money and ego.

Holding the reins of power every now and then, and doing nothing good for the people who put them there.

a complete utter piece of shit, vomiting up all the 'concerned' bigots points as well, fuck him

To serve their donors mainly.

The Tories enshitten the country for profit, Labour enshitten the country out of fear. True fact: you can see my disappointment in the Labour party from space.

Providing cover for encroaching fascism, it would appear. #DontVoteLabour

Well it is in line with Starmer's Reform led policies

Don't these people realize that the EHCR isn't an "EU court" and has more to do with human rights than say "borders" ? Do these people want tyranny so that they can "stop the boats" ?

Exactly. Their conflation that it’s EU is to appeal the the Leave vote clingers on.

Please keep up the fight. We need some voices in public life who are not far right, and Labour seem unwilling to take that role any more. Your contribution (and compassion) are much needed.

It's called an opinion. One I don't agree with, but have we become so intolerant of views that aren't our own that we can't even bare to hear them? One MPs opinion does not make a entire party's opinion or policy. Grow up.

Yes, I'm intolerant of his views. If you aren't, have you considered that maybe this is because you're a coward?

I don't agree with his views. That's all that needs to be said. Have you considered that trying to stamp out the views that aren't your own is exactly why people are so politically divided?

I have considered that yeah but I rejected it because it wasn't true

Consider it again and you might get it this time

Maybe if I hit my head, yeah. In any case, I actually *want* to be politically divided from someone who thinks my friends don't deserve human rights

Would hitting your head engage the brain cell?

Not sure, what was it that happened to yours

You do know he’s been an MP since 97 and been saying this stuff for over a decade right?

He's horrible. Used to be my MP (I never voted for him, of course)

Jesus christ....

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