‘Opportunity purple’. ‘Growth pink’. ‘Policing yellow’. Labour’s lack of substance and government by brand exposed again in ‘quiet bat people’ moment – but worse
Keir Starmer’s Labour has been derided after the party’s ‘brand guidelines’ were discovered – under the appalling title “mission swatches”, along with the dire names allocated to its colour choices that expose the government’s complete lack of wherewithal and nous, let alone political vision and integrity.
The ‘mission swatches’ were posted by Twitter/X user @treborrhubarb, who expressed his/her merriment at the laughable collection of such horrors as ‘Growth Pink’, ‘Opportunity Purple’ and ‘Green Energy Green’:
The revelation provoked derision that would have been incredulous except for the fact that precisely nobody was surprised that Labour is this staggeringly awful:
Labour’s nonsense was reminiscent of the famous scene from political comedy The Thick of It, in which an MP’s aide gets photographed with the words “Quiet bat people” showing on a brainstorming chart – with the major difference that in the comedy show the aides had the sense not to actually use “quiet bat people” in public on purpose and to despair at how useless their ‘leader’ is:
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Some of us will remember “Painting by Numbers” kits from the 1970s. They were naff. Getting one as a xmas present was almost like an insult.
Centrist Labour is the political world’s “Painting by Numbers” Kit. The only good thing you can say about it is that it’s so ph*king bad, it has to cause its own extinction.
1970s Painting by Numbers kits were the harbinger of Punk Rock, Anarchy in the UK, God save the queen and her fascist regime, London Calling, “nothin’ to do, no where to go, oh I wanna be sedated”.
Starmer’s centrist Labour are the harbinger of Nigel Farage. Give me “Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols” anyday.
So, In this analogy, is Starmer Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Nigel Farage the Sex Pistols? Sadly, I fear there is no musical revolution coming to save us this time, especially not from Farage! (Would Lydon be offended by the comparison, I wonder? Is he still a Trump supporter?)
Nice Ramones quote, though!
Mmmm, timfrom, you’re reading more into it than I meant:
Painting by Numbers = mega-naff;
Punk rock = creative destruction, a very positive, dynamic, radically enabling force.
Thing is, the 1979GE put Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street. Although she developed dementia (unusual for a highly numerate person) and has since even died, every PM since her has been her continuation (none more than Blair Brown and today the vile Palantir/BlackRock administration of StarmerandReeves).
“The only good thing you can say about it (Starmer Gov) is that it’s so ph*king bad, it HAS to cause its own extinction”.
A Farage/Badenoch Entity will (sure as eggs) become King Charles’ next PM. We’re well and truly ph*kd already?. Trump’s Gaza Resort and a new Covid scam are where the smart money is.
I’ll have you know I loved my ‘Painting by numbers’, and can still remember the smell of the paint to this day (it was probably toxic!). However, I am clearly quite a lot older than you and yes they would have been extremely naff by the 70’s!
All joking aside, at a time when we are told there is no money for this, no money for that, taxpayers’ money is spent on utterly pathetic stuff like this? ‘Shite Brown’ indeed.
There’s no money because whatever nominal “Government” is the first eleven at any one time has been spaffing it up against the wall by – to provide one example – shovelling tens, if not hundreds, of billions of pounds over to places like Ukraine – including Ukraine loan guarantees to the IMF for which we have no collateral in order to wage war on a nuclear power.
https://x.com/ABridgen/status/1789726877839405417?lang=en-GB
Not forgetting the blood and treasure to aid and abet a Genocide; wage yet more war on brown skinned people from Yemen to Syria; and divert scarce resources to implement regime changes.
The Establishment oligarchy has bet the entire house (yours and mine included) on this reckless gamble to plunder the Eurasian resource base because that’s all they’ve known and done for the best part of a millennium from the Crusades onwards.
And when this goes belly up – which it will – they will turn inwards and wage war on their own populace (even the sycophants who shill for them) to satisfy their sociopathic nature and keep them in the style to which they feel they are entitled.
@ Dave Hansell
As you know and often point out, Dave, it’s not just Ukraine Starmer’s anti-democratic authoritarianism is extensive. Some examples (there are many more):
1: Regarding internal party affairs and electoral reform, Starmer clamped-down on internal debate within the Labour Party, including the decision to cut funding for Young Labour and scrap its annual conference, ‘rescinding’ motions carried by unanimous decision (Kashmir), PR, ;
2: opposing proportional representation (PR), which could better reflect the opinions of the electorate. Despite the Labour Party’s conference voting in favor of PR, Starmer has not supported this change, leading some to label him as anti-democratic;
3: the government’s decision to abolish NHS England and bring the health service under direct government control has been met with criticism. While the government claims this will reduce bureaucracy and free up funds for frontline services, some argue that this move could lead to a reduction in staff, facilitate BlackRock-backed Palantir-facilitated privatisation and centralisation, which willl severely harm frontline healthcare services;
4: giving banks the power to surveil customers’ accounts (& report back to HMRC / DWP), aggressive encouragement of facial recognition investments by councils, private business and the military, refusing to regulate Big Pharm’s dangerous use of mRNA (‘vaccine’) technology, lawfare abuse of Anti-Terrorism legislation, etc, etc..
Starmer is the most dangerous Prime Minister the UK has ever had. . Even wikipedia acknowledges the dangerous political positions of Keir Starmer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Keir_Starmer
Fucking hell. To think they’re
getting paid for coming up with infantile mind-numbing bollocks like this.
Imagine if you’d been fortunate enough to have been at this meeting to tell the imbeciles that you need six colours to fill a wheel of a trivial pursuit counter….just to sit back and watch their heads explode.
And you know at the emergency session to decide on the colour and policy, the result would be shite brown to represent all things environmental.
Or grey – to represent (keefs) leadership.
*facepalms, shudders and growls *
Chin up, Toffee. It could have been worse:
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/labour-redundancy-staff-cuts-organise-to-win-presentation
“These teams will adopt a product-mindset using agile ceremonies, be empowered to make decisions and encouraged to focus on rapid prototyping, deployment and iteration.”
I moved from Toronto – ‘the most multicultural city in the world’ – to London – ‘the most multicultural city in the world.’
I investigated. Both cities hired the same London agency who sold the same concept to both cities. Multiculturalism is rather difficult to quantify, so there is no true answer. It’s a PR construct.
I believe “missions” were appropriated from economist Mariana Mazzucato, but for Labour, they are a PR construct
wow, do many people know that, what’s the agency called?
They both share a Carney-connection too. WATCH: Meet Mark Carney, Globalist Insider. These bloody globalists, they’re everywhere (even in the Labour party).
Indeed: