Starmer’s Labour Humiliated After Losing Conference Vote On Winter Fuel Cut

[@Andyreally]

Sharon Graham has stepped up and now sounds like a proper trade unionist. Bravo 👏

[@inspectortanzi]

About time - she still had her hand in enabling Starmer, though.

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@inspectortanziShould never have backed Labour.

[@jake751]

Yes only took her 5 years.

[@ENGBriseB]

Well done Sharon a straight forward talker. Congrats. The UK is the 3rd Highest holder of American debt some $690 billion dollars. Goggle it.

[@danksheev66]

I think she was keeping her powder dry till now.

[@SharonTateFan67]

She has passion, compere that to the robotic and insufferably boring Keir.

[@moorebags1]

Sharon is a badass. Straight talking.

[@PatrickDigney]

EH? typical Marxist you mean 🙄

[@summerrr1]

I like her! Despite her barmy political beliefs.

[@TroyaE117]

Clenched fist in the air, Comrades '! The "Supwr Rich" are ripe for plucking. Until there is nothing left to pluck. It's all been tried before. It doesn't work.

[@leecevictoria481]

Sharon Graham, YES! She's saying what most of us think! 🎉

[@stevecurtis6288]

Sharon is old school labour, passionate and honest. What a difference from Free Gear Kier and his pathetic cronies

[@1983samwise]

Streeting is such a smarmy git.

[@jake751]

He'll get his comupance good style. 👍

[@George_Hughes]

Crowded field of gits in this cabinet but would bet that he’ll be remembered as one of the worst!

[@paulbird3235]

I totally agree, how shallow he really is. I cannot believe HOW they all have changed, and 'NOT FOR THE BETTER'. HYPOCRIT'S!

[@Tulkash01]

Next in line to succeed Kid Starver

[@grahamtrave1709]

He reminds me of a ventriloquist's dummy

[@jasonh9518]

She is labour. The government is not

[@DeniseWilliams-jr5xo]

Absolutely.

[@chris.bcfc.keeprighton.5685]

She is a socialist. The government is not socialist.

[@dominicchallis2928]

If the Tories organised a smear campaign against that woman, were she to be Labour leader, most working class people whose best interests point to voting Labour would probably fall on their knees before the Tories and thank them. That’s the sad truth.

[@jaijai5250]

@@dominicchallis2928you’re correct. Most believed the mainstream smear campaign about Jeremy Corbyn.

[@ENGBriseB]

PM ASAP.

[@timlowe3081]

She’s a better speaker that the whole Labour MP rabble

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

Can you imagine someone like that in the top seat at labour.

[@custossecretus5737]

She certainly believes in Labours original values. Starmer is too much like a Tory.

[@timlowe3081]

@@custossecretus5737 is a Tory

[@jake751]

Unfortunately she has stood by starmer every step of the way 😢 this is too little to late. Howard beckett was the one they needed but he supports Palestine so apartheid Israel was never going to allow it.

[@tonyfincham6126]

She knows all Union members have relatives that are going to suffer & out off trade members .A leader listening to her members & not the Labour Party .

[@richardhoward7503]

Wes Streeting is just a spiv. A patronising, smirking spiv.

[@HD-qh6ku]

Had the displeasure of meeting him at nus conference when he was president /senior officer. He had a distain for waiting in queues for the bar, bathroom etc. He's a career politician through and through, changes his mind and follows whatever gets him votes. No doubt, he's lining himself up and thinks he's a future Labour Party leader.

[@birdlover7690]

Streeting is a bit of posh totty

[@alice_from_england]

i've lived here my whole life and still don't know what a spiv is.

[@jackthehacker05]

@@alice_from_englandfirst I’ve heard it too

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

So, perfect for the party

[@roberteltontanner3404]

Welldone Girl great speech💪

[@jake751]

Yes I agree but unfortunately she has backed his awful policies for 5 years 😢. Too little to late.

[@judithmatthews8460]

Keep banging on about 22 billion hole all you like. The issue is Wes you chose to take money from pensioners not billionaires . That’s not what people voted for. Smirking your way through interview doesn’t impress. We know you have no issue with the wealthy you take the freebies from them

[@Ed30675]

We will remember and in due course they will be gone...

[@jake751]

He has taken Donations from private health care doners along with starmer/ rayner/ cooper and reeves. Our NHS is next for the chop.

[@ENGBriseB]

The UK is the 3rd Highest holder of American debt some 690 billion dollars "Goggle it". I don't believe this 20 billion black hole. 25 9 24.

[@filomenameffe3897]

22 billion pound hole yet they could send money to foreign aid but let's stiff the pensioners

[@stevemartin7464]

The problem with labour is that they are always taking something from someone, they are never creating anything, never making it easier to start and run businesses in the UK. They tend to see the pie as a fixed size with no growth.

[@DavidMargerison]

Amazing Sharon graham

[@jacquisimpson9448]

Thank you Sharon

[@carlpierce2486]

Sharon sure has got it.

[@aclark903]

She has principles. Unlike just about every Labour MP at this point.

[@danielryan6711]

good on her

[@furryelvis]

Do you think maybe Sharon Graham can take over from Keir Starmer as she has principals and he does not

[@ladygardener100]

Novel idea for politicians

[@poppy6699-g1h]

It's the first I've seen of her, but I agree, I like her spirit

[@sarahjaneross2918]

Blimey, Im quite shocked how Sharon Graham stepped up. Great speech 🎉❤

[@aron666x]

Great speech

[@TheDocumentarian01]

I wish Peter Taaffe was speaking, now that is a leader.

[@andyrobinson6560]

Starmer is not labour

[@barbaraaimson2100]

Communist

[@ssalah3009]

Shambles! Close the tax loopholes for individuals & corporates and get everyone to pay their fair share - the £22 billion black whole will soon be closed

[@Boujois23]

Maybe we should not be expecting people to be paying more instead UK should not be committing billions to the war machine of a proxy war in Ukraine

[@Ed30675]

That's what they said they would do... Liars...

[@nicholasdickens2801]

Much easier than that too it’ll give you many more billions. This is a choice.

[@nicholasdickens2801]

@@Ed30675 I never believed them they are owned by the oligarchs.

[@AlbertoGarcia-wd7sc]

@@FieldwalkerMasks-t9x Exactly. Or to put it better, deficits are normal. Deficits are, in fact, money in the real economy. Public deficit = private superavit. Every time they obsess with having superavit they are ensuring a crisis will happen.

[@maxwellanderson8173]

Starmer,has got to go,this thing can't be IN charge of our country

[@daveb7095]

What is the point of having delagates at the conference if the executive just laugh at the so called lefties!! Shame on you big time starmer

[@robertjones-nd8hz]

Thank god for Sharon, a voice of reason. Get Keir Starmer out!

[@jimleishman8599]

What a brilliant Lady, now there’s a Prime Minister, take note Starmer and Reeves stop making excuses for your easy decisions and grow a pair.

[@DeniseWilliams-jr5xo]

Well said spot on.

[@davidwilliams5124]

You are quite right that the pensioners have been sacrificed to appease the business sector and show labour are serious

[@Ed30675]

Spot on David...

[@butlerpa100]

Starmer will just ignore it

[@Ed30675]

And we won't forget..

[@Maggy47]

Like he always does

[@birdlover7690]

No ears for anyone

[@briangillespie9905]

The tide is turning. The populace wants and demands that Liar Starmer is voted out..

[@jonsmith5058]

@@Ed30675Enough people forgot when they sleepwalked into voting for him last election, him ignoring what the Left want indeed alienated enough for him to get a shit total number of votes, but enough shut their eyes and expected them to change once in power.

[@Antipaxos_Nadja123]

'I'm not sure we'll ever persuade Sharon' what a patronising individual!

[@lindaevans8044]

Sharon for pm

[@TheYopogo]

And she is directly elected by Unite members like me, the biggest union in the country with 1.2 million members. What a patronising insult to dismiss our elected representative, which shows what Wes Streeting thinks of working people.

[@afer4431]

Sharon Graham was amazing! The passion that is needed.❤

[@cherylwilliams7923]

Now she is a socialist! Kier Starmer take a lesson from her words!!!

[@arnoldaardvark4536]

Well done Sharon!

[@theoldonesarethebes1]

NO don't duck the difficult decisions, BUT you need to make the RIGHT DECISIONS first. JUST AWFUL, doing away with the pensioners winter fuel payments, and they still trying to defend it. What an EMBARRASMENT!!!

[@Turrican60]

Embarrassment*

[@oceanscene22]

I thought the winter payments are means tested, no? So if you can afford it, you pay. I also thought Starmer was going to tax the rich. Whatever he's doing, he's obviously not making people clearly aware of his plans.

[@xPreppyxDaisyx]

Why wasn't the winter fuel seen as this. If your pension is over minimum wage full time annual salary you pay the full amount. This labour government needs to tax the non dom. Its a new government but run by the rich as always

[@happinesstan]

Streeting is such a smarmy... Pardon my French.

[@Gerrypotterpoet]

He can’t communicate anything, even his own awful policies. Gx

[@davidwilliams5124]

Always remember the old age pension is approx two days at minimum wage ,everyone lucky enough to live long enough will be unlucky enough to recieve this pittance ,this poverty will arrive one day at your door!!!

[@artbascomb1336]

Wow, that was a well done speech imo.

[@MRmUIREND1]

Wes Streeting. Listening to this, he is low calibre. Shocking to hold the post of a Minister. Labour, every day looking more like against the people.

[@johnboxall2773]

Makes starmer look like a corrupt pm ,which is exactly what he is.

[@maxwellanderson8173]

He keeps ignoring the main issues of the British people, you can't have something like that IN power

[@patdoyle3686]

Labour are feeling the heat while pensioners are feeling the cold 😢

[@Hullbreachdetected]

Starmer also feels the £120000 "donations" he has "accepted". Reeves also "accepted" her heating allowance for her third mansion.

[@sallahudinmehuddin8046]

That's why Sharon Graham's union refused to endorse the Labour manifesto before the election, a couple of other unions also refused.

[@gwedielwch]

A brilliant speech by Sharon Graham. She spoke for the great majority of people in this country. And a great decision by the majority of the Labour Party conference. The Labour Government must listen.

[@vickywilliams8320]

Politicians do very nice speeches. Don't see them doing much else. Except for themselves. And no party is different.

[@suecole7338]

In the run up to the election the SNP kept asking Labour about the £22bn shortfall. How can they say that didn't know about it?

[@missmerrily4830]

Now THAT was a speech. Compare that to the Woodentop’s insipid effort!

[@tartytube]

Sharon should be PM!

[@effinjamieTT]

Absolutely not! Sharon has been strung along by starmer for the last 3 years in spite of everyone’s warning. She’s a mug!

[@AverageJane222]

​@@effinjamieTTFacts.

[@tartytube]

@@effinjamieTT well, she certainly stepped up with this speech and let’s face it she couldn’t be any worse at the job.

[@dominoep]

Time for a vote of no confidence.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

Are you an MP ?

[@dominicchallis2928]

People need to stop throwing that word around, especially since it’s been two months and you’re proposing it because of one unpopular policy. Where was this furore during the last 5 years?

[@Blobberoni]

Everything I heard from Labour leadership during this conference has vindicated my decision not to vote for them. Maybe next time round we'll get a government thats worth a damn.

[@MetalRocksMe.]

It rubbish when the party you voted for doesn’t win (mine never do) but you can’t take solace in know that whatever the corrupt governments are doing ain’t in you. You did vote for them.

[@dominicchallis2928]

No we won’t. This isn’t a matter of reset sometime in the future because any alternative governments resulting from a realignment next election would either (somehow) produce (maybe) a Labour-LibDem-Green coalition, which is unlikely, or it would produce some unholy alt-right Tory or Reform UK government which is in no one’s best interests after we just spent two years vowing to destroy them forever. The only thing to do now is to voice your opposition to the government wherever possible and a make a difference within this Parliament because we cannot in any way trust that help is on the way later on.

[@daveaustin1093]

Heating and eating it’s not something new, I noticed it 50 years ago that in great rich democratic Britain we are given a choice by every government, which it’s very good to have multi choices, you either eat or heat. You can not have both, that’s only for the elite.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Streeting is a snivelling coward. This was a choice. No one buys the £20bn 'black hole' which is under 3% of our narional budget... yet they keep gaslighting us

[@stephenreeve6732]

These Labour MP's just aren't listening to their constituents.

[@powderandpaint14]

Imagine if we had a PM apeaking like this! Imagine if we had a government doing what she's sayibg we could do.

[@HaydenCyclist]

She's left wing most of Britain is deeply right wing while being called 'centrists'.

[@lindabastable3021]

​@HaydenCyclist No. Most of England is far right. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland aren't. It is always England imposing right wing governments by sheer numbers. Just another example of England being the outlier politically. Like clinging to their entirely discredited FPTP voting system.

[@powderandpaint14]

@@lindabastable3021 most of England is not far right. It's just a very vocal minority.

[@HaydenCyclist]

@lindabastable3021 you're absolutely correct. My apologies. It's the English that are deeply right wing, not the Scots or Welsh. Agreed.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

I can imagine just how much my taxes would increase.

[@RaeCrazyGaming]

Im sure UNITE wont be invited back to the next Labour conference. If you want to know if this government supports working people, listen to our unions!

[@dvdv8197]

To quote that Schweppes commercial: What did you expect?

[@veronicasavage1182]

Sharon Graham although i am a pensioner, we are right behind you..

[@RobYoung-y7h]

Streeting is slimy enough to be a Tory. Sharon Graham spoke well though.

[@vickywilliams8320]

Don't think they want him either.

[@BigJunnySoprano69]

I thought the title said "confidence vote" for a second and got excited lol

[@kayburnett6792]

Why don’t the Labour Party choose to give their heating allowance up for their second homes. They can only live in one home at a time.

[@katsinthecradle89]

Labour not working people’s party. Get them out.

[@Funglutton]

"I'm not sure we're ever going to persuade Sharon" - the problem is: Sharon is a lot closer to how the majority of the UK thinks and feels about the issues affecting their lives. If you cant convince her, you cant convince most of the country and you wont be remaining in government.

[@ajd36]

Why do Reeves, Starmer and Streeting all talk in exactly the same, robotic manner? It's very odd.

[@free_spirit111]

Sharon is speaking from the heart

[@xJeanMichelNoirx]

Oh shit, I got goosebumps. Been sitting here with the same grumpy pessimism I’ve had for 15 years. Let’s have some punishment for neoliberalism and some breathing space for workers.

[@72rmboyd]

He'll just ignore them

[@strangetrip837]

Running away like Boris 🤬🤬

[@Anwar-tn3oz]

Sharon MAKE GOOD PM STAMER OUT

[@melvynplantmusic]

The unions must now force starmer to back down..words mean nothing!, don’t let him and Reeves kill our pensioners.

[@carolgilmour3497]

Bravo Sharon Graham - the Labour party???? Really????

[@arnedomi]

Sharon Graham speaks the truth.

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

But offers no money, not even for her own Unions Pensioners ?

[@davidwilliams5124]

You might not understand ms graham but keir starmer understands that the pensioners will not give him freebies and guarentee that he will be on the richman gravy train express now and when he retires ,But the weathy backers of keir will guarentee these things

[@ZZR1200ZX]

What about the £ 11.6 Billion Pounds for developing countries climate aid.?

[@tomrigby7016]

Well done Sharon for your support for the pensioners but I am afraid the government will not listen our care They are not a socialist Government

[@newearthmirror186]

Well done Sharon for a beautiful humiliation!..Oh and Starmer caught getting another 20k for his sons education!

[@steveb3060]

As a pensioner I saw the winter fuel cuts coming when the Tories cut employee national insurance payments from 12% to 10% and then from 10% to 8% recently, so pensioners have been made to pay when we were working to support pensioners in the past and are now being left out in the cold.

[@Thisisaweirdthing2makeusdo]

That is what a proper leader looks like. Great speech ❤

[@StephenGoodfellow]

Poor Starmer. So hard to be the billionaire friend in a Labour government. But he'll manage.

[@HaydenCyclist]

Being friends with a billionaire can be so lonely. Like being on top of Mount Olympus.

[@lmg7503]

Get rid of labor

[@anne13river]

Different points of view are a good thing even in a family. It is better to be like that rather than be sheep. I can even understand the triple lock and the cost to the country but I find it increditible that the pensioners are the first in the firing line when there are many corporations and dark money out there that need to pay their share.

[@paulchristopher746]

They just don't get it.

[@melvynmobbs]

Where did they find pillocks like streeting and mini cooper .

[@chrisbeard1750]

Streeting speaks of rubbish. Don't like him at all.

[@veronicasavage1182]

Wes Streeting you cannot even show proof of the 22bn black hole.. show the proof

[@vickywilliams8320]

Because it wasn't there. And if it was, they are doing their best to double it. So why worry. It can't matter that much at all.

[@ThatGuyThanus]

I detest these charlatans

[@Woodman1a-f5i]

22 billion pounds is a lot of money to normal people, but to a country it's fu k all .

[@louislorenzi-prince3842]

U-turns? Starmer has made so many U-turns before coming to power that he still has whiplash.

[@kevinreece6475]

In reply to any criticism, Starmer will simply say, 'This is a changed Labour Party'. Sure it has changed. He has changed it into a Tory Party tribute act

[@aardvarkrevolution5764]

You’ve heard of the ‘Midas’ touch? Starmer has the ‘Turd’ touch😜

[@bunchie1966]

Streeting is a liar. No matter how many times he repeats the lie about the black hole, it's still a lie.

[@stevecurtis6288]

At least he has called for the return of the sausages from Gaza

[@JohnLunetto]

The establishment wanted Starmer Because he is a Tory Corbyn is a social Democrat

[@leehighland5435]

Corbyn is a communist and Starmer is a globalist liberal, at the end of the day none of them care for working class people.

[@MetalSamantha]

Social Democrat is “far left” now. Because the last 40 years have worked so well, haven’t they? 🙄

[@vickywilliams8320]

He's a very silly old man.

[@ellenmurphy7998]

Labour has a problem giving old people anything because they are not putting anything into the country what about all the work pensioners did when work was real work also living through fog and smog and and miserable damp homes but it’s ok for starmer to have expensive designer clothes and glasses and money glad i didn’t vote for them sick of them already.

[@michelemartin7276]

That’s not quite right as vast numbers of grandparents provide free childcare enabling thousands of parents to go to work.

[@vickywilliams8320]

So pensioners don't help keep anyone in work by that idea.they don't pay bills, buy anything, never shop. Never babysit so parents can work. Your age and status doesn't matter. Like it or not everyone contributes

[@peacetheworld...........7105]

Sharon's speech better than labour,......Reeve says "Labour party is working people........ not protest' Working people and protesting people are always........ together.........working class movement........... no clues Reeve?? Trade Union lady...........Thank you Thanks Novada........

[@oceanscene22]

Nowadays, the working class is everybody except for the very wealthy. I do think the ultra wealthy should pay more but there's a fine line between being attractive to investment and going after the rich to pay their share. It sucks but that's something Starmer has to consider. However, the UK is a rich country, so surely it can take more from the very wealthy and keep investment going.

[@briandelaney9710]

Labour Leadership is playing the “macho” game about the cut

[@littleshubunkin7926]

I’m sorry I voted for Labour. 😢

[@oceanscene22]

If you hadn't, you'd have Tory.

[@zeeone4492]

The Starmer party is not Labour

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

It hasn't been since Blair, have you been living under a rock ?

[@anthonybell8826]

Here is the new leader I would have voted fr her

[@edenrosederonsard]

Just wait till their first budget when the tool announces what exactly “super rich” means in his book and the public finds out that it’s all working people on salaries over £45-£55K and all mum and dad businesses like small shops and cafes while huge corporations and their profits remain untouched.

[@birdlover7690]

Well said a person on a mission to get a point across to the government Sharon in this case

[@michaelrandall2070]

SS HELL - the cull: The vastly devalued winter fuel allowance is hardly a real lifeline anymore in the time of govt policy of vastly inflated fuel costs. The definite intention of Labour was to exclude all pensioners from the meager fuel benefit, but after considerable protest a small consession was made for some of the poorest 'penion credit' claimants. . Most likely there will be a cull of at least 4,000 from hypothermia this winter and this will also benefit the Exchequer with the terminated monthly pension payments and the possibity of estate inheritance tax. A triple wammy for the Sir Starmer's cruel policy and a special place in Hell.

[@stevethered5506]

Every word from Streeting came from the Tory playbook!!!

[@vickywilliams8320]

No dear, he's in the Labour Party. Don't try and lumber someone else with him.

[@lewisg7614]

Almost as if the unions and the crowd want a Corbin type set of policy's....

[@HaydenCyclist]

Investing in infrastructure, jobs, better pay and conditions, is what everybody apart from Davos and their members want.

[@TheCam920]

@@HaydenCyclist But that's... Le communism

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

…..problem is that the electorate doesn’t.

[@Alex-pk1iy]

@@NoWindNoSunNoPowerand yet, Corbyn got more votes in 2019 than Starmer in 2024

[@therealrobertbirchall]

​@@NoWindNoSunNoPower'the electorate' voted for labor under Corbyn in layered numbers than any labor party since 1946.

[@Henbot]

Whenever someone says with respect and look and sound like Streeting they mean 0 respect

[@AdamCHowell]

I read this comment before the part in the video where it happened but when i got there and heard him I had to scroll down and find this to give this commenta thumbs up.

[@daveroberts4086]

Streeting Is Out Of Is Depth For Trying To Make Us Think 💭 He’s Not Lying About Anything. But He’s Always Lying About Everything It’s Just Plain To See What He Is A Lying Mouthpiece For Himself And Starmerites And The Other Cronies Of Labour Lunatics Are Us.

[@DileepaRanawake]

Too right. Heat homes. Tax the rich.