Imagine all the People, Labour in Liverpool

Imagine a Labour Party that sets legislation so that over 100 people are arrested (including an 83-year-old) for protesting genocide and ethnic cleansing outside their own conference.

As members tried to have the reality of the government’s policy on the people of Gaza discussed from the floor, and protests within the hall broke out, Rachel Reeves ‘stood firm’.

Protestor interrupts Rachel Reeve’s speech

“We understand your cause and we are recognising a Palestinian state”

“But we are now a party in government and not a party of protest”

Reeves then mentions some of the things she’s achieved and says, “That is the difference we make… pic.twitter.com/KWmuc8x0fe

— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) September 29, 2025

Imagine a Labour politician giving an interview to The Sun at Labour Party conference in Liverpool – claiming they idolise Margaret Thatcher.

The Home Secretary then tweeted in screeching capitals MIGRANTS MUST CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COUNTRY TO EARN THEIR RIGHT TO STAY

Imagine a Labour Party enacting legislation that mimics the ideas of Norman Tebbit.

The Labour government is forever moving the goalposts as it tries desperately to play catch-up with Reform. Good Morning Britain’s Ed Balls cheerily announced the new plans:

“Foreigners wanting to live and work in the UK will have to learn to speak English, have a clean criminal record and not claim benefits, under plans being announced by the Home Secretary at the Labour Party Conference.”

Imagine a Labour government announcing a mandatory ID card which will mark a person’s faith and nationality and be linked to a database of all of their records. Imagine them calling it a BritCard. Imagine thinking that such an ID card would be used to fix potholes.

Imagine a Labour government rolling out live facial recognition (LFR) technology.

Imagine a Labour government operating under a “shadow boardroom” of corporate executives.

Imagine a Housing Secretary signing ‘MAGA’ hats at a Labour Party conference.

Imagine a Labour leader saying that elections didn’t matter in Scotland.

Imagine a Labour government that would prompt this tirade from a resigning member [Press Gangs, PIP and Post-Labour Scotland]:

“At a time when more people are going hungry, fuel bills are soaring and the cost of living is leaving working class families unable to afford the basics, a Labour Government should be going after the billions lost in corporate tax fraud and avoidance, it should be making those companies that pollute our environment pay and it should be introducing a wealth tax on the super rich.

“But instead you choose to punish and stigmatise the weak, poor and the vulnerable.”

The ‘People’s Party’ has disappeared completely, overtaken by a cabal, and a raft of horrendously authoritarian policies and people. It’s corporate takeover is complete.

People talk of ‘two-tier’ policing, but today, you had the Home Secretary laying out how to have settled status in Britain people will now have to be a better ‘citizen’ than most citizens and do voluntary work. It’s two-tier citizenship and draws on the ideology of the far-right, to other and demonise people coming to live in Britain.

It’s a remarkable transformation, but also not. Labour’s slide into authoritarianism has been rapid, and the ID card-scheme is something the Labour-right have been calling for for years. It’s now not even possible to talk of a ‘right’ and ‘left’ wing. Any remnant Left was purged and the few remaining individuals remain for purposes that can only be known to themselves. All my adult life the Labour Party has been a sort of myth, a form of folklore. It’s incredible that it’s taken until now for an alternative in Your Party to have been formed. Labour have long been a travesty, but today in Liverpool they are, like the party they seek to emulate, ungagged, unembarrassed and brazen in their new politics.