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Half way to Infinity
6 months and 3 new words....plus the 4 old ones “we support the government”....that’s over a word a monthFor people who missed the news 6 months ago?
6 months and 3 new words....plus the 4 old ones “we support the government”....that’s over a word a monthFor people who missed the news 6 months ago?
From breaking international law, to dodging parliamentary scrutiny and wasting public money, most of the opposition to the Tory party is coming from within the Tory Party rather than from the Opposition
100% evasion/deflection. He won’t even commit to progressive taxation post-covid FFS!
Its purpose for much of its history has been to act as the Tories’ B-team, and after a brief interruption it seems we’re back to business as usual.I’m now watching the Marr Starmer interview a little delayed due to watching Sophie Ridge first. 100% evasion/deflection. He won’t even commit to progressive taxation post-covid FFS!
Can someone please explain to me what the hell the Labour Party is actually for? What is its purpose? A so called political party appearing on TV and taking no moral or ideological standpoint on any topic is just the worst kind of evasive careerist trough-feeding bullshit entitlement I can picture. We desperately need an opposition party in this country, more so now than at any time I can remember. As ever Labour are AWOL. They are nowhere to be seen.
A so called political party appearing on TV and taking no moral or ideological standpoint on any topic is just the worst kind of evasive careerist trough-feeding bullshit entitlement I can picture.
I understand the strategy of "staying small": saying as little as possible so you can't be attacked for it, and hoping to win by default at the next election. So far it seems to be working, although I'm not convinced it will be enough. What bothers me more is that the few positive signals Starmer has emitted ("forces, flag, family",basically) are so deeply conservative. It looks like Milliband 2.0, and we all know how well that worked out.Its purpose for much of its history has been to act as the Tories’ B-team, and after a brief interruption it seems we’re back to business as usual.
That or -still a vague hope - they realise that without keeping the idiot centrist pundit community happy, along with the small but very noisy constituency that they represent, Starmer will be monstered in exactly the same way as Corbyn was.
I think this is why it’s so important to concentrate on stitching Corbyn up for antisemitism. The only way these people were able to justify helping Johnson into office was to pretend to believe that Corbyn was a racist. The worse Johnson’s government gets, the harder they’re going to have to lean on that calumny, the stupid selfish bastards.
I understand the strategy of "staying small": saying as little as possible so you can't be attacked for it, and hoping to win by default at the next election. So far it seems to be working, although I'm not convinced it will be enough.
Wasn’t that called missing open goals once upon a time?I understand the strategy of "staying small": saying as little as possible so you can't be attacked for it,
Yes it was. But that line of attack is no longer needed now any prospect of progressive change has been eliminated.Wasn’t that called missing open goals once upon a time?
Yes, I’ve no real hope that this is temporary, because of the terrible people he’s surrounded himself with: they actually mean all this stuff, they’ve been pushing it for years, completely unmodified. They’re the last people in the world to suddenly turn around, once in office, and say “Actually it was all a ruse: we don’t really think the British people are intrinsically stupid and racist! We think they’ll actually welcome the kind of economic radicalism we’ve devoted our entire careers to suppressing!”I understand the strategy of "staying small": saying as little as possible so you can't be attacked for it, and hoping to win by default at the next election. So far it seems to be working, although I'm not convinced it will be enough. What bothers me more is that the few positive signals Starmer has emitted ("forces, flag, family",basically) are so deeply conservative. It looks like Milliband 2.0, and we all know how well that worked out.
Yes, good point. An analogous argument against PR is that it favours a middle-ground mush, and blocks significant change to the status quo. If significant change is needed, this is a real drawback. However, all things considered, it's a risk I'm willing to take right now.It just highlights the absolute systemic failure that is FPTP. A perfect example of establishment rule; a system so fundamentally broken and irrelevant power can be assumed without ideology, conviction, policy or mandate. It can be achieved ‘by default’ with nothing more than evasion and deflection.