Somewhat tangential, but does anyone know who that is in the YouTube thumbnail for A Very British Coup? I’d quite like to watch it and find out for myself, but don’t have time at the moment.
Nope sorry, can’t help. It’s been quite some time since I watched it.
Not grown up politics, economic illiteracy. Starmer said that his Green New Deal would promote economic growth, he has abandoned his one and only workable plan for economic growth.
Graveyard economics was the description given to Lawson's budget
This is literally not worth reading. It’s just meaningless boilerplate. Why do you do it? It’s like filling up threads in the audio room with Nordost’s descriptions of their cables and then saying, “A breakthrough in sound reproduction?” No, obviously.
More like watered down than abandoned me thinks….
Why do I quote Starmer i.e. his actual words, what he thinks, what he wrote - on a thread entitled Labour Leader Keir Starmer ………. go figure…..and maybe next Prime Minister within a few months and in contrast to all the noshing off for Corbyn who came second to the Maybot and got his arse handed to him by Johnson.
Yes, the establishment was never going to tolerate the mere risk of Corbyn becoming PM. You could tell how frightened the Tories, their sponsors and the right wing media were of him because the slanders became more and more extreme in nature. That they thought they could publish this,
www.independent.co.uk
A huge question, worthy of its own thread. But the figures and serious analysis simply don’t support the case that Brexit represented a massive swing to the racist Right. I’m not denying that was an element of it, but Brexit was essentially a massive two fingers to the Metropolitan Blairite elite who had imported ‘triangulation’ wholesale from Clinton’s Democrats, and long abandoned their core voters.
Yes, all that, why? His Actual Words, lots of them, served up undigested and without comment, all the time. Why?
There is also the total lack of analysis. Take the opening sentence where Starmer says, “it is a mistake to believe that being responsible about spending somehow dampens how bold we can be”. It is not a mistake, cutting spending absolutely does limit how bold you can be in any progressive manner. His actual words are literally meaningless
Nurses already work overtime, not when asked to, so they don't get paid, but because they need to in order to deliver care. Starmer is wilfully vacuous.I took another look at Labour's five 'missions'. There's some stuff there I quite like but it's also strangely underwhelming in it's lack of ambition.
Example: I think a lot of people would agree the NHS is in desperate need of investment. We spend less than almost any other country in Europe on healthcare. Labour's answer? They're going to pay nurses overtime to help reduce waiting lists.
Not recruit more staff or build more hospitals.. just get people, many of whom already work very long hours, to work longer hours.
Yep, all just pure filler: they can’t say *literally* nothing so they say this, the next best thing. Of course supporters (at least those who notice there’s nothing there) will say it’s about presenting a small target to their opponents. But judging by their records I’d say this is actually how they see the task of governing. Well, this plus deregulation and privatisation.I took another look at Labour's five 'missions'. There's some stuff there I quite like but it's also strangely underwhelming in it's lack of ambition.
Example: I think a lot of people would agree the NHS is in desperate need of investment. We spend less than almost any other country in Europe on healthcare. Labour's answer? They're going to pay nurses overtime to help reduce waiting lists.
Not recruit more staff or build more hospitals.. just get people, many of whom already work very long hours, to work longer hours.
