Labour Leader: Keir Starmer VII
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notaclue
pfm Member
A political bombshell. Labour leads in Scotland, says YouGov.
Will Sir Keir's majority become the stuff of legend? I would not rule it out.
NEW: Labour leads SNP in Westminster voting intention for first time since indy ref @yougov finds.
Labour 33% (+1)
SNP 31% (-2)
Tories 14% (-6)
Reform 7% (+5)
LD 7% (+2)
Greens 5% (-)
Will Sir Keir's majority become the stuff of legend? I would not rule it out.
NEW: Labour leads SNP in Westminster voting intention for first time since indy ref @yougov finds.
Labour 33% (+1)
SNP 31% (-2)
Tories 14% (-6)
Reform 7% (+5)
LD 7% (+2)
Greens 5% (-)
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Here's a good piece on the Cass review getting all the highlights yesterday
"She added, “They are medicalising being trans. They are also scaremongering about ‘irreversible care’.”
The Tories will use Cass to go on the offensive—and Labour is going along with their transphobia. Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, pledged the party’s “support for the Cass Review’s evidence-led recommendations”.
socialistworker.co.uk
Cass Review opens door to more attacks on trans people
A deeply flawed report that boosts Tories, bigots and transphobes"She added, “They are medicalising being trans. They are also scaremongering about ‘irreversible care’.”
The Tories will use Cass to go on the offensive—and Labour is going along with their transphobia. Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, pledged the party’s “support for the Cass Review’s evidence-led recommendations”.
Cass Review opens door to more attacks on trans people
The Cass Review on gender identity services for children boosts Tories, bigots and transphobes and will make life harder for trans+ people.
socialistworker.co.uk
paulfromcamden
Baffled
Trans journalist Freddy McConnell has a damning piece in the Graun today carefully detailing the failings of the Cass report and it's consequences:Here's a good piece on the Cass review getting all the highlights yesterday
Cass Review opens door to more attacks on trans people
A deeply flawed report that boosts Tories, bigots and transphobes
"She added, “They are medicalising being trans. They are also scaremongering about ‘irreversible care’.”
The Tories will use Cass to go on the offensive—and Labour is going along with their transphobia. Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, pledged the party’s “support for the Cass Review’s evidence-led recommendations”.
Cass Review opens door to more attacks on trans people
The Cass Review on gender identity services for children boosts Tories, bigots and transphobes and will make life harder for trans+ people.
If the Cass review was held under a black light, we would see the fingerprints of anti-trans ideology. I don’t believe Cass shares this way of thinking, I think she believes in evidence-based healthcare and that trans children exist. However, allowing her review to be so heavily influenced by bias is a critical failure that is hers to own.
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Dr Cass, appeasement might get you through this short-term discomfort in the media spotlight, but please remember: it isn’t your healthcare, your rights or your everyday dignity they are trying to take away.
And the headline the Graun chose to go with?
Hilary Cass’s proposals are mostly common sense.
Un-f*cking-believable.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own
Frances RyanLabour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out
Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own | Frances Ryan
Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
gavreid
Pretty Words...
I couldn't care less if he wants to go to Timbuktu - actually I wish he would.
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
The fact that Starmer appeals to right wingers is the problem.
If the problem is 14 years of Tory austerity, Starmer is not going the move the needle on that a fraction. He has explicitly promised to crank the austerity handle in the exact same way as the Tories.
Starmer is continuity Tory. Which is who he appeals to.
If the problem is 14 years of Tory austerity, Starmer is not going the move the needle on that a fraction. He has explicitly promised to crank the austerity handle in the exact same way as the Tories.
Starmer is continuity Tory. Which is who he appeals to.
gavreid
Pretty Words...
This would be where the money's actually going then:
www.theguardian.com
Labour aims to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP
Starmer’s comments come before visit to Barrow, where he is to promise nuclear deterrent is ‘bedrock’ of security plan
Labour aims to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP
Starmer’s comments come before visit to Barrow, where he is to promise nuclear deterrent is ‘bedrock’ of security plan
monkfish
pfm Member
He is trying to become PM by being a stooge for the right.
Finnegan
I like a bit of a cavort
Still not a dicky from Keir or Ange or Lisa.
www.theguardian.com
Labour candidate in Scotland suspended over ‘racist’ social media activity
Constituent reported tweets liked and shared by Wilma Brown, who was to stand in Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath
monkfish
pfm Member
Starmer, Reeves and Streeting - the three stooges.
notaclue
pfm Member
It's almost as if he has realised you have to appeal to a broad majority of people in the UK to win an election...
ks.234
Half way to Infinity
Do the broad majority support more privatisation and more austerity? Because that is what a vote for Labour will get you
droodzilla
pfm Member
Is Angela Rayner the most evil politician in Britain?