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Labour Leader: Keir Starmer VII

Enfield boy said:
Now the git's welcomed another tory defecting at the eleventh hour. I bet he'd happily take them all to replace anyone left who has what this country needs foremost in their mind.
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I don't think he even knows how bl**dy offensive that is to a lot of members
 
The Starmer train rolls on. Next stop 10 Downing Street.

Big news... A Tory MP has defected to Labour because it's the only way he will keep his seat he recognises Sir Keir is the outstanding leader the nation needs.

To be fair, he is a doctor so clearly not as stupid as most Tory MPs.

Election night is going to be a doozy.

Though I hear the Greens have a catchy new slogan: 'Vote Green if you want an early night'. I suppose might appeal to some. 🤐

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Conservative MP and ex-minister Daniel Poulter defects to Labour

The doctor told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he could no longer look NHS colleagues and patients in the eye and stay as a Conservative.
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From BBC News (my bold): "Sir Keir said he was pleased by Dr Poulter's decision to join Labour, adding: "It's time to end the Conservative chaos, turn the page and get Britain's future back."

Can we - and I'm only asking to avoid retraumatisation, not because of the inherent contradiction between the statement and its inspiration - can we please do this without aping 2016's Vote Leave?
 
notaclue said:
The Starmer train rolls on. Next stop 10 Downing Street.

Big news... A Tory MP has defected to Labour because it's the only way he will keep his seat he recognises Sir Keir is the outstanding leader the nation needs.

To be fair, he is a doctor so clearly not as stupid as most Tory MPs.

Election night is going to be a doozy.

Though I hear the Greens have a catchy new slogan: 'Vote Green if you want an early night'. I suppose might appeal to some. 🤐

www.bbc.co.uk

Conservative MP and ex-minister Daniel Poulter defects to Labour

The doctor told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he could no longer look NHS colleagues and patients in the eye and stay as a Conservative.
www.bbc.co.uk
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This Dr.Poulter! “I found it increasingly difficul to look my NHS colleagues in the eye”. Christ, he’s just sprouted a conscience?
Sure his name isn’t Rip Van Winkle?-
“Dr Poulter, who works part time as a doctor, said that Conservatives were no longer focused on public services”.
 
Not sure if Central Suffolk and North Ipswich is going to change colour in the same fashion.
 
TheDecameron said:
This Dr.Poulter! “I found it increasingly difficul to look my NHS colleagues in the eye”. Christ, he’s just sprouted a conscience?
Sure his name isn’t Rip Van Winkle?-
“Dr Poulter, who works part time as a doctor, said that Conservatives were no longer focused on public services”.
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Labour are even less focussed on public services.

Poulter him tell lies
 
Enfield boy said:
Now the git's welcomed another tory defecting at the eleventh hour. I bet he'd happily take them all to replace anyone left who has what this country needs foremost in their mind.
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Starmer’s Labour. We welcome Tories, but socialists like Corbyn and Abbott can FRO.

I’m not sure how this will affect the “we gotta vote for Starmer to get rid of the Tories” argument.
 
From Poulter (a psychiatrist and former Health Minister) in the Graun:

I can well remember when I first qualified as a doctor and began working in the NHS in 2006. At the time, patient care had been radically improved and transformed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s Labourgovernments, following many years of Conservative neglect….

I also believe that, thanks to Keir Starmer, Labour has changed fundamentally. The Labour party of 2019 – roundly rejected by the British people – has been consigned to history. With Starmer’s leadership, the party understands that strong public services – and particularly a strong NHS – must be built on the bedrock of a strong economy. The Labour party is now a serious party of government, and it’s one in which I and the British public can put our trust.….

It is abundantly clear to me that the Labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the NHS. That’s why we need a Labour government, and why I believe Keir Starmer must lead that government as our next prime minister.
 
In this election year, [Billy] Bragg has (once again) cut ties with the Labour party. What caused him to cut up his card on this occasion?

“All that ‘Israel has a right to defend itself,’” he says. “And to be fair, I felt I had put up with a lot. I voted for [Keir] Starmer as leader and I’ve still got on my desk his list of pledges. The nationalisation of utilities, the green New Deal, doing something on proportional representation. Those pledges suggested to me that Starmer was a development on [Jeremy] Corbyn, who was very much a 20th-century politician. And then you watch him just get rid of those pledges one after the other. The position on Gaza was the last straw for me.”

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Spraggons Den said:
From Poulter (a psychiatrist and former Health Minister) in the Graun:

I can well remember when I first qualified as a doctor and began working in the NHS in 2006. At the time, patient care had been radically improved and transformed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s Labourgovernments, following many years of Conservative neglect….

I also believe that, thanks to Keir Starmer, Labour has changed fundamentally. The Labour party of 2019 – roundly rejected by the British people – has been consigned to history. With Starmer’s leadership, the party understands that strong public services – and particularly a strong NHS – must be built on the bedrock of a strong economy. The Labour party is now a serious party of government, and it’s one in which I and the British public can put our trust.….

It is abundantly clear to me that the Labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the NHS. That’s why we need a Labour government, and why I believe Keir Starmer must lead that government as our next prime minister.
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Question, what took him sooo long to find his conscious?

Did it bite him!
 
Spraggons Den said:
From Poulter (a psychiatrist and former Health Minister) in the Graun:

I can well remember when I first qualified as a doctor and began working in the NHS in 2006. At the time, patient care had been radically improved and transformed by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s Labourgovernments, following many years of Conservative neglect….

I also believe that, thanks to Keir Starmer, Labour has changed fundamentally. The Labour party of 2019 – roundly rejected by the British people – has been consigned to history. With Starmer’s leadership, the party understands that strong public services – and particularly a strong NHS – must be built on the bedrock of a strong economy. The Labour party is now a serious party of government, and it’s one in which I and the British public can put our trust.….

It is abundantly clear to me that the Labour party alone has the will and the trust to restore and reform the NHS. That’s why we need a Labour government, and why I believe Keir Starmer must lead that government as our next prime minister.
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A former Tory MP cheerleading Labour's plans for the NHS does not give me a warm fuzzy feeling.
 
Spraggons Den said:
With Starmer’s leadership, the party understands that strong public services – and particularly a strong NHS – must be built on the bedrock of a strong economy.
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Starmer’s ‘plan‘ to build a ‘strong economy’ is the same plan that has been weakening it for half a century. The same plan that always centres on shoving public money to private pockets for supposed social returns that only ever make social provision worse.
 
gavreid said:
In this election year, [Billy] Bragg has (once again) cut ties with the Labour party. What caused him to cut up his card on this occasion?

“All that ‘Israel has a right to defend itself,’” he says. “And to be fair, I felt I had put up with a lot. I voted for [Keir] Starmer as leader and I’ve still got on my desk his list of pledges. The nationalisation of utilities, the green New Deal, doing something on proportional representation. Those pledges suggested to me that Starmer was a development on [Jeremy] Corbyn, who was very much a 20th-century politician. And then you watch him just get rid of those pledges one after the other. The position on Gaza was the last straw for me.”

www.theguardian.com

Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’

The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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“Very much a 20th-century politician”?
 
gavreid said:
I don't think he even knows how bl**dy offensive that is to a lot of members
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And therein lies one of the problems with those members.

A decent, if short-term, PR boost for Labour before the election. Poulter though is qualified to comment on the NHS (and the Tories) - which will help Labour.
 
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