Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Blair or JOHNSON. Or call the other cunt Tony. FFS
Keir Starmer's time is up
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TopCat
Putin fanboy
I will call them both as I choose. Go fuck yourself trying to tell me how to behave.Blair or JOHNSON. Or call the other cunt Tony. FFS
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Christ. It's been a running joke for some time.
Even if it hadn't that's a bit harsh.
Fwiw I don't think anyone should call him by his first name imo as it makes him more affable.
Have a nice night.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Sorry I’m a bit pissed and well sorry.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
“ Starmer said: “I stood by the miners under the Tories and I stand by their communities now. These communities contributed so much to the success of our country and then they were abandoned. The Tories didn’t care then. And they don’t care now.”
He stood by the miners? I was involved and don’t remember him then at all let alone standing up?
He stood by the miners? I was involved and don’t remember him then at all let alone standing up?
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
This is an infuriating read. So he's going back to Blairism. So called business friendly, being Tory lite in practise if he get to be PM.
I don't think this strategy will work. Its not offering anything new. Blair had benefit of doubt as he initially appeared to offer a strategy that worked. It was breath of fresh air after tired Tory regime.
With Boris saying he's levelling up etc I don't see how strategy of saying Labour will do the same as Tories but a bit better is enough to get me for instance to vote for Starmer.
Also the language he is using of looking back to Blair and Brown. There light touch regulation of the City helped lead to the financial crisis. So just looking to those years uncritically is not good enough. They geniunely believed that free market City was here to stay, they accepted the legacy of Thatcher and thought they could get some concessions from it if they were not to hard on it. In the end this didn't work.
Not saying in an interview with FT that the way the City works is part of the problem is gross negligence on his part as new Labour leader.
Implied is not just Corbyn but soft left Ed Miliband to be rejected.
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
the new labour / centrist dad "vote labour - we're a bit less shit than the tories" approach
meh
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
On a more serious note, look at her fourth point.
I mean fuck joking about quinoa and north London (not aimed at anyone on this thread, rather at her) this is disgraceful shit from Labour's right.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I honestly don't wish to stick up for him, but he worked for the NUM as a lawyer. How much he would have stood by the miners unpaid is another question, of course.
Humberto
Dark! Dark! England's army! Liverfuckingpool
There is a bureaucratic time serving element to Starmer's ambition, but I think there is more to him. A conscience. Blair is cracked, and his history proves it. There is no use saying the good things he did (domestically), and the election wins when the guy's a loon who opened the gates of hell.
Yep honestly...
It seems really fucking dated to insist that "pie and pint" is working class food.
This isn't the 1970s and believe it or not, you can buy Hummus in Hartlepool. New foreign foods may tend to be embraced by the middle class earlier, but the idea that no working class person in 2021 has ever eaten an avocado is ridiculous.
gosub
~#
In complete truth I have never voted either for Boris or back in the day Blair, dynamics of where voting in those relevant elections made it, at that level, bette itr focusing on other issues it felt better a use of that particular political effort.
ska invita
back on the other side
Do Starmers inner circle even know what "business" wants? My impression is Business wants Chinese style stimulus whilst borrowing is super cheap.
Theres an open door for this with Biden basically following this path. May and Johnson had no qualms holding hands with Trump, Starmer could so easily be doing the same with Biden. Team Starmer's genius plan of Law and order + balanced budget appeals to literally no one.
At least Blair had some kind of ideological drive courtesy of people like Anthony Giddens and Will Hutton. There seems to be no thinking going on here at all from Starmerites - they seem utterly clueless.
Raheem
Well-Known Member
I don't think it's about what business wants or what anyone else wants. It is, sadly, mainly about internal Labour party stuff. Starmer is all about Blairites getting back in control. And it's the exact same ideology. Law and order and fiscal responsibility is Blairism in a nutshell. It's an article of faith that this is how you get elected.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Labour’s preoccupation with ‘values’ is a basic political error | Alan Finlayson
Demands for change are the raw material of politics. Keir Starmer needs to start addressing them, says politics professor Alan Finlayson
TopCat
Putin fanboy
Urgh. Not my best look. (Hangs head)
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
All been there, pal.
ska invita
back on the other side
Lowest approval rating to date for Sir SUV according to the observer.
"Keir Starmer’s approval rating is also down, with a net score of -11. It fell from -6 two weeks ago. 28% approve of the job he is doing, while 39% disapprove. It is his worst score since Opinium started tracking him in this way."
"Keir Starmer’s approval rating is also down, with a net score of -11. It fell from -6 two weeks ago. 28% approve of the job he is doing, while 39% disapprove. It is his worst score since Opinium started tracking him in this way."
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
I'd expect higher - would have thought most tories would approve of the job he is doing...
Argonia
Happy go licky
Bet Starmaggedon is praying to Zeus for a miracle right now. He's going to need water turned into wine and the Lazarus resurrection to poll as much as 3% of the vote
Argonia
Happy go licky
Has Starmzy got on that Qantas flight organised by Priti in a window seat next to Boris to exile in the Democratic Republic of Congo yet? I wonder whether he will put wasabi on his sushi on the flight or whether he's a soy sauce man
I imagine he will tik tok his first day in Kinshasha and post up footage of him buying a mango in the market with Boris spunking out his fluent French and literally 7 people including John Bercow will be tuning in avidly to watch the excellent progress
I imagine he will tik tok his first day in Kinshasha and post up footage of him buying a mango in the market with Boris spunking out his fluent French and literally 7 people including John Bercow will be tuning in avidly to watch the excellent progress
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steveseagull
Well-Known Member
Keith is going to fuck it up with his car isn't he?
steveseagull
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Argonia
Happy go licky
I just read at YouGov that the one single little policy they have made by an illiterate gnome on a Spinal Tap Stonehenge napkin has surged their popularity to 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% and they are about to take over the country as fast as the Taliban took over Kunduz and three other cities in one day last week. Starmerggeddon is going to run things just as well as Blair did and I can't wait for his invasion of Iraq again because everything has been so well governed there.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
I have a lavatory seat that would be a better pm than sks. An alpaca would be much better and more photogenic than sks
Argonia
Happy go licky
It's the lavatory seat landslde. Laura Kuennsberg is so busy making out with Robert Peston in a park after drinking 19 cans of Kestrel Super in Leighton Buzzard that she hasn't noticed the surge for the lavatory seat just as none of the journalists saw the Attlee landslide coming in 1945
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