Guff there about “rural groups” and “rural voters”; this will be caving in to asset management corporations and their increasingly large farmland/countryside portfolios. The last thing they want is any need for costs associated with access to their asset class. There’s a reason that these vulture corps were filling the Manchester conference lobbies and filth like BlackRock’s Fink are lauding the “strength” of their future place man.Labour caves in on something else.
Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England
Exclusive: Party says it will find other ways to create more access to countryside after opposition from landownerswww.theguardian.com
And this sort of thing is what's going to make the ge far closer than people think. On one side you have the tories, who are incompetent racist arseholes who often do what they say, on the other the Labour party who walk back every policy pledge they make and whose leader is at least as shit as rishi sunak. Much depends on whether tory voters stay homeLabour caves in on something else.
Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England
Exclusive: Party says it will find other ways to create more access to countryside after opposition from landowners
The vast majority of "rural voters" not being major landlords, and (from long experience) constantly being at risk of some prat marching up to threaten them if they take a wrong turn on a field, I reckon the idea that more land access rights would be unpopular with them is complete hokum.
Not even six months later
Out and about without headphones so will listen later....but people under 30 are too young to know the anagram I'm tory plan B
5 months - he must really have believed in itNot even six months later
Labour U-turns on promise of Scottish-style right to roam in England
Exclusive: Party says it will find other ways to create more access to countryside after opposition from landowners
Starmer has given the Tory propaganda machine a huge amount of ammunition. They haven't really started attacking him yet, but come election time we are going to hear a lot about these u-turns, broken promises, betrayals and intolerance of dissent I reckon. That they haven't done so yet is strategic - don't interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake and don't give him time to course correct.
Tough on housing, tough on the causes of housing?“for the landlords, not the peasants”
Possible manifesto strapline for Keef
My belief, based on several years of evidence, is that Starmer starts every day with an entirely blank mind, has it filled in the morning by advisors who tell him ehwt was on TV yesterday and what is in the morning newspapers, they then decide what he thinks today. It has no connection to anything he said or did the day before, and has no bearing at all on what he will do or say tomorrow. He effectively has no mind of his own. He is a machine for turning yesterday's mass media into sound bites. He is Mandelson's dream politician. Back in the 80s Mandelson started preaching the gospel of "perception is everything" based on the idea that the public have a memory that only extends back 8 hours or so, and that reality is recreated new every day in the media.
while not apologizing... "could have been handled better"it's quite amazing how he does it.
do / say something that will piss one bunch of people off
u-turn in a way that will piss another bunch of people off
each bunch of people will remember the thing that pissed them off rather than remember the u-turn (or the original thing) and most people will remember all the u-turns.
