Keir Starmer's time is up

[belboid]

What is Great British Energy?

its just an energy company, like EDF, except is owned by he UK government, who should then get the profits (rather than hire French government getting them, with EDF). It wont be a generator, it will offer protection that it wont go bust like Bulb. A perfectly decent, but grossly insufficient, idea.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Are we Blair yet?

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This trainspotting prequel looks shit

 

[mojo pixy]

Painspotting

 

[Elpenor]

its just an energy company, like EDF, except is owned by he UK government, who should then get the profits (rather than hire French government getting them, with EDF). It wont be a generator, it will offer protection that it wont go bust like Bulb. A perfectly decent, but grossly insufficient, idea.

Feels like it’s a good way to reward donors with positions of influence and also offer employment opportunities to retiring MPs

 

[two sheds]

Shame we can't compost them as a form of renewable energy

As noted it's a nice idea but one of the six most important things he intends to do? It's just padding.

 

[Thaw]

its just an energy company, like EDF, except is owned by he UK government, who should then get the profits (rather than hire French government getting them, with EDF). It wont be a generator, it will offer protection that it wont go bust like Bulb. A perfectly decent, but grossly insufficient, idea.

It will be nothing like EDF (well, not for a hell of a long time). It isn't going to be a generator or a retailer. I assume they're not going to be a wholesale trader. The best info I can see so far suggests they will be investing in more experimental/marginal technologies that the private sector are shy of. It sounds more like a publicly owned hedge fund run by civil servants and not focussed on profit.

Understanding Labour's Plan for Great British Energy

If elected, the Labour party aims to launch a government-run energy company. Their primary goals are to reduce energy costs and create numerous jobs in the energy sector across the country.

www.dbsne.com

 

[brogdale]

Not factually incorrect, but the chutzpah and performance art level of self-awareness is quite something to behold...

 

[gosub]

Are we Blair yet?

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Lord Cameron can't be Foriegn Sec for ever...

 

[Whagwan]

Seen it pointed out on twitter how pathetic pledge 6 is. 40,000 teachers leave the profession annually. At my wife's primary school they have 3 working laptops to teach ICT for the whole school and literally zero stationary.

 

[redsquirrel]

Rolled up sleeves, check
Serious specs, check
blue tie, probably
broken promises, certainly

But we still have vote Labour, right?

 

[Raheem]

He looks like a maths teacher with a thing for the Krays.

 

[Gramsci]

Just been watching Starmer excerpts from his speech today.

Journo asks isn't he watering down the promises he made previously.

He says he won leadership of party to "turn it inside out" to make it electable after its "worst election defeat"

Excuse me this was not what he was saying when he was trying to get to be leader of the party.

He's saying this with a straight face.

I can hardly believe I'm hearing this.

 

[Gramsci]

So his "first steps" are not watering down the "mission". The mission is still there these are just first steps. Long term the "mission" will happen.

Six "first steps"

Oh dear.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Six "first steps"

off a very short pier, for preference...

 

[SpookyFrank]

Sleeves rolled up. Means business.

He's not even rolled them up properly. Should be above the elbow.

 

[Dystopiary]

Those sleeves were rolled up then ironed. Imagine getting someone to iron rolled up sleeves.

 

[Serge Forward]

Kin'ell you're right. Ironed in place

 

[Pickman's model]

Those sleeves were rolled up then ironed. Imagine getting someone to iron rolled up sleeves.

Should have applied the iron after he'd put the shirt on

 

[Pickman's model]

Just been watching Starmer excerpts from his speech today.

Journo asks isn't he watering down the promises he made previously.

He says he won leadership of party to "turn it inside out" to make it electable after its "worst election defeat"

Excuse me this was not what he was saying when he was trying to get to be leader of the party.

He's saying this with a straight face.

I can hardly believe I'm hearing this.

This would be the party he played such a role in making unelectable with a policy he has repudiated

 

[ska invita]

I can hardly believe I'm hearing this.

I have a life strategy to help with this- never ever ever listen to politicians speak

 

[Pickman's model]

I can hardly believe I'm hearing this.

I can't believe you listened to it

 

[Artaxerxes]

I have a life strategy to help with this- never ever ever listen to politicians speak

I think it was almost 2 years into his leadership I finally heard Keir's voice.


What a fucking disappointment

 

[teqniq]

Beth Rigby put Starmer on the spot here:



and some analysis of the interview by Richard Murphy. Tl;dr can he be trusted? Like fuck.

Can Keir Starmer be trusted?

This video comes from an interview between Beth Rigby of Sky News and Keir Starmer yesterday, posted by them to YouTube: https://youtu.be/q-5bdP4tFBo?si=Mcf2vPm-sTZ7IyXs Beth Rigby does three things. She asks Starmer if he can be trusted. She then demonstrates that by abandoning all the...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

 

[two sheds]

Right at the beginning (including the mantra of being very clear about something he's actually going to lie about) "I'm not going to make a promise before an election that I don't think I'm going to be able to keep after the election ..."

Eta: she's for the gulag if Labour wins the election

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Toolmakers' sleeves

Tool's sleeves. There, fixed that for you.

 

[mojo pixy]

Beth Rigby put Starmer on the spot here:

I had principles, but instead of making the case for those, and for using the massive resources of one of the wealthiest nations on earth to lay foundations for a healthier, happier society, I'm going to concede defeat to capital and pretend we can't afford it, as if running a country is just like running a business.

Prick. Just .. what a prick!

 

[The39thStep]

Pepsi challenge

 

[tommers]

People are still surprised by their lack of principles but they made it very clear at the start "you can't achieve anything if you're not in power". The one thing they have actually been honest about is that they are going to say whatever they think will achieve that.

 

[Karl Masks]

Pepsi challenge

That's stupid though, those questions are based on generic goals that every party would have.

 

[nino_savatte]

They may deny it, but Starmer's Labour is trying to recreate 1997. The problem with anyone who's trying to either recreate the past or, as Thatcher and Truss did, don the mantle of a dead politician (Churchill and Thatcher respectively) is that it always ends up destroying them. Labour can no more recreate 1997 than I can go back in time and kill Hitler. The conditions in 2024 are completely different to the conditions of the late 1990s. Although many of the same structural issues remain in place, we face a different set of challenges.