2024 UK politics - now with Labour in charge
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Labour lose their Canterbury MP:
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Naive.
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Quite a mixed Labour biography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Duffield
Rather reads that she's been looking for a reason to jump ship for a while. I suspect Starmer won't lose any sleep over this.
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I think she makes some interesting points about him being heavy handed and authoritarian - whether that ends up working for him remains to be seen.
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That didn't take long. I'm fact, it's a record the quickest quitting after a GE. Hopefully a sign of things to come.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
In light of Corbyn, Momentum and the antisemitism legacy, and now a large majority which tends to give dissenters the courage to be PITA to leadership (for instance in toeing the party line on "make Brexit work", as much as that annoys me), it's not surprising he's keeping everyone in line (or trying to, obviously with some success, in terms of potential trouble-makers).
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If this is remotely true, seems like they were just waiting for her to jump ship. Will be interesting to see if she suddenly decides she's Tory after all (given how vituperative her resignation letter is), now she's got her job until 2029 whatever she does.
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More scandal... will they last to the end of the week?
I should think that if this is the worst they can come up with, Starmer will be happy, while the press make fools of themselves.
In other news, Labour are proposing to stop the exemption that allows ministers not to declare gifts (that the Tories introduced, IIRC).
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I think that the constant drip drip of stuff like this will erode public support for them. In particular if you're putting yourself forward as a party of the people then taking valuable freebies in the form of clothes, entry to events, holiday accommodation etc, while taking away old grannies' winter fuel allowance is not a good look in the minds of a lot of the general public.
Personally I think they're going to come unstuck after the budget. I am still not seeing how they will 'tix the foundations' (whatever that means) while sticking to the fiscal rules, especially having ruled out the main ways of raising taxes (income tax, emplayees NI, VAT, CT). Likewise, all their hot air about growth is likely to be exposed as just that as I am failing to see what they will do even to offset the growth reducing impact of upcoming tax rises and less flexible labour markets.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]1 -
Change the fiscal rules. They aren't working.
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"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
I think the hospitality side of things has been going for so long and has become so normalised with all Westminster, Starmer didn't grasp the 'optics'. That said, if this is now the worst they've got on them (after all, all these 'revelations' are a matter of public record that you or I could have checked), I don't think Starmer will be quaking in his boots, and there is plenty of mud to sling at Tories from their time in power. You might not like his politics, but as the ex head of DPP, and having neutered the Corbynite voices in Labour, he does appear to know how to leverage his tight management style.
It would be very interesting if Starmer were to convene a cross-party commission on reducing/eliminating the freebies and dodgy donations, not least for finding out if the Tories really do want that source of support reduced or eliminated. A for instance would be the ex Tory Party treasurer, Ehud Sheleg. I'm sure that Private Eye's pieces on him won't have escaped Starmer's notice.
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The fiscal rules have changed 7 times since 2010.
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wonder how much an "envoy for nations and regions" gets paid...
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Probably the same as the PM's chief of staff!
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LK really isn't very good at this. First she 'mistakenly' copies Johnson in to her briefing notes, then she tags the wrong Rosie Duffield in trying to stir up sexist slurs about the Labour Party. Perhaps she's angling for a job at the Daily Mail - this is hardly holding politicians to account on their policies, even if we overlook her IT incompetence.
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Just in case anyone's in any doubt that certain parts of the press are out to 'get Rayner'...
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What's the news story here? Person buys clothes?
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Consider that barrel fully scraped.
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I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
'Socialist buys nice clothes', I think. It's obviously not permitted.
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well i'm outraged, not even savile row, i'd expected higher standards
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Politics of envy obviously.
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Mind you, if the trouser legs didn't reach the shoes (à la Sunak), I'd be outraged.
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I believe that's called "fashion".
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So are mullets, but they look as stupid in 2024 as they did in the 1970s/80s.
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Fashion ≠ good.
Counter argument is that fashion for the young is supposed to outrage oldies, or has done in the past at least.
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I think outrage goes in the other direction these days.
#missinrick
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Personally I'd rather see a good mohican than a mullet... at least it doesn't look like someone with no idea how to cut hair has just had an accident with hair clippers.
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As one ages, fashion is easy to spot, as it includes things worn by younger people that are obviously funny.
See, e.g. moustaches.
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Jeez, this place sounds like the day room of a care home some days.
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