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37 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

UK economy back to growth...woohoo...boom time...

Only cos the country has gone on the piss it's the only way to cope with those Tory clowns 

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4 hours ago, steviewevie said:

yes, Labour won an enormous victory in 2017.

Actually...no one really talks much about that result. There was a lot in it, May's disastrous election campaign and her dementia tax (actually a wealth tax to pay for social care), the whole brexit thing where no side was talking about stopping it back then, the fact that no one thought labour had a chance of winning...but also that maybe a lot of people actually liked Labour's manifesto?

And we can argue about it to the end of time...whether Labour's lead would have kept increasing, whether another leader would have done better or worse, if less labour infighting,  if no Maybot and dementia tax uturn...but all hypothetical, we'll never know..


In the end Corbyn could never win the centre ground because they are too self interested to buy into what he was selling, both in terms of policy, the threat of redistributing money from little penelope’s riding lessons to some poor free school meals kids - but also this that their egos are threatened by the thought of electing someone that if they met out in public or worked with they would assume that they had higher status than, that is to say an old bearded, jam making, vegetarian hippy type. Thats where the ’not a leader’ ’unserious’ charges come from.

But even just since 2017 it is blindingly and increasingly obvious that smart govt interventions to fix capitalism and the environment are the only realistic way to proceed in the 21st century and that time is running out.

Starmer’s constant u turns dont paint him as a compromising 90s third way moderate, they paint him as a man out of touch with the scale and urgency of the issues, and without the backbone to deal with them. What should we do about the rivers of sh*t? Well you know, I dont think nationalising them is the answer, maybe we could just politely ask them to put 50% less sh*t in the river? Its not good enough.

In the election campaign the tories and the press will nail him and Labour relentlessly for flip flopping and they’ll have to defend a manifesto that is basically the opposite of what most of them have been on record campaigning against in the past and nobody will buy it. Meanwhile, the economy will be doing better and Sunak will be able to throw a bit of cash at the wavering middle. Its soon squeeky bum time

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1 hour ago, mattiloy said:


In the end Corbyn could never win the centre ground because they are too self interested to buy into what he was selling, both in terms of policy, the threat of redistributing money from little penelope’s riding lessons to some poor free school meals kids - but also this that their egos are threatened by the thought of electing someone that if they met out in public or worked with they would assume that they had higher status than, that is to say an old bearded, jam making, vegetarian hippy type. Thats where the ’not a leader’ ’unserious’ charges come from.

But even just since 2017 it is blindingly and increasingly obvious that smart govt interventions to fix capitalism and the environment are the only realistic way to proceed in the 21st century and that time is running out.

Starmer’s constant u turns dont paint him as a compromising 90s third way moderate, they paint him as a man out of touch with the scale and urgency of the issues, and without the backbone to deal with them. What should we do about the rivers of sh*t? Well you know, I dont think nationalising them is the answer, maybe we could just politely ask them to put 50% less sh*t in the river? Its not good enough.

In the election campaign the tories and the press will nail him and Labour relentlessly for flip flopping and they’ll have to defend a manifesto that is basically the opposite of what most of them have been on record campaigning against in the past and nobody will buy it. Meanwhile, the economy will be doing better and Sunak will be able to throw a bit of cash at the wavering middle. Its soon squeeky bum time

I don't know...you keep writing Starmer off, but he still looks like he'll be the next PM.

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25 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

I see Sunak targetting Labour's reckless borrowing...instead of shying away from it maybe labour need to actually make the argument for borrowing to invest..especially with green stuff to supposedly help is get to net zero.

I don’t think that will work when mortgage rates are soaring.  

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2 hours ago, mattiloy said:

. Thats where the ’not a leader’ ’unserious’ charges come from.

no its not, his history stood those points up.

 

2 hours ago, mattiloy said:

But even just since 2017 it is blindingly and increasingly obvious that smart govt interventions to fix capitalism and the environment are the only realistic way to proceed in the 21st century and that time is running out.

Starmer’s constant u turns dont paint him as a compromising 90s third way moderate, they paint him as a man out of touch with the scale and urgency of the issues, and without the backbone to deal with them. What should we do about the rivers of sh*t?

we can command god to stop it raining so the sewers don't ever overflow. or were you talking about the rivers of sh*t that your word here are, 'unserious'.

 

2 hours ago, mattiloy said:

Well you know, I dont think nationalising them is the answer, maybe we could just politely ask them to put 50% less sh*t in the river? Its not good enough.

tell god to give us 50% less rain. who is going to design the bottomless system that can never overflow?

 

2 hours ago, mattiloy said:

In the election campaign the tories and the press will nail him and Labour relentlessly for flip flopping and they’ll have to defend a manifesto that is basically the opposite of what most of them have been on record campaigning against in the past and nobody will buy it. Meanwhile, the economy will be doing better and Sunak will be able to throw a bit of cash at the wavering middle. Its soon squeeky bum time

and people like you will campaign for the tories.

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17 hours ago, Ozanne said:

She’s very pretty. 

Well known distraction technique to get you thinking about conspiracy theories with your dick and not your brain.

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