UK Politics

[steviewevie]

This is a good explainer on what Labour's economic policy might be...

https://iandunt.substack.com/p/ok-so-what-the-hell-actually-is-labours

[lost]

A simple stroke of the pen and the Tories left labour a £28bn surplus:

 

 

[steviewevie]

32 minutes ago, lost said:

A simple stroke of the pen and the Tories left labour a £28bn surplus:

 

 

no, still a hole in departmental spending...but can borrow more to invest now.

[lost]

7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

no, still a hole in departmental spending...but can borrow more to invest now.

 

Theres no such thing as day to day spending gilts and investing gilts, just gilts.

[Neil]

im not surprised by the al fayed stuff, it was well documented in a tom bowyer biography of fayed, years ago, similarly, for branson, so i reckon he's next for exposing.

Edited yesterday at 08:01 PM by Neil

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

 

[steviewevie]

doesn't hold back...

she's a controversial and divisive MP, proper marmite, and many will question her timing and her motives and wish her good riddance...but still, not great for Starmer.

Edited 5 hours ago by steviewevie

[kaosmark2]

She's more suited to sit with Galloway anyway.

[Neil]

1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

doesn't hold back...

she's a controversial and divisive MP, proper marmite, and many will question her timing and her motives and wish her good riddance...but still, not great for Starmer.

her complaints are nothing i expected of starmer. thought he was smart enough not to f**k up like that.

[pink_triangle]

It looks like she is just throwing everything against the wall here. To me in the grand scale of things the freebies is pretty irrelevant. If she had been handed a cabinet position I suspect she would be thinking differently, maybe looking for a GB news job?

[Neil]

18 minutes ago, pink_triangle said:

It looks like she is just throwing everything against the wall here. To me in the grand scale of things the freebies is pretty irrelevant. If she had been handed a cabinet position I suspect she would be thinking differently, maybe looking for a GB news job?

she's over reacting, but at the same time, the freebies are so unnecessary, starmer should have known not to take them!

[steviewevie]

She's all upset about the 2 child cap but that was labour policy before the election, why not quit then?

[steviewevie]

Tory leadership election suddenly looking more important...and what a choice.

[steviewevie]

1 hour ago, pink_triangle said:

It looks like she is just throwing everything against the wall here. To me in the grand scale of things the freebies is pretty irrelevant. If she had been handed a cabinet position I suspect she would be thinking differently, maybe looking for a GB news job?

We'll see..I think there is a fairly big risk this freebie thing will stick. Not 100% Starmer will be PM going into next election.

[pink_triangle]

41 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

We'll see..I think there is a fairly big risk this freebie thing will stick. Not 100% Starmer will be PM going into next election.

It will only stick if Labour don’t do a good job in power, if Labour do a good job then nobody will care. What’s incredibly hypocritical is some of these journalists banging on about it, you can guarantee they take every freebie going.

[steviewevie]

11 minutes ago, pink_triangle said:

It will only stick if Labour don’t do a good job in power, if Labour do a good job then nobody will care. What’s incredibly hypocritical is some of these journalists banging on about it, you can guarantee they take every freebie going.

Yeah it's all hypocritical and unfair but labour are held to different standards, and that is partly their own doing.

Agree about if they do a good job it won't be an issue, but not sure how much of a difference they can realistically make in 4 or 5:years with the state of things.

Edited 1 hour ago by steviewevie

[steviewevie]

Anyway WW3 is a good distraction.