He was easily my favourite ‘British’ politician of the last 20 years, and I’d say both Salmond and Nigel Farage have been the most consequential political figures in that time period.
Westminster Politics 2024-2029
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Nelson Mandela’s grandson denied entry to UK for pro-Palestinian talks
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...a-grandson-denied-uk-visa-hamas-b2627743.html
Did you bother to read the article?
It doesn't take a genius to work out what's happened here, there was confusion as up until a couple of months ago he had a diplomatic passport where he wouldn't need a visa. Officials wrongly told him he wouldn't need a visa because of this, but he does.
How you've managed to attribute this to starmer is impressive even for you.
No doubt if starmer did jump in and do something, you'd post the exact same tweet but talk about favouritism. Youre a joke.
Good. Get it done. We seemingly are incapable of wholesale reform of the Lords, so it does make sense to carry things out piecemeal and focus on the things which no one can politically reverse.
Bastani also posted a piece I hadn;t noticed about where this much vaunted investment is coming from.
Fresh from their success in milking thames water for around a half a billion and leaving the state to pick up the tab, Maquarie are back for some more of your money.
Fresh from their success in milking thames water for around a half a billion and leaving the state to pick up the tab, Maquarie are back for some more of your money.
12 weeks ago, starmer was still much of a mystery to the public, little coverage of his dishonesty or murky relationships with very rich people.
Now they see him, because it can't be hidden and they don't like it.
Guaranteed that he will face a leadership challange before the next election with these numbers, I'd guess 2028 to give the new one time to bed in before an election. Reeves or Streeting is most likely, but if mcsweeney puts himself up for election in a by election in 2026-27, put money on it being him.
This is private investment into the Labour Party, a fraction will reach public projects.
Plus ça change.
He's continuing to 'pick his battles', which is a good sign.
The winter fuel payments was a 'left-hook to the left' and the VAT on Private Schools was a 'right-hook to the right' and it was a 'straight-left to the jaw' of both Louise Haigh and Angela Rayner over the PO damage limitation issue, and a warning to other cabinet members, to think before they speak, especially when being interviewed live.
This man is serious.
Exactly. As long as he keeps a look out for 'leg-traps' set by his own party especially those who tend to mumble in their beer/make bullets for others to fire.
This man is not afraid to take fire from both sides.... sometimes even at one and the same time.
Three months is all it's took for this public to forget about the last 14 years.
We deserve everything we get at this point.
I’m not sure taking fire from both sides is a good thing though is it?
How is winter fuel payments an attack on the left?
I suppose these Twitter accounts have to post something like this; its their raison d'être. But never mind what poll might imply, who are the respondents that are providing a valid response this far out from an election? It seems as hypothetical as preferences for a govt can get, somewhat akin to a poll in a country where people may never get to vote at all.
No need to be patronising: You just could try addressing my question. Anyhow, maybe your graph does show the irrelevance of polls this far out from the actual election.are you unfamiliar wth opinion polling?
polling for 2024 started in jan 2020
they're irrelevant about 2029 but are very relevant in judging the mood of the public towards the govt. and newly sworn in government typically get a bump, while the starmer govt has got the opposite.
No new manager bounce then. The country's very own Erik Ten Bags (of free stuff)
i think theresa may had stangant/bad polling after the 2017 election, but from the uk i dont remember a drop anything like this.
(basically the best comparison may be ralf rangnick
)Sure, man. Like you can draw any conclusions about a 5 year term 100 days in.
Cutting red tape...now where have we heard that one before?
Unions express concern as PM to say government will ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...rmer-promise-slash-red-tape-investment-summit
Keir Starmer will promise to slash red tape as he hosts investment summit
Unions express concern as PM to say government will ‘rip out the bureaucracy that blocks investment’
https://www.theguardian.com/politic...rmer-promise-slash-red-tape-investment-summit
The final Grenfell inquiry report isn't even six weeks old and Starmer is fantasising about cutting red tape around building.
This is not normal.
Guarantee they will will have given tours to some seriously nefarious characters. Russian and Israelis no doubt that just wanted a bit of sightseeing.
At the Conservative conference Badenoch’s team released a 36-page essay called Conservatism in Crisis which identifies many factors supposedly holding back growth. On anxiety and autism it says:
Yes, it is, because it means he is serious about what he is doing and is not going to be put off by sniping from either side.
Also at the moment having withdrawn the whip from some (suspect there will be others to come) who were taking 'pot shots' at him almost before he had got behind the PM desk in No.10, he is making full use of his position, i.e. that of a Labour PM with a massive majority.
Because it is a sign he is willing to take hard decisions, which will inflame many on the left; it could have been handled better but when you see what happened with Grey, it tends to explain how wires might have got crossed.
The VAT on Private schools was also a 'warning shot across the bows' of the right, signalling... "I am coming for you too", eventually!
All he needs to worry about is outside the UK; storms breaking in the Middle East, a new President in the USA, what is likely to happen in the Ukraine, anything external that can blow him of course. Internally, he can ride out almost anything.
So I have it straight, removing the winter fuel allowance upsets the left because it demonstrates that Starmer is willing to make hard choices?
USS is the universities pension scheme.
Good luck with asking university staff for money given the state of HE.
It should be possible to cut red tape around building infrastructure without turning every new appartment block into a potential bonfire.
We don't build enough of anything in this country, quickly enough and we have to address it as a priority.
Broadly speaking yes, there were many faults with a system that devotes millions to those who really don't need it, as well as those who do. It was a hard-nosed decision, which could have been handled differently, but it was important to Starmer to show he will take such decisions.
All my personal acquaintances, who are very left of centre, are all 'spitting feathers', over this...which tends to confirm my suspicions there was some method in his apparent madness.
It should be possible to build a high-rise building, in one of the richest countries on the planet, without strapping kindling to the sides so it looked nicer for the neighbours. But here we are.
And apparently where we are is still too covered in red tape for Starmer's liking.
Interesting because I felt the outrage was more from the right.
I agree, but I don't see what Grenfell has to do with abolishing a planning rule that makes it hard to build a data centre by the M25.