We are soooo fecked.
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We are soooo fecked.
We are soooo fecked.
Starmer needs to start doing something that looks good. I can't believe I'm saying it but populism is here to stay and what matters nowadays is sounding and looking right. It's an uphill journey considering that the press won't be on his side but he needs to do it. Maybe even take the social media work that Corbyn's team did to energise folk whilst still maintaining his center politics and ....
...nah, you're right. We're fecked.
Had this multiple times in Bishop Auckland, people thought that because they had a Labour MP that Labour was in charge. Just a fundamental ignorance of how the system works.
But yes, Labour councils being dreadful possibly has something to do with it. Maybe it's the just what councils are like, but they seem to invariably be on the wrong side of public opinion and amongst less politically engaged voters they likely do much damage to 'the brand' as anything the leadership does.
does it have anything to do with how boris was pursuing brexit *against* parliament and the courts (and talking about that) which maybe gave rise to the impression?
We are soooo fecked.
Blair’s biggest (domestic) mistake was not pushing through PR. Presumably he thought his first two big majorities indicated some kind of paradigm shift rather than being an outlier. Under FPTP, the Tories seem impregnable in England. Labour can pile up votes by the thousand in the cities but it won’t be enough to overturn the conservative majority in the seats in the market towns and shires. So yes, we are fecked.
The state of this. What a bellend.
Brilliant
What a scumbag.
Brilliant
Ha ha! Great.
I always hate the tossers (in my job) that end their correspondence by saying they look forward to your reply as a matter of urgency.
Disgusting. I’m sick of this Government.
Should an elected official be allowed to prevent people from replying to their tweets?
This policy from Twitter is stupid. A lot of people in these positions saying lies however no one is allowed to respond to challenge them.
It's appalling. Also "lead by example" seems to be something that he should try and do himself.
1) Consistently voted against measures to reduce tax avoidance
2) Voted against measures to prevent climate change
And he's only been in for a year.
Naturally. He's a Tory.
I've massively underestimated just how alienated/ignorant many people are on even the most very basic workings of the British parliamentary system.
The only reason I bring up council's is because of the amount of complaining I've heard from people about them which far exceeds complains aimed at central government/the ruling party. I guess out of all the state infrastructures its the one most people have interactions with, maybe ?
Completely agree.
Yep.
Wish she didn’t.
why. There are rules and protocols that MPs should adhere to. And yes, clearly a lot of them don’t in so many of the things they do.
such a minor issue.
Exactly.
It's stupid though. If they allowed replies it would all sit under that tweet. Instead people quote tweet replies and get more engagement.
I've written to my MP about the vote yesterday, was absolutely fuming about how people in power seem to believe that feeding children isn't fiscally viable.
For comparison, £60m was spent in 2018 on improving children's TV programming! If we can spend this on entertainment we damn-well should be able to pay this to feed kids over Christmas FFS!
For comparison, £60m was spent in 2018 on improving children's TV programming! If we can spend this on entertainment we damn-well should be able to pay this to feed kids over Christmas FFS!
The state of the British media
Peston's a right wanker.
WTF is he talking about. It's not subsidy based on ideology, or even human decency on the part of the Government. It's more akin to the bailout of the banks, designed to keep the market economy going.
There’s a misplaced comma in that statement which is really annoying me. Also the 7th paragraph is terribly written and contains grammatical mistakes.
Reactionary peasant pensioner praises her ruler.
It's going to be impossible to win the olds over.
My child is a bag of bones we live down a well and we're eating the cat for dinner. Just marvelous.
God help these people, utterly clueless. It’s the I’m alright Jack attitudes and ignore everything else.
Ha, this is brilliant:
Oh those poor mp’s, one of them got called scum! I’ll start the fundraiser now.
State. Tory logic has always been socialism for businesses and capitalism for the people.
The only reason they are funding this is for the benefit of business, we all know they don't give a shite about the people.