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What sort of homes....Council,affordable ?
Or relaxing planning for building on Green belt.
Starmer's vision quest
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Or relaxing planning for building on Green belt.
Wobblers
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Whatever happened to Truss?!
Okay, that's exactly your point: I'm just surprised that we're still having this conversation, after Liz's Trussterfark. Yes, with a fiat currency we can always magic up more money. The problem is, the value of money is based on what people (especially the markets) deem it to be. Create vast sums as Truss did and you'll find that people take fright, and value your currency a good deal less. Which, as it turns out, is something of a problem when you need to buy in food, gas, oil and other commodities priced in dollars. There isn't infintie latitude in the system to do what we please - spending can only be increased as long as it's perceived that the underlying economy will support it. The UK has the weakest economy in the G7 group (I wonder just why that might be?)
Inflation, BTW, is one of the most benign consequences of unrestrained spending - just ask anyone in Zimbabwe. Speaking of inflation, it was rising sharply even before Ukraine - and a central cause of that was the fiscal stimulus pumped into the economy during Covid. Note that the benefits of that stimulus was concentrated in the most wealthy - who cheerily spent their windfall with the inevitable inflationary results - while the worst effects in food, energy and housing have been experienced in the poorest in society. If you realy want to highlight a gross injustice @Adam4868, that would be a good place to start.
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Wobblers
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Oh dear god, no. They're dreadful. Even less chocolate, @Xipe Totec, than Tunnocks. They even lack the expected chewiness. Save your money!
Any other non-politically suspect options?
Wobblers
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If the Tories are imploding, why would anyone want to emulate them? What's the point? Given that they're despised by a large fraction of the electorate and distrusted by most of the rest, it seems rather more sensible to ensure you've got clear water between you and them, rather than adopt all their policies. At the moment, all Starmer seems to be doing is saying that he'll be just as evil as the Tories, but be more competent. Err, no. I prefer my evil politicians to be incompetent chumps: they're capable of wreaking far less damage that way. If Stamer's claiming to be a competent evil politico, that's an excellent reason to not vote for him.
And, no, Starmer hasn't been doing "extraordinarily well". He was doing very badly in the polls against Johnson: it wsa only after Partygate and Truss's disasterous 7 weeks that Labour have pulled ahead. He's done very little, Labour's lead is down to the failures in the Conservatives, not Starmer's actions. He's simply mediocre. A Blair without the charisma, or vision. The most charitable thing you could say about Starmer's leadership is that it's been consistently lacklustre and insipid.
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multitool
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"Extraordinarily well" does not refer to current polling, but the journey from Labour being in the bin, to currently likely to get a majority.
You say he's only winning by default, and whilst that is partly true those votes could have gone to LD or Greens instead.
No, he's not Blair. He's not as good, but then most aren't. Blair was exceptional. I know it's cool to slag Blair off, and yes the Iraq war utterly destroyed his legacy, but (apart from Brown) he's been the only non-Tory PM since the 1970s. Like it or not, the centre ground is where the votes are found.
You say he's only winning by default, and whilst that is partly true those votes could have gone to LD or Greens instead.
No, he's not Blair. He's not as good, but then most aren't. Blair was exceptional. I know it's cool to slag Blair off, and yes the Iraq war utterly destroyed his legacy, but (apart from Brown) he's been the only non-Tory PM since the 1970s. Like it or not, the centre ground is where the votes are found.
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You allright Andrew 😁
The last Labour government apparently left us skint...then It turns out austerity, cutting public services, attacking disabled/poor people and taking money out of people’s pockets to get the debt down didn't actually work ! Sick of hearing sh1te like wages are driving inflation,there's no money,there is !
We can argue the details of it forever but we need change,stop profiteering from basic infrastructure,nationalise/publicly funded companies, transform the economy blah blah...for me it's redistribute wealth that's it.
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bobzmyunkle
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The centre ground moves further and further to the right as Tool sits quietly* in his armchair waiting for the second coming of 'new' Labour.
* quietly apart from his astute and learned interventions on CC
newfhouse
pleb
Sorry, no. You’ll just have to cope with the ethical problems related to the crime-adjacent supply chain.
theclaud
Reading around the chip
It's not a quantitative thing. There's no contradiction in thinking that Blair was a talented politician with ideas and vision and despising him and his politics. Starmer clearly aspires to be admired the way Blair was at the start. Also the government of 97 was initially a vehicle of considerable hope even amongst those of us who distrusted o'r even hated Blair. Starmer has been on a hope-crushing mission since he was elected leader.
Iraq didn't destroy Blair's legacy - it is his legacy.
multitool
Pharaoh
I hate this word in the context of debate, but....semantics.
Take Iraq out of the legacy and it would look very different. It was beyond catastrophic. Campbell is still punting the line that it wasn't a mistake. But Blair's years were comparatively good ones up until the economic crash of 08. Comparative being the key word, because the comparison should be made with what preceeded and succeeded his administration and not Adam's fantasy politics.
Blair's talent was communicating a message of hope, and being able to deliver some of it. It is clear that Starmer hasn't got that skill, nor Sunak, but then nor do most.
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So was Johnson's
multitool
Pharaoh
Worked it out yet?
Labour abstained. They didn't vote against the SNP bill, nor for it. Numerically they couldn't win it, so the Public Order Act remains anyway, but voting to overturn it gives the Tories the gift of saying that Labour are pro-chaos. Their client press would have it as their front page for days.
What you forget is that public sympathy DOES NOT lie with Extinction Rebellion or Just Stop Oil, regardless of how righteous they are. And public sympathy and optics is what matters in the business of winning and election.
We had 4 years of the Labour party being a student protest party and it got us 5 more years of Tory, Liz Truss, higher mortgages, an NHS being run into the ground and so on. These are the things that matter to the electorate.
multitool
Pharaoh
Yes, to a point. But he delivered nothing other than disaster.
