You're right, I don't think the policies were at fault at all. They are broadly popular with plenty of public support, and although the press were keen to label them as 'radical left', in most cases they were an attempt to bring things back to where they were only a couple of decades ago. They lost the election because of a mix of their stance on Brexit (not radical enough for remainers, and too radical for leave voters) and the constant attacks on Corbyn's character in the media, which shows that the mistake Labour made was their membership believing that a character like him could ever become PM.
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) is joined by CEO Duncan Drasdo and Financial Director Andy Green from the Manchester United Supporters Trust for a special episode on all things behind the scenes at Old Trafford including a brief history of MUST and their aims today, views on INEOS and Sir Jim Ratcliffe so far, and the Old Trafford regeneration.
Trump in the US has already given people like Boris - who have been told they are exceptional since birth - license to do just that. The 'checks and balances' we all naively believed would prevent such a thing have been shown to be worthless against someone who has no sense of personal responsibility.
Dissed by the Star is a journalistic low.
Him, Grimes and Cole are the feckin worst out there. Don’t deserve to be called journalists.
I disagree, it's not telling people they are stupid, it's just pointing out that the likes of the Mail, the Times and the Sun are nakedly self-serving mouthpieces for the Tory party. Most people don't seem to realise they are buying propaganda published by billionaires instead of actual unbiased news.
Where do you read your unbiased news?
The thing Johnson, Rees Mogg and the rest of the sycophants seem to be forgetting is that they have a majority of 80 which is dwarfed by a dissenting 148.
Its going to be a nightmare trying to govern when you have to work twice as hard to whip a majority.
Its going to be a nightmare trying to govern when you have to work twice as hard to whip a majority.
I spent a night with some Marxists once. It wasn't much fun
To be fair, the Times is hit and miss on the coverage. The Daily Telegraph is on the levels of the Mail and the Sun.
Well, there's the issue. I used to read the Independent, but then that was sold off to one of Putin's (and Boris's) mates, and a suspected Russian spy who's just been sanctioned. People don't seem to be aware that this has been a highly effective strategy in putting the Tories in power and keeping them there.
More completely normal governing by the Tory Party
True, I forgot about them. Just shows how much of the press is set up to help the Cons, and the increasing marginalisation (and demonisation) of anything left of them.
Another Tory MP saying the quiet bit out loud!
“I GOT (A POTENTIAL) BRIBE TO SECURE MY VOTE!”
Is he saying that the NHS will go the same way as Blockbuster did in the age of Netflix?
Is it today that the Starmer-Rayner report is released?
That's how I read it too. I honestly wouldn't be surprised if they prepared that line with lots of smirking and giggling about how clever they were.
Or that our GPs will be replaced by a hologram of Bob Holness?
Honestly.
Why doesn't someone close to him tell him to stop saying the first stupid thing that comes into his head.
Yet further proof that he will keep on doing the same old thing.
Over promising and under delivering.
Like all those new hospitals he promised...
Sounds like that spokesman read the memo wrong
Javid said earlier we have a "Blockbuster healthcare system in the age of Netflix"
It worries me what they mean by that though - subscription costs for priority services incoming?
Javid said earlier we have a "Blockbuster healthcare system in the age of Netflix"
It worries me what they mean by that though - subscription costs for priority services incoming?
Did you have to share a bed?
A bribe with the public tax money. Classic magic money tree. Public debt without any public assets to show for it, the Tory playbook.
Sounds like that spokesman read the memo wrong
Javid said earlier we have a "Blockbuster healthcare system in the age of Netflix"
It worries me what they mean by that though - subscription costs for priority services incoming?
I'd imagine it's mainly referring to the ongoing digitalisation of the NHS. A never ending project that MPs can always stand behind as something they're going to do to improve healthcare.
The Times is ok, pro-establishment, but will criticise the government and doesn't really have the rabid columnists you get in the Tel, DM and Sun, which are diehard Tory.
A blockbuster health care system in the age of Netfix. What an incredibly apt analogy, given that Netflix killed Blockbuster.
Tbh a happy marxist is a wrong one.
Britain 2050 - I desperately run to the local hospital and smash the fix something button, only to leave a week later with a missing kidney and a new pelvic bone.
I think he meant to say 'private' instead of 'blockbuster'.
Yep a large section of their subscribers are centre or just right of centre and so they can't peddle too much right-wing propaganda. But they do still have a few daily articles that appease the older patrons that want to be riled up on a certain side of the culture war.
It's a useful paper to have an eye on as it seems to pick up genuine exclusives more regularly than other broadsheets. Their investigative work on the Greensill Scandal was superb, for example.
Blockbuster.
Sounds like that spokesman read the memo wrong
Javid said earlier we have a "Blockbuster healthcare system in the age of Netflix"
It worries me what they mean by that though - subscription costs for priority services incoming?
No, it means you can log on to Nadine Dorries' account and she'll pay for everyone.
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Then they can sell personal health data to private interests and make private companies, which they probably have interests in, Richer.
The worst part is that i'm not even shocked. This is the type of news story that Labour should be using as a clear attack on the Tories and yet we get feck all. Unfortunately the NHS is doomed to fail at this point, too much damage has been done.
"Westminster Politics: Anyone know how to get rid of a parasite?"
BoJo is one kind of chimera of a rodent mixed with a pervasive insect's DNA while buffed on steroids.
BoJo is one kind of chimera of a rodent mixed with a pervasive insect's DNA while buffed on steroids.