Westminster Politics

DavidDeSchmikes said:
there's nothing to justify that price hike
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Sure there is, predatory capitalism. It needs to die.

That show was an increasingly depressive listen; schools and hospitals having to bring in redundancies and/or trim departments to pay the bills, funeral homes that need 24hr refrigeration to preserve the dead, other areas opening up ‘warm areas’ for people to warm up for when they can’t afford their bills.

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A long read, but should come as no surprise that the Covid Recovery Group wing of the Tory party were courting the anti-vaxxers.

 
Was watching a YouTube clip of a radio phone in earlier with Chris Bryant taking a call from (what I at least hope was) an obvious Tory plant.

A 'former Labour supporter' who supports Truss and will be voting for the Tories because of his free market ideals and anti-woke reasons. He then asked him what a woman is.

Horrendous stuff.
 
I would prefer him to truss. Genuinely think I would.
 
RedChip said:
Loads of stories this week about him making a comeback, just like his hero Churchill.
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Starting to feel pretty staged, autocrats always surround themselves with numpties to make themselves look good but his potential replacements seem to be taking that to a whole new level. He'll come back, copy France's energy price cap for an easy win and we'll end up with another 12 years of tories.
 
It’ll be interesting to see what the pound is worth come the new year. Down to $1.15 US and the economic outlook for the UK is fairly disastrous.
 
Thing is about the economy, nobody has ever actually seen it so nobody really knows how well it's doing. It could be doing really well for all we know.
 
Reiver said:
I think polls of this sort regularly show this kind of support in favour of public ownership. Unfortunately it doesn't translate to a Labour win at elections.
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Why would it translate to a Labour win at the next GE anyway when Starmer has come out against nationalisation of utilities?
 
Pexbo said:
Why would it translate to a Labour win at the next GE anyway when Starmer has come out against nationalisation of utilities?
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Well I don't suppose it would with Starmer but even when there is a Labour leader in favour of nationalisation - Corbyn, Miliband - it doesn't seem to help them much.
 
If you're wondering - putting that £10 saving aside means it'd only take 417 years to save for a house deposit.
 
Coming from an Australian perspective, our Labor leader played the "tory-light" card to victory. In government Labor has been more Labor than tory which has been a relief. The concern I have for Starmer is that whilst he seems to be copying that successfully, you have so many issues that are magnitudes worse than Australia.

He's got to come out hard on certain issues and then play the "steady hand" on other issues. He's got to take bold positions on a range of topics to show they have ideas and just to create some seperation.
 
Drifter said:
What crisis.
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This fecking ballbag has really been pissing me off today. After finally stopping the farewell tour of random holiday destinations and foreign countries that need a good Churchillian talking to, he comes back and tells us he's this brilliant idea to solve the energy crisis - more carbon intensive nuclear plant construction that will come online in 50 years. Just feck off you ignorant cnut, I hope you get gangrene in your cock.
 
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