Sadly massive cunt and lickspittle Robert Jenrick also survived the slaughter. Following his time as a home office minister he has shifted to the far right of the party and, sadly, I fear he will appeal more to the Tory racist core than Cleverly, Badenoch, Patel and Braverman.
Didnât realise he had lostâŚ.Excellent
Canât see braverman wanting farage as leader as she will she it as her right to be leader,and not the offer of a high up shadow cabinet job.
Some in the tories will see farage as to toxic,so could imagine them trying to placate them by getting Johnson back in with a by election.
Either way,Iâm hoping for an all out war between the Toryâs and reform.
Listening to tory reasons for their defeat. So wide of the mark, itâs frightening and they governed us, utter out of touch twats.
Labourâs single most important job is also the most nebulous and by far the most difficult: detoxify immigration. The whole concept. They have to change minds that have been deluged with xenophobic propaganda for over a decade.
There isnât another option that offers a future for Labour. They canât stall, tinker, try to posture as Reform Lite, or any other populist option, because they will be slaughtered for it if they do.
Suella Braverman is being groomed for leadership by the Big Beasts in the ERG and other tory backroom cabals. These are not people with capital-I-Ideas. These are people who will be determined to move further to the right and play to populism by out-Gammon-ing Reform.
And then of course Reform have now acquired a degree of credibility that theyâve never previously had. They, too, donât have Ideas - just hate, division, populism and greed. It doesnât matter that theyâll be fucking useless in all other areas - they will always have this simplistic populist dog whistle backed-up with Russian money and propaganda resources.
If Labour fail to step-away from all of the small-boats gibberish-rhetoric and take a wholly different tack, they will be forced onto the Gammon playing field where they can only lose. Their membership will not support âGammonificationâ, and Gammons donât believe them when they posture for their benefit: not in the slightest.
Labour have to run a very strong, coherent campaign, starting today, to demonstrate that Britain is already an ineradicably, irreversibly multi-cultural nation; that millions of Brits are a permanent part of that diversity; that immigration is not just culturally healthy, itâs absolutely life-or-death critical to everything from providing a skilled workforce in healthcare to making it possible to pay pensions in the future - and a million others in-betweenâŚ
Labour also need to offer âsolutionsâ that help prevent people being displaced from their homelands before thereâs ever any notion of risking their familiesâ lives traipsing across entire continents and crossing cold, dark seasâŚ
This is their #1 minefield. A fumble will be very easy, success needs vision, drive, ingenuity and vast, relentless effort.
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First steps will be on planning reform and house building.
Expect loads of applications that have been refused and are being appealed to get passed.
There will be a great howling and gnashing of teeth especially from Nimby Tory voters in the SE.
Sunak made Stop The Boats one of his pledges so was asked about it at every turn.
Immigration isnât mentioned in Labourâs 5 Mission Statements so I think they will take these as their mandate and try and move the agenda away from immigration.
My personal opinion is that Labour canât ignore this away - they have to be pro-active, but not to the point of drawing attention. Itâs a hell of a tough, complex and subtle ask - but Reform and Tories will not conveniently shut-up about it, and will beat Labour with the immigration stick at every opportunity.
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With no specific dig at you, labelling this as a Tory issue undersells how serious a problem this is. MPâs of all parties have been spineless at pushing infrastructure through and the Greens and Lib Dems are fucking artists at blocking it. Itâs going to require formidable discipline and messaging on the part of Labour to crack the issue, including keeping their own members in line and accepting dips in the fortunes of specific MPs as a result. Making a meaningful dent on housing costs is worth those dips and they have the majority to force it through.
Quickest way to make housing more affordable is to introduce further tenancy protections to back-up things like the recent(ish) Rentersâ (Reform) Bill, Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act, &c. Those are already driving a lot previously rented and leasehold properties on to the market. Once supply > demand, prices come down. Yay, market forces, no green fields built upon, and not much shit sticks to you⌠Just newbuilding has never bought prices down in any meaningful way.
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After years of division, attempts to unify and ultimately re-educate the UK regarding immigration / truth &| balance will rest on Labours ability to get the Media onside. As was pointed out earlier up-thread. The greens won as many seats as reform last night but today looking at the coverage Farage has seized a huge amount of column inches (Nearly as much as Labour.) The continued us / them / good guy bad guy echo is where stories are made and unity / truth dissolves. Farage is a self publicist with backing, the media like and create stories so the tightrope is uphill
Trust me, I see how incredibly hard a task this is going to be.
A lone gunman/semtex-milkshake could help this so very muchâŚ
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Sigue Sigue Sputnics re-invention as Semtex milkshake - never really drew the attention it deserved.
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Also, the thought of high rises everywhere like some Hong Kongian dystopian hellscape isnât exactly appealing. This is already starting to creep into areas of London and as you say, the prices of these new flats arenât cheap. Most of the new residential blocks around Canary Wharf for example are empty, bought up by investors.
You are all NIMBYs, youâre part of the problem and we need to build a serious amount of shit. The end.
And lest you think Iâm a hypocrite on this, there are 11,200 houses going less than a mile from where I live. Amazingly, the world hasnât ended.
My complaint is specifically around high density high rises. Theyâre depressing as to see on the horizon, or be in close proximity to. I donât have a problem with general housing or even lots of lower height blocks of flats with space to breathe in between.
On a separate note, I read a lot of US news - the UK election hasnât featured at all (yes, they have a lot going on with Biden etc. but stillâŚ). Makes you realise how important we really areâŚ
The UK has zero influence on the states.
Other than Doctor Who. They like that.
Stage 1 of anything should be to bin residential leasehold instantly.