I start to think that this might also be a UK class culture thingy, where privilege is more important than competence. This is also easily visible in politics, up to bets against (or for) lettuce.
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SD1 was put together in a purpose built factory in Solihull. I used to do cash in hand industrial cleaning there as a holiday job in the late 70s. I don’t think that facility was old fashioned for the time.
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“I wrote to my children at boarding school before the election to say ‘Look, I will probably lose.’ I tried my best to warn them that I was going to lose my seat."
Says everything you need to know about him
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…and they said "you’re point is, caller "
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Exactly this; alongside utter contempt for those at the coalface so to speak.
It is rife where I work. Seeing someone brag about a Range Rover Evoque with a number plate that happens to remind anyone in the know of one of the least successful engines ever… That was amusing. And embarrassing…
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I started to think that Labour is not better for the UK, but just less worse.
Very interesting read here:
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Minorities always become scapegoats in times of recession and need.
European history is full of examples.
When the gap between rich and poor gets bigger, the rich and powerful divert attention from themselves.
It has been important for a certain section of society to make sure that immigration is high on the agenda, there is nothing new in the playbook.
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A very well written and largely accurate article, imo.
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Pretty much the ticket they were elected on.
Pretty much how British politics has been since 1265…
They’ve already made a few mis-steps, and they’ll make more. Some will be because someone else is pulling their strings, most will be because they’ve been forced to deal with a situation where all of the options are simply different flavours of shit. The right wing press (which is most of it) will enthusiastically lie about and misrepresent everything that they do.
I wish them the very best of luck - they are a notably more competent body of people than the last shitshower, and they are notably more publicly-minded and altruistic than that notorious turd-ranch, but they have the scale of difficulties of 1946 Britain without the public goodwill and sense of unity that prevailed in that distant time…
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After a month? Right.
And by what metric?
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The prospect of less worse was certainly enough to secure my vote.
I’d say Labour are absolutely fulfilling the less worse promise so far. The bar was set very low, of course…
Yeah, a period of less worse will be less worse than the much worse we endured before. Rejoice.
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Number of racist far right rioters in prison could be a start.
Going to have to start marking questions as rhetorical so I don’t have to read replies.
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The war was lost before battle was joined: the forest of misplaced apostrophes defeat Hope even before the wilful-misunderstanding and drive-by ‘hilarity’ engage…
Making clear/communicating which policy to follow and act upon that.
I might have missed a few issues while reducing time to follow NL/D/UK politics.
For international politics, I expected a priority of fulfillment of the WA the way it is intended.
Brexit is a fact and needs to be handled in a proper way.
Brexit was 2016 and formalised in 2020. It’s now 2024.
From there on, I expected a plan how to move on post-Brexit.
It already is a repetition of Windrush. Just like the people that are sent back to the Caribics, EU citizens needed to leave or were denied entry.
For UK politics, I expected a clear plan to handle the NHS, poverty and housing.
It’s now holidays, so if kids don’t get their school meals, what will they eat?
As I said, I might have missed all those issues in the news.
All done whilst Parliament is in recess and mass disorder occurs due to years of the previous government claiming the problems of their policies was in fact immigration.
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But Saint Jeremy and his apostle Burgon would have turned the UK instantly into a socialist utopia on day 1 through the power of committees and home made hummus.
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I’m sure they’ll get right on it for you, Karen.
The legislative agenda for this parliament is laid out in the King’s speech.
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There is already a voucher scheme for kids on FSM that started under the previous government.
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