Rodders Has Written An Essay!

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58654046
...I bet Boris is bricking it!

[naomi24]

Bet his mentors won't be happy.

[AuntPG]

Who on earth is 'Rodders'?

[davebro]

Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB QC is a British politician.

[AuntPG]

Thank you. I had no idea his second name is Rodney -I thought it was a reference somehow to only Fools and Horses :-)

[maggiebee]

APG that's what I thought too lol. TTT speaking in tongues once more.

[pat2604]

A polite request TTT. Can you please keep your language plain and simple in serious categories, especially news. I like your posts and often agree with you, but pretty please make them simpler to understand (I'm the daughter of a dad born under the sound of now bells ;o) )

[pat2604]

And I agree too APG. Was wondering why OFAHA and 'Dave' had anything to do with things!

[pat2604]

Bow Bells by the way - not now bells!!

[Khandro]

https://order-order.com/2021/09/23/steve-reeds-skim-read-of-starmers-creed/

[margarettom]

What’s wrong with a manifesto?

[pat2604]

Thanks Khandro

[ToraToraTora]

don't worry your loaf Pat me old china, I'll be crystal once I've been up the frog for a pigs at the rubba dub!

[youngmafbog]

I believe Rodney was Sir Kiers fathers name.

Back to the OP, I wonder what on earth he has written. Surely something that long will just send everyone to sleep.

[Gromit]

TTT,

If you want discussion on Starmer’s essay then you should read it here.
https://fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Road-Ahead-FINAL_WEB-fri-1.pdf

[youngmafbog]

I wonder why he has left his title off the front page.

[Gromit]

// The strength of the Tory party is in no small part due to its ability to shed its skin. Just 12 years separated the moral panic of ‘Back to Basics’ from the leadership of the libertarians David Cameron and George Osborne. More recently, the same politicians who were cheerleaders of austerity have been banned from even uttering the word. The Conservatives are not an easy opponent to pin down – and even less so when Labour has tied its own arms behind its back. //

[youngmafbog]

It's only really for the Party faithful. All Party's write a load of tosh for their conferences.

[Peter Pedant]

// I thought it was a reference somehow to only Fools and Horses :-)//

yes it is: only TTT knows how to trivialise a serious subject with an irrelevant one-liner. But ho hum, we are where we are

[ichkeria]

If Gromit’s post at 13.26 is an extract from the essay, then “Rodders” is spot on.
Tho it’s not exactly an original observation

[ToraToraTora]

PP: "yes it is: only TTT knows how to trivialise a serious subject with an irrelevant one-liner. But ho hum, we are where we are " - gawd elp us PP talking about trivialising something! my sides are splitting! Have a word with the nurse me old china!