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Extraordinary to see Kier (I used to be DPP) Starmer fire one of his shadow front bench team for briefly attending a picket line. How times have changed. The Blessed Margaret is alive and well within the soul of the Labour leadership.
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//Extraordinary to see Kier (I used to be DPP) Starmer fire one of his shadow front bench team for briefly attending a picket line. //
Not really. Starmer is not a man of principle. Starmer is for Starmer. He knows these strikes aren't supported by the majority of the country so in an effort to portray himself as a robust and determined leader, he's making what he thinks are the right noises for the public ear. With the mess the Conservatives have made in stupidly ousting Boris and presenting the membership with a choice between two self-serving wet weeks in his stead, Labour should have an open goal but Starmer is unpopular and ineffectual and if he's booted out we may rest assured that his replacement will be just as impotent as he is. Like the Conservatives, there is not a leader among them, but whether that saves Starmer's bacon remains to be seen. I have heard murmurings for the return of Corbyn. Well, 'they' do say that desperate times call for desperate measures and nothing would be more desperate than that!
Not really. Starmer is not a man of principle. Starmer is for Starmer. He knows these strikes aren't supported by the majority of the country so in an effort to portray himself as a robust and determined leader, he's making what he thinks are the right noises for the public ear. With the mess the Conservatives have made in stupidly ousting Boris and presenting the membership with a choice between two self-serving wet weeks in his stead, Labour should have an open goal but Starmer is unpopular and ineffectual and if he's booted out we may rest assured that his replacement will be just as impotent as he is. Like the Conservatives, there is not a leader among them, but whether that saves Starmer's bacon remains to be seen. I have heard murmurings for the return of Corbyn. Well, 'they' do say that desperate times call for desperate measures and nothing would be more desperate than that!
Johnson was a divisive Conservative leader.
Brexit and Europe have been divisive for the Conservatives for 50 years.
The leadership contest is magnifying those divisions.
Starmer should be presenting Labour as a united party with a clear direction. Instead he has created an unnecessary row, and a clear split. Labour need to get rid of Starmer, he is useless and a liability.
Brexit and Europe have been divisive for the Conservatives for 50 years.
The leadership contest is magnifying those divisions.
Starmer should be presenting Labour as a united party with a clear direction. Instead he has created an unnecessary row, and a clear split. Labour need to get rid of Starmer, he is useless and a liability.
Members of Parliament should not serve on picket lines.
The purpose of picket lines is to intimidate those who might decide to go to work and they should have been outlawed long ago. They may have served a different purpose when there was no other method of communicating with union members. Though even then I doubt there were many workers unaware of the issues involved. They serve no legitimate purpose now.
The purpose of picket lines is to intimidate those who might decide to go to work and they should have been outlawed long ago. They may have served a different purpose when there was no other method of communicating with union members. Though even then I doubt there were many workers unaware of the issues involved. They serve no legitimate purpose now.
Gromit, //They found Boris a safe seat, while he still had a year to serve as mayor.//
How did they manage that? Is a seat was vacant a year before Boris stood down as Mayor there must have been a by-election to fill that seat. It couldn't have remained empty.
NJ, //Members of Parliament should not serve on picket lines.//
It's what the Labour faithful expect.
How did they manage that? Is a seat was vacant a year before Boris stood down as Mayor there must have been a by-election to fill that seat. It couldn't have remained empty.
NJ, //Members of Parliament should not serve on picket lines.//
It's what the Labour faithful expect.
jimf: "If anything has ushered in the death of the party in England (it's been dead in Scotland for years) it's this. " - well another nail in the coffin is always helpful but real Labour have been dead for half a century. St Tony and co demonstrated what they have to do to win an election, become Tory. Sir Beer is, albeit very half arised, attempting that.
