Keir Starmer at it again..

[Deutsch Wolf]

Finally got round to disowning him. The inertia is just silly.

Owen Jones is still a prat.

 

[Jolemai]

Labour withdraws support for Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali over Israel comments

The party said the decision was taken after "new information about further comments" came to light.

www.bbc.co.uk

Apparently, this paves the way for Galloway

 

[Tony Towner]

Starmer waits to see what the optics are before doing the right thing. He'll have medium term success, but his colouring by numbers approach to leadership and policy is pitiful

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

In Galloway’s mind. He is standing but the Labour candidate will probably still win even without party support. And then he will be suspended from the party and deselected for the general election.

Nobody comes out of this looking good and Sunak using it as a chance to score points on principles is a bullet that could have been avoided, and also rather ironic with his record.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Galloway isn't winning shit, he's a crank who hasn't been relevant in about 20 years.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Channel 4s pic was...something

 

[BillyDee]

Galloway isn't winning shit, he's a crank who hasn't been relevant in about 20 years.

He's just a pussycat...

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

He certainly isn’t relevant to the current scandal so using a photo where they appear to have been on the same platform when Corbyn isn’t even in the party any more is very unfair and casts aspersions that the nasty Hamas-loving Mr Corbyn somehow put him up to it, entirely without either foundation or evidence. Piss poor by Channel 4.

 

[YoungWolf]

He's just a pussycat...

Why, just why would you bring this back into my memory

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Starmer waits to see what the optics are before doing the right thing.

100% this, if the Labour leader was AI generated they'd have stronger principles.

 

[ROVERT47]

Fucking ell, looks like the only thing Sir Keir’s got going for him is he ain’t Sunak.

 

[Templeton Peck]

This is my worry about what comes after Starmer. Far right on the rise in Germany.

Britain’s Forever Recessions

Today, the economy officially fell into recession — but it’s unsurprising when austerity has starved the country of all the investment it actually needs.

tribunemag.co.uk

 

[Tredman]

Times in 1997

 

[Del Woppio]

And they were inheriting a decent economy too

 

[Tony Towner]

It's also not true (the enthusiasm part)

 

[Tredman]

I suspect that depends on your age at the time. I was 18 and it was the first time I could vote, did a bit of door knocking too and got caught up in it.

I think the age profile of Times readers in 97 probably matches that of posters on here in 2024 with commensurate different expectations and experiences.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Blair was aggressively attacking the govt and they had some solid policy commitments in their manifesto released in 96. I'd agree there was huge enthusiasm for change rather than Labour per se but there's none of that today.

 

[Tredman]

Not a huge enthusiasm for change….?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

I mean that’s just quite clearly bollocks

 

[Templeton Peck]

Blair's personal approval ratings were way higher too.