gonetomorrow
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You're right. It's bollox. But Jeremy shoud have sorted it out early doors. It counts against him as a leader that he didn't.
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roydo
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Yet his supporters blame everyone else. To potential floaters, like me and Mrs R, believe me, it aint a great look.
It's far more nuanced than that, but there you go.
roydo
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In a narrow political party arena it must be infuriating for you. Trouble is, too many folk just dont see, or care more about other stuff, than the areas that the senior Labour MPs are fixated on.
Thats not to say their cause is unworthy, but stuff like saying the homeless will live at No 11 or Chequers or wherever just sounds utterly stupid. Free broadband and lobbing dozens of companies in the bin as a result, likewise.
Me and Mrs R sat down with an open mind to watch a Corbyn interview, Neil most likely, but not 100%. We didnt comment during it, but at the end we just said we could not vote for him.
I have zero appetite for Johnson. Thats being generous. But I/We cannot vote for Corbyn, and by extension, his chancellor. Based on our own, not some BBC/Mail/MSM fed tripe, opinion.
tsubaki
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TBF this idea that his supporters think and act monolithically, or to use the stock phrase are "the cult", is perhaps the worst meme of them all.
Corbyn has done loads of things wrong, many of them were identified and pointed out in the 2017 election and were not dealt with this time around. He does not go uncriticised for these faults, even by people who rate him in other areas as even a ten minute attendance at any CLP meeting in the country would show. Policies that eminate from the leadership are challenged too and changed in places (Brexit and 2nd ref being the most obvious), in ways that did not happen before 2015.
However why he retains support is more to do with the belief that he actually probably is the best shot Labour have now, and IMHO it is a rational belief - the opposition in the PLP have still not developed a plausible alternative, nor have they formulated any kind of alternative policy programme. They have cried wolf so many times over deselections (which happened a grand total of 0 times*) and purges (which only happened in 2016, when they did it), and some of their members have behaved in ways that even I never thought was possible (Austin, Woodcock, Lewis and whoever else emerges during the last week backing this Tory government, of all Tory governments) that they are now completely discredited.
Corbyn has also considerably outperformed his predecessors electorally as well, and engaged a lot of people in politics who were not engaged in it before.
* not counting the removal of the likes of Jared O'Mara, Vaz, Kelvin Hopkins and Williamson who were not selected because they'd been suspended from the whip
Blues Harp
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Just like the scummy tories eh? and the fibdems? He is not a racist mate, perhaps he is not a "leader' but you cannot seriously accuse him of that...can you?
Jib in lad
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
General election 2019: Andrew Neil issues interview challenge to Johnson
BBC presenter tells Boris Johnson it is "not too late" for the PM to face questions from him.
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
For whatever reason, this didn't come up in my notifications - apologies for missing it.
There's a reason I'm on 150mg of Sertraline. This election feels like watching someone you love die in a car crash in slow motion.
In fairness, the nationalisation of OpenReach makes sense from a state-led infrastructure point of view. There's obvious issues with BT not being wanting or willing to take fibre optic to the areas of the UK that don't already have it, and as a Valleys boy I wouldn't have minded it.
Sorry to hear that.
I volunteer at a local foodbank here, wherein I take surplus/donated food from my local cornershop and walk it over to the estate so that they can stock it. Last time I was there, I told them that I can't do it as I need to be campaigning - and that I hoped I never saw them again - with a rised smile of course.
Unreal that we're going to keep letting this happening.
Unreal that we're going to keep letting this happening.
There was an interesting example on Radio 4 just now, with a lady interviewed at a food bank whose budget for food (for her and two children) was £50 a week. That's more than we spend on food per week (which includes the typically middle class avocado etc.), and I suspect her children would be liable for free meals at school for lunches. She would seem a prime example of someone who could benefit from the classes I mentioned earlier.
Also interesting to read a study from Imperial published this week that found 21 different digital patient record systems in use across the NHS, and none of them communicate with one another. To put this into perspective, some four million patients had been treated at two or more hospitals over the year of the study, and their medical records could not be shared because the systems were incompatible. In total, that tallied up to 11 million instances where patients attended a hospital where their records couldn't be accessed.
And that's only on the clinical side, I'm sure the situation is equal, if not worse, in community care. It's not always about more money.
And that's only on the clinical side, I'm sure the situation is equal, if not worse, in community care. It's not always about more money.
I’d like to see you don your chefs hat and boldly make your way into a housing estate armed only with a whisk and a sweet potato.
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