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[NilSatisOptimum]

You have to admire the careful planning being employed under Keirs leadership. We are showing very clear thinking in removing or avoiding tory traps and areas that would be attacked such as the below. The sooner the GE comes the better.

Labour backs away from press reforms after Prince Harry’s phone-hacking court victory

The party has made it clear that Keir Starmer had no intention of reviving the second stage of the Leveson inquiry

www.theguardian.com

Indeed the context here Is election soon don't make enemies in the run up to election that would be naive...
Levinson 2 has been dead in the water for years, more so after Harrys little win shows how toothless Levenson judge led inquiry was.
And the other things are explained in the article if read past the headline. The new law is already defacto redundant.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

….Streeting is right in saying it’s not just about throwing more monies at the NHS, it needs a new approach. For example, the IT system is archaic and a nationwide revamp joining up GPs, Hospitals etc using single person identifier (NHS numbers) would make things far more efficient.

He’s spent a lot of time visiting other countries and studying other models. Be interesting to see plans ahead of the GE.

Tried the IT under Blair wasted £12 billion ... The basic trouble is many NHS trusts and that work within a health system have been left to develop their own systems that are unique to that particular trust thus many are incompatible. It's literally the case of manually moving millions notes over to a new centralized system. It's why Blairs Labour failed.

Labour's computer blunders cost £26bn

Ministers blamed for 'stupendous incompetence' after taxpayers left with huge bills for bungled projects

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Likely not many but he’s been harping on that he was brought up working class and his family are working class at every opportunity so he should have at least been aware that any journalist may actually ask what that even means now.

It is quite a nuanced subject though, and I've been on Ferarri's show, nuance is something he doesn't allow for whatsoever. He's a typical shock jock blowhard, so unless you can boil working class'ness into a pithy soundbite then you're always on a hiding to nothing on such a thing, and given how hard that is he'd probably piss some people off if he even tried.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

and I've been on Ferarri's show

Excuse me

 

[davek]

….ha, ha he must dread those LBC interviews.

I'd never noticed this until very recently: when he;s handed a political or economic question by his inquisitors he cant answer or buff his way through he gives this pained "I'm pretty tired of all these questions, it's been a long day" type of expression.

He may have a legal mind but he's some way off being 'across' what the leader of any political party should easily be.

I'd describe him as an educated fool.

 

[davek]

Wish we had an Obama to vote for, but we dont, so we work with what we have.

Vote Labour OR get Tories.

He's a bell too.

 

[davek]

That’s embarrassing but I think 90% of sitting MPs wouldn’t be able to define what working class is.

And who cares anyway?

We live in a class-ridden society where being born into a working class family means overwhelmingly that your life chances in terms of health and income are contained by structural factors such as schooling and access to financial resources and social networks.

It's important and any politician need to be aware of that and not blithely talk about mobility that exists for a sliver of working class people.

Ild expect a leader of the Labour Party who was apparently in a socialist society in their youth to be at least familiar with class - its definition and its effects. This just underlines what a phoney Starmer is. He's been on a box ticking career exercise since he left his grammar school.

The Manchurian Candidate.

 

[davek]

….Streeting is right in saying it’s not just about throwing more monies at the NHS, it needs a new approach. For example, the IT system is archaic and a nationwide revamp joining up GPs, Hospitals etc using single person identifier (NHS numbers) would make things far more efficient.

He’s spent a lot of time visiting other countries and studying other models. Be interesting to see plans ahead of the GE.

When he talks about 'new approach' he means cuts.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Excuse me

Discussion on cyclists jumping red lights and murdering grannies toddling to the shops. Let the grannies pile high was roughly my gist.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Discussion on cyclists jumping red lights and murdering grannies toddling to the shops. Let the grannies pile high was roughly my gist.

Can you define a grannie

 

[Bruce Wayne]

We live in a class-ridden society where being born into a working class family means overwhelmingly that your life chances in terms of health and income are contained by structural factors such as schooling and access to financial resources and social networks.

It's important and any politician need to be aware of that and not blithely talk about mobility that exists for a sliver of working class people.

Ild expect a leader of the Labour Party who was apparently in a socialist society in their youth to be at least familiar with class - its definition and its effects. This just underlines what a phoney Starmer is. He's been on a box ticking career exercise since he left his grammar school.

The Manchurian Candidate.

I'm aware of that Dave, and the excellent work the Resolution Foundation do on the topic. Getting bogged down by what defines working class isn't high on their agenda as they rightly view it as a distraction.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Can you define a grannie

I know one when I plough into one (matron)

 

[Walken]

Excuse me

*Rapidly searches through tory MP interviews on LBC*

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

We live in a class-ridden society where being born into a working class family means overwhelmingly that your life chances in terms of health and income are contained by structural factors such as schooling and access to financial resources and social networks.

It's important and any politician need to be aware of that and not blithely talk about mobility that exists for a sliver of working class people.

Ild expect a leader of the Labour Party who was apparently in a socialist society in their youth to be at least familiar with class - its definition and its effects. This just underlines what a phoney Starmer is. He's been on a box ticking career exercise since he left his grammar school.

The Manchurian Candidate.

Starmer currently is not working class. Social, cultural and economic capital are things he has in spades. Pierre Bourdieu would be laughing his ass off at any suggestion he is. Its not the world he moves in now, for sure.

It's also rather doubtful his parentage would be considered working class given he owned a toolmaking factory. No fractured habitus for Keir me feels.

It is a bit tiresome.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Starmer currently is not working class. Social, cultural and economic capital are things he has in spades. Pierre Bourdieu would be laughing his ass off at any suggestion he is. Its not the world he moves in now, for sure.

It's also rather doubtful his parentage would be considered working class given he owned a toolmaking factory. No fractured habitus for Keir me feels.

It is a bit tiresome.

He shouldn’t have brought it up in the first place the doofus. Everyone knows. Just creating a needless mess.