Current Affairs The Labour Party

[summerisle]

 

[coollino]

To say a lot of people on the left don't like Owen Jones, they sure seem angry that he has left Labour

 

[Billy Dean]

Wondered who had rattled the cage, Jones again! Green Party would be a good destination, the natural home of gobs on a stick.

What other gobs on sticks are at home in the Green Party?

 

[spectateur]

I meant the reaction to her from people. Many people weren't even alive when she was governing. The response is Pavlovian.

Whether one was alive or not during those years, the demise of the UK is a direct consequence of her implementation of neoliberal policies.

 

[spectateur]

What other gobs on sticks are at home in the Green Party?

Gob on stick or not, there's a lot of truth in his spoutings.
We need a true alternative to the Tories.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Whether one was alive or not during those years, the demise of the UK is a direct consequence of her implementation of neoliberal policies.

So had the Blair government remained in, Brexit didn't happen, and so on, things would have been like they are now? Heck, if you listen to the likes of Gordon Brown now there isn't a huge amount of blue water between him and her.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Gob on stick or not, there's a lot of truth in his spoutings.
We need a true alternative to the Tories.

This is the Green's offering

Our 2024 General Election Manifesto - Green Party

Real hope.Real change. Millions of people in our country are feeling insecure and deeply worried about the future. We live in one of the richest countries on the planet, yet nurses are using food banks, our children’s schools are crumbling, a roof over our heads is all too often unaffordable...

www.greenparty.org.uk

It's hardly comprehensive. It doesn't mention the NHS at all, for instance, nor indeed the economy.

 

[Blue 1]

The problem with Labour is that achieving an image of being “better than this … self serving shower of” is the entirety of their politics. They don’t expect that their actual policies would get mass appeal, so instead they want you to have no other choice.

The thing for Labour though, is if they give away anything too detailed and it's well-received, the Tories will just nick it for themselves.

 

[Aberblue]

This is the Green's offering

Our 2024 General Election Manifesto - Green Party

Real hope.Real change. Millions of people in our country are feeling insecure and deeply worried about the future. We live in one of the richest countries on the planet, yet nurses are using food banks, our children’s schools are crumbling, a roof over our heads is all too often unaffordable...

www.greenparty.org.uk

It's hardly comprehensive. It doesn't mention the NHS at all, for instance, nor indeed the economy.

Other than cancelling all road building and an "emergency tax" on the top 1% of earners, there's little mention of how to pay for all the bounties they're offering.

In fairness, though, it's not actually a manifesto - there may be more detail when the Election comer around.

 

[tsubaki]

The thing for Labour though, is if they give away anything too detailed and it's well-received, the Tories will just nick it for themselves.

This is more of an evidence of absence rather than an absence of evidence situation.

If Labour win the election and deliver more than one policy that benefits the country as a whole, I will be amazed. The people forming the leading clique just are not capable of it, intellectually or politically. Look at how they recoil in horror from ULEZ, a policy whose benefits they literally breathe in and out every single minute of the day and which enjoys near total scientific and moral support.

 

[Moomin]

This is more of an evidence of absence rather than an absence of evidence situation.

If Labour win the election and deliver more than one policy that benefits the country as a whole, I will be amazed. The people forming the leading clique just are not capable of it, intellectually or politically. Look at how they recoil in horror from ULEZ, a policy whose benefits they literally breathe in and out every single minute of the day and which enjoys near total scientific and moral support.

Last summer they blamed ULEZ for losing the By Election and Starmer wouldn't defend Khan and just a few days back he was praising Khan and his ULEZ decision.

Guessing the recent focus groups must be supporting clean air now.

 

[Moomin]

 

[Rita_Poon]

Shame there weren't cross-hairs on saville ay comrades!!!

 

[tsubaki]

They really are an absolute shower.

 

[Billy Dean]

All the right wing snowflakes are getting upset about a little flag design on a football kit