Current Affairs The Labour Party

[JimmyJeffers]

They should have come out and said "who cares, it's a football shirt, we're going to do zyx to resolve child poverty, homelessness, NHS waiting lists etc etc".

Agreed. For someone who has had such a successful career it’s hard to escape the feeling that starmer would be completely incompetent as PM.

 

[neil999]

I just think they are absolutely terrified of the right wing press getting hold of anything that could harm their election chances...I just hope things get more progressive once they get into power

 

[Blue 1]

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

Nigel is outraged.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I just think they are absolutely terrified of the right wing press getting hold of anything that could harm their election chances...I just hope things get more progressive once they get into power

It's all very Blair era - they were petrified of upsetting the Daily Mail and the unmentionable red-top.

Mandleson is hanging around and I'd guess there's an Alaistair Campbell equivalent briefing on managing the media.

I think we'll see this dance long-term.

 

[Ming the merciless]

It's all very Blair era - they were petrified of upsetting the Daily Mail and the unmentionable red-top.

Mandleson is hanging around and I'd guess there's an Alaistair Campbell equivalent briefing on managing the media.

I think we'll see this dance long-term.

I’d go along with this until I was in power then I’d bring in a law overnight that prohibits anyone not domiciled in the UK from owning a UK newspaper. In the run up to the election I’d allow the rumour to emerge. That’d give the gutter press food for thought.

 

[Abertonian]

It's all very Blair era - they were petrified of upsetting the Daily Mail and the unmentionable red-top.

Mandleson is hanging around and I'd guess there's an Alaistair Campbell equivalent briefing on managing the media.

I think we'll see this dance long-term.

I think Campbell probably has some (low) level of involvement. Been a few comments that suggest as much on the rest is politics podcast.

 

[Abertonian]

what was starmer thinking commenting on the england shirt and suggesting a rethink. fool. Becoming increasingly dislikable and foppish to the latest cause célèbre, stick to the actual destruction and despair inflicted upon the country by the tories and the ghouls that vote them in. Energy, poverty, health.

Get it right numb-nuts!

I took it as a fairly cynical nod to the brexit voting red wall electorate - see we can be patriotic too nonsense.

I've had a bit of a fear that ever since the election has been seen as Labour's to lose, they will do everything they can to lose it.

The electorate is quite considerably bigger than the circulation of the daily mail. Wish he would start building a positive case to vote Labour, give us a vision of how a Labour government will improve the country

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

I took it as a fairly cynical nod to the brexit voting red wall electorate - see we can be patriotic too nonsense.

I've had a bit of a fear that ever since the election has been seen as Labour's to lose, they will do everything they can to lose it.

The electorate is quite considerably bigger than the circulation of the daily mail. Wish he would start building a positive case to vote Labour, give us a vision of how a Labour government will improve the country

It's all there: https://www.theguardian.com/politic...d-patriotism-to-win-voters-trust-leak-reveals

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

Shag that flag Keir, shag it hard.

 

[Moomin]

Shag that flag Keir, shag it hard.

But not the one on the England shirts.

 

[Daveysgingerlovechild]

But not the one on the England shirts.

Correct. He's a manly man's man patriotic non-woke shagger of flags.

 

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

I just think they are absolutely terrified of the right wing press getting hold of anything that could harm their election chances...I just hope things get more progressive once they get into power

They probably won’t though sadly

 

[Bruce Wayne]

They probably won’t though sadly

And to be fair, you could argue that they'd be betraying those who voted for them because of how they act now if they did.

 

[Ming the merciless]

I took it as a fairly cynical nod to the brexit voting red wall electorate - see we can be patriotic too nonsense.

I've had a bit of a fear that ever since the election has been seen as Labour's to lose, they will do everything they can to lose it.

The electorate is quite considerably bigger than the circulation of the daily mail. Wish he would start building a positive case to vote Labour, give us a vision of how a Labour government will improve the country

Lots of the people who read the “ Daily Mail” wouldn’t ever vote Labour anyway. So why try to placate them ?

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Lots of the people who read the “ Daily Mail” wouldn’t ever vote Labour anyway. So why try to placate them ?

You’re more likely to see a bigger shift of mail readers voting for that Reform party than switching to Labour.