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[Ming the merciless]

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At last, a policy we can all embrace and get behind together!

They need to do the same with the Grenfell scandal.

 

[Number_25]

The NCS is a nice idea. I don't know how they've got away with not saying how much it'll cost. I've done quite a lot of work with the social care sector and the expenses are extraordinary.

The idea of a comprehensive NHS app delivered in 5 years is laughable. We're a bit further ahead of England when it comes to providing a single patient care record, and we're probably 10 years from being able to do half what Labour are proposing.

No mention of NHS pay either. We'll continue to haemorrhage staff.

Oh well.

 

[Hinchcliffe's Corner]

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At last, a policy we can all embrace and get behind together!

They're gonna appoint Davek to round them all up on his bike with his megaphone.

 

[orchard]

Is it 48 corporate lobbyists that are hoping to be Labour MP's soon ? Sounds like a good fit.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Caught this on another medium, unusual for GB news. This is what I like about him, he was brought up in a working class family, who worked hard to give him a good start in life. Lot of MPs had a silver spoon suck up where the sun don't shine, so don't know the struggles most parents have to go through to give their children a good standard of living or at least the best they can.

 

[orchard]

Caught this on another medium, unusual for GB news. This is what I like about him, he was brought up in a working class family, who worked hard to give him a good start in life. Lot of MPs had a silver spoon suck up where the sun don't shine, so don't know the struggles most parents have to go through to give their children a good standard of living or at least the best they can.

What a nob.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

What a nob.

It’s embarrassing that he keeps feeling the need to mention his background. No one who is working class will be like ‘he’s one of us’

 

[orchard]

It’s embarrassing that he keeps feeling the need to mention his background. No one who is working class will be like ‘he’s one of us’

It's the fact he's digging deeper with more BS and acting all affronted when it's he himself who has turned his platitudes into a national drinking game that's the issue. For the record, I'm fairly certain he was the one who was embarrassed about it historically, and his old man would never have said 'work in a factory' in his life, that sort of description comes from someone who hasn't and doesn't realise the many skills and trades that constitute the human element of a factory.

 

[Xizor]

Caught this on another medium, unusual for GB news. This is what I like about him, he was brought up in a working class family, who worked hard to give him a good start in life. Lot of MPs had a silver spoon suck up where the sun don't shine, so don't know the struggles most parents have to go through to give their children a good standard of living or at least the best they can.

He knows the audience clearly weren't disrespecting his father, it was a giggle over how often he mentions the toolmaker aspect. I do think it was a good line to move on and distract from it though.

What I think people on threads like this (and the sort of person who would have been in that audience) have to remember is that the majority of the population aren't weird enough to engage with politics on a daily basis, and a general election campaign might be the first time they've bothered listening to anything Starmer says. And they're still not reading every headline daily, just catching the odd clip. So he might mention the toolmaker at every single campaign stop, 100 times or more - but that's how he makes sure that as many people as possible hear the message he wants to deliver.

It's why David Cameron said 'Coalition of Chaos' 20 times a day and May tried to follow it up with 'Strong and Stable'. You might get bored of hearing it if you're tuning in to every single debate & campaign stop, but they know that millions of us can't be bothered with all that and might only see them once or twice in the election run up.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

It's the fact he's digging deeper with more BS and acting all affronted when it's he himself who has turned his platitudes into a national drinking game that's the issue. For the record, I'm fairly certain he was the one who was embarrassed about it historically, and his old man would never have said 'work in a factory' in his life, that sort of description comes from someone who hasn't and doesn't realise the many skills and trades that constitute the human element of a factory.

He makes it so hard to get behind. No one particularly cares if he’s working class or not, people just want competent leadership.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

He knows the audience clearly weren't disrespecting his father, it was a giggle over how often he mentions the toolmaker aspect. I do think it was a good line to move on and distract from it though.

What I think people on threads like this (and the sort of person who would have been in that audience) have to remember is that the majority of the population aren't weird enough to engage with politics on a daily basis, and a general election campaign might be the first time they've bothered listening to anything Starmer says. And they're still not reading every headline daily, just catching the odd clip. So he might mention the toolmaker at every single campaign stop, 100 times or more - but that's how he makes sure that as many people as possible hear the message he wants to deliver.

It's why David Cameron said 'Coalition of Chaos' 20 times a day and May tried to follow it up with 'Strong and Stable'. You might get bored of hearing it if you're tuning in to every single debate & campaign stop, but they know that millions of us can't be bothered with all that and might only see them once or twice in the election run up.

Aye but ‘coalition of chaos’ or ‘strong and stable’ creates specific imagery in the mind of the electorate and are quite clever to a degree.

This is just weird and resonates with barely anyone.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

He makes it so hard to get behind. No one particularly cares if he’s working class or not, people just want competent leadership.

And yet there have been a huge number of jibes about the backgrounds of Sunak, Johnson et al. It wasn't "just" because they were utterly useless.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

And yet there have been a huge number of jibes about the backgrounds of Sunak, Johnson et al. It wasn't "just" because they were utterly useless.

True enough. Think this also relates to criticism of them cutting public services and funding and helping out old boys networks whilst coming from a position of extreme privilege.

 

[davek]

What a nob.

 

[davek]

Caught this on another medium, unusual for GB news. This is what I like about him, he was brought up in a working class family, who worked hard to give him a good start in life. Lot of MPs had a silver spoon suck up where the sun don't shine, so don't know the struggles most parents have to go through to give their children a good standard of living or at least the best they can.

They weren't laughing at his dad, they were laughing at him for exploiting his memory for the umpteenth time.

Anyway, his dad 'kin hated the snobby nouveau riche get.