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Daveysgingerlovechild said:
Anyway, I've not really said attention to this story, so what's the outrage re: postponing the local elections? Seen something about council restructuring being given priority?
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Huge plans for restructuring and reorganising, and so some council elections postponed as there's no point wasting money holding them for an local government that will soon cease to exist in that form.

Not remotely without precedent, Pete's Beloved did the exact same thing just a few years ago on a smaller scale:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-56168977

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All 3 counties delayed their elections by 1 year and increased the numbers of seats available ahead of becoming Unitary Authorities in 2023.

Curiously, the then-Communities Secretary, one Robert Jenrick, said at the time that while plans were being examined, delaying the elections would be sensible.

"Elections in such circumstances risk confusing voters and would be hard to justify where members could be elected to serve shortened terms"

Must be a different Robert Jenrick who said this yesterday:

“Elections should only be postponed in truly exceptional circumstances … Maybe Labour don’t want to face the electorate?”

Tories absolutely flailing around trying to find an attack angle on this, Rayner comes out and promises smaller, more efficient local government (a conservative raison d'être) and they're bleating random nonsense about democracy and tarmaccing over the countryside.
 

Dissatisfaction with Starmer reaches 61%, his highest as Labour leader​




The latest Ipsos Political Monitor explores attitudes towards Keir Starmer, party leaders, and the economy

16 December 2024










  • 61% of Britons say they’re dissatisfied with Keir Starmer, his worst performance as Labour leader
  • Overall dissatisfaction with the Government remains high at 70%
  • Economic optimism continues to deteriorate, with 2 in 3 (65%) expecting the economy to get worse over the next year – the worst score since the end of 2022

The latest Ipsos Political Monitor, taken 27th November-4th December 2024 asks the public their views on the government and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.


Dissatisfaction with both the government and Keir Starmer remains high, with high levels of pessimism around the economy ​



  • Prime Minister Keir Starmer continues to face low approval ratings five months into his premiership. Only 27% of Britons are satisfied with Starmer's performance, while 61% express dissatisfaction, resulting in a net satisfaction score of -34.



TBF, most of them probably think he's a foreign leader, he's hardly ever in the country.

Where is he today? I cant believe it's the UK.
 
davek said:
Where is he today? I cant believe it's the UK.
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He's in Estonia, escalating foreign wars.

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Away from that easily obtained answer, I'd like to commend your excellent formatting job on the pasted article. Dark grey text on a dark blue background, and floating bullet points with no data. Got a little dizzied by the numbers and couldn't focus on making anything actually legible presumably.
 
Xizor said:
He's in Estonia, escalating foreign wars.

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Away from that easily obtained answer, I'd like to commend your excellent formatting job on the pasted article. Dark grey text on a dark blue background, and floating bullet points with no data. Got a little dizzied by the numbers and couldn't focus on making anything actually legible presumably.
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Estonia today is it? Where does he go to tomorrow?

I hope it isn't Britain. He needs more of a break. He's only been abroad for half the time he's been in office.
 
Two good decisions by the government today:

Firstly, ending the ridiculous privatization of defence housing, £6 billion is a lot but it will probably save money in the medium to long term as they'd have fleeced us out of an ever-growing chunk of the defence budget, given that the cap on charging rents had expired; it is just a shame they were privatized on such terms in the first place (and that the Coalition didn't buy them back for £3 billion when Terra Firma bought them as we'd have saved even more).

Secondly, not bowing to the WASPI campaign. Given the pressures the country is under right now, not least the evident need to improve the defences of the country and our allies and the current tax burden, giving billions of pounds to an entire cohort of society because a minority claimed not to be able to read or understand things that were widely publicized and commented on could not be justified.

They need to communicate the reasons for these decisions better, mind - the latter especially, as the usual offence-peddlers are already seizing upon it with hypocritical glee.
 
tsubaki said:
Two good decisions by the government today:

Firstly, ending the ridiculous privatization of defence housing, £6 billion is a lot but it will probably save money in the medium to long term as they'd have fleeced us out of an ever-growing chunk of the defence budget, given that the cap on charging rents had expired; it is just a shame they were privatized on such terms in the first place (and that the Coalition didn't buy them back for £3 billion when Terra Firma bought them as we'd have saved even more).

Secondly, not bowing to the WASPI campaign. Given the pressures the country is under right now, not least the evident need to improve the defences of the country and our allies and the current tax burden, giving billions of pounds to an entire cohort of society because a minority claimed not to be able to read or understand things that were widely publicized and commented on could not be justified.

They need to communicate the reasons for these decisions better, mind - the latter especially, as the usual offence-peddlers are already seizing upon it with hypocritical glee.
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Like this you mean….

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tsubaki said:
Two good decisions by the government today:

Firstly, ending the ridiculous privatization of defence housing, £6 billion is a lot but it will probably save money in the medium to long term as they'd have fleeced us out of an ever-growing chunk of the defence budget, given that the cap on charging rents had expired; it is just a shame they were privatized on such terms in the first place (and that the Coalition didn't buy them back for £3 billion when Terra Firma bought them as we'd have saved even more).

Secondly, not bowing to the WASPI campaign. Given the pressures the country is under right now, not least the evident need to improve the defences of the country and our allies and the current tax burden, giving billions of pounds to an entire cohort of society because a minority claimed not to be able to read or understand things that were widely publicized and commented on could not be justified.

They need to communicate the reasons for these decisions better, mind - the latter especially, as the usual offence-peddlers are already seizing upon it with hypocritical glee.
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This is very disappointing from you.

Those women were welshed on and have had to go into debt.

To congratulate a government for ignoring that is bizarre.

It's just another example of the Starmer Government making life more unpalatable for ordinary working class people.

He talks a good game about 'working people' but he's constantly making decisions that negatively affect their quality of life.
 
peteblue said:
Like this you mean….

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I wonder how much of that hypothetical £58bn still exists after 4+ extra years of Tory misrule that included a economically damaging Brexit finally happening, a chaotic Boris brainfart of a premiership, Covid and all its ills, Ukraine and all its effects and the Liz Truss Fiscal Event Extravaganza.

The public didn't vote in Labour's 2019 platform so I don't know why they should be held to it now when circumstances have changed wildly.
 
davek said:
This is very disappointing from you.

Those women were welshed on and have had to go into debt.

To congratulate a government for ignoring that is bizarre.

It's just another example of the Starmer Government making life more unpalatable for ordinary working class people.

He talks a good game about 'working people' but he's constantly making decisions that negatively affect their quality of life.
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This proposal wasn't to deal with the women who were directly affected by it dave, it was to pay out to everyone in the affected cohort. It wasn't even to compensate them for being affected by it either, it was to compensate them for not noticing it (despite it being reported on at length).
 
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