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Andy McDonald, a stone in Starmer's shoe
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 HKOwen  Hong Kong 27 Sep 21 10.27pm |
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Starmer was too weak to purge the Corbynistas from the Shadow Cabinet and now reaping the harvest. Embarrassing and discommodius for the LOHMO
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jeeagles  27 Sep 21 11.20pm |
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Not sure to be honest with you. Mcdonald, for most people is a nobody. Quitting citing the division in the Labour Party is disingenuous. Seems like the Labour Party is starting move away from appeasing the looney left, and he's thrown his toys out the pram. Calling it a divide is akin to people far to the right claiming there is a "Culture War" after they realise they will never get their way. Reeves speech was a move back to the centre. Rayner was in the pub watching the Arsenal game with Starmer and Corbyn on Sunday with photographers on hand to share the pre-planned moment of unity. Wouldn't be surprised is someone for the centre of the parter tipped the press off about her having a couple too many and being in a mood to say something stupid. Making her less credible for major roles. Either way, opposition party's generally stay pretty quiet until a couple of years before a GE.
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| HKOwen Hong Kong 28 Sep 21 2.39am |
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Fair points. Reeves' speech including the emphasis that if in power she and the leadership would make " tough decisions " is basically saying they would do a Labour version of " austerity ". In reality, opposition parties can and frequently do promise anything in non election years. McDonald has successfully turned the story of the conference yesterday to divided labour and away from other speeches. It's the same old gang, McDonnell, RLB causing trouble. Where's Burgon. Most pathetic on camera appearance yesterday was the odious Thornberry.
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The Dolphin  28 Sep 21 7.02am |
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Reeve's speech yesterday was a typical left wing Chancellor's speech - full of great stuff with no ideas of how to pay for it.
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 georgenorman 28 Sep 21 7.27am |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
Reeve's speech yesterday was a typical left wing Chancellor's speech - full of great stuff with no ideas of how to pay for it. Whereas the Tory Chancellor has not been spending money like a drunken sailor for the last 18 months?
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| The Dolphin 28 Sep 21 7.48am |
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Agreed - but somewhat unusual circumstances.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 28 Sep 21 8.27am |
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Originally posted by The Dolphin
Agreed - but somewhat unusual circumstances. It's funny as a Tory I think that Boris is heading a Blairite government and yet the Labour supporters on here think he is somewhat to the right of Atilla The Hun. I would like to hear more about Labour's proposal for abolishing business rates. This tax needs to be reformed or abolished but how do you replace the taxes. Making Google and Amazon pay more will not even make a dent in the overall tax loss besides it is never a good idea to base your tax on a handful of companies what happens if they go broke? (they should pay more of course).
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Forest Hillbilly  in a hidey-hole 28 Sep 21 9.28am |
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Labour are far too busy fighting themselves, to worry about small matters like being a viable opposition.
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| jeeagles 28 Sep 21 12.56pm |
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Originally posted by HKOwen
Fair points. Reeves' speech including the emphasis that if in power she and the leadership would make " tough decisions " is basically saying they would do a Labour version of " austerity ". In reality, opposition parties can and frequently do promise anything in non election years. McDonald has successfully turned the story of the conference yesterday to divided labour and away from other speeches. It's the same old gang, McDonnell, RLB causing trouble. Where's Burgon. Most pathetic on camera appearance yesterday was the odious Thornberry. Seems like they are being giving enough rope to hang themselves. The likes of Campbell and Mandelson seem to be back on the seen too. The Corbynista 's are unbelievably poor political operators and easy to predict. Whilst the aging new Labour Crowds are experts this game. Whilst the centre of the party is announcing reasonable policies, they are happy for the left to keep being showing themselves up.
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| Stirlingsays 28 Sep 21 1.04pm |
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Originally posted by georgenorman
Whereas the Tory Chancellor has not been spending money like a drunken sailor for the last 18 months? As Thatcher said, 'The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.'...and that was back in the day when people actually cared about squaring budgets. Apparently the never ending money printing can just go on and on and on.....and the repayment and interest is never going to rise. And pink elephants can happily fly over Selhurst as we win the Champion's league. Are the current Tory's socialists? No, but when you look at the economy....what difference does it really make? Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Sep 2021 1.06pm)
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beak  croydon 28 Sep 21 4.42pm |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
As Thatcher said, 'The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.'...and that was back in the day when people actually cared about squaring budgets. Apparently the never ending money printing can just go on and on and on.....and the repayment and interest is never going to rise. And pink elephants can happily fly over Selhurst as we win the Champion's league. Are the current Tory's socialists? No, but when you look at the economy....what difference does it really make? Edited by Stirlingsays (28 Sep 2021 1.06pm) Andy who? I've never heard of him,a nobody courting a little publicity.
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| Stirlingsays 28 Sep 21 7.21pm |
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Originally posted by beak
Andy who? I've never heard of him,a nobody courting a little publicity. Quite probably, was a new one on me.
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