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A resounding win and Burnham succeeding Starmer by the end of summer would be my preferred outcome

Politics has to change and it starts with Starmer leaving office

Maybe but Starmer to Burnham is a shift even further left for Labour, Burnham is a better communicator than Starmer but Burnham would also likely be the most leftwing UK PM since Harold Wilson

Burnham is many things to many people and he will be restrained by the bond markets

I expect him to be less tribal and more collegiate but we will have to see

First of all he has to win Makerfield and then see Starmer either resign or lose in a leadership ballot

If he raises taxes to fund spending and nationalise the bond markets can't say it wasn't unfunded even if it hits growth.

The bond markets are only relevant if he was trying extensive unfunded borrowing as Truss was

Fpt:

It seems that the Hampshire plods attempted to libel a murder victim:

An initial police statement later that morning said: “It was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.”

The Nowak family, raw with grief, became concerned that a false narrative was being pushed about their son. It is understood that police told the family the next update they planned to publish, which would include the Nowaks’ tribute, would again imply that he was the initial aggressor.

Officers dropped that section of the statement, which only referred to an “altercation” when published.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/henry-nowak-murder-trial-police-l8x990pkb

What’s happening with the Hillsborough Law? Feels like something Andy Burnham could capitalise on here.

In further echoes of Hillsborough, I see that the victims of the Nottingham attack were tested for drugs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ywd4gdzk1o

The father of a university student killed trying to protect her friend has told a public inquiry of his "disgust" that the stabbing victims were tested for drugs and alcohol - but their attacker was not.

The theme which runs through the Nowak murder, the Nottingham murders, the Southport murders and the Fordingbridge rapes is DEI.

With the criminals deemed to need 'equity' even if that requires demeaning the victims.

This case has SFA to do with DEI.

Reverse the ethnicity of the murderer and murder victim and do you think the plods would have reacted in the same way ?

We all know that they wouldn't.

tell that to the Lawrence family

You have to go 32 years into the past for that response ?

A resounding win and Burnham succeeding Starmer by the end of summer would be my preferred outcome

Politics has to change and it starts with Starmer leaving office

Reeves too. We desperately need a Chancellor with a sense of purpose.

We depserately need a Chancellor that can create growrth --> wealth.

That - and to encourage wealth into this country, not departing it.

Chop £50bn spend a year off welfare and taxes, and add another £50bn a year to investment in education, infrastructure and R&D.

There.

So you chop £25bn of welfare (spending) and £25bn of tax (income) and the government spends £50bn on investment spending.

Where is that extra £25bn of spending coming from?

The welfare cut pays for the tax cut, so it's the full extra £50bn in investment to find.

Unless Casino was recommending a £25b tax increase, which is possible, as his post is ambiguous on that (not ideal in a Chancellor).
In which case the numbers add up.

Ben Judah
@b_judah

The growing risk of a collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation system, of which the Gulf Stream is part, is nothing less than the number one long-term security threat to our way of life in Britain, Europe and the Western world in the era in which we live.

The consequences on our societies of an AMOC collapse would be simply devastating for Britain especially, beyond anything imaginable but a full blown super pandemic or nuclear war — with scientists modelling temperatures dropping around 15.c and half of our arable land being lost.

This is just one of many climate catastrophes starring at us of the modelling and the observed data and is why it is why Labour has continued to place such importance on Net Zero and international climate talks despite the Greens and progressive activists now looking elsewhere post-October 7th and the Conservatives joining Reform in now campaigning against them.

https://x.com/b_judah/status/2063540337939710222

Fpt:

It seems that the Hampshire plods attempted to libel a murder victim:

An initial police statement later that morning said: “It was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.”

The Nowak family, raw with grief, became concerned that a false narrative was being pushed about their son. It is understood that police told the family the next update they planned to publish, which would include the Nowaks’ tribute, would again imply that he was the initial aggressor.

Officers dropped that section of the statement, which only referred to an “altercation” when published.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/henry-nowak-murder-trial-police-l8x990pkb

What’s happening with the Hillsborough Law? Feels like something Andy Burnham could capitalise on here.

In further echoes of Hillsborough, I see that the victims of the Nottingham attack were tested for drugs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ywd4gdzk1o

The father of a university student killed trying to protect her friend has told a public inquiry of his "disgust" that the stabbing victims were tested for drugs and alcohol - but their attacker was not.

The theme which runs through the Nowak murder, the Nottingham murders, the Southport murders and the Fordingbridge rapes is DEI.

With the criminals deemed to need 'equity' even if that requires demeaning the victims.

I don’t see what that has to do with DEI, a US term for an organisational framework mainly affecting employees. Anyone who thinks the police is full of right on wokesters has not met a policeman. The police can be overly cynical and suspicious of everyone, including victims. They get it wrong about white people. They get it wrong about black people. They get it wrong about brown people. If you move away from individual cases and try to look at broad patterns, it’s clear they still rush to negative judgements about black men more than any other group.

What, in particular, do the Southport murders have to do with DEI? Online rabble-rousers invented a story that the attacker was a Muslim immigrant, when he was neither. That shows a problem with them, not the police.

Fpt:

It seems that the Hampshire plods attempted to libel a murder victim:

An initial police statement later that morning said: “It was reported two men had been assaulted by an unknown man.”

The Nowak family, raw with grief, became concerned that a false narrative was being pushed about their son. It is understood that police told the family the next update they planned to publish, which would include the Nowaks’ tribute, would again imply that he was the initial aggressor.

Officers dropped that section of the statement, which only referred to an “altercation” when published.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/henry-nowak-murder-trial-police-l8x990pkb

What’s happening with the Hillsborough Law? Feels like something Andy Burnham could capitalise on here.

In further echoes of Hillsborough, I see that the victims of the Nottingham attack were tested for drugs:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ywd4gdzk1o

The father of a university student killed trying to protect her friend has told a public inquiry of his "disgust" that the stabbing victims were tested for drugs and alcohol - but their attacker was not.

The theme which runs through the Nowak murder, the Nottingham murders, the Southport murders and the Fordingbridge rapes is DEI.

With the criminals deemed to need 'equity' even if that requires demeaning the victims.

This case has SFA to do with DEI.

Reverse the ethnicity of the murderer and murder victim and do you think the plods would have reacted in the same way ?

We all know that they wouldn't.

tell that to the Lawrence family