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Reeves puts herself in the frame as Starmer’s successor – politicalbetting.com
Reeves puts herself in the frame as Starmer’s successor – politicalbetting.com
The one person who appears to have come out best from the Budget is the Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves who gave the first response in place of Starmer who is isolating because of COVID.
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However, someone - a middle of the road floating voter - did email me to say how good Rachel Reeves was. So he concurs with Mike.
If it becomes clear that finally it is time for a woman to head Lab, then who else is there unless Yvette runs again?
Incidentally, I seem to dimly recall Reeves being tipped as future leader material in Newstatesman years and years ago, when she was a new MP.
Brexit is, without question, the greatest mistake Britain as a nation has made. It eclipses all other colonial, military and foreign policy errors combined.
Does that make any difference to anything?
What was he thinking?
Mind you, they tip everyone, I think. I remember similar Dan Jarvis articles. Stopped clocks...
Although she did turn down a job at Goldman Sachs which means Reeves isn't all bad.
Brexit means Brexit. When people ask for a dividend or benefit of Brexit, I say ‘Brexit’. That’s it. Brexit IS the benefit of Brexit. We now rule ourselves. We can elect and eject all the politicians who make the decisions, and THEY cannot hide behind ‘rules from Brussels’
Will aspects of this be painful and costly? For sure. Just like having a kid is horribly and unavoidably expensive
A mystery for the ages. Who knows?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/28/indian-police-arrest-seven-for-celebrating-pakistan-cricket-win
Labour will be making a serious mistake if they don't eject him before the next election. So I don't think they will.
This is from July 2019.
John McDonnell has piled pressure on Jeremy Corbyn for Labour to back Remain in a second referendum “sooner rather than later”.
The shadow Chancellor, who said he would vote and campaign to stay in the EU in another public vote, has urged the party leader to take a new position ahead of a potential Boris Johnson government.
Speaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, the Labour frontbencher admitted time was running out as Mr Corbyn continued talks with trade unions over the party’s next step.
https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/john-mcdonnell-piles-pressure-on-jeremy-corbyn-to-back-remain-in-second-referendum
Corbyn's own supporters were pushing him for a second referendum well before the moderates.
It is easier for so many people to pin the blame solely on Starmer and the moderates but the people Corbyn listens to were pushing him for a second referendum well before that.
As for Glaswegian food, you need a sense of humour, up to quite recently I had plans to spend a week in Glasgow in next month.
Then Blondie postponed, the gits.
Yvette lost to Jeremy Corbyn .... because she was conflicted and did not really want the job of Leader of the Labour Party.
Yvette would have lost to Boris ... for the same reason.
Yvette does not herself have the confidence that she could do these jobs. She does not have the hunger to win.
Lack of confidence is a killer in politics.
Whether you actually have the ability to be a good PM is immaterial compared to having the boundless self-belief that you will be a good PM. Our Etonians know this all to well.
"Why do you want to be Prime Minister?"
“Because I think I’d be rather good at it.”
TSE needs to update his shtick.
She has a couple of other potential pluses as a future leader - firstly she's actually in parliament, and secondly if she can start to talk some sort of economic sense it starts to address the greatest weakness that Labour have had in the last many years (I'd actually say forever..
https://order-order.com/2021/10/28/sir-david-amesss-dog-crowned-westminster-dog-of-the-year/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-59071375
Time code is 01:50:25 for those that are interested in listening.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0010xnp
Not sure whether he REALLY knew what he was talking about.
Brexit has Farage doing £80-a-pop Cameo shout-outs.
https://twitter.com/harry_horton/status/1453663444297715712?s=21
https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/1453281055075676167
The despicable act of some people in Czech is doomed to fail. We advise them to change course ASAP, otherwise they will suffer the consequences, Chinese FM said on #Czech's inviting #Taiwan’s Joseph Wu for a visit.
No. Not like that!
She just wasn’t ready for what must be a critical role.
Keir fucked up, the error is really his, not hers.
She is also quite serious and downbeat (again like Brown). Not a shiny smiley optimist. Given that's also Keir's problem, ideally they would have a fun loving, cheery optimistic leader supported by the clunking fist of an all-destroying shadow CoE.
Including when Cameron and Osborne were drooling over the moolah.
There must be a faction of super-nationalists under Xi who are willing to damage the Chinese economy just to show the power of the party and the will of ‘the nation’. This does not bode well for Taiwan
2) So, the German Empire, Kaiser etc would have stayed intact
3) Given that the German Empire embraced war as a Good thing, and it had worked twice (1870 and 1914)
4) And that they were planning for WII as part of their planned reparations demands....
5) The Kaiser Wilhelm instate will probably have a bunch more scientists....
So in about 1940 or so, the highly militaristic German Empire would get some good news about bigger and better bangs. Just in time for the next war.....
Pity Victoria Wood died.
Brown, Osborne, Rishi all afflicted.
Darling and Hammond seemed to escape by virtue of being totally dull.
There should be a “Defund the Treasury” movement in this country. They’ve been fucking up the Uk for too long.
They certainly don't have a 'talk soft' strategy anymore, that's for sure. Some of the diplomatic statements come across like wrestling or boxing promos (both of those are equally theatrical and fake).
Such as "Remember Tibet".
Via the market. Supply and demand.
Part of it is worries over the future. If the West pivots away from "buy everything from China" to, say, "buy from a bunch of countries including a lot more from India" then that will alter the balance of power considerably.
This is also why they're so robust in trying to police criticism from outside of China. Everyone must agree. Everything else is secondary.
It might have been an unimaginably nicer world and better century, albeit with a stronger Germany dominant in mainland Europe. A price worth paying?
"Stop a kamikaze Brexit, then trigger an election this autumn after leaving impotent Johnson fretting in Number 10 on October 31, and Corbyn could find himself in Downing Street... Miss his October 31 deadline and deflated Johnson will be worried by a buoyant Brexit Party, Nigel Farage’s right-wing mob posing a bigger threat to the Tories than Labour, just as he once did with UKIP." - The Mirror, 4 September 2019
it has been a long time since a Labour figure has got such good coverage
In the Mirror? May as well quote the New Statesman or HuffPost.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/wuhan-clan-the-price-i-paid-for-my-lab-leak-expose
- Invest in a property in London, getting the money out of China
- Get an income from it outside China
- Have the right to go visit your property, under the investment visa rules....
So a safe nest egg aboard *and* an escape route. According to my Chinese co-workers, it is common for the rich end of the middle-classes and above to buy such properties in the names of everyone in the family. One each, as it were. One chap knows a girl who got the job, while a student in London, of managing the 3 floors of flats rented out by the family - she lives in one of the flats.
I think. Others may be better informed.
The reason we have a taboo on deliberate lying is that it's blooming effective in the short term but corrodes conversation in the long term.
During the negotiations was one thing (the deal was probably the best possible outcome, incidentally). The problem was that afterwards, it became department policy for the Foreign Office. In the sense of policy at the civil service level, irrespective of party government.
So everything began to be filtered through a "must be nice to the Chinese government" filter.
Would the Germans have been able to keep a Continental European empire together for longer than the French? Would Russia once again prove to be too big for a Western European power to overcome? Would Britain be able to maintain its naval superiority?
I can see many ways in which it might have worked out better for Britain.
Stephen Pollard
@stephenpollard
Labour has a really strong Treasury team in
@RachelReevesMP
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@bphillipsonMP
Bridget Phillipson is - by quite a long way - the best Labour interviewee I've heard in recent years. She speaks normally and engages. Surely a star of the next decade or so
Any labour leader also needs either to show that they can win about 127 extra seats, or that they have a convincing account of how Labour can lead a Lab/SNP/LD alliance.
All three require hard binary choices, the very thing politicians hate most.
If the German Empire had won WWI swiftly then it wouldn't have taken long before there was another war, this time with them starting from an even stronger starting point.
It's similar for the Tories, with people talking up the chances of Sunak, and to a lesser extent Truss, as next leader. Just because they're perceived as good in their current jobs doesn't mean that they'd make good leaders. In Truss's case, I think it's highly unlikely.
It's a bit like promoting the most brilliant teachers to be head teachers. It's often a disaster. Different skill sets and all that.
Apparently schools are worried that children are acting out games from Squid Games during break time.
That's right we're panicking about children acting out games . . . from a series where adult contestants play children's games.
Children playing children's games. Oh won't somebody please think of the children!
“I think that the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest he ... the poorest man in England is not at all bound in a strict sense to that Government that he hath not had a voice to put himself under.”
Thomas Rainsborough (1610-1648)
Brexit was seeded in the 17th century
https://twitter.com/englishradical/status/1453634900536532992?s=21
Yes, I was referring to the specific comment about the 2.5% rise the unions managed to get (and good for them), thanks for detailing it was a broader point you were making.
I think many here are more on Ireton's side of that debate:
No man hath a right to an interest or share in the disposing of the affairs of the kingdom... that hath not a permanent fixed interest in this kingdom
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