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Why Starmer can afford to be less timid on Brexit – politicalbetting.com
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Unlike honesty in the Tory party which appears to come last these days if mentioned at all
In Liz we Truss!
It's unfunded tax cuts to pay for themselves as foretold. And continuity Boris policies.
Will it win them another five years, as they once again run against the previous regime, blaming it for all travails?
Probably.
And that's the most depressing of all.
Short hand for unicorns on stilts.
You need to understand how important it is to shovel more money into the banks and houses belong to the 70+ year olds that comprise the Tory core vote.
I know Badenoch is unlikely to get through to the membership, but I’m worried she will by some fluke, and if she does the batshit crazy membership might just give it to her.
On a positive note, it would be great to see a black woman as PM.
That’s the only positive I can see. Well, maybe the other one would be to make the Tories unelectable. Nothing to do with her gender, or colour. Entirely to do with the fact that she’s absolutely fucking mental.
She’s the Tory id personified, right there before our eyes. Reduce the state to its bare essentials? I wonder what she sees as essential and what can be happily sacrificed as non-essential. You can guess, can’t you?
Johnson’s done his job for the Tories. The conventional wisdom is that he has used the party simply to achieve power. Perhaps with time we’ll come to think that it was the party that has used Johnson. An unconventional politician who appealed to Leavers across the traditional spectrum and got us out of the EU. Jettisoned when his magic started to fade along,
perhaps, with any pretence of levelling up; the party can bin all the Brexit ‘benefits’ the Red Wall seem to think is their due, that Johnson is the hapless face of, and shamelessly return to cutting and slashing and reducing the services that mean so much to the Red Wallers.
Tragic, really, and completely amoral. But, hey, Tories gonna Tory.
i.e. Opinium VI poll 6th July 2022
Question: Regarding Brexit, earlier this week Keir Starmer said that Labour’s policy would be to “sort out the poor deal Boris Johnson signed” but he said that a Labour government would NOT take Britain back into the EU’s single market or customs union or return to “free movement” of people between the UK and the EU. Do you think he was right or wrong to say this?
Results: Right/Wrong to say this by current VI
All 51% right, 23% wrong
Con 63% right, 18% wrong
Lab 56% right, 25% wrong
LD 45% right, 30% wrong
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/08/30/towards-a-rational-immigration-policy/
It only raises £200billion - we can save that by sacking civil servants and introducing departmental cost cutting efficiencies.
Without winning back those redwall seats from the Tories Labour has zero chance of depriving the Tories of their majority and Starmer has zero chance of becoming PM.
https://twitter.com/thom_brooks/status/1546148929229692930?s=20&t=6s-mAMl327v6ChyfYsFZWA
Plus as Redfield showed earlier this month, 47% still want to stay out of the EU not rejoin
https://twitter.com/EuropeElects/status/1543321577181380609?s=20&t=zLWAsBhWuG8ZGqspbblFRg
Was Brexit right or wrong? Wrong. I voted Remain, and haven't seen any reason why I ought to regret that.
Do I want to waste another 5 years obsessing about it?
No bloody way.
And what about De Pfeffel?
The naïveté of Aaron Bell - and the other red wall tories who turned on Johnson is incredible. He was the best they were gonna get, policy-wise. They should have kept their head down, played the game and begged for pork. It was deeply undignified, but that was the game that had to be played.
I’ve never been a Johnson supporter, but called them out at the time - to universal derision on PB.
They’ve fked their constituents. And probably lost their seats.
I think she's manoeuvering to stay in post.
I always get the impression she's actually self-aware. She knows she can't win.
But she can strongly influence others with her words. Look at the bounce Gove's just given.
Sunak would be our first Hindu PM too, Braverman the first Buddhist PM. Zahawi our first Muslim PM
An Uber Loyalist with no one to be slavishly loyal to anymore.
Be interested to hear him.
Edit: tbf there are Alliance and the Greens.
Not that he is going to last well in power, even if he scrapes in.
https://twitter.com/NeilDotObrien/status/1546140955681558529
A formal readmission to SM either which would either be via EFTA or reaccession or, perhaps, Swiss trilateralism will take time.
Confirming closer SM alignment for goods that was never in reality torn down and getting easing of customs and equivalence requirements can start generating wins in the first few months, and does no harm to the possibilty of larger scale reversal further down the line.
Some things are are above the pork barrel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foyle_(UK_Parliament_constituency)#Elections_in_the_2010s
ETA 132 votes, 0.4%
Your pork themed comments say a LOT about your morals and your intellect.
Why were constitutional experts and senior Tories worried about Boris trashing the constitution (as reported today) if there wasn't any issue.
"I would cut taxes massively, increase spending massively, and improve every government service (with half the staff) before the next election, and take no nonsense from any court (foreign or domestic).
Almost a Hail Mary.
She's utterly unknown and completely untested.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2007/dec/22/labour.uk
Johnson was baptised Roman Catholic and rejoined the Catholic Church to be married at Westminster Cathedral.
Of the main Tory leadership candidates only Jeremy Hunt is Church of England, Badenoch is Christian but undefined denomination, likely Pentecostal
Do you live in the top 150 Labour target seats needed for a Labour majority? If not again Starmer is not really interested in your views
Another Scottish Tory source said this regime had been “very divisive” and that Mordaunt would be a “unifying candidate”.
An influential figure among grassroots Scottish Tories said they believed Mordaunt, who was the first female defence secretary, would be “very sellable in Scotland”.
It is understood that Douglas Ross, the Scottish Conservative leader, is waiting to see the contenders before backing a candidate.
Yesterday he predicted that the contest would provide a “very strong positive debate” about the future of the party and suggested there should be an overhaul of the UK government to remove Johnson loyalists.
… Liz Truss, the foreign secretary… was met with scorn from several Conservative MSPs, who believe she would be “disastrous” for the Scottish party in a similar vein to Johnson, whose approval ratings dropped to a record low of -71 in Scotland last month.
(The Times; €)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kemi_Badenoch
Scotland is different. For the English, we've mostly been to Scotland. There's an emotional connection even when there isn't a rational connection.
I'm one.
Boris has certainly spread the influence of the one true Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.
irrelevant to Starmer
This has now overtaken Tory 2019 campaign as the most candidates ever for a UK major party leadership election.
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Brexit has already been delivered