Labour hold their biggest poll lead over the Conservatives for almost ten years amid mass dissatisfaction with the government’s handling of the cost of living.
A YouGov poll for The Times showed Labour with the backing of 43 per cent of voters, 15 points ahead of the Conservatives on 28 per cent. It is the biggest Labour lead recorded by the pollster since February 2013.
Labour’s score of 43 per cent is four points up on last week and the party’s highest vote share in a YouGov poll since March 2018. At the 2019 general election the party won 32.1 per cent of the vote under Jeremy Corbyn, Sir Keir Starmer’s predecessor.
Boris Johnson needn't bother, as it's obvious he is one.
I'm pretty sure that these videos of the Finnish PM were an attention seeking stunt. They are in line with the image that she is cultivating of herself. The other parties are stupid to have forced her to take a drug test. They should have just ignored it. If they wanted to make a clever comment, it should be that she should be more careful about being filmed by people she doesn't know at private parties.
What should she have been careful about? The dangers of dancing?
Train privatisation can be argued either way I think.
It us interesting that both the Post Office and the trains were privatisations that Mrs Thatcher considered to be beyond the pale. I personally think that Rail privatisation has been a success but could have been so much better had it not been botched by Major. On the Post Office I think it is a stupid idea (privatisation I mean). There are certain services that work better if run by a Government.
I don't think mail is one of those. I don't care if DHL or Government DHL brings my parcel.
It is if you want a universal postal service. Otherwise you end up with many parts of the country getting a substandard service.
Who needs post any more? Other than parcels. Letter post has ceased to be a necessity.
You need parcels in rural areas and there it is still mainly Royal Mail not Amazon or DHL who deliver them
not here, which is pretty bloody rural. DHL evri DPD Amazon all in it.
Where is that? Plus Amazon and DHL will charge more than Royal Mail for delivering to rural areas
West Devon. No they won't Amazon Prime is flat rate everywhere, parcelforce is extra for IV and islands and IoW.
Do you live in a village or town? If the latter you are not rural.
Amazon Prime itself costs extra
Amazon Prime includes access to its Amazon original videos and premiership football together with free delivery for £95 pa
Which is not cheap, especially for those on low incomes and 100 times the price of a first class stamp let alone a second
What on earth has a first class stamp got to do with parcel deliveries
You really are out of touch
Quite a lot, you can send small and medium sized parcels with just first class stamps
Train privatisation can be argued either way I think.
It us interesting that both the Post Office and the trains were privatisations that Mrs Thatcher considered to be beyond the pale. I personally think that Rail privatisation has been a success but could have been so much better had it not been botched by Major. On the Post Office I think it is a stupid idea (privatisation I mean). There are certain services that work better if run by a Government.
I don't think mail is one of those. I don't care if DHL or Government DHL brings my parcel.
It is if you want a universal postal service. Otherwise you end up with many parts of the country getting a substandard service.
Who needs post any more? Other than parcels. Letter post has ceased to be a necessity.
You need parcels in rural areas and there it is still mainly Royal Mail not Amazon or DHL who deliver them
not here, which is pretty bloody rural. DHL evri DPD Amazon all in it.
Where is that? Plus Amazon and DHL will charge more than Royal Mail for delivering to rural areas
West Devon. No they won't Amazon Prime is flat rate everywhere, parcelforce is extra for IV and islands and IoW.
Do you live in a village or town? If the latter you are not rural.
Amazon Prime itself costs extra
Amazon Prime includes access to its Amazon original videos and premiership football together with free delivery for £95 pa
Which is not cheap, especially for those on low incomes and 100 times the price of a first class stamp let alone a second
What on earth has a first class stamp got to do with parcel deliveries
You really are out of touch
Quite a lot, you can send small and medium sized parcels with just first class stamps
Rubbish and you made first class stamp plural which you did not originally
Boris Johnson needn't bother, as it's obvious he is one.
I'm pretty sure that these videos of the Finnish PM were an attention seeking stunt. They are in line with the image that she is cultivating of herself. The other parties are stupid to have forced her to take a drug test. They should have just ignored it. If they wanted to make a clever comment, it should be that she should be more careful about being filmed by people she doesn't know at private parties.
I always think of Johnson as an attention seeking stunt.
Train privatisation can be argued either way I think.
It us interesting that both the Post Office and the trains were privatisations that Mrs Thatcher considered to be beyond the pale. I personally think that Rail privatisation has been a success but could have been so much better had it not been botched by Major. On the Post Office I think it is a stupid idea (privatisation I mean). There are certain services that work better if run by a Government.
I don't think mail is one of those. I don't care if DHL or Government DHL brings my parcel.
It is if you want a universal postal service. Otherwise you end up with many parts of the country getting a substandard service.
Who needs post any more? Other than parcels. Letter post has ceased to be a necessity.
You need parcels in rural areas and there it is still mainly Royal Mail not Amazon or DHL who deliver them
not here, which is pretty bloody rural. DHL evri DPD Amazon all in it.
Where is that? Plus Amazon and DHL will charge more than Royal Mail for delivering to rural areas
West Devon. No they won't Amazon Prime is flat rate everywhere, parcelforce is extra for IV and islands and IoW.
Do you live in a village or town? If the latter you are not rural.
Amazon Prime itself costs extra
Amazon Prime includes access to its Amazon original videos and premiership football together with free delivery for £95 pa
Which is not cheap, especially for those on low incomes and 100 times the price of a first class stamp let alone a second
What on earth has a first class stamp got to do with parcel deliveries
You really are out of touch
Quite a lot, you can send small and medium sized parcels with just first class stamps
I also see the latest Swedish poll has the Social Democrat vote approaching one third and the vote share very close to the combined total for the Moderates and Sweden Democrats both of whom are slipping back so at the moment it looks like a solid re-election for the centre-left bloc but there's a long way to go.
While in the Italian election Brothers of Italy lead in 2/3 of the latest polls and the right of centre coalition heads for a majority next month
All this tells us, I think, is there is no strong trend out there. The centre-right opposition is polling very well in Norway but the centre-right Government is in big trouble in Austria.
In Germany, the SPD are in a poor third but it's the Greens who are making headway and are tied with the Union thus keeping the current coalition in good shape but raising the likelihood of a Green Chancellor after the next Bundestag election.
The centre-right opposition PP are doing well In Spain but the ruling Socialists are in command in Portugal while the centre-right New Democracy is comfortably ahead in Greece.
The Australians gave the centre-right Liberal-National Coalition a right beating in May but in New Zealand the centre-right National Party (and its ACT allies) are leading Labour.
Michael Gove has endorsed Rishi Sunak for the Conservative leadership and announced that he is bringing his career in frontline politics to a close.
Writing in The Times, he says that Liz Truss’s campaign has been a “holiday from reality” and that her tax cuts will put “the stock options of FTSE 100 executives” before the poorest.
He says that as prime minister Sunak will “put the strength of the state at the service of the weakest” and provide millions of people with the support they need during the cost of living crisis.
Michael Gove has endorsed Rishi Sunak for the Conservative leadership and announced that he is bringing his career in frontline politics to a close.
Writing in The Times, he says that Liz Truss’s campaign has been a “holiday from reality” and that her tax cuts will put “the stock options of FTSE 100 executives” before the poorest.
He says that as prime minister Sunak will “put the strength of the state at the service of the weakest” and provide millions of people with the support they need during the cost of living crisis.
But is equally consistent with the view that Kemi supporters were right wingers who did not rate Liz Truss.
I read it thus. The Gove/Rishi/Murdoch/Cummings (?) nexus wanted Rishi. Gove put Kemi in play (which imo she was right to accept to raise her profile) to damage Penny and ensure the weaker opponent, Truss, was in the final two. So far so good, but the trouble with all these schemes to force the electors' hands by offering them an unthinkable alternative and forcing them to vote therefore for a merely unpalatable one, is that they don't work. The unthinkable alternative becomes thinkable. Candidates and ideas grow in stature. The membership have embraced La Truss, and this open Gove endorsement is a last ditch forlorn attempt to move the dial, like Napoleon sending in his Old Guard at Waterloo.
Locally driven planning with greater freedom. Corruption corruption corruption.
It's more that that's completely counter to what government has wanted from the planning system for as long as I can certainly remember. Government has imposed rules to ensure building occurs, as they know if you leave it local in this country even very good proposals, or very needed ones, will not get through. Prior zonal proposals were hated (albeit to a large degree that was around the formula for housing), but at least an attempt to simplify things.
I really don't understand how giving more ways to say no from locals is going to help the problems we have in the system. Developers are taking advantage of it, definitely, but neighbourhood plans require immense local effort and need updating so often (or have to be bypassed if housing land supply is not met), that it is not worth the effort, so how are very local plans going to be created? How will housing get approved, and built in good time?
Our neighbourhood plan is well thought out
It matters not. Building will take precedence over a Neighbourhood Plan.
Not if the neighbourhood plan filters into the Local Plan
The local plan again doesn't have any sway over the push to build
Nice to have a fresher evening after the humidity of previous days.
Despite much hysteria and hyperbole, the second tube strike has been a bit of a non event. Yes, the tourists have been affected but many seem to have simply confirmed the new trend of Friday as main WFH day - apparently just 13% go into the office on a Friday - I'm one of them on occasion.
At East Ham, we had a very limited service running one way to West Ham and the other to Dag East but that has now stopped. It may well be local town centres won't be too badly affected and with trains running anyone who can get to a rail station can still come in to central London.
The political "blame game" has Shapps preaching his right-wing hellfire nonsense on one side and Mick Lynch of the RMT (who has obviously learnt from the Bob Crow playbook) on the other and poor old powerless Sadiq Khan caught between the Government rock and the Union hard place. The truth of the futility of the job of Mayor of London has been laid bare - I just wonder if Khan might prefer the Westminster benches after all in 2024.
The problem is the incendiary language of Shapps (who may well be angling for a higher rank job from Liz Truss) gets us nowhere slowly (rather like the strikes). As an occasional passenger, the notion of a 10% fare hike in January doesn't sit well but the post-pandemic operational model for passenger transport still hasn't really evolved and needs more thinking and certainly a lot less posturing from all sides.
The cricket was a salutary reminder however good you think you are you can still have an off day (or three off days). Better to stick to the action from God's Own Country (as I'm told).
I also see the latest Swedish poll has the Social Democrat vote approaching one third and the vote share very close to the combined total for the Moderates and Sweden Democrats both of whom are slipping back so at the moment it looks like a solid re-election for the centre-left bloc but there's a long way to go.
While in the Italian election Brothers of Italy lead in 2/3 of the latest polls and the right of centre coalition heads for a majority next month
Locally driven planning with greater freedom. Corruption corruption corruption.
It's more that that's completely counter to what government has wanted from the planning system for as long as I can certainly remember. Government has imposed rules to ensure building occurs, as they know if you leave it local in this country even very good proposals, or very needed ones, will not get through. Prior zonal proposals were hated (albeit to a large degree that was around the formula for housing), but at least an attempt to simplify things.
I really don't understand how giving more ways to say no from locals is going to help the problems we have in the system. Developers are taking advantage of it, definitely, but neighbourhood plans require immense local effort and need updating so often (or have to be bypassed if housing land supply is not met), that it is not worth the effort, so how are very local plans going to be created? How will housing get approved, and built in good time?
Our neighbourhood plan is well thought out
It matters not. Building will take precedence over a Neighbourhood Plan.
Not if the neighbourhood plan filters into the Local Plan
The local plan again doesn't have any sway over the push to build
It does, you can’t build outside the Local Plan areas allocated
Train privatisation can be argued either way I think.
It us interesting that both the Post Office and the trains were privatisations that Mrs Thatcher considered to be beyond the pale. I personally think that Rail privatisation has been a success but could have been so much better had it not been botched by Major. On the Post Office I think it is a stupid idea (privatisation I mean). There are certain services that work better if run by a Government.
I don't think mail is one of those. I don't care if DHL or Government DHL brings my parcel.
It is if you want a universal postal service. Otherwise you end up with many parts of the country getting a substandard service.
Who needs post any more? Other than parcels. Letter post has ceased to be a necessity.
You need parcels in rural areas and there it is still mainly Royal Mail not Amazon or DHL who deliver them
not here, which is pretty bloody rural. DHL evri DPD Amazon all in it.
Where is that? Plus Amazon and DHL will charge more than Royal Mail for delivering to rural areas
West Devon. No they won't Amazon Prime is flat rate everywhere, parcelforce is extra for IV and islands and IoW.
Do you live in a village or town? If the latter you are not rural.
Amazon Prime itself costs extra
Amazon Prime includes access to its Amazon original videos and premiership football together with free delivery for £95 pa
Which is not cheap, especially for those on low incomes and 100 times the price of a first class stamp let alone a second
What on earth has a first class stamp got to do with parcel deliveries
You really are out of touch
Quite a lot, you can send small and medium sized parcels with just first class stamps
Rubbish and you made first class stamp plural which you did not originally
You call me out of touch but propose the poor in rural areas pay £95 for Amazon Prime for deliveries rather than get a few first class stamps
Locally driven planning with greater freedom. Corruption corruption corruption.
It's more that that's completely counter to what government has wanted from the planning system for as long as I can certainly remember. Government has imposed rules to ensure building occurs, as they know if you leave it local in this country even very good proposals, or very needed ones, will not get through. Prior zonal proposals were hated (albeit to a large degree that was around the formula for housing), but at least an attempt to simplify things.
I really don't understand how giving more ways to say no from locals is going to help the problems we have in the system. Developers are taking advantage of it, definitely, but neighbourhood plans require immense local effort and need updating so often (or have to be bypassed if housing land supply is not met), that it is not worth the effort, so how are very local plans going to be created? How will housing get approved, and built in good time?
Our neighbourhood plan is well thought out
It matters not. Building will take precedence over a Neighbourhood Plan.
Not if the neighbourhood plan filters into the Local Plan
The local plan again doesn't have any sway over the push to build
It does, you can’t build outside the Local Plan areas allocated
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Only fanatics, sex pests, and the brain damaged remain.
Well, something that sounds like it anyway.
In Germany, the SPD are in a poor third but it's the Greens who are making headway and are tied with the Union thus keeping the current coalition in good shape but raising the likelihood of a Green Chancellor after the next Bundestag election.
The centre-right opposition PP are doing well In Spain but the ruling Socialists are in command in Portugal while the centre-right New Democracy is comfortably ahead in Greece.
The Australians gave the centre-right Liberal-National Coalition a right beating in May but in New Zealand the centre-right National Party (and its ACT allies) are leading Labour.
Make of that what you will.
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1 - Para 12, NPPF
2 - If you lack a 5 year land supply.