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Starmer speaks for the nation – politicalbetting.com
Do you think Labour should allow Jeremy Corbyn to stand as a Labour candidate at the next electionShould: 24%Should not: 52%https://t.co/FU4dtpuOYR pic.twitter.com/E0x8pGLzCj
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Nicola Bulley's disappearance not currently being investigated by police watchdog
Lancashire Police has not referred itself to the IOPC because it does not believe opportunities were missed, The Telegraph understands
The police watchdog is not currently investigating the case of Nicola Bulley because officers do not believe they missed opportunities to prevent her disappearance.
As Lancashire Police faces a growing backlash over its response, The Telegraph understands the force has not referred itself to the Independent Office of Police Conduct (IOPC).
Forces have a mandatory obligation to refer themselves to the watchdog when they have had prior contact with someone before they die or suffer serious injury.
Police were called to Ms Bulley's home in Inskip on Jan 10 over a concern for welfare before she disappeared just over two weeks ago. However, the force has not been referred itself because police do not believe her disappearance was linked to mistakes by officers.
If Ms Bulley had been the victim of a crime following a call-out, the case would be investigated by the watchdog.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/16/nicola-bulley-police-watchdog-not-investigating-case/
Ahem.
Senior Democrats’ Private Take on Biden: He’s Too Old
They worry a lot about an 82-year-old nominee, but fear the battle that would ensue if he pulls out.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/02/16/senior-democrats-joe-biden-old-00083129
- Technology vanishing
- Chain of command destroyed by heavy losses among officers and NCOs
- Humans used to replace machines
- Savage disciple used to hold the line
- Looting encouraged within certain parameters. Torture and murder of civilians accepted and even encouraged.
I like it
To me this decision WAS a no brainer. If Corbyn stood as a Labour candidate in the next election the Tories would have an absolute gift. It could derail the entire campaign. They would present SKS as an acceptable face hiding the reality of the militant anti-semitic Russia apologist hard left.
100% of your core voters
0% of anyone else
What does that remind people of?
And whilst he was doing so much of the "Jeremy was Framed / Its a Con" brigade were not in the Labour movement. They had scabbed off into various groups like TUSC and SHA and SLP. They joined Labour under Corbyn and have mostly now left.
There are far far more votes to be won by keeping the hard left in a box than there are being friends.
I'm a Jungian.
A conundrum. Yet today was, for me, in some weird way, a great day. Fascinating, compelling, moving, saddening, and it ends with beautiful drinks by the Mekong and now top notch fish curry as Phnom Penh speeds below. And nice wine
Weird
It does make you wonder though if he thinks Jez so far beyond the pale how he served in his shadow cabinet for several years.
Marx himself arose from the dead to give him the Tablets. As the Blessed Prophet his word is perfect. And should be law.
How could he owe loyalty to anything else, but himself?
Yesterday I went to see The Lehman Trilogy and one of the three Lehman brothers (sons of a Bavarian Jewish cattle merchant) was played (fantastically) by Michael Balogun. Black bloke.
A black bloke was playing a 19th century Jewish merchant from Bavaria. And after 1.7 minutes you forget all about it and are entranced by his performance and the play (Nigel Lindsay best thing since Four Lions and that's saying something).
I wonder however whether a white actor playing, say, Malcolm X, would have been equally as allowed and forgettable.
But we are dealing with biography, albeit dramatised biography here, rather than the Bard. So it seems somehow different.
If everyone apart from the blandest of SPADS is kicked out from parliament then it ceases to be representative, and if that means that misogynists, homophobes or racists get elected then so be it.
But I disagree. I don't think those are good attributes in a leader.
A new candidate will run into issues defining themselves and whether they are for or against Biden’s policies.
Biden has been low key successful in many ways, and not the electoral poison many thought he would be in November.
The best matchup for Democrats is a Biden-Trump rematch. If the GOP go for anyone else it puts the Democrats on the back foot, but I am still not sure I see any of the other Democratic possibilities outperforming Biden in that scenario.
(Not literally, metaphorically, I’d like to stress)
https://www.ft.com/content/f1983056-c34f-4646-946a-6328200d65e7
There is a centralising authoritarian tradition in the Labour Party which is the main reason I remain a Lib Dem despite us being below 10% in the polls. I am crossing my fingers Starmer won’t feel the need to start going all hang-em and flog-em or exit ECHR in office.
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/anas-sarwar-no-regrets-over-29216326.amp
It would, in my view, be a valid Tory (and indeed Lib Dem) attack line on Starmer: something along the lines of, 'why was he intensely relaxed to put in Number 10 a man he now considers so racist and beyond the pale as to be unworthy of the party whip? If, as we are constantly now assured, he had 'private doubts' in the 2015-19 period, why does he have unsufficient respect with the public to have been sincere with them in that same period?' I don't think it would work that well as an attack line, but it's worth a shot when you're as far behind as the other parties are.
But this play was (dramatised) biography. Of a real person. Who was white and Jewish and Bavarian.
I am just interested in the reaction had the roles been different and a white bloke played Martin Luther King, say.
Plaid Cymru never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
🚨NEW Westminster Voting Intention
📈17pt Labour Lead
🌹Lab 45 (-1)
🌳Con 28 (+1)
🔶LD 10 (+1)
➡️Reform 5 (=)
🌍Green 4 (=)
🎗️SNP 3 (=)
⬜️Other 4 (-1)
2,175 UK adults, 10-12 Feb
(chg from 3-5 Feb)
https://twitter.com/savanta_uk/status/1626210647322300416?s=46&t=zl-mNeJEt9AjqIFHvmHxAQ
Particularly now that the obviousness of the issues has ben demonstrated, make the changes, and pass the modified bill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRNLYaXP_h0
It is just called something else.
Fighting to keep the anti-semitic fire burning.
Who's doing that then, Captain?
"I do hope once we've won and bedded in we can ease back a little on the 'look how much we've changed' front"
That does smack of "Let's say/do anything it takes to get back into power, then we can do whatever the feck we want"
That's just meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
It only works if you get the big majority.
He already had a big poll lead over the Tories anyway, no further 2019 Tories are likely to switch even after this. There was a reason Blair kept Tony Benn and Corbyn in the party and Cameron didn't deselect IDS and Bill Cash given our FPTP system
The more radical the message, the more reassuring the background (leather bound books and Elgar) and vice versa.
These things are what the average punter wants help with, and maybe a Thatcher or Blair would have had the force of personality to have a go. Starmer? He'll piss his pants at the first sign of big business getting the arse.
The only reason to vote Labour at the next GE is because they ain't the tories. That's probably enough, but it'll be bland as buggery as a government.
To look at it from another angle - where my natural sympathies lie with the booted out - I thought that Johnson was a bit of a, well, johnson, for kicking the more pro-EU Conservatives out of the parliamentary party, but it was absolutely within his/the party's rights to do so.
So when will that time come for Labour? - I'd say a couple of years after the GE win. Middle of 2026 say. This is what I'm driving it. It's not about pulling some con-trick on the electorate. No thank you. That's what Boris Johnson did and it's something I'd hope we never see again.
They are saying it is not sensible for the long term good of the party.
And your example illustrates this perfectly.
It was not sensible for Boris to kick those people out.
I don't get it. Why is that?
I'll try to be clearer. I think it's daft - and weakens a party - to kick out those whose political opinions are a bit removed from that of the present leadership. I don't think it weakens a party to kick out someone who was both in charge during a period in which the party was found to have serious antisemitic issues and (more importantly) still seems to be in denial about the identified problems. If Corbyn had apologised and recognised the errors made, then I'd have more sympathy with him. This is not a purge of lefties - many of Corbyn's allies on the lef tof Labour will still be candidates at the next GE, unless they choose to jump ship to a rival Corbynite party if one should emerge.
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(As I recvall, Mr Haig was getting visibly exhausted doing his shuttle diplomacy from one Middle Eastern capital to another.)
For me, first time since the 1970s, the answer is SKS and Labour. If he started compromising with anti semitic fellow travellers I would think again. And probably stay at home.
And now look what has happened.
@Leon has spoken approvingly of SKS as a strong leader.
Next step, ... , an approving statement from Donald Trump bidding "good riddance" to Corbyn and looking forward to working with SKS when they are both elected in 2024.
When I see the flag of North Korea flying from Buckingham Palace I shall not be reassured; but Momentum will not be disturbed.
It's difficult to separate his total uselessness from the principal of believing it shouldn't be in the gift of a party leader who stands for parliament. Down that road leads to a Boris Johnson.
It literally changed a teenager who had been a rampaging racist all his life into a campaigner for diversity and inclusion.
As in, as he went through every part of the tour you could see him realising his views were wrong, and why, until we stood at the end and he was saying how everybody should go there and see why racism was wrong.
And ten years later, he was still saying it.
Now don't tell me that wasn't a good day.
And the @YBarddCwsc Medal for Cymric Knowledge.
You are correct. The Welsh Govt are asking for the powers.
—Hannah Arendt
He said Thatcher was wrong and then said he respected her.
What politicians did in previous cabinets really is not particularly relevant to voters IMHO
Meanwhile, I note someone yesterday made a strong case for QTWTAIN being added to PB Cliche Bingo. I want to reassure that individual that it's being considered.
That is enough to make him unfit to be a senior politician, but having just spent half the day in the Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge what makes Corbyn unfit as a human being is his Marxism. Corbyn would absolutely have been one of the rigid, scholarly cadres that talked earnestly of Angkar as the peasant farmers smashed the heads of “bourgeois” babies