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The Tories continue to struggle to find attack lines against Starmer – politicalbetting.com
The Tories continue to struggle to find attack lines against Starmer – politicalbetting.com
Today there has seen a lot of what appears to be confected outrage by many Conservatives over the decision by Keir Starmer to appoint Sue Gray as his chief of staff. It was Gray, the former senior civil servant who carried out the investigation following the reports of lockdown breaking by Boris Johnson.
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With their one note being played on a leaky kazoooooooo!
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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/mar/03/luton-dart-the-most-expensive-train-in-britain-opens-for-business
https://archive.ph/7BIzw
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Starmer goes for business
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2023/03/weaponising-sue-gray-labour-affiliation-will-not-end-well-for-the-tories
'Sunak may choose to block the appointment, but that may not be wise. Firstly, it would bring the partygate row back into public discussion. Sunak somehow managed to escape the affair virtually unscathed, despite receiving a police fine. The Tories also have a famously unclean slate when it comes to bringing their friends into high places, with questions over the integrity of multiple public appointments, including the BBC chairman Richard Sharp and the former Test and Trace chief Dido Harding. Accusing Labour of corruption would open the Conservatives to similar scrutiny.
Regardless of ACOBA’s findings, it looks unlikely this row will settle anytime soon. The Conservatives have found a potential weakness in the partygate narrative and they will try to exploit it. Meanwhile, Sue Gray is destined to have the loneliest leaving do Westminster has ever seen.'
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We've already had a PM unfit for office, Starmer looks like Jesus in comparison.
However the gap between Con and Lab is now so large that nothing can prevent Labour winning a small majority at the next election...
No. You are wrong. The attempt to appoint Gray was a Starmer gimmick that has backfired. There’s so many decent people for the role, so many perfect Gray’s out there, but in Starmer’s mind it had to be this one in order to say: we are different, we will be different. So it’s a gimmicky way of putting a team together. A gimmicky way of thinking. A mistake to have such a massive bete noir in your back room staff causing distraction.
Daft for a football manager to go away to a struggling club and wind up and excite their deflated players and fans, like Starmer clearly has.
No matter how you spin it, it is as clear and as big a mistake by Starmer this week as Rishi made selling the benefits of the EU Single Market in order to buy support for his deal. They both have had very poor weeks in the longer setting of things. Mistakes that will come back to haunt them.
but it is interesting how marmite Johnson makes things that shouldn’t be so entrenched turn INSTANTLY into trench warfare, by his mere presence somewhere in it. The amount of political cartoons that has Rishi bettering Boris in numerous visual ways over the NI agreement for example, are utter bollocks, because how we analyse what Rishi government and EU are cooking up together there, for now and into the future, has absolutely nothing to do with Boris. There’s far more importance to it than putting one over on Boris. Soon as Boris name is mentioned, instantly there’s two lines of tanks facing each other, between them a heavily mined DMZ.
Some people have lost all objectively discussing politics due to possessing an immature attitude towards Boris Johnson. Allowing themselves to be distracted by personality and psycho drama. They all need to snap out of it, it’s sadly making them look and sound daft.
Nadine Dorries speaking total sense. Sadly this was in the past.
Yes, it's unnecessarily awkward timing, but the attempt to say if she supports Labour she must be bent, which whatever is claimed is the essence of the allegation, is not well made. If they felt her work was excellent and independent before, then clearly she did perform her role independently since they had no reason to believe she stitched them up.
However, since that point, we’ve been reminded what an utter idiot buffoon Johnson was. And how awful partygate was
The UK also has a bigger navy and army and airforce than Argentina now
I wonder if things would be the same if the UK regarded overseas possessions as part of the country proper, like France - none of that specious 'if it is nearer to country X is must belong to country X' argument that people often make, except when it hurts their case of course.
Then he fucked up again...
So either she does, or she lied to get the job.
https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1631691163236171779?t=JXH-hkusSZV-Y8DXVtffOA&s=19
It also found '...the data suggests she is more popular than Mr Yousaf among older SNP members, while those younger than their mid-40s heavily favour the Health Secretary.
Working-class party members favour Ms Forbes while middle classes prefer Mr Yousaf, the data suggests.'
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/03/03/snp-leadership-contest-close-call-party-members-poll-finds/
The key facts are not disputed, and he apologised for elements of it. So if she was railroading him with her interpretations he did not say so at the time, and claiming that is the case now does not work.
He cannot accept the conclusions then, and say it vindicated him of the most serious accusations, and now claim it is all a fix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partygate
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1631690647907315713?t=aI5llXl3Kdkw8fYh53GJgA&s=19
"Why did you sit in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet for three years when anti-semitism was rife in the Labour Party?"
No answer to that I've heard.....
Sorry, what was that? Bozo appointed her? Surely some mistake.
Painfully weak retort....
IMO far better than flapping about will pill-rollers.
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I remember 1981 - you obviously don't.
Why did Johnson serve under May when he hated everything she said and did? If this is the road the Tories want to go down, they will lose. We had this in 1997, it didn't work then and it won't work now.
Try harder next time.
As for Starmer, his credentials are solid, he has been praised by the Board of Deputies, JLM and others for how he has combatted anti-Semitism. If he hadn't served in the SC he wouldn't be leader now and he wouldn't have been able to get Labour out of special measures. You're onto a loser with this "point"
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Mm. It's not a FPTP vote. Given the very high chance that anyone voting fror Regan 1 will put Forbes 2, and vice versa, I wouldn't be too sure aboiut Mr Yousaf's chances quite yet.
Surely they cannot be so thick they will vote that lying clown in so he becomes FM. If so Scotland and SNP are F**ked big time.
Just like Sir Keir did when he twice campaigned for Jeremy Corbyn to become prime minister.
I never expected you of all people to argue that "Sir Keir is just like Boris", so well done!
Tip of 3.8 on a podium looking nice, at the moment. Can be hedged, just about, at 2.66 (though back value is 1.8 or so).
Interested to see how that develops.
There were many far blacker marks against Corbyn as a PM than the alleged anti-semitism.
All professional politicians are self-serving liars, and one day everyone will be surprised they were tolerated so long - like witch doctors and absolute monarchs.
We absolutely couldn't mount another Falklands tomorrow morning that's for sure.
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There are plenty of ways to attack Starmer, and at a different time those attacks would land.
Right now, most voters are just fed up with the Conservatives and want them to shut up and go away.
It's similar to the way that plenty of people were quite accurate in saying BoJo was a wrongun before 2019, but at that point it didn't matter.
Conservative MP Brendan Clarke-Smith tells Sky News there "potentially needs to be an enquiry" into Sue Gray's appointment as Keir Starmer's Chief of Staff
Let's have an enquiry into Jonathan Powell and Edward Llewellyn too.
Why 'oh dear' when Sky are asking your leader pertinent question as are other broadcasters and this position in Labour has been open for 5 months and they had a professional interaction when he was head of the CPS
He says he is honest so why not just confirm it
Now the UK has 11 submarines (including with cruise missiles), Argentina just 2.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/submarines-by-country
The Royal Navy has 2 aircraft carriers, Argentina 0
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/aircraft-carriers-by-country
The UK also has an army of 153,200, Argentina just 72,100
https://wisevoter.com/country-rankings/military-size-by-country/
However all this is replying to the mood music of Britain in retreat. Giving up the Elgin marbles. Handing back Diego Garcia. London shrinking as a world city
I can see why the argies might think now is a time to strike - psychologically - as the Uk seems in perpetual decline and in a funk of self doubt
Geordie police can investigate = when the Police investigated Starmer for Beergate
Mail on it = Mail pushed the police to investigate Starmer
MP's son = the person who provided the photos
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