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Starmer is satisfying Lab councillors except on one topic. – politicalbetting.com
Starmer is satisfying Lab councillors except on one topic. – politicalbetting.com
?NEW Poll of Labour Cllrs?Just a third of Labour councillors say they’re satisfied with the leadership's position on Israel-Palestine.Position on Israel-PalestineSatisfied 37%Dissatisfied 43%General Election prospectsSatisfied 88%Dissatisfied 4% pic.twitter.com/Z8yXeQOu38
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Edit as per my posts last night WW3 can now start whenever it wants. I have achieved my ambitions.
Edit, edit. Really? That is what councillors care about as their local services fall apart?
I don't think Keir has good options here, other than ploughing ahead with an approach he thinks best and making sure he is careful with the language he uses. Best thing for the Labour party is for this crisis to die down as quickly as possible and fall out of the news.
FPT re Starmers plans
My thoughts exactly. Is Starmer ready to take on what must be a large element of his natural supporters. Those PBers laughing at Sunak tarmaccing over southern England havent realised Starmer wants to do it too.
Likewise it is easy to announce the concept of housing and infrastructure. But where is he going to put them ? If he knows he will be asked to declare it cue the Nimbys and if he doesnt he wont be doing much in his term of office as it will take years to get stuff up and moving.
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Just try and ban our 11th Nov protest against the mass slaughter of innocent people and what the UN warns is the risk of genocide.
We'll march in ever greater numbers if you do.
((Dan Hodges)))
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So here we have it. Owen Jones v Rishi Sunak. Who will blink first...
Here's another stat to blow your mind.
There have only been four non-Conservative majority winners born since 1832.
Campbell-Bannerman (1836) Attlee (1883) Wilson (1916) and Blair (1953).
That's obviously leaving aside Lloyd George and Macdonald who won their majorities while leading a mostly Conservative coalition.
By contrast the Conservatives can boast Bonar Law, Baldwin, Churchill, Eden, Macmillan, Heath, Thatcher, Major, Cameron and Johnson in the same time frame.
(As an aside, it's weird to think of Blair as being 70 years old.)
Special votes in New Zealand have now been counted.
Total seats 123
National 48
Labour 34
Green 15
ACT 11
NZ First 8
Te Pati Maori 6
Vacant awaiting by-election 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_TqcB9cIno
Looks like Winston Peters will be kingmaker after all.
The Nimbies most likely to be annoyed by Starmertowns are homeowners in green belts around cities, and they're one of the demographics currently sticking with the Conservatives.
It'll be messy, sure, but Labour have a far better chance of making this happen than the Conservatives.
Slightly down for both Conservatives and Labour with an uptick in Green and Reform.
I fully agree with the aim but am at touch sceptical he will do what is needed.
And then theres the other bullet he has to bite which is if he knows where he wants to build new towns will he announce them ? This will of course send big chunks of southern England on the protest marches. Everybody wants more houses built but just not in their area. And if there are houses then the roads and other infrastructure have to be built too.
Bob Stewart showed "racial hostility" towards a protester during a demonstration outside a Foreign Office building, a court heard.
https://news.sky.com/story/tory-mp-bob-stewart-accused-of-racial-hostility-in-row-with-protester-12999493
That looping yet uplifting bass line. The simple declamatory rhapsodic lyrics. And of course that immaculate sustained beyond-catchy funkabulous rhythm guitar
Or the new Lib Dem ones if he has a large enough majority.
Rewrite the planning laws in the first six months.
But we are back to , if he doesnt have his plans in place now he lose will most of the next terms just getting to contract issuance. Then theres also the small matter of capacity. Its quite a jump to go from 250k houses p.a. to 500k with a construction industry which is hardly dynamic.
https://twitter.com/SollenbergerRC/status/1720473720123248823
"I refuse to put people over politics."
Seriously hard to tell whether that's a mistake or just honest.
Yes, things can change and parties can blow big leads during an election period (never mind the year or so beforehand) but it doesn't happen often and when it does, it tends to be because the public doesn't have a settled view of one or both of the main contenders, which isn't the case now for the Tories though Labour could still potentially blow it (but with a strategy aimed at not upsetting middle Britain, won't if they successfully stick to that).
Labour has had double-digit leads for well over a year now - something not achieved by any party since Blair's third run in 2002 - and is consistently polling leads at levels Labour *never* achieved, even in outlier polls, between Iraq and Brexit. And those polls are backed up in by-elections at all levels.
But it will be a serious improvement on what we have now, if they just make it the priority, at the beginning of their first Parliament.
And there's always the second term...
(If it were me, which it isn't, I'd spend big on infrastructure/R&D in the north, and get selected councils to let rip with enhanced planning powers in the southeast.)
Like you I think he will need to take the butchers knife to planning and in doing so he will meet some entrenched resistance.
The screaming from idiots from Left & Right would be magnificent.
My response is generally, sure, I really want to get back to Sheffield as well.
Come on Red Bull!
Sister Sledge
It really is one of the triumphant moments of pop
music. Up there with MmmBop and There She Goes
Pure joy turned into genius guitar and exuberant bass
And it’s so happy. Pop music used to capture and distill happiness and mainline it into you
https://youtu.be/9iUE4F9UHok?si=hJ2SlbQ3Rhrx5Syp
The younger generations who can’t get on the housing ladder or rent a good property are more diverse. As a result, immigrants have poorer housing.
So anyone opposing house building is a racist.
One of my colleagues gave me a strange look, and said, 'I've never heard anyone say that before.'
(Not that she could talk, she was from Burton.)
Not sure it was the same one
But it ought not to be impossible for a determined PM with a decent majority.
The appeal for him is that the greatest demand is in the southeast, where he has the least to lose. It ought not to take a political genius to see that as a golden opportunity to deliver meaningful change.
Those days are long gone though!
Oh, hang on, different context.
Edit - the problem with living things in Stone is they often end up fossilized. Exhibit A - Bill Cash.
Really he should be pushing more growth to the North and trying to regenerate some of our struggling towns. But you cant just build towns willy nilly they need productive output and thats where Im not clear on how his economic policy ( zilch ) is going to help out.
Yes it will be a challenge to face them down, but whenever a leader finally does he or she will be one of the all-time greatest Prime Ministers who makes the country a better place for doing so.
As for removing planning "safeguards" what kinds of human rights violation does that lead to in your eyes? 😕
Thatcher consolidated the New Towns Acts in 1981 - so blame her!
Not sure of the chronology and where fun boy three fitted into it.
Just because it isn’t half naked men pouring steel with no H&S doesn’t mean it’s not industrial.
It's just not quite the same sort of industry. Cannock Chemicals must be one of the largest chemical/industrial engineering concerns in the country but it occupies a tiny site and employs about thirty people.
And in terms of dance/disco probably peerless
The myth of The End Of British Industry is quite harmful. I’ve encountered MPs who believe that there was no British Industry left. Which must make balancing policies interesting.
#SumOfAllTheFears…
And my take was that the old breakup songs were sad at the breakup - there still are break up songs, but I’d say they seem to be vengeful rather than showing a sense of sadness
Sublime. As good as any single piece of classical music to my mind - and I love classical music
Gazans are Sunni Arabs. Iranians are Shia Persians. The latter don't necessarily have the welfare of the former at the top of their priority list.
It’s always a love hate relationship but it can really be love - especially after a long time away - driving in and seeing the first Tube station, the first black cab, the first big red bus
And then the particular places I know and adore. Soho on a busy rainy night; the cobbles glistening. Regent’s Park on a glorious sunny day, the Nash Terraces shining like palaces. The Thames at Richmond or Westminster or Tower Bridge, mighty and indifferent
Primrose Hill at dusk
I am attached to quite a few places by roots or later emotions but London is fundamental to me as one of those