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Not the polling Labour need with next week’s elections coming up – politicalbetting.com
Not the polling Labour need with next week’s elections coming up – politicalbetting.com
Just 24% of Britons feel Labour care about ordinary people, the lowest level since YouGov began asking the question in 2019Cares about ordinary people: 24% (-3 from 14-16 Feb)Cares only about a select few: 51% (-1)Neither: 17% (+3)yougov.co.uk/topics/polit…
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@crampell.bsky.social
Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong
https://bsky.app/profile/crampell.bsky.social/post/3lnjkdtqicc2u
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/23/vance-says-us-will-walk-away-unless-ukraine-and-russia-accept-peace-deal
John F. Kennedy speaking to the nation on July 25th 1961 on the possibility of war with the Soviet Union due to the Berlin Crisis.
“We cannot negotiate with people who say what's mine is mine and what's yours is negotiable”
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1915197821528969321
They won’t lose one either so I guess that counts as a result.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/23/labour-party-class-warriors-destroyed-my-daughters-school/ (£££)
Funnily enough, Labour pinched the VAT on private schools idea from Michael Gove.
Scott Bessent: "On this point I wish to be clear: America first does not mean America alone."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fNpwx9ufr8
I thought he was supposed to the one who *not* a mushroom? When you burn down all your bridges you tend to be a little alone.
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1915163769757479292?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
There is virtually no evidence Labour’s policies have destroyed any schools. VAT on the fees is a policy they were right to introduce and should stick to.
If Labour want to win back some support in Scotland and the north what better than a massive drop in energy bills? That’s what zonal pricing would go towards delivering. I’m quite happy to pay more, perhaps it would incentivise bringing the bills down here in London in the long run.
I still struggle to see how people are calling the next election so early. A lot can happen in four years and Labour have a lot of levers to pull in that time.
I suspect the free clothes and tickets that were being discussed that month did not also help.
Dropping WFA must rank v high in the all time list of really stupid political mistakes by Chancellors.
Absolute basic politics, ignored.
A government by the mediocre for the mediocre. A government so dedicated to aiding the mediocre the entire cabinet is composed of mediocrities and the mediocre leader himself puts the meh in mediocre
Which party is proposing to undo the WFA changes and what will they cut in order to do so?
I agree though that on the politics of it, Labour should have also done something like changing council tax bands at the same time.
Superb coffee. They take it very seriously. Also the baristas are great at foam art
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/23/barristers-artist-ex-wife-loses-16-year-divorce-battle/ (£££)
In unrelated news, Jason Galbraith-Marten KC is a Cambridge-educated lawyer.
The UK, instead of rolling over for this cretinous Caliban, should be proactively planning to jettison an alliance with such a treacherous and hubristic regime
If you are going to depth charge your own polling maybe do it on a slightly more impactful policy like world peace or merging NI and tax.
Pension gets locked to the personal tax allowance - equal forever. Old age benefits go in a blender and come out means tested (or just taxable).
Big campaign on how this means more money for pensioners on less than £30k a year or whatever. The rest is sold as fairness, cost reduction (NI is a whole industry) and required revenue raising.
Honest question for the lefties here - does this appeal more than what happened?
Brainless.
Disappointing times.
I rather like Dunkin’ coffee…
If you lie enough, you can achieve herd stupidity
Can't stand coffee.
They really don't. And too many of their supporters care for only a rather limited subset of "British people".
That said, I don't know he's ever been accused of actual rape.
Anyone who says they are, isn’t.
Labour got elected in part by saying no rises in income tax... some people would be paying more under your scheme. They took baby steps on means testing WFA and it was very unpopular, I can't see that means testing the rest would have gone better...
You’re a good Muslim boy so no alcohol
Fair enough
But you ALSO don’t drink tea or coffee. Whats left? Ribena?
The only question is how to distribute the pain, but good luck getting a mandate for that.
https://sussexheights.co.uk/sussex-heights-brighton-peregrine-falcons-nestbox-camera?camera=1
Hot chocolate.
Good morning, everybody.
Stealing Tory clothes?
It is noticeable that progressive groups, who have split oceans of ink on the subject of language - punching down, micro aggressions, mansplaining, lived experience etc - still ignore the overall sound of their pitch.
The LPC will of course be delighted as attention is drawn away from domestic politics . The other parties will be horrified as there had been some tightening in the polls as the tariffs /sovereignty issue had reduced in resonance .
Sure certain policy positions may be different, which some will like and others hate, but they want to present as some transformative new force you can trust, when they seem to be made up of...the same type of people who usually become politicians, saying the same basic things - x is bad, you can't trust y to solve it but I'm on the level.
I just don't see on what basis they'd magically have more integrity and competence when they spin and obfuscate and simplify just like other parties and say they care like others, even if you prefer their policies.
Labour are seen as anti-British, anti-white, anti-native, anti-Christian, anti-us and Sir Sheer Wanker can stand in front of a trillion union jacks and it won’t make a jot of difference
They are now perceived as the anti British party, who protect foreign minorities even as they eagerly sling Brits in jail for tweeting about cheese
But looking at the alternatives I'd still vote Labour (or Lib Dem)
(Post of the day from Dura Ace and it's only 8.30!)
Just doing that will be an enormous boost to the UK’s fiscal position
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14642497/South-North-energy-Ed-Miliband-zonal-power-pricing-bills-Net-Zero.html
Look out Caithness, here come the datafarms!
The issue is too much of that borrowing is for day-to-day spending, and now gilts are over 4%. Given the vitriolic reaction to sensible policies like means-testing WFP, or even some interesting energy market reforms that might stimulate growth in the North and reduce costs overall, I just can't see a political way out. Depressing.
Britain feels like the classic cartoon character running off a cliff. The sheer speed at which we were running - fuelled by the explosion of the Industrial Revolution and then the empire has ensured we’ve run really quite a long way for a small country - and we’ve run quite a distance over the edge - we’ve kept up the illusion for an impressively long time
But now the momentum has gone and we dangle in the air, legs whirring
You know how much we spend a year on asylums seekers? Around £5 BILLION and the number is rising every week - in 2-3 years it could hit £10 bn
One under-perceived thing (among many no doubt) we have in the UK about the US is the prevalence of the Gilead world view. It doesn’t seem a direct transfer to our angry incel movement here yet, though who knows after the recent convulsion of excited righties acclaiming a resurgence of church going.
Margaret Atwood is a very wise woman, she might turn out to be the Orwell of our age.
A crisis where the government simply cannot sell enough gilts to pay the bills, however, seems inevitable on our current course (which, in fairness, is not much different from the previous course, at least since 2019. Each party is as irresponsible as the other in this respect).
It does not suggest they will get a great result at the local elections next week