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Starmer, not up to it? – politicalbetting.com
Starmer, not up to it? – politicalbetting.com
ICYMI: Our polling finds that the public believe @MarcusRashford and @piersmorgan are doing a better job of holding the government to account than Keir Starmer or the Labour Party – Tables: https://t.co/zsCO43Kg0Z pic.twitter.com/If8vc3Sdr6
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One for free. Competition in public services. No, not privatisation. Excess capacity.
Consider the hoary old promise - "A good state school, no need for choice"
What about the following?
"At least 2 good state schools per catchment area"
- To reduces class sizes to 15, build more schools, hire more teachers
- The maximum class size might not be 15, but that would be the intended average.
- So it would be easy for parents to move between schools.
- Plus smaller class sizes.
Extend the idea to benefit offices etc. If you don't like the service at one, you should be free to try the other....
Starmer is dull. That bit is true. John Smith was not, btw. Starmer needs to emulate Mrs Thatcher and get professional coaching to fix his delivery.
We could do all the remaining population in 2 months at that sort of rate.
I've always expected that the 12 weeks would be a maximum and that they would bring people in from around 8 weeks in case of missed appointments or other difficulties.
For example, there is supposed to be a free market in regards to GP surgeries however due to catchment areas and what not, its pretty useless.
Why shouldn't I be able to join a GP surgery on the other side of my city, or even in a different city, if they are a better?
I guess the same problem applies with schools.
https://twitter.com/ReutersUK/status/1355879814528442368?s=20
I am not saying Rashford, as an example, is wrong in what he wants - though I would draw the line in saying the same thing about Morgan - but he is not the one who has to find the money or deal with the consequences when things don't go as the idealised plan had hoped.
Starmer wants to lead the country. To do so he has to show he is measured and doesn't jump on bandwagons - unlike the current incumbent. This may make him appear cautious or boring but a lot of the time that is what is needed to get the job done.
And for the record of course I am extremely unlikely to ever vote for Starmer. But that is not because he doesn't go off the deep end and spend his time pontificating on TV.
No easy trying to be the opposition during a time like this. He has made some missteps, but simply ending the lunatic fringe that had a grip on Labour is a substantial positive for the whole country.
That said, the success of Israel's programme has been ascribed at least in part to its having four state health providers in competition so there may be something in it.
Didn't PB have anecdotes of people under 70 now receiving appointments ?
Though a good rule of thumb is people are usually wrong when calling something a smoking gun.
From memory, DK and DE were doing pretty well, FR and NL were having a shocker.
So yes, I suppose it's possible that, having got down as far as the marginally less urgent fifth cohort and/or only having the hard to access elderly left to go, GPs may be electing to fit in some of the second doses for older people, rather than having to stop and do them all in one go in another couple of months' time.
That'll help get more vaccines sooner.
Oh - and the shutting zoos and vaccinate fit 20 something's over the vulnerable are examples of their muddle headedness (or in the case of second example capture by their paymasters).
You're welcome, sane lefties.
https://twitter.com/skinnock/status/1355832215121367041?s=21
“We will have to decide”. Not sure that’s how the law works...
I think it's a bit organized chaos on the front line. No sure we can read too much into stories of this centre was closed that day, they told me no delivery tomorrow at such and such, this person got one way ahead of schedule.
The underlying fact is they are doing lots of people and capacity is there to do even more.
Already he is doing as well as Heath, Cameron and Kinnock all of whom became PM apart from Kinnock after winning most seats at a general election and far better than Thatcher, Foot, Hague, IDS, Howard, Miliband and Corbyn all of whom never won a general election except for Thatcher of course.
However unlike Blair and Wilson he cannot rely on a big Labour majority in Scotland, so on current polls he is still likely to need SNP support to get to No 10.
1 1 million done in 2 days.
It also seems clear that there will be at least 50 votes to convict, so unlike the Ukraine scandal a majority will have voted in favour of conviction.
He looks like pm material, which goes a long way, especially in comparison with the last two Labour opposition leaders.
My father a life long conservative rates him. Whether this is a good thing in the long run, who knows.
Nevertheless I feel more comfortable with him as LOTO.
The thing I can't understand about the whole vaccination fiasco is why Johnson and Gove aren't jumping up and down trying to make political capital about this. Their fanbois on PB on Friday evening were in ecstacy about it all. I wonder if there is something in the argument that AZ unofficially diverted some jabs into the UK pile. I remember in the news back in December/January it was announced that there would be a shortage of jabs anyway due to underproduction. This doesn't seem to have become apparent, so perhaps there may have been a little back scratching going on.....
Tough on Harland & Wolff, and on Bombardier (if on value rather than weight).
Edit: unless the stuff comes from rEU.
The background music is not, however, nearly so painful as the realisation that we remember when the Spice Girls were a new thing, whereas she was at most at playgroup and may even have been a foetus at the time.
We feel old.
The scientists disagree that it makes sense to vaccinate fit young teachers now - the science suggests extra deaths in vulnerable groups if you do that.
Perhaps something will emerge in time, but it is simply unacceptable for senior politicians and the European ommission to make allegations without proof, seemingly on the basis of 'it doesn't look right', and a deliberate misunderstanding of how the UK was also affected by delivery issues.
And presuming it is fanboys alone who have been recognising the good outcomes of the UK programe vs the EU one, is to ignore the virulent Boris critics who have made precisely the same points.
He also has to solve the problem that he can't win without Scotland and is committed to a policy which most Scots oppose, and those who support believe Labour is ideologically half hearted about. So he needs SNP support while not letting them win what they want.
They had a leader a bit ago who could do all that without pausing for breath. He pops up on the media occasionally to show how it's done.
And soon the media will be wibbling about the mainstream news losing viewership/readers. If they talked less bollocks, they'd have a bigger audience and more respect.
Very few people are seeing the full picture and that is a good thing as otherwise we will have daily battles breaking out about why Hull got this and Bradford didn't and my granny told me that her friend Lil got her send jab in 6 weeks and I was told 10 weeks, but there are spare vaccines.
For me he has 3 problems. The first is Boris who is an excellent campaigner who is brilliant at building big enough tents to give him a majority. Secondly, Boris is also funny and Starmer isn't. This is a major problem with the UK populace who don't take politicians remotely seriously themselves and expect a bit of entertainment when their lives are interrupted.
But surely the biggest problem is that we have no idea what kind of a country he wants, other than one run by him. Does he want more taxes? What does he think of our education system? How are we going to develop the industries and employers of the future? Is a balanced budget important or irrelevant? What are his plans for social care?
The likelihood is that by 2024 the UK economy will be about the same size as it was a year ago, maybe a little smaller. Money is going to be tight. The debts left by Covid are going to be horrendous. Several sectors will be very badly hit. What are our priorities in this difficult but completely foreseeable position? He really should get around to telling us.
We were supposed to be on 4m jabs per week by now - that was the original planned capacity of the UK pipeline.
Also, even if there was some AZ EU produced vaccine sent to the UK in the early weeks of the rollout (prior to EMA authorisations) then it's unlikely that volumes were such that they can't easily be replaced on a like for like basis. We're talking a couple of million (probably more like a few hundred thousand) at most - not quite the 10s of millions that the EU are demanding.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9206071/Flu-wiped-lowest-level-130-YEARS-seasonal-virus-plummets-95.html
A long way to go folks.............
Instead we have vaccine centres shutting for the week on a Thursday because they have used up their supply.