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LOST IN THE WOODS: Labour’s Challenge for the 2020s – politicalbetting.com
LOST IN THE WOODS: Labour’s Challenge for the 2020s – politicalbetting.com
Cards on the table – I don’t understand the Labour Party any more. I used to – a quarter century of membership, Chair, Treasurer, Secretary, Councillor. Then, like so many long-term Labour voters, I left the party.
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An estimated 83.2% of people in this age group in the capital have had their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine, according to NHS England, while uptake in other regions is thought to be at least 95%.
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-italy-and-eu-block-oxford-vaccine-shipment-to-australia-12235848
Cyclefree is making the tea, right ?
https://twitter.com/rcolvile/status/1367425959327133701
It makes me realise how fortunate I have been.
The nearest thing, even if not very near, to the sort of Labour party you are wanting among the candidates for running the country is called the Conservatives. That's why lots of Labour voters now vote for them. The fact that Labour members describe these voters as scum etc is enough to ensure they won't come back.
The fact that the author of the article is not now a member of the Labour party after years of public service in and for that party tells me all I need to know about why I can't currently vote for them as a government, though I vote Labour for our county council. The excellent man I vote for (who wins) has not got a single good word to say about his own party on the national level.
You can see why there are intense political pressures to do this. However it is a quick route to making the EU globally unpopular
I see the City of Leicester has finally dipped below 200 cases per 100k. Good to see no more dark blue Upper Tier Local Authorities!
https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1367502708060663822
With an agenda like that I'd look to sign up.
As an ex-Tory member they might not want me, but, as @RP points out, they need me.
There is a smidgeon of a window on spending post-Covid given that we have become inured to the many billions flung around but I don't think the current lot have the finesse to seize the opportunity.
https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1367513558808997894
I hope we aren't relying on them not being stupid with any vaccine deliveries due to be imported. They'll just say "Ireland" - and steal them.
Mr Meeks for Brexit Secretary?
From cases data
From hospital admissions
It's a small illustration of why he's not a very good leader.
(And of course, irrespective of whether he intended to sneer, the fact that his inner ear didn't pick up the possible implication of what he said suggests that it's not impossible that he might.)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/03/04/macron-joker-now-europe-blunders-fateful-third-wave-pandemic/?WT.mc_id=e_DM1344813&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Edi_New_Sub&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_Edi_New_Sub20210304&utm_campaign=DM1344813
I do enjoy his articles. Often they are quite mad but they are always entertaining, and sometimes he nails a point like no one else
Though now you've put the strange image of Starmer starring as Kristoff in Frozen 2 singing Lost in the Woods.
Malms: with positivity rates this low (and some false positives too) and absolute test numbers so high, how many cases are realistically being missed now?
More pertinently, what are Keir's proposed changes to level up the North?
This is just the EU destroying their FDI numbers for domestic political consumption over doses they're incapable of finding takers for
As an aside, and apologies in advance - but is it just me that now has an image of Keir as Kristoff from Frozen?
2008/09 minimum wage £5.73
£5.73 in 2020 money is £7.82
2020/21 minimum wage is £8.72
That's an 11.5% increase in real terms.
https://twitter.com/cliffordcoonan/status/1367513458078584833
...The first island chain consists of a group of islands including Taiwan, Okinawa and the Philippines, which China sees as the first line of defense. Beijing's "anti-access/area denial" strategy seeks to push American forces out of the East and South China seas within the first island chain....
China is not going to like this at all.
https://twitter.com/PeterArnottGlas/status/1367503700864950283?s=20
Can what you suggest here - on tone and empathy - be combined with radical re-distributive policies, do you think?
Much more work needed on EDI, pb.com is still way, way behind the wicked Tories
It's not of any immediate alarm, but it's another indication of why we need to get the pandemic ended through vaccination as quickly as possible.
https://twitter.com/Bergthalerlab/status/1367508214233841669
In other industries the calculation actually hides significant wage growth at the bottom and top because there's a great mass of people earning between £22-35k who have seen very little wage growth.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/europe-blocks-250-000-astrazeneca-doses-bound-for-australia-20210305-p577z3.html
A raft of international deliveries were authorised without a hitch over recent weeks, but Rome has now opposed the delivery to Australia. Rome’s objection was endorsed by the European Commission. Italy’s objection may have been lodged as long ago as last week – raising questions about whether the Australian government knew there was a problem but has not said anything publicly in the hope the standoff could be resolved.
AstraZeneca currently manufactures the vaccine in Netherlands and Belgium, but uses partners in Germany and Italy to “fill” the medication into into vials and package it. Comment has been sought from Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt. A European Union official confirmed a Financial Times report that the shipment had been blocked, but declined to comment. AstraZenca has also been contacted for comment.
In my view the clue is in the name: Labour.
It’s about jobs, meaningful jobs.
And support from state services that allow all to live in dignity.
Rishi’s budget actually continues the austerity of the 2010s, and doesn’t really do anything for jobs with the exception of the corporate investment subsidy.
Keir does get this I think, if my scanning of his budget response is fair - but he hasn’t figured out how to communicate that properly to the public in a compelling way.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/singapore-uk-joint-statement-2021-a-partnership-for-the-future/singapore-uk-joint-statement-2021-a-partnership-for-the-future
"Labour does not understand these voters. They are culturally conservative, economically prudent, nationalistic and insular. Labour aren’t any of these things any more. "
You say "Labour aren’t any of these things any more" but they never have been have they? The difference now is that they have been rumbled, chiefly over Brexit and their tolerance of identity-politics idiocy.
Neither really are the blue wall voters, or they would not have voted for it.
Do you think the results of this study might, to some extent, be an artifact of doing a cell-free study, and looking at epitopes individually (if that is what they did), rather than at the total in vivo T-cell response?
And having people on the ground seeing the real issues up close will help that far more than second hand anecdotes their hear from their glass tower in London.
Agree with most of the article, but not sure about the BiB above. The way I see it is that the perfect possible play involved a similar amount of economic pain but a much lower death toll.
In truth, PB could do with more women, younger folk, and people who don’t live in a semi-detached in the Midlands.
Austerity in wage growth.