Categories
Fourteen months after becoming leader Starmer makes his first appearance in front of a live studio a
Fourteen months after becoming leader Starmer makes his first appearance in front of a live studio audience – politicalbetting.com
New: Keir Starmer’s interview gamble pays off?? James Forsythhttps://t.co/83Yd0x9vtn
-1
This discussion has been closed.
Comments
Starmer as Leader of the Opposition trailing in the polls did, he had nothing to lose from it
Rather impressed. So all worthwhile after all.
Probably.
https://twitter.com/billyvacant/status/1400008833217466368?s=21
Indeed if he is able to open the economy shortly and some normality returns to everyone's lives he will have a secure legacy of Brexit and Covid 19
I did not watch the programme but then I would not watch Morgan on any programme as I simply dislike him
I am sure some will have enjoyed his interview, but his revelation he is close to the Clooney's will just affirm his left wing Metropolitan elite status with many
I would add that I do believe he is a decent person and a million miles removed from Corbyn, but again I am not sure that is enough
He’s not really big on accountability.
It is of course coloured by one's own political views
Boris doesn’t do it.
Typically that’s seen as detrimental in a democracy.
But the million dollar question is to what extent "Boris" Johnson has changed the game. Do you now need to create a facetious comic persona in order to be PM material?
One hopes not, if one has an interest in the health of our democracy, but one can't be sure of this if one is honest. The Johnson brand is insidious. It's affecting people's synapses, some of them perfectly decent people.
The next year will tell us a lot and is so so important. I just can't emphasize enough how important this next year is going to be. It could go either way.
I’m at an IT security Conference today, hence the pub lunch. I’ve spent the morning listening to speakers talking about IoT vulnerabilities among other things. It’s genuinely scary.
Not quite as scary as the targeted attacks on infrastructure, protecting against which is my day job right now, but scary what it could become in terms of massive botnets in the future.
I just wonder if after today's paper headlines, those in the broadcast media and in particular Sky and the BBC are beginning to doubt their utter reliance on the one sided views expressed by this group
For the first time last night I heard the BBC presenter actually challenge one of these zealots on her use of percentage increases in hospitalisations and deaths and referenced numbers as the only statistic to use. She did not like being challenged
I genuinely hope that Boris does open the economy on the 21st June and that through the vaccination programme the Country will succeed in keeping covid in check and people can get back to normality in their lives again
In this process 'Independent Sage' would finally have been put to the sword and their role, as well as the medias, must be included in the pubic enquiry
People like Johnson because he's entertaining. He's good company. He's a good communicator. But people vote for him because they don't like the other lot.
In 2019 Boris was fortunate because 'the other lot' were not only a) a party of loons led by a certifiable madman, but also b) the hardcore Remain element.
Meanwhile, companies like Amazon are forcing updates on devices, to have them share your wifi with your neighbours.
I think people are writing off SKS a little bit too early btw. There is a long way to go until the next election and “events” are coming a bit thick and fast so far since the last one. Having someone who is seen as boringly competent could very well be a great selling point.
Zero deaths. Even if case numbers go up a touch it isn't threatening to either life or the NHS for the remaining younger people who can get it. I asked questions last week of whether the new "delta"* strain would force a further delay.
I now have my answer. Unlock everything and do it now. No further twiddling and fiddling and "you can't go a club or sing in a choir". Time for the Rest of Your Life. Lets start living again.
*Nippie was right to stop calling it Indian then despite the harrumphing on here
The media were as useless as they have been throughout Covid.
It was a genius campaign, the main (only?) proposition advanced by Boris was that was he was (a) capable of sitting on a JCB digger; (b) not Corbyn.
Boris gets that the media in this country have stopped attempting to really scrutinise elected officials.
Boris also lies routinely to Parliament which is supposed to be the chief forum of scrutiny, the Speaker appears not to know what to do about it.
As some are aware I would prefer Rishi as PM, but the consolation if I am being a wee bit flippant is to see just how infuriating Boris is to the left and those who hold the EU dear
Hardly doing Andrew Neil.
Which is another reason it won't be having wifi and something I hadn't thought of. These are gas bbqs. Can't believe you have to plug them in, so I assume the wifi runs off batteries.
An academic study out yesterday suggested that the U.K. had seen a decline of £110bn in our service exports because of Brexit. (This is before the impact of Covid).
Luckily, 50 jobs are said to have been created in a ketchup factory.
As it happens, I’m not 100% sure how strong the academic study’s methodology was - and no paper bothered to dig into it - but it shows how unbalanced our media is that it was the ketchup story that led.
DEM 79,208 60.3%
GOP 46,977 35.7%
BBC News - Covid-19: UK's data encouraging, says government adviser
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57328138
However I also agree being dull does not mean you have no chance of being PM if you lead a party more in tune with the nation and if out of power the mood of the nation is for change
@pollofpolls_EU
Germany: New national parliament voting intention poll
https://politico.eu/pollofpolls
Pollster: Forsa
Period: 25/5-31/5/2021
CDU/CSU: 25% (+1)
GRÜNE: 24% (-1)
FDP: 14% (+1)
SPD: 14% (=)
AfD: 9% (-1)
LINKE: 6% (=)
+/- vs. previous Forsa poll.
#btw21"
https://twitter.com/pollofpolls_EU/status/1400025091971424257
Or, as is more likely, reading off a list of names of people who declined his invitation of an unedited 30m discussion.
Except they really don't this time, England tail is long.
His job however was to restore normality and sanity after the Corbyn years so Labour will eventually be taken seriously again and not as a bunch of freeloading racists with small brains, greedy minds and gross self-centredness.
Remember, if Long Bailey had won we would in all probability be talking very seriously about a substantiallyincreased Tory majority next time. At that stage, we would have to ponder whether Labour could ever hope to return to power or whether their vote would fracture to the Lib Dems and Greens.
Starmer had killed that talk stone dead. He may never be PM. Probably won’t. But he has salvaged an opposition from Corbyn’s wreckage that looks, with faults and drawbacks, like something that will again a reasonably credible alternative party of government. And for that, he deserves all our heartfelt thanks.
https://nypost.com/2021/05/30/steven-seagal-joins-pro-putin-party-in-russia/
That is how severe you have to be to keep covid under control.
That's now roughly 89 for the USA and 96 for the UK.
https://twitter.com/hoyer_kat/status/1399782558351695877?s=20
It does look quite serious and I have no idea if is true, but is was reported just 2% have been vaccinated
Now, if that is it true it would really worry me
https://unherd.com/thepost/proof-at-last-politicos-dont-know-what-theyre-talking-about/
Burnham 22%
Phillips 5%
Lammy 5%
Nandy 5%
Long-Bailey 4%
Thornberry 4%
https://twitter.com/ElectionMapsUK/status/1400030934796210178?s=20
Nice to be on the same page, I agree with you, though donkeys are really lovable creatures unlike Corbyn
Boris wins elections
Because he is popular
Because he wins elections
Because he is popular
Because he wins elections
Etc etc
Drums!!!
The very essence of a successful politician
"MICHAEL HESELTINE: The day I was bullied into taking a ludicrous £880,000 anti-groping course by the House of Lords"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-9642035/LORD-HESELTINE-Good-Lord-peers-like-forced-anti-groping-course.html
Johnson's inadequacies helped to kill 150k people so to be fair it's not only people on the left or Remainers who think the country can do better. You are a commentator on here I have tended to respect, Big G, even if we are on opposite sides of the debate, so I think that even you now view politics through an "own the Libs" lens is sad.
I was surprised to find a hot tub in one.
I see in the Times this morning that Tim Martin from Weatherspoons is calling for a visa scheme for workers that favours countries that are geographically closer to the U.K. because pubs are struggling to find staff.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/02/tory-run-darlingtons-20000-rebranding-has-labour-in-a-blue-funk
Public Health Wales, Conwy County Borough Council and Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board are urging people living in the Llandudno Junction, Llandudno and Penrhyn Bay areas of North Wales to be alert for Coronavirus symptoms and to take a test as soon as possible even if they have no symptoms.
https://phw.nhs.wales/news/get-tested-now-important-message-for-residents-of-llandudno-junction-llandudno-and-penrhyn-bay-after-sharp-increase-in-cases-of-variant-of-concern/
Did he mean both jabs?
Definitions? EU now working to one dose = "vaccinated".
The frustrating thing for me personally is that I can’t remember in my lifetime a government like this which has no ideology except what will keep them in power.
Obviously all governments attempt to stay in government but in my living memory they were set about a project they believed would advance the country.
Boris and his team don’t have one.
And please don’t say, “levelling up”. There’s no serious attempt at policy development on this front, just random (and modest) cash giveaways.
Compare with Thatcher’s privatisation drive, Blair’s “third way” reform of public services, and even Cameron’s “return to fiscal sobriety plus liberal reform”.
When does James Anderson get his knighthood?
Most tests
Most wickets
18 year international career
(Would have been even better had Troy Cooley not spent three years buggering about with his action)
The reason (or50% of the reason) why Root, Cook and Strauss had good captaincy records especially at home.
Surely he deserves one at least as much as Strauss and Cook?
Robinson bowling at 79mph....unless you can make it bend like an EU mandated banana, you aren't going to trouble test match batsmen.
On your other point, the last thing Starmer (or any other Labour leader) should do is to try to out-Boris Boris. There's no mileage in that; quite the reverse. Starmer should constantly be pointing out how much he is different from BJ; it is the contrast that could win through in the medium term, when folk tire of the BJ schtick.
Apparently teal is a Tory colour these days. For lazy Pb-ers avoiding the click. From this:
to this:
You'll note that the 2nd piccie has a more summery Sky. Who'd have thought that Darlo Town Hall would get the same retouching treatment as Naomi Campbell.
Cost, for this and the litter bins, is claimed to be £20k. Wonder if that includes the actual work?
"Turkish intelligence officers have seized the nephew of the cleric accused of orchestrating the 2016 coup attempt against President Erdogan, in an operation in Kenya that appears to have been carried out without the permission of Nairobi’s courts." (£)
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/turkish-spies-seize-fethullah-gulens-nephew-in-kenya-c30f057ds
They should have picked David Payne.
I just don't see how a 79mph right armer (not an all rounder) is going to do anything at test match level unless very very special ability to make it move sideways.
The areas of North Wales where Covid cases went up over bank holiday weekend
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/wrexham-conwy-see-biggest-rise-20717348#ICID=Android_DailyPostNewsApp_AppShare