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Could Batley change Starmer’s fortunes? – politicalbetting.com
Could Batley change Starmer’s fortunes? – politicalbetting.com
Like all party leaders after a much publicised by-election victory Keir Starmer sped up to constituency for the now customary photo event with the winning candidate and assorted party workers.
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Said gonads may well have save Sir Keir's career.
🛳 Private donors to be called on to put wind in the sails of royal yacht project
🛳 Ex-Saga boss Lance Batchelor hired by HMG to lead national flagship project
🛳 Flagship could be hired out to companies to cover costs
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/07/02/private-donors-called-put-wind-sails-royal-yacht-project/
Second, he needs to resist the ultras who want him to declare war on the left of the party, and concentrate on attacking the government. PMQs was a good start.
I have said already I don't think it was an impressive result for Labour - their third record low vote share in a constituency in a row, that is pretty bad, and probably only saved by Hancocks faux pas revealed at the weekend... but so what?! The confidence gained from winning, even if it is misguided, is a tangible thing, especially when your confidence has been sapped of late
1983 38.0%
1987 41.1%
1992 43.1%
1997 49.4%
2001 49.9%
2005 45.8%
2010 41.5%
2015 43.2%
2017 55.5%
2019 42.7%
2021 35.3%
B&S may have kept Starmer in his job but it shouldn't hide the problems.
Romulan Lukaku!
FWIW depending on my mood, I switch between being a Yorkshireman, Englishman, Brit, European (especially around Ryder Cup time), and rootless cosmopolitan/global metropolitan elite.
Right now I'm simultaneously cheering for Yorkshire against Lancashire, Britain's Sir Andrew Murray, and getting psyched for England's match tomorrow.
Is it military? Of course, or we couldn't build it here.
But anyone can hire it? Ummm, yes...
All I have to do
Is mark my 'X' by you
And then I'm not so blue
When you're close to me
I can feel your conceit
I can hear you briefing
'gainst Sir Keir
Wouldn't you agree
Baby, you and me
Got a groovy kind of Gove
Are Switzerland England in disguise?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/my-husband-s-gay-affair-with-gove
The husband in question is Dominic Cummings.
Or worse than Labour have ever done in their history in those seats, to put it another way
Off topic, and in my garden.. my wall of peas is going pretty well.. I hope I don't give anybody pea-ness envy
Labour would have trounced the Tories.
Airdrie & Shotts saw Labour's share of the vote go up by 6.5%
Italy are not parking the bus, they are making a statement.
They are the three worst vote shares for Labour in their history aren't they? Can you check?
Belgium are bigger chokers than South Africa in the cricket.
Your reaction suggests you are uneasy about it.
The trick is going to be twofold;
1 Let SKS do what he does well- be in charge and do the stuff in Parliament, where he's actually pretty good.
2 Get those around him to do a lot more of the campaigning; the mental image I have is Starmer as Kenneth Horne surrounded by a swarm of Kenneth Williamses and Hugh Paddicks. It's the job of Rayner, Nandy, Burnham and the rest of them to make their boss look good, because then they get to be in government. That's not really happening yet.
To continue the Round the Horne metaphor, if they do this, Labour should be able to look forward to an enormous Poll...
... unless the Home Office has had Vladimir deported for not sorting out his post-Brexit paperwork.
But I wonder if part of the equation is that whereas the Tories used to fear the Lib Dems replacing them when they were in opposition, Labour don't have quite the same worries. Okay, it happened in Scotland, but in England and Wales Labour look set in stone in their core areas.
For all his faults Corbyn knew how to campaign. It turned with his speech at Tranmere Rovers, where the chant began.
/switchesoffTSE
Which is why not gaining B&S is good for them and more importantly the country.
Galloway feeds off dissatisfaction.
If the dissatisfaction wasn't there then he wouldn't get votes.
So why was there dissatisfaction among traditional Labour voters ?
Competence is cheaper but requires hard work and attention to detail.
My view is that at least some of the Heavy Woollen vote went to Galloway.
** EXCLUSIVE in tomorrow’s Daily Telegraph **
Ministers promise to consider carefully pardon for ‘metric martyrs’ who defied the European Union two decades ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/02/ministers-inch-closer-pardon-metric-martyrs-defied-eu/
But that doesn't hide the problems Labour has even if some people want to be in denial of them.
Starmer has 1-2 years to make headway. His priority will be to develop a coherent, reasonably radical policy platform - it will get a hearing once the pandemic's over. If he doesn't at least draw level in the polls by 2022/23, he'll probably go of his own accord. There won't be a challenge (certainly not a serious one) until then at the earliest.
There, I’ve said it!
What do you expect from an ex Chelsea/Everton/Manchester United player?
Because no political party owns its voters.
What they have is an opportunity and a responsibility to attract voters..
And if they are unable to do so by not having the right policies or the right people they have nobody to blame but themselves.
That seems to have been begun.
Pardoning is so rare that it was a real statement when they used it for that guy at Fishmonger’s hall.
This would just be a silly gesture.