I was a Labour MP for 13 years under Blair and Brown, and broadly supportive, not because I agreed with everything, but because I liked the overall sense of direction towards a more equal society. I&… (View Post)

You feel he should appease them? (View Post)

I don't really mind elected councils flying flags of countries that they promised to support, or British flags if they said they'd do that, or indeed refusing to fly flags. That's demo… (View Post)

Not convinced the left/right descriptors are very helpful. They hark back to simpler times, where the left were for public ownership and high taxes and public spending, and the right for the opposite… (View Post)

I don't dislike Starmer, but the Labour membership and to some extent the PLP is left of centre, and Starmer really isn't - he's nothing in particular, and switches policies on slight … (View Post)