Labour!

[bhinso]

Lolz

https://twitter.com/i/status/1229509172238090246

Labour leadership challenger Lisa Nandy has said she would vote to abolish the monarchy at a referendum but admitted she would 'quite like to see' Meghan Markle one day become Queen.

Tries to virtue signal in two (contradictory) ways
a) Abolish the monarchy
b) Meghan BAME love in

[Riejufixing]

I see that mister staremer has not improved his party's position in the polls; the opposite, in fact.

[bhinso]

Link to sauce data?

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[bhinso]

Wow that's quite a difference.

What are Labour to do? I think we need a strong opposition to hold the government to account.

I can only explain it as the Boris factor. I think (despite some counter opinions) that Boris is a popular character, rather like Blair was. He comes across as larger than life, and also human as he does make mistakes.

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[Islander]

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[Islander]

[Nobby the Bastard]

The last recession was cause by the sub prime lending market which h was driven by the capitalists.

Yes Blair didnt cover himself in glory over the whole sexing up of the Iraq lack of weapons of mass destruction but to blame labour for a world wide recession driven by the Americans is a bit rich.
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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Easy-X]

Well the standard line - as an alternative to politicians running "Big Government" - is devolution of power: take it down to a local level.

Having served on the committee of my local football club many moons ago (an example of probably the smallest, local level of governance... maybe one rung above the neighbourhood watch) I can tell you that the "politic rot" affects every strata of organisation

If you want to get stuff done I always go back to my favourite solution: elect a benevolent dictator for 10 years. After 5 years there's a referendum of whether or not the dictator is doing a good job. >60% approval - they do the second half of their term, 40 to 60% - there's a new election, less than 40% and they're executed

At the end of their 10 year term the electorate get to vote on the exiting dictator's retirement package on the same ballot paper as picking from the new candidates (I'll leave the pension options to your imagination!) Might make potential leaders take things a bit more seriously
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[Im-a-Ridah]

[Nobby the Bastard]

I'll remind you it was the American market collapsing which caused the recession, not the labour government.
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https://labourlist.org/2020/05/keir-starmer-sets-out-covid-testing-and-tracing-targets-for-government/

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[Nobby the Bastard]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

So Keir Starmer is being petitioned for sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey after she tried to implicate the Israeli State (their knee-on-neck control technique) in the death of George Floyd. Criticism of the State of Israel's policies may be valid but having missed several open goals in the last election and making that version of Labour unelectable you'd think she'd be careful to avoid any suggestion of anti-semitism in the party. I'd have sacked her for being f*cking thick.

[bhinso]

I didn't realise Sir Keir Starmer had a lot of responsibility in closing the case against Jimmy Saville whilst he was still alive.

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[bhinso]

OK , point taken. According to the independent fact checking charity:
"Mr Starmer was head of the CPS when the decision was made not to prosecute Savile but he was not the reviewing lawyer for the case. An official investigation commissioned later by Starmer criticised both prosecutors and police for their handling of the allegations."

[Polarbear]