Author Topic: How's the government doing?  (Read 602 times)

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #25 on: September 22, 2024, 11:42:33 AM »
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Freebies never seem to raise much consternation with Conservative governments.

It did in this household.

That's not really the point though.

Labour, and Starmer in particular, implied that they were going to clean up politics Add to that the ongoing hints that we are going to be expected to swallow unpleasant economic news, hard decisions, yada, yada, yada and people will quite rightly conclude that he is indeed "2 tier Kier". You can't ask people to tighten their collective belts and then continue to get freebies for glasses, Taylor Swift, clothes, etc.

To stand any chance of regaining trust Labour must stop any personal donations of this type. End of.

He's pissed me off.

And I'm a Labour supporter, FFS.
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #26 on: September 22, 2024, 11:47:16 AM »
It did in this household.

That's not really the point though.

Labour, and Starmer in particular, implied that they were going to clean up politics Add to that the ongoing hints that we are going to be expected to swallow unpleasant economic news, hard decisions, yada, yada, yada and people will quite rightly conclude that he is indeed "2 tier Kier". You can't ask people to tighten their collective belts and then continue to get freebies for glasses, Taylor Swift, clothes, etc.

To stand any chance of regaining trust Labour must stop any personal donations of this type. End of.

He's pissed me off.

And I'm a Labour supporter, FFS.

Totally.

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #27 on: September 22, 2024, 12:04:00 PM »
Totally.
Agree, and the football shit is annoying me. If you're going to be in politics you might need to make a few sacrifices, and it might be a shame that you can't just use your season ticket to go to an Arsenal match with your son because your leader of the opposition/PM but that seems just part of the job. Many people who Starmer is supposed to represent would have no chance of affording season tickets. It's stupidly entitled.

The line being run out that 'we're not as bad as the Tories' is a disgrace. Rather like being pregnant, you are not just a little corrupt. You are corrupt.

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #28 on: September 24, 2024, 05:35:28 PM »
Not bad speech by Starmer but seemed to take a long while to get going with some  weird phrasing early on. It may just be remembered as the 'return the sausages' speech though.


https://youtu.be/mpyU3VsubGA?si=WAt93EjosT-ttl6Z


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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #29 on: September 24, 2024, 10:06:42 PM »
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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #30 on: October 12, 2024, 01:10:58 PM »
One take in the first hundred days


https://archive.vn/YarRt

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #31 on: October 12, 2024, 02:00:00 PM »
One take in the first hundred days


https://archive.vn/YarRt
I see the article references political giant William Hague's analysis of New Labour.
I recall Hague couldn't manage a full English breakfast and New Labour had him for theirs.

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #32 on: October 12, 2024, 02:01:07 PM »
I see the article references political giant William Hague's analysis of New Labour.
I recall Hague couldn't manage a full English breakfast and New Labour had him for theirs.
16 pints though

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #33 on: October 12, 2024, 02:07:46 PM »
And another review of the first hundred days, this one especially for Vlad, from his replacement for Dick


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv2xp40vpvo

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Re: How's the government doing?
« Reply #34 on: October 12, 2024, 02:28:23 PM »
And another review of the first hundred days, this one especially for Vlad, from his replacement for Dick


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpv2xp40vpvo
Dick is irreplaceable. I'm a bit of a Mormon when it comes to bogeypersons.