Keir Starmer

[1892-LFCWasBorn]

On Ridge this morning. 

[Bruce Spanner]

He's on Marr after this.

 

He's also done a lot of kicking of Alex in the papers as well.

 

This might be the final nail if the leader of the opposition is calling the PM out as incompetent on every available media platform and there's no excuses that cut the muster.

[sir roger]

3 hours ago, 1892-LFCWasBorn said:

On Ridge this morning. 

Lucky bastard

[Numero Veinticinco]

In short, Corbyn’s gone so you can vote for us again, the Tories are useless cunts so you should vote for us again, we are going to get serious about winning, and we will have a manifesto for the future. 
 

 

[Duff Man]

Great that the pledge to increase income tax for top 5% of earners is already gone.

[Numero Veinticinco]

26 minutes ago, Duff Man said:

Great that the pledge to increase income tax for top 5% of earners is already gone.

Eh? 

[Section_31]

Talking about Tony Blair in a context other than he should be put on trial for war crimes will certainly set the cat among the pigeons. 

[Duff Man]

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

I’d read the replies to that tweet. It saved me from watching the program for context. 

[Duff Man]

COVID's not a valid reason for binning it, imo - in fact I'd argue the opposite - but there's no way that pledge is coming back.

[Aventus]

Those who are lucky enough to even still have jobs, let alone still be in the top 5% should be supporting the people who have been fucked by this. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

The illusion of choice. Actually that's not true with the lunatics currently in power, still its crap. Get Klopp to write a manifesto.

[Bjornebye]

Increasing tax for the wealthy comes with all sorts of problems for a party leader wishing to get the top role. Maybe he just doesn't want to be lied about every single day until he either back-tracks or steps down. 

[Duff Man]

2 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

The illusion of choice. Actually that's not true with the lunatics currently in power, still its crap. Get Klopp to write a manifesto.

That really is where we're at. The proposition is: this shit *points at everything*, or this shit but with slightly more competent management, but still basically the same old shit.

[Duff Man]

1 minute ago, Bjornebye said:

Increasing tax for the wealthy comes with all sorts of problems for a party leader wishing to get the top role. Maybe he just doesn't want to be lied about every single day until he either back-tracks or steps down. 

Maybe he shouldn't have promised to do it then.

[Section_31]

I think to an extent labour has to play the cards it's been dealt. The GF isn't representative of the country's political outlook, you only have to look over the election threads and see how many people are considering suicide to work that out.

 

Labour has to appeal to the general public, many of whom are becoming less engaged with politics and broadly are unconcerned with world events that don't impact their increasingly desperate personal situations.

 

That being said, I think there's a role for the factions of Labour and its outriders, the likes of momentum, because they've got a role to play in challenging the status quo. I just want them to aim their fire at the tories and the system, not the leader of the labour party.

[Duff Man]

Dude, it was literally his number one pledge.

[Aventus]

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Increasing tax for the wealthy comes with all sorts of problems for a party leader wishing to get the top role. Maybe he just doesn't want to be lied about every single day until he either back-tracks or steps down. 

In an ideal world we'd have a Robin Hood type fella, lying through their teeth so the papers and tories get on their side, then as soon as they get in... 

boom, tax increases on the wealthy, higher corporation tax, nationalising fucking everything, more funds for the NHS, higher minimum wage, free puppies, blow jobs off Kelly Brook. 

 

A man can dream. 

[Bruce Spanner]

Or, he knows the Tories are going to have to Jack up tax in the short term so they can take the heat for it, no point making an issue of it now? 

[Bjornebye]

9 minutes ago, Aventus said:

In an ideal world we'd have a Robin Hood type fella, lying through their teeth so the papers and tories get on their side, then as soon as they get in... 

boom, tax increases on the wealthy, higher corporation tax, nationalising fucking everything, more funds for the NHS, higher minimum wage, free puppies, blow jobs off Kelly Brook. 

 

A man can dream. 

See now this is the future of politics. 

 

[Section_31]

See this is the problem, he'll get 10x the shit from the 'left' as he will from anyone else today, and most of it will be horseshit. Complete and utter eye aids.

 

 

[Numero Veinticinco]

42 minutes ago, Duff Man said:

COVID's not a valid reason for binning it, imo - in fact I'd argue the opposite - but there's no way that pledge is coming back.

It hasn’t actually gone anywhere. It was somebody on twitter twisting something and it applies to the Labour manifesto. You can’t pledge to do something only the government can do when you’re in opposition. In short, this is made up. 

[Duff Man]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

See this is the problem, he'll get 10x the shit from the 'left' as he will from anyone else today, and most of it will be horseshit. Complete and utter eye aids.

 

 

 

It's wild that you have more of an issue with that - a parody account on Twitter - than you do the Labour leader dropping a commitment to raising taxes for top earners.

[Duff Man]

4 minutes ago, Nummer Neunzehn said:

It hasn’t actually gone anywhere. It was somebody on twitter twisting something and it applies to the Labour manifesto. You can’t pledge to do something only the government can do when you’re in opposition. In short, this is made up. 

It's a pledge she literally said is now gone.

[Duff Man]