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Keir Starmer


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The country is fucked. In times past the public used to care about political wrongdoing and ministers would have the sense of responsibility to resign if they were involved in wrongdoing. There are a myriad of scandals that would have seen off Johnson and his ministers in years gone by, but over the last decade ministerial responsibility has been eroded to non-existence. 
 

And, let’s be brutally honest, it isn’t just here. You only have to look at the Republicans in the US, the. Aussie government, Poland, Ukraine, Turkey....  It just feels as though the bad guys are winning.

 

I know you shouldn’t get down about a bunch of thick, monkey-hanging twats, but I just want to go up there and cudgel them.

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Regarding Hartlepool, it looks like Operation Blame The Last Guy has been launched and is about to go into full swing. 

 

Plus, if the polling results do hold up in the actual vote, I can see the NIP lot getting a chunk of blame too as, despite lots of Labour right classing them as a "joke," they're polling at around 6% which is quite impressive for a party that's only been going for a few months. 

 

You really can't complain though when you push people away for the party and they, naturally, look for alternative representation. 

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22 minutes ago, Vincent Vega said:

Brexit has sent everyone mad in this country, it’s as simple as that. I think for a considerable number of people in this country, immigration is the be all and end all. 

True. The tribalism of it all and the weddedness of people to their position (particularly leave voters) could change the political landscape for years. Starmer could offer great policies that benefit these people personally but you sense that they'd still turn their nose up at him and his party for nothing more than him having been a remainer in the referendum. 

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It's an existential dilemma for Labour. The working class vote had often gone to Labour because it was tied up with unionised working rather than, I'd say, any great affinity with socialism or Liberal ideals. Take away unions and even the concept of mass working clsss employment and what are you left with? A lot of people who don't engage with politics at all, or only do so when it gives them a chance to give "someone else" a kicking.

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50 minutes ago, Nelly-Torres said:

Regarding Hartlepool, it looks like Operation Blame The Last Guy has been launched and is about to go into full swing. 

 

Plus, if the polling results do hold up in the actual vote, I can see the NIP lot getting a chunk of blame too as, despite lots of Labour right classing them as a "joke," they're polling at around 6% which is quite impressive for a party that's only been going for a few months. 

 

You really can't complain though when you push people away for the party and they, naturally, look for alternative representation. 


He can fuck off with this shit.

 

 

 

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16 minutes ago, Anubis said:


He can fuck off with this shit.

 

 

 

 

Not the full quote, of course.

 

He went on to say that this was all on him, results and all, as he is leader, but this is a five year project towards the next GE and it will take time for Labour to regain trust after the last election which he was part of.

 

Which is fair to say.

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A few things have gone well for the Tories. We are coming out of lockdown and the vaccination program has gone well, the EU fucking up their Covid response has also made the tories look competent. 

 

Sunaks free cheques to the self employed and furlough scheme has gone down well.

 

House prices are booming. Bullshit economics i know but to an awful lot of people it's the be all and end all. The threat of a price slump after Brexit failed to materialise which has eased some peoples worries. 

 

The weather's turning and summer is on the way. People feel better about things in the summer, its why the old fox Harold Wilson always tried to call a June election. 

 

All of the above will change in time. The free money will stop, Brexit will eventually bite, house prices will stagnate and weather will turn foul. 

 

Labour needs to hold its nerve, hope Bidens economic stimulus works and put forward the same vision for Britain when the tories fuck the economy up with austerity, which they will.

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If you are not happy with the direction the party has voted to take, well you should be brave enough to go and start your own party and stand on your believes.

 

I can't believe you have gone and started your own party, you splitter Tory enabling cunts.

 

 

Trying to maybe over thinking it, maybe NIP are doing better than people thought due to tactical voting. I know the results aren't in. If I was a lefties Marxist and wanted to sent Labour a massage then I would vote NIP. Tories have an 80 seat majority, this result will make no difference in the grand scheme. However if NIP can get enough votes, then maybe it will force Labour to reingage.

 

Like UKIP forced Tories to the right.

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21 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

A few things have gone well for the Tories. We are coming out of lockdown and the vaccination program has gone well, the EU fucking up their Covid response has also made the tories look competent. 

 

Sunaks free cheques to the self employed and furlough scheme has gone down well.

 

House prices are booming. Bullshit economics i know but to an awful lot of people it's the be all and end all. The threat of a price slump after Brexit failed to materialise which has eased some peoples worries. 

 

The weather's turning and summer is on the way. People feel better about things in the summer, its why the old fox Harold Wilson always tried to call a June election. 

 

All of the above will change in time. The free money will stop, Brexit will eventually bite, house prices will stagnate and weather will turn foul. 

 

Labour needs to hold its nerve, hope Bidens economic stimulus works and put forward the same vision for Britain when the tories fuck the economy up with austerity, which they will.

Not to the 3 million that were excluded it didn't.

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23 minutes ago, Skidfingers McGonical said:

Not to the 3 million that were excluded it didn't.

Do you disagree that Britain's vaccination program has been far superior to the EUs and has also on the whole been successful?

 

Sorry, misread, yeah I agree, the 3 million missed was/is a scandal.

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2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

I still think Johnson is the Tories' only weapon in the red wall, unless they find someone equally offensive. Gove wouldn't do any damage in Hartlepool I suspect. 

He's certainly a fucking weapon.

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1 hour ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Years of chronic underinvestment, devisive rhetoric and decline will do that to a place.

That's true.

 

Friends of my mum and dad live there and it has been left to rot. Yet they all fall into the "immigrants, lefties and Labour are to blame" due to believing the propaganda of the Tory press and ergo vote Tory. Hartlepool twinned with Stockholm Syndrome.

24 minutes ago, Gnasher said:

I've been told they love their animals though.

Everything bar monkeys, allegedly.

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46 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Not the full quote, of course.

 

He went on to say that this was all on him, results and all, as he is leader, but this is a five year project towards the next GE and it will take time for Labour to regain trust after the last election.

 

Which is fair to say.

Starting point for me isn’t 1935. It’s 2019. And Labour are the incumbents having won the seat. And despite him saying he accepts responsibility, he’s tempered that by going on about 2019, so it’s slightly disingenuous.

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5 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Starting point for me isn’t 1935. It’s 2019. And Labour are the incumbents having won the seat. And despite him saying he accepts responsibility, he’s tempered that by going on about 2019, so it’s slightly disingenuous.

 

Maybe, but it is significant and needs to be addressed without the tories being able to use it as some sort of attack.

 

The vote share for Hartlepool was 38% Labour, 29% Conservative, 26% Brexit Party, so even though Labour won, they won through vote split it could be argued.

 

The rest of the interview was terrible though.

 

He had twenty minutes on Today and he said so little it was painful, they did drag him out over vaccine procurement though and he didn't have an answer.

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