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  1. 10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:


    FF on the GF but Rafa was 1/6 on to be Celtic manager before Postecoglu got the job. Hope this goes some way to proving that right now those odds are no guarantee of anything. 

     

    I remember that time.  I was in on Martin O'Neil. 

     

    Shoot me now. 

  2. 7 hours ago, Section_31 said:

    You can never be left enough.

     

     

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    We not expectingTrotsky but any chance an incoming Labour government could be a little bit to the left of Margaret Thatcher's government after 79? 

  3. 1 hour ago, Section_31 said:

    I'd be genuinely pleased if a left wing alternative formed which could help shape the wider political narrative, as long as it's after the election and doesn't derail things. We need a unity opposition, like we need a unity government during war.

     

    What did you think of Rachel Reeves speech? You've made loads of posts attacking people discussing it but as far as I can you have not made an opinion of your own. 

     

    Do you agree Thatcher brought in a national period of renewal? Honest questio? 

  4. 19 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

     

    Yeah, I remember Varoufakis on there visibly shaken by the fucking idiocy in the room.

     

    Some Labour front benchers are now similar to that fella in the audience. 

  5. 1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

     

    Absolutely true this. 

     

    From above I saw:

    we havent had a centre left gmnt in about 40 years

     

    It's not a country full of centre left citizens - why would you?

     

    After 14 years of tory rule it may well have turned that way. All popular opinion suggests the public are to the left of the two main parties. 

     

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  6. 1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

    This fella seems as divisive as the last guy.

     

    He was the unity candidate. Many hoped he'd follow the Biden template. Unfortunately he did on foreign affairs (which is terrible) and has junked his domestic policies (which seem good).. 

     

    Ah well. 

     

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  7. 13 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

    its hard without making the thread about corbyn.

    I concede he probably wouldnt have been a  bad leader,but personally I was sick to the back teeth of miliband bending over and apologising for causing the financial crash.

    Corbyn at least represented change and gave people hope and he would have been massively preferable to that drunk mess.

     

    I thought Corbs was a bit selfish not to hand over the reigns about 6 months before the last election when it was obvious the game was up. Its wrong that he's not allowed to serve his constituency from the back benches though. 

  8. 4 minutes ago, Arniepie said:

    we havent had a centre left gmnt in about 40 years

     

    Yeah true. Center would have to do then. Sorry but not sure about the soup Reeves was trying to serve the other night though. 

  9. 1 hour ago, Jairzinho said:

     

    I think we share pretty similar views. Where we possibly differ is that I believe the degree of drift to the right for Labour is simply unnecessary. There are policy areas where they are long way to the right of the general public, even taking into account a month of pre election Murdoch cuntery. And my fear is that it isn't out of pragmatism, it's out of actual ideological position. That we're going to waste a term of Labour government.

     

    However, like you, the country has become so utterly, utterly fucking shit that I would probably rejoice in the relative normality of John Major's government for a few years. Such has the bar been lowered.

     

    As for the Twitter people, I simply don't give a fuck. These are basement dwelling nonces, on the right and the left. A complete fucking irrelevance. They don't represent anything, and certainly don't have the power to do anything.

     

    Its not just the twitter mob who are concerned with the direction of travel within the Labour Party. A lot of good people not only from the left but from ethnic minorities who have campaigned against injustice all their lives who are not feeling welcome anymore within the Labour movement. 

     

     

    To dismiss the likes of Asian  heart surgeons and black civil rights advocates is a dangerous game going forward. These people have done/are doing huge amounts of good on our streets and in our hospitals. They deserve to be listened to. 

     

    You think it wise to piss people like the below off.

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     Labours plans for government might at this moment be inconsequential to some but others have the right to ask questions if they see fit. 

     

     

     

     

  10. 13 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

     

    There's nobody on here other than Gnasher whose political motivations I'd personally question. I also agree with much of what you and Anubis say.

     

    I've simply compartmentalised my views. How I feel about labour's direction is insulated, I've put it away in a drawer, and all I care about right now is removing the tories. It's existential. If the Tories win again, I genuinely believe there'll be northing left of the Britain we grew up in.

     

    But when I see people claiming to be from "the left" trying to organise tactical voting against Labour MPs, that blows my mind. Those people are every bit a danger to my future as tory voters, and I have nothing but contempt for their selfishness.

     

    You may have put your views on Labour's direction "away in a drawer"  but others might want to discuss it as they find it important, especially after a major speech like the one Reeves delivered the other night. 

  11. 34 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:


    Yeah I agree but as I said, don’t completely rule anything out. I think they’ve left it too late for that change to have enough impact but these cunts aren’t stupid and remember they have the media in their back pocket. Or their donors do anyway 

     

    Hopefully. I've voted Labour all my life, my whole family have voted Labour all their lives. I'd love nothing more than the end or the Tories and a progressive center left Labour government. 

     

    What I definitely do not want is anything the slightest teeny bit similar to the Thatcher era. It was not as Reeves said in her speech an era of renewal. It was an era of mass poverty and destitution. The only thing good to happen from that era was it gave birth to some brilliant UK culture that rose up against it. 

  12. 19 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:


    Let me just remind you that vote leave won, Boris Johnson became PM and Donald Trump the leader of the “free world”

     

    Absolutely nothing in politics is a given. Granted it looks highly likely that Labour will win the next election but don’t rule out anything. 
     

    As much as I wish he had for human decency’s sake, if Starmer would have come out condemning Israel it would have potentially been catastrophic to Labours chances. 
     

    I watched PMQs yesterday and Badenoch was next to Sunak berating Reeves who normally has a little pop back against others. Part of me wondered if she stayed silent because if she’d responded she could have been labelled with something.
     

    These Tory cunts will and do find the slightest thing to ram down peoples throats when it comes to the opposition while covering their huge misgivings. Angela Rayner making a few quid on selling a house is now the retort when any financial scandal from a Tory gets brought up for example and got far more media coverage than say Jenrick making him and his mate million with dodgy land dealings. 

     

    Starmer and Labour are treading on eggshells in the final stretch. 
     

    Im still worried Mourdant is due to be parachuted in and a huge Tory shake up will give them a massive swing and all them red-wall lot will switch back. 

     

    I think it'd take something such a major war to save them now. They are all over the place. A change of leader might help a bit as Sunak is not cutting it at all but I think think the country is done with them. Hopefully for good. 

     

    The country imo wants a center left government which is fairer to those on the bottom/middle and will not let our public services decay. So for me it's frustrating that Starmers Labour seem reluctant to offer it. Every speech/announcement seems to move the party to the right. 

  13. Back on the subject of Starmer (after learning I'd have aided Hitler in World War 2) this has not aged well. As Israel is in the Hague for committing war crimes shouldn't the Labour freinds of Israel organisation be disbanded? 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

  14. 4 hours ago, Fugitive said:

    I reckon Gnasher would have defended the Nazis back in 1938 and said everyone else was corrupt, the fucking melt.

     

    What a fucking sausage.

     

    Struck a nerve aye. Or did you totally hit the wrong thread. If not she's still dead. 

     

    https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,thatcherism-linked-with-drug-deaths-in-nhs-report_7472.htm

     

     

    It'd be futile to ask what you thought of that speech by Reeves. Or Lammys quip. 

     

  15. 17 minutes ago, skend04 said:

    Cough cough...

     

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    Nothing to do with Brexit these closures, it's an excuse which gets the government off the hook.. If the government were willing to pay to subsidise, at least one of the furnaces could still be firing until the inevitable electrification was fazed in.. Better still would have been to bite the bullet and take British steel back into public hands. They could have shed 800 or so jobs voluntarily, so the impact would not have been so hard. 

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  16. Kemi Badarnoch, the Tories great hope. Industry secretary, take a bow. Now we will have to import more steel from abroad at the cost decided elsewhere. Little in this country gets built without steel. 

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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