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Probably a mistake that so many only highlight one of the groups that experience racism and in that they're repeating Abbott's initial error

All conducted while launching family values as the centrepiece of their strategy. And some bod will come along here insisting that Starmer is a hypocrite. 'Centrist' John is the very height of hypocrisy.

Note that Labour are not using the 'n' word, whereas commentators are.

There's a better route: she can announce that she'll resign if the investigation establishes that she's done wrong. My hunch is that she hasn't, but that won't be the end of the media targeting somebody for having the gall to be working class and a woman.

You're right of course. But the media have largely been ignoring Labour of late, and that's about to change if it hasn't already. They'll start to claim that their role is to hold power to account, conveniently forgetting that they've forgotten to do that over the past 14 years when what was in...

The Greens will not be a decisive force (through tipping the scales to the incumbents in Tory-Labour marginals) in the next election.

And, hmmm, could there be something that desperately needs investment in over the next, say, 25 years (or 26 if you must; or 16 if you'd rather be ambitious and not want to spend more money cleaning up the mess through not making that investment)?

You are Rachel Reeves/Keir Starmer, and I claim my £5* * all three (one) of this particular unholy trinity need to pay attention to Attlee or even Biden on government spending And PS, in my initial post, I was pointing to how governments could raise revenue from their rich citizens (and those...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/282841/debt-as-gdp-uk/#:~:text=National%20debt%20as%20a%20percentage%20of%20GDP%20in%20the%20UK%201900%2D2029&text=Public%20sector%20net%20debt%20amounted,government%20since%20the%20early%201960s.

Corrected for you, for historical accuracy :thumbsup:

Or even try the long forgotten Clement Attlee.

Oh, there's loads of money. You're sitting on a great big pile. And your pile is diddly squat compared to many others. Everyone claims they love transparency until it comes to the question of money, and then they deflect. If there was such a thing as financial transparency, then revenues would...

Your use of apostrophes is not dissimilar to the aversion to capital letters displayed by @beorhthelm

Old fashioned. You might not even be that old, but you quite clearly are old fashioned.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/mar/27/rishi-sunaks-triple-lock-pension-conservatives-labour-angela-rayner-uk-politics-live Looks like you'll have five whole years of it, with the very real prospect of five more after that.

Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson went to Eton, then on to Oxford where he played a leading role in the Bullingdon Club, became a darling of The Telegraph and, in playing the perma-scruff, cheeky chappy, has really really helped out the British people.

Plenty on here have been demanding that Labour release their full manifesto years in advance. As you indicate, that leaves policies liable to be stolen -- as with the non-dom -- and also diminishes agility and shifting in line with changed circumstances (eg, the watering down of the Green...

You're of the view that you know what the middle or centre is. Politics moves all the time. Attlee's two governments instigated a significant shift to the left, which set the postwar consensus which lasted for decades. Then Thatcher came along in 1979, and moved things significantly to the...

@WATFORD zero has done a decent enough job of responding to this. Your follow-up questions are not exactly fair: you'll find out when their manifesto is released following on from the election being called (note: the Tories haven't released their manifesto yet, nor have the Lib Dems, SNP, ...)...

You're assuming that the electorate* make good decisions, which is highly questionable. And I'd also question your claim that the public likes Starmer, but you can provide some evidence for this if you can find it. *GEs are not won by a 'majority'. Cameron won in 2015 with 36.8% of those that...