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That's just hot air. Like saying you're going to tackle drugs by stopping the smugglers. It ain't gonna happen. Take down one gang, another will appear. Whilst its correct the gang leaders should be targeted, it is also important to ensure genuine assylum seekers are processed quickly and...

Even if she is guilty and gets reprimanded or sacked? It's not going to change the national optics or election outcome. Tories are pissing in the wind.

Have to hand it too Sir Keir, on security he is spot and and gets it, a far cry from the dithering idiot he replaced in the Labour party, who had he been elected would have done nothing nothing against Ukraines genocide, would probaby have already scrapped Trident, all as revanchist Russia avows...

Its nothing of the sort. There are millions of pursuadable floating voters who are not tribally linked to 1 party. I'd count myself in that. Where I may agree with you, is that the polls are not so indicative of how wonderful Starmer is or how much people believe in him, but more so how much...

Sunak now getting desperate with his "a vote for Reform is a vote for Starmer" No it isn't you twunt, but even if it were, people still wouldnt vote for your crap leadership and useless government.

She was despised by many, but the one thing Thatcher had, that very few do today, was the courage of her convictions, even if those convictions were flawed. To swim against the tide of popular opinion, because you think something is the right thing to do, is brave and just doesnt happen today...

especially in Scotland where Labour were hoovering up disaffected SNP voters. Bit of an un-neccessary OG me thinks

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67604830

Great points and agree with analysis. I'm also pleased we won't get a hard left majority government as much as I am a hard right one. The majority are more centrist. As flawed as FPTP is, there is still an advantage in preventing the UKIPs, Reform, and hard left factions from becoming...

??? Greece, dropped the Drachma and joined the euro in 2001. Germany insisted on Greek austerity measures to release EU bailout funds (primarily funded by Germany) over a decade after they were in the Euro. Greeks financial problems caused in many parts by Greeks dodging taxes.

I'd agree entirely about Osbourne. I guess he'd have preferred to inherit a better economy, but cuts to public services were always pencilled in, the economic background just made his PR sales job easier. Inheritance tax is one of the things that grates me and I will always applaud the cutting...

Reform and Lib Dems level is an interesting stat.

Without wanting to derail the thread about Starmer, a none tribal Labour supporter without red tinted glasses, would see things a bit more objectively. Yes the Lehman brothers / sub prime mortgage market was the catalyst for the global crunch, and Brown as with most Politicians isn't all good...

But you can't just do that without the fiscal backdrop. Both Labour exiting in 2010 and the Tories exiting in 2024 have left the economy in a bad place saddled with debt and deficit. And this is not a pro Tory or anti Labour observation, but it's true, that Blair inherited pretty sound public...

She was loathed by many and loved by many, but what you can say about Thatcher is she was a rare breed of politician who wasn't afraid to swim against the public tide for what "she" believed was right. Both she and Tony Benn stand out as true conviction politcal leaders in a sea of grey focus...

When Labour gets in, I'd like for them to do what the Tories did by bringing in Baron David Frost from the Lords to serve in government. And to bring back in Lord David Blunkett. He may be mid 70's, but I have nothing but admiration for the man, not for what he's had to overcome physically...

You're reading things not implied. 1. It doesn't, the flawed electoral system means that either Labour or Tories will always be the largest party as either government or in coalition and therefore the only possible PMs are Sunak and Starmer as leaders of those parties. It nearly always results...

Coogan thinks what many do. Starmer is a grey risk averse PR man, blown by the wind, and without much conviction of his own. He's no Tony Blair. That said, he will be our next PM and is the only viable alternative as PM to Sunak, in our flawed FPTP electoral system. The least worse option?

nobody could argue with that.

No of course it isnt, im not defending non doms, but the main difference from the Tories taking from poor and lining their own pockets, to Labour going after wealth, is poorer people cant do much and the super rich can, and in the main will simply bugger off leaving you with whatever % of...