And it should do them because it has the perfect base to do them. To predict whether or not someone voted labour in the last election all you had to ask is "so you work?" All of these things would help "working people"
28.02.2026 19:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Part of fixing the economy is doing things that are unpopular but will work out in the long run. Reducing taxation on our financial services industry, getting rid of the insane 100k tax trap, not increasing the youth minimum wage to parity - these are all right coded things that this gov should do
28.02.2026 19:58 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
If Reform had won Starmer would be on his knees to those voters begging for forgiveness. Greens win and it's like "Fuck off cranks"
28.02.2026 11:04 โ ๐ 405 ๐ 57 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 3
One of the many reasons to yeet Starmer into the sun is that the contempt he's repeatedly shown British Muslims has been getting Labour into trouble for at least two and a half years but he still can't bring himself to stop.
28.02.2026 15:23 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0
We have assets in the area that we need to defend mate. We can't just not defend them
28.02.2026 18:09 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Some of us don't think we should have to choose between defending ourselves and rolling back lgbt rights
28.02.2026 18:06 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Total slimeball that should have been sacked
28.02.2026 18:03 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Yeah, I'm just about done with this after twenty years in the party. These people actively hate me
28.02.2026 10:17 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Listening to the voters and not attacking them is, of course, the core tenant of New Labour. It was key to Labour Together's post 2019 report, backed by much (good data).
But pretty clear now they only mean 'listen to this type of voter' and the data was just a cover for a very ideological view
28.02.2026 09:57 โ ๐ 65 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 0
Women that are actually making the accusations of there being a boys club you resort to saying that they are using their identity to play politics.
28.02.2026 10:16 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Extraordinary. Yes, some people do do that. Can you admit that when multiple women say the same thing that they might be telling the truth?
You just used the presence of women in the cabinet to defend against accusations of sexism, now when you are informed that it's some of these same
28.02.2026 10:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Yep. A moral outrage as well as political malpractice
28.02.2026 09:19 โ ๐ 16 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
As I understand it, the answer is
Yes - because their parents are economic migrants,
So working-class children aged 7 should face hurdles & barriers to secure status, family security & educational opportunity that affluent classmates & those in private schools will not
28.02.2026 09:12 โ ๐ 130 ๐ 67 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 5
I've not learned into that narrative at all. What the fuck are you on about?
Keir Starmers aides have frequently engaged in briefing against women in the cabinet and in the government so much that his own women ministers have complained publically about it.
28.02.2026 07:12 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I'm sorry are you saying that the cabinet ministers you just held up as proof of no sexism are actually lying about the sexism they've experienced in order to get a woman leader? Are you ok?
28.02.2026 06:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Also, many of those cabinet members are the ones complaining of sexism. Google "boys club"
28.02.2026 04:53 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Morgan McSweeney, I'm sorry, acted like a sexist.
28.02.2026 04:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
I didn't call his cabinet sexist. I called him abd the people he surrounded himself with sexists.
28.02.2026 04:36 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Gavin newsom doesn't have to worry about Ukraine. He should wind his neck in.
28.02.2026 04:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
She was replaced for the same reason women in this government find themselves replaced.
28.02.2026 04:23 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
He didn't have to associate with mandelson. Karen pierce was an excellent ambassador with much better links to the GOP than mandelson ...
28.02.2026 04:11 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
No it isn't. We've just got more details. If I take a photograph of you with an old crappy digital camera and compare it to a new one I can see new details, but it's still recognisably you!
28.02.2026 03:39 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
The skeletons in this case weren't hidden. They just weren't deemed important enough. This could probably have been avoided if the leaders office hadn't systematically pushed out the women.
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things are getting out of hand
28.02.2026 02:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Also, the government should start calling in these favours soon lol.
28.02.2026 02:44 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Yes, we live in a secret bushocracy. That's the right idea. That's the pivot.
28.02.2026 02:40 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
"hiding" it so well that it was in the FT lol.
28.02.2026 02:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
It's a bold strategy to bring up the sex pest clique in order to defend this government.
28.02.2026 02:25 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
Tesco was too upmarket for Easterhouse pal.
28.02.2026 02:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Lol. The area I grew up in moved the then leader of the opposition, IDS, to tears when he visited it when I was a child.
28.02.2026 02:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
"sheep", "naive".
I need to make something really clear. The electorate are smarter than you. They understand this government better than you. They understand politics more than you do. You should listen to them.
28.02.2026 02:11 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
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