Chris

Yes maybe the SNP should start standing in England 🥴

Whilst utterly tragic, almost a quarter of Scotland supporting what is basically a hard right wing English Nationalist party, is actually quite hilarious.

I think it’s great that she visited Glyndebourne .

As I’ve said, I think she’s totally unsuitable to hold the office of Prime Minister of the UK for various & numerous reasons including her lack of education .

As a Labour member I would not vote for her . Others would . That’s democracy .

I didn’t call her “thick”, I called her uneducated, which she is .

Your own PM Sanchez has a doctorate in Economics .

John Prescott, with whom many compare Rayner also left school at 16, many working class people did but studied for a degree later in life . Education is important .

Many apologies for my typo and I thank you for bringing it to my attention.

You’re of course entitled to your opinion as to Rayner’s suitability, as am I as to her lack thereof .

Assuming you’re a Labour member, then you’ll be able to vote for her if she does make a bid . I shall not .

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No because she’s uneducated, course, uncouth and would embarrass Britain on the global stage.

Her gender is irrelevant .

The main parts of their manifesto were about Brexit, cutting taxes and stopping the boats.
Johnson broke the manifesto by increasing NI (for which he was attacked) .
Truss & Sunak cut taxes (Truss to disastrous effect) and although they failed to stop the boats they did not dump the manifesto

Angela Rayner ‘told Keir Starmer not to appoint Mandelson’ Allies of the former deputy prime minister claim PM ignored her — and point out Wes Streeting’s ties to disgraced peer

Rayner clearly positioning herself for a leadership bid . “Her people” are also attacking Streeting, claiming that he was very close to Mandelson.

She has many qualities but she’s totally unfit to be PM.

Angela Rayner ‘told Keir Starmer not to appoint Mandelson’

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No you’re correct he’s a Colonel in the Royal Marines Reserve but many people lazily think this is part of the Army rather than Navy

The new leader should by all means write a new manifesto for the next general election which they can call whenever they like .
If they try to do so before then the Lords will be quite entitled to force him or her to use the Parliament act which will hold up legislation for well over a year

Why Al Carns is gaining ground as MPs mull Starmer’s replacement Current challengers to the PM fail to convince Labour rank-and-file, lifting profile of lesser-known alternative

Better to make someone who could cross the abyss in the morning then go back and climb Everest, Prime Minister 👍🇬🇧

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Whoever takes over MUST pledge to honour this “iron clad” manifesto promise . www.itv.com/news/2025-04...

I’ve been a Starmer supporter, but I’m afraid that i agree that he must go .

The most important thing is that we do not allow the party to move to the left .

The manifesto promised that we would stick to the fiscal rules. If not, there will almost certainly be a bond crisis & run on sterling

Mike Tapp is one of the best MPs & ministers of the 2024 and will hopefully be promoted by Starmer’s successor .

It’s a great shame that he’s having to go out to sully himself by defending McSweeney and No 10 #R4today

It might well however end up torally broken if god forbid, (but increasingly likely) Farage and his cronies run it for 5 years from 2029 🫣

I didn’t let anyone in . I have one vote like everyone else and have never held office within any political party .

The blue in “Blue Labour” doesn’t refer to “Tory” it refers to blue collar . I’ve got the utmost respect for people who do blue collar jobs, but that’s far from my background/culture

My only regret is that the so called “purge” of the hard left didn’t go further and happen under Blair, so that Corbyn and his toxic cronies could have been prevented from seizing control of the party .

Quite extraordinary that a party with 400 MPs doesn’t have at least several potential successors, but I guess it’s a mark of being out of power for 14 years and the catastrophe of the Corbyn years .

What a mess

Not now please potential nuclear war .

We’ve got enough problems right now thanks .

#R4today

Steve Reid putting up a fierce defence of Starmer and his Chief of Staff. Starmer clearly plans on “toughing it out” .

If Burnham had been selected for Gorton and won it I imagine that he would be PM by the end of March.

What a mess #R4today

Maybe another time . I’m off for a drink and dinner now . Pleasant politely chatting/debating with you, although we clearly don’t agree . Have a good evening

To me it’s imperstive that we don’t turn to the left economically . Time will tell ….

I agree about Carns inexperience, but you don’t get to be a colonel in the marines without excellent leadership qualities . My understanding is that he’s a centrist.
I hope that the leadership election doesn’t lead to Labour tearing itself apart again but fear that it might .

My main requirements are that the next leader is a centrist, a good communicator/leader, prepared to spend on defence, fiscally conservative and able to take the fight to Farage .
I’m open to voting for anyone who meets those criteria . It might even be that we have to go for someone like Al Carns

It’s certainly going to be an interesting leadership debate . May the best man or woman win 👍

I disagree, but it will be interesting to see how the (inevitable) leadership debate plays out . My favoured candidate (despite his small majority) is Wes or maybe Mahmood . Yours might well be different I imagine, which is fine 👍

The fiscal rules are not “self imposed” or foolish . They are a requirement of the bond markets .

Any leader who thinks otherwise will rightly suffer the same fate as Truss

If a country doesn’t want to be “in hock” to the bond markets that’s fine, but not when it has borrowed almost £3 trillion

They can shout all they like . There won’t be a general election anymore than there was when Cameron, May then Boris & Truss stood down .

Thankfully it was reported in the Sunday Times at the weekend that Rayner still hasn’t finalised her tax affairs and is still waiting to hear whether she is to be fined .
This apparently could take several months