Matthew Keane

Only the tories are allowed to do it as the natural party of government...those are the rules

Well said...I feel like I'm screaming into a void atm though....people need to wake the fuck up!!!

The far-right is coming for everything - the BBC is just tip of the iceberg. Give it power and it will take control of the courts, the Electoral Commission, the universities, the school curriculum and all other organs of civic power. The aim is very simple: never losing power again.

Lol why are "young" right wingers such freaks?

Having been in youth politics I can only imagine the utter horrors this is going to lead to.

So Reform get a massive majority on being 1% higher than Gordon Browns Labours Vote Share in 2010...what strange times we live in

The sight of Johnson, Truss and Sunak at the Remembrance day service is a stark reminder of the absolute mess the Tories left behind. Three PM's in 5 years, shambolic.

The fact the BBC Director General, who is a former conservative candidate, is resigning for being "too woke" over some cooked up Trumpist nonsense is quite a stark reminder of the drivers behind the current media environment.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Getting it about 'the boats' right now again in this pub. It's just crushing. It's every five minutes, there's just no respite.

True, but bbc news has been dreadful since at least 2019 imo....hopefully we get a politically neutral person next

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

How ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

So find out now is an outliner for now...still 5 parties above 10% is very rare

Otherwise known as the Hunt Rayner Paradox.

Posh Tory bloke 'forgot to tell' the Parliamentary authorities that he just bought SEVEN flats to rent out and it's all hunky dory.

Working class Labour woman screws up the stamp duty for one flat and she's toast.

The 'Great Noticing' Era Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

It’s as if they think we’ve all been in a coma for the last 15 years, rather than watching the Tories smash it all up in front of us.

Very good on our ‘let’s-not-bother-with-right-wing-racism-or-Farage’s-corruption-and-let’s-blame-Labour-for-everything’ media.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-great-...

I think he could be the next PM....he's Similar to John Major has he had no real enemies as far as I know while Streeting wouldn't be liked on the left for instance.

An excellent column on the importance of effective thuggery in Westminster. Even the saintly Clement Attlee depended on the likes of Herbert Morrison, dubbed the "soft-hearted suburban Stalin" by Michael Foot.

Which one is more English?

He wont win the membership imo but who knows? Phillipson got 40% and most if the left have joined YP and the greens.

I have no idea who will succeed Starmer tbh

Absolute degradation.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Labour needs to actually promote these policies and how it benefits everyone.
Press conferences and using the power of government is required.

AOC

At the risk of sounding corny, history won’t remember who stood furthest left or right, only who stood up.

I think this is more accurate than a lot of people on this website admit, but I also think taking it for granted is the surest way to alienate just enough people that it's not enough

In addition to everything Dylan says in this thread, it’s just a bit tragic for *a government four years from an election* to be saying “they hate him more than us“. That just shouldn’t be your focus four years out!

There's going to be so many tedious UK takes on yesterday's US Election...

So here are my tedious takes:

1. Messengers matter as much as messages
2. There's no inevitable victory for right populism

That's about it.

It looks like the anti starmer mps simply do not have any real plan or alternative really to Starmer.

Starmer will be PM this time next year imo

Thats true...certainly most incumbents are unpopular currently