Steven Fielding

‘ I love the sound of a Psalm in the morning…’

It’s amazing @skynewsrss.bsky.social went to an actual expert who can explain things in detail on the basis of their precise knowledge rather than as they usually one of the blowhards of the far left and the far right to spill their brains. Were Montie & Owen on the BBC?

It just adds to the friendly ambience.

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You know that he won’t, and he’ll just become beguiled by his golden drapes again.

Zack Polanski Says He Would Try To Persuade Vladimir Putin To Give Up His Nuclear Weapons "It would be sociopathic behaviour to say you wouldn't negotiate with a president or a prime minister."

🤷‍♀️ www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/zack-p...

The Greens are led by an ex-hypnotist with a record we probably all know about, seek to appease Putin & weaken NATO. And yet Labour is still not the party of choice to defeat Reform. What kind of special magic is that?

This will end the war quicker than any humanitarian appeal.

People who stare at the camera unblinkingly while confidently throwing various ingredients (usually cottage cheese, feta, oats & red onion) into a mixing bowl; where on earth did they come from?

There’s still a branch in Totnes, which might say a lot about Totnes.

Up to a point if by that you mean mixing social conservatism with a limited adherence to government intervention. But new labour liberalism had severe limits and could be extremely conservative.

Absolutely. The McSweeney approach is a calcified version of Mandelson’s now largely irrelevant 90s strategy.

I’m not buying the new labour nostalgia, not that it didn’t do good things but it laid the electoral foundations for the party’s troubles. It wasn’t as if they weren’t warned of the possible consequences in 2000 & not by somebody on the left!

They appear to be making (very) modest progress here, but it’s the political strategy which has been catastrophic & is, again arguably, a consequence of the strategy New Labour pursued, which weakened the party’s link to those who would become lost ‘hero’ voters.

I think the idea that they haven’t got a strategy is wrong. It became way too cautious prior to election & is hampered by fiscal constraints some of which are arguably self imposed but others actually exist due to huge govt debt & power of financial markets.

He should be forced to interview Maurice Glasman… forever.

There were Labour canvassers in Gorton who were embarrassed about that claim to such an extent they refused to post leaflets which contained it.

The idea that you voters with the prospect of the Greens legalising all drugs was a direct link back to Mandelson‘s infamous campaign in Littleborough and Saddleworth to demonise the Lib Dems. This is a geriatric, calcified strategy.

Lab’s terrible tin eared campaign in Gorton suggests McSweeney is there in spirit if not in body. It’ll take the exit of more than a few people in No. 10 & a new leader to transform things.

We’re closer to a Reform government than anything else.

But he’s got used to franchising out “politics” to McSweeney and his creatures, it’s like he considers himself to be a monarch that can ride high above such paltry matters.

At my ward Labour party meeting yesterday everybody was critical of the party’s campaign & also of the leadership to a greater or lesser extent. It was a calm, disappointed gathering. But I left thinking that the tide is going out and all we’re doing is watching.

If true, that’s got to be the most extreme example of the tail wagging the dog.

Essentially, it is wait for the changes we have already introduced to be felt as this will give people ‘hope’, especially if we talk it up a bit better than we are doing, and that will be enough for them to see sense and so vote for us. Simples.

Wes Streeting says Labour must 'give country hope' after by-election defeat The Health Secretary, long linked with a leadership bid, called for the party to show 'humility in defeat', and warned against moving the party to the left to take on the Greens

The problem with responses such as this to Lab’s Green problem is it eerily evokes how Conservatives under Sunak talked about how they would negate any threat from Reform. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

There is no point trying to appease this chump of a president, as whatever you do, he will probably come up with three or four different responses over a short period. Best to do what you think is best.

He’s a politician built for long rambling paragraphs but not for short sassy sentences.

Manchester United fans unveil pro-immigration banner aimed at Sir Jim Ratcliffe (Gift Article) The banner read: "MUFC proudly colonised by immigrants", and featured seven international players to have represented the club.

Manchester United fans unveil pro-immigration banner aimed at Sir Jim Ratcliffe www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

I hear that tree has just applied for voluntary redundancy.

Watching Verona v Napoli listening to a Beethoven string quartet while drinking some wine while the world explodes. What to do?