There isn’t but sadly the press will mobilise the idiots and there are more than you think.
Rachel Reeves has spent a lot of time recently explaining how she isn't going to upset bankers or mess about with non-dom status etc. I'd rather my Labour chancellor wasn't beholden to the same false narratives that the Tories have used to rig the economy.
He's allowing the 'centre' to be pushed further right by not pushing back against the Tories. There's nothing been said or done that would suggest he'll change direction once in power. If anything the evidence points to the opposite. "Weeding out extremism" only applies to the left - funny that...
Apologies for that. I was going to post the Twitter link as a new thread but thought it was too 'throw-away' to merit it. Just shows how little I know...
I didn't claim to call any individual a psycho. If you'd just gone back and read the initial post before diving in head-first you'd have realised that and not gone off on some weird pedantic pursuit of clinical psychopath definitions. I've linked to the post where I explained who/what I was referring to. If you need spoon-feeding then you'll need to go elsewhere. I had you down as someone who posed as an intellectual.well at least we've agreed on your behaviour if nothing else.
I asked a simple question, if you are not calling Starmer a psycho, who are you calling one? You've refused to confirm who it was but it definitely wasn't starmerand then you claimed by calling someone a psycho you weren't really calling them a psycho, despite giving a lose definition of a psycho.
Then you compare a typographic error to claiming calling someone a psycho doesn't mean they're a psycho, make it make sense!
I'd love to continue this, but my god, you don't just move the goalposts, you move the whole pitch to a new town.....you're MK Dons.
I didn't imply anything of the sort and this is the second time I've told you. Stop peddling lies.
Potty and facaetious, I see the problem scrote
I absolutely agree. Bringing who’s a psychopath and who isn’t and posting facaetious responses is derailing this long standing thread. Get back to making this about the latest polls
As a left-winger, I've pointed this out on the board on many occassions - it wasn't the right-wing of the Labour Party that caused a Tory to get the seat in Blyth Valley, it was the left-wing of the local party who spat their dummy out and did little to nothing to help get the prospective Labour MP elected. The net result? A Tory MP in Blyth Valley of all places!
The saving grace is that the Tories used to be very good at putting internal differences aside. The moderates and extremists worked together…but with reform and in a post Brexit-world we see actually that’s gone. The Tory party is even more divided than Labour the extremists have created reform but the Tory party hasn’t reverted back to a little C organisation. So they’re pitching for the same people. The polls are clearly showing this with reform getting increasing vote share.
Same political activists (hard to know which party of course).I agree!
Or it could be added to the 1000’s of threads hijacked by the same people over the last 2 years
That's the intention but I don't think their objective has been achieved.
Why would he say anything now ? He wants to get in Government. All he needs to do is keep his trap shut until election date is called and then not speak about anything contentious that fuels the Tories and their media. The extremism he is weeding out is anything that looks likely to be branded Marxist, anti-semitic, pro-disarmament, terrorist sympathising, etc. All the things that ultimately stopped Corbyn in 2017 despite having a very solid set of policies.
If you start a political thread on social media the chances of maintaining it as a total echo chamber are nil. People will always wish to voice their often opposing views and to do so on a seperate thread would have no context.I agree!
Or it could be added to the 1000’s of threads hijacked by the same people over the last 2 years
As I mentioned above, I thought about putting my original post on a new thread but didn't feel it was a big enough deviation from the normal chatter on here to merit a thread of it's own. I wasn't expecting a six-page character assassination for something I didn't actually say or imply. I will defend myself against the bully-boy brigade though. Especially when they lack the backbone to just admit they made a mistake.
Partly. But if you don't use that power for 'good' then you're doing it wrong. The Tories use their power to feather the nests of themselves and their sponsors - 'good' from their point of view. If a Labour government does none of the things you'd expect a Labour government to do then it's just a wasted opportunity. Power for the sake of power is as utterly pointless as being an inactive opposition.
And that's the crux of the problem. I want a Labour government with a decent left-leaning set of policies that will bring the country to a better place. Just running around with a winners medal is the sort of thing plastic fans get (understandable) pelters for. As Superstu mentioned, the only thing that will come of this is that any failure will be blamed on the left - already in evidence here:
Who spat their dummies out in Durham North West where there was an almost identical overall swing to the Tories?
And here was me thinking that the lefties were spamming the board with anti-starmer threads. How convenient that the narrative changes to suit. Almost as if you make it up as you go along.
