I certainly agree with Corbyn that Ed Miliband had some good ideas. As Ed Miliband found, that ain’t enough.
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I’m guessing that at some point in the last twenty years, you’d have had someone pitch you on the achievements of the Blair government. I’m also guessing it didn’t help you overcome the things you didn’t like about them. The same applies here, except we can swap achievements for transitional demands.Comment
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First term Blair government did some good things. I was very excited when they were elected. What i didn't like was what they proceeded to do. And not do.Comment
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Indeed, devolution and GFA suggest they had peaked by the turn of the millennium.Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View PostComment
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I remember when he was Chair of the Young Social Democrats.Originally posted by Lucy Waterman View PostComment
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Chuka Umunna’s style
I can only describe his style as classic, elegant and understated. He oozes a cool demeanour, so to dress him too ostentatiously wouldn’t be appropriate for his personality, his job or his position in the community. While I’ve always designed for him what I feel is appropriate – simple clean lines and subtle tones. Chuka has given some guidance with regards to colours as he definitely can’t be seen in anything too outlandish!
Chuka shows that being understated never goes out of fashion. He does this so well that he was crowned number 29 in GQs 50 Best Dressed Men in Britain 2016 – an accolade I’m personally very proud of.Comment
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Someone like Chuka should be smart enough to make their stylist sign an NDA. Most senior pols do. Again, amateur hour.Comment
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It's good to see that they've started to ramp up the content on the Tiggers new website.Comment
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When you say the Tigger's New Website- you're referring to The Guardian., I guess
https://twitter.com/mattzarb/status/1101923968020344835
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Well, I suppose he had to come up with something after no new MPs defected this week. The problem with kids these days, not enough National Service.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/08/natio...umunna-8863687
It takes a special kind of stupid to be trying this on when schools are screaming about the savage cuts imposed on them for the last seven years. IOr perhaps how about making sure kids can get a decent specialist education by scrapping tuition fees? Or are both of these ideas that too fucking radical for this lot?Comment
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What a fucking cuntybaws.
The Polis Violence Reduction Unit's work in Glasgow/wider Scotland (which requires deep coordination with social/court/health/school services) will not be an automatic fit for London and wider England (for one, it involved a lot of stop and search alongside the public health element, and that will be er, problematic in the Met's hands, and devolution and the block grant has meant austerity hasn't destroyed youth services etc to the same extent as in England) but try lessons from that model (itself based on earlier successes in Boston) before National Service macho tabloid bait bullshit.
Glasgow has gone from the murder capital of Europe to merely normally fucked up, halving the murder rate since 2005, now at the lowest level since 1976. Amazingly, London and other bits of England have spiked since 2010 and the closure of youth facilities/cuts in pigs etc through the austerity measures Chuka is doubtlessly intensely relaxed about while he shares chicken wings with his new pals.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 09-03-2019, 03:55.Comment
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He really is fucking this up, isn’t he?
Who knew it was so hard to create a credible alternative to the Labour Party.Comment
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I know she’s not in the TIG yet, just being touted as the next Labour leader, but
[URL]https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1104352010994896897?s=21[/URL]
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There's a lot of truth in that tweet.
Jesus Christ, he's such a massive Gobshite.If you were thinking that might be a poorly worded phrase or a wilful misinterpretation of his words, he doubles down, opining, "Maybe what we’ve seen happen in the Labour party since the late 1990s and through to 2010, was actually exceptional, and wasn’t what the Labour party really is?"
So, Labour suddenly went racist and anti-Semitic in 2010. You know, year we had not one but two Jewish candidates vying for the leadership? In the leadership election (under the old rules, with three electoral colleges) the Milliband brothers were first and second in each of the three colleges, in every round of voting. Such rank anti-Semitism!Comment
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Boles's tweet is a special kind of yeuch. As Dawn Foster said before she was hounded off twitter yesterday, presumably that was aimed at his WhatsApp group but he got his wires crossed. Creepy fucker.Comment
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I'm a very occasional read-only twitter user but DF is worth listening to. What happened to force her off?Originally posted by E10 Rifle View Post
Meanwhile in street politics, I was accused yesterday of being a populist tending to fascism. This was wasn't some hysterical shrill Leaver in downtown Dudley, but a Pat Nevin lookalike in Stratford upon Avon
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Populism is the most lazily and inaccurately overused word in modern politics. Anyway, DF says she left Twitter because of "wild people very pleased a three week old baby died"Comment
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Ta. It has some competition in the misuse stakes though...Comment
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Christ that Guardian "Populism" series is some vacuous shite. Even for the Guardian.Comment
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Gapes and Ryan voted off Select Committees. Apparently it is vindictive that they have left Labour but Labour won't allow them to sit in seats assigned to the Labour Party.Comment
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Remember when these twats would soon strip the SNP of third biggest party status, the Great Wave of Labour defections?Comment
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Ah, February 2019. Such a long, long time ago full of rich promise.Comment
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