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Originally posted by Discordant Resonance View PostAre we sure Fine Gael didn't write these ten points?
https://twitter.com/Ciara87C/status/1441061121033523213
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- Aug 2008
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Originally posted by Antepli Ejderha View Post
It's disappeared, what did it say?
The GMB would seem to be very cross indeed that this has been reported
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Starmer was on the BBC London local news last night and seriously, bumblingly unimpressive - like even less impressive than he sounded, say, a year ago. You can see where the rumours that he might want out are coming from.
And yeah, Streeting as leader would confirm the conservative sexism of Sensible Centrism. It's the main reason Starmer got the gig in the first place in a field full of women. I mean, taking all the politics out of it, there was no way Nandy would have been a worse communicator and leader than Starmer, even though she is all over the place politically. Looking "prime ministerial" means looking white, male and middle-aged.
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Originally posted by E10 Rifle View PostStarmer was on the BBC London local news last night and seriously, bumblingly unimpressive - like even less impressive than he sounded, say, a year ago. You can see where the rumours that he might want out are coming from.
And yeah, Streeting as leader would confirm the conservative sexism of Sensible Centrism. It's the main reason Starmer got the gig in the first place in a field full of women. I mean, taking all the politics out of it, there was no way Nandy would have been a worse communicator and leader than Starmer, even though she is all over the place politically. Looking "prime ministerial" means looking white, male and middle-aged.
I shall now also point out that every black woman who has ever contested a national leadership election in the Labour Party has finished dead last
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Good from McDonnell
The fear is also that the public may now have a settled opinion of Starmer and, judging from the polls, it’s not one that believes he is a prime minister in waiting. He has abandoned the platform on which he was elected Labour leader, sidelined much of the broad team that got him elected and has reached for the Blairite playbook and resuscitated Blair’s old crew of Peter Mandelson as his consigliere, combined with an appetite for internal factional purges that makes the Kinnock era look tame.
The result is we are witnessing something akin to the performance of a Blairite tribute band with the same old stunts and strategies being rolled out on schedule but with a great deal more venom. It starts with setting up a confrontation with his own party members to demonstrate the strong leader, exercising mastery over his party. Serious political analysis within the party is replaced with meaningless statements that have been focus-grouped to absolute banality. In prospect is a policy review that subjugates a meagre policy programme to the lowest common denominator demands of the rightwing media, big business and the City.
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