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New frontbench appointments.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...bour-reshuffle
I do wish Labour would stop talking about "government in waiting".
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They’ve got a shadow minister for buses. Cool.
I think it’s good to talk about a government in waiting. Reminds people there’s an alternative. They’re not given air time anyway. Not on the bbc anyway, which yet again had a progress apparatchik attacking momentum. They don’t get on the radio the news the political discussion programmes, or if they do they’re always outnumbered.
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I'm still surprised that Labour aren't focussing more on projects they'd get done if they were elected. Investment is the biggest single reason to vote for them, and I had in mind even when I was wavering in May, so why not follow that with having McDonnell or Corbyn or whoever going round the country saying "You'll get this built, quickly". The Infrastructure Commission should be a good source for this stuff.
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I have no idea what Labour Ministers are saying as they go round the country. How could I as It's not reported. I occasionally read what Corbyn tweets. He was in Swindon the other day talking about hospitals. They only make the media when there's something that some Tory thinks is a gaffe. Or the BBC which is more or less the same thing. This government is on life support, because the Tories are terrified of an election, but can't do anything because it's hopelessly split and almost entirely without talent. Should any election happen the Labour Party members will crush the Tories, with social media and shoe leather . Last election I called potential Labout voters, almost entirely without hope, but just because I couldn't bear to let those bastards win without a fight. I laid into an old man with a big blue rosette on the tube asking if he wasn't ashamed to see so many rough sleepers. he must be old enoguh to remember a time when Tories thought it was importamt that people had affordable housing This time I know that the Daily Mail can do its worst, 18 pages of lies on election day- and the Tory majority dropped. I know A Labour victory is within our grasp and I will do everything in my power to ensure it happens- and so will have a million others.
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(That's if any infrastructure project survives the imminent collapse of Carillion of course)
Aditya Chakrabortty as so often is very good on this.
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Ask some rail journalists about Chakraborty's stuff about VTEC.
And this bit.
The dirty secret of PFI and all government attempts to pass public services into the private realm is that the shareholders make profits while the taxpayers remain on the hook for any losses.
To see what this means, take the HS2 rail link, where Carillion this summer was part of a consortium that won a £1.4bn contract to knock tunnels through the Chilterns. If Carillion goes under, what happens to the largest infrastructure project in Europe? What happens to its partners on the deal, British firm Kier, and France’s Eiffage? The project will need to be put back and the taxpayer will almost certainly have to step in.
Imagine that same catastrophe befalling dozens of other projects across the UK and you get a sense of what’s at stake. Jobs will be cut, schools will go unbuilt (just a couple of months ago, Oxfordshire county council pulled the plug on a 10-year schools project)
Oxfordshire cancelled that project he mentions to save cash. Neither of the contractors went bankrupt.
the government’s entire private finance initiative (PFI) model for building this country’s essential services will be shaken to the core.Last edited by Tubby Isaacs; 12-01-2018, 22:19.
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Sensible Grown-up Decent Richard Angell from Progress weaponises a murdered baby from a decade ago to make a (really rubbish) point.
It gets harder and harder to be comradely to and about people like this.
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Originally posted by Tubby Isaacs View PostGovernment in waiting latest.
What's your policy on the EU, Keir Starmer?
We're not the government, and we'll respond to what they come up with.
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- Jan 2012
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- The Hammers, until Mark Noble goes.(he's still there, sort of)
- Garibaldi, dipped in tea.
Originally posted by E10 Rifle View PostSensible Grown-up Decent Richard Angell from Progress weaponises a murdered baby from a decade ago to make a (really rubbish) point.
It gets harder and harder to be comradely to and about people like this.
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Unfortunately, anti-trans arseholes in the Labour Party are making trouble for trans women members, setting up a fundraiser to mount a legal challenge to the inclusion of trans women on all-woman shortlists and in women's spaces. Details here, including how members can support trans comrades.
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And also for antisemitic social media activity.
More amusingly, she's the one who tweeted about "Wes Streeting's secret Stalinist squirrels."
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