Itās a piss-takeā¦hereās her Twitter page profileā¦
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What are their other choices?
Keir Starmerās European Labour Party?
Personally I think weāre at the stage where voters are losing faith in all democratic institutions.
Thatās a very dangerous place to be in. A LOT of people have got us there.
Laughing girl returns
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I tend to agree with @pap here, itās not the fact that the electorate donāt learn itās the fact that the electorate have got the best of a bad choice option at the moment.
There is no credible opposition at the momentā¦
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Who would have thought the same train would be in a wreck two weeks running.
To be fair to her, I think Piers might have misinterpreted and misrepresented the 41,000 figure from the FT a couple of times in that interview. He talks about the figure as if it was backed up by data as opposed to being a projection based on data and statistical analysis.
Fair play to her for appearing Iām looking forward to next week when sheāll have all the right figures.
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I donāt think you need to be fair to her.
Sheās just not on top of her brief. She could have come back with what youāve said, or she could have hit Piers with an actual figure.
To just sit there and say āthatās not a figure that I recogiseā is someone not on top of her brief.
I bet her maths teacher had fun. āWhatās this sum, then?ā
āThatās not a figure that I recogniseā, says young Whately.
Maths teacher sends memo later on to careers guidance officer, saying sheās really thick, and only clever enough to be a Conservative MP.
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Say what you like about Corbyn. His politics were genuinely different than whatāll be on offer next time around.
Now weāre back to same kind of cunts, different coloured ties.
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I suspect that our lifetimes will not see another politician with such radical policies given a credible shot at office. He was the Leicester of UK politics, but his manager and board deliberately threw the last few matches at the behest of the PL.
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Weāve had the veneer of democracy. Itās the illusion of choice. Thereās no point dwelling on the flowery words you get pre-campaign. Itās best to look, in general, at what they do.
What theyāve both done since 1979 in government is this:-
- Ceded the power of the British voter
- Sold off public assets at knockdown prices
- Introduced private finance to what would be more affordable as public sector projects
- Given vast subsidies to corporations
- Sold vast amounts of community houses to private landlords or housing associations
- Gone to war without UN approval
- Did anything the Americans wanted (Falklands excepted)
- See the market as the solution for everything
If youāre not up for any of the above, youāre fucked at the ballot box now.
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Just imagine if Diane Abbott had given that reply in an interview. It would have been replayed endlessly for years in the media and on Internet forums.
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Funny you should mention that. I recently took someone to pieces on Facebook for posting a Dianne Abbott is thick type meme on the Athletico Mince unofficial page.
I just didnāt get it. I can understand if people are concerned about specific individuals attaining certain offices. A fuckload of people felt that way about Boris, and arenāt they proving to be right?
Dianne Abbott is no longer Shadow Home Secretary. She wonāt be in charge of the police of immigration anytime soon, so anyone who is still posting memes about Dianne Abbott is either thick, racist, a cunt or a combination of any of the aforementioned.
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Thatās where we differ though, because I donāt believe they were there best of a bad choice, they were the worst of a poor selection, but one that was very successful at conning the public to believe certain issues were more important than othersā¦ without wanting to drag that up, the fact that some issues resonate with an electorate that had been subject to years of austerity, yet believed in the very people who delivered that austerity is a perplexing as it is incredulousā¦ some might argue its down to poor opposition, and certainly that does not help, but its mostly down to very very clever manipulation and spinā¦ it targets those most receptive to simple untruthsā¦ how else can we explain Trumps victoryā¦ or Borisās for that matter? The danger is that their collective son doctors are gleefully rubbing their hands in glees as instead of challenging the incredulity and potentially immoral and certainly dodgy affront to democracy, the opposition is busy blaming itself.
Under Harriet Harmanās temporary leadership, the Labour Party was whipped to abstain when the Welfare Bill was read.
Under Ed Milibandās leadership, we had the unruly spectacle of Labour anti-immigration coffee mugs.
Brownās leadership could have been a defining moment. With the financial crash happening on his watch, it would have been an ideal opportunity to change the financial consensus. Brown didnāt do that. He underwrote the speculators of casino capitalism, allowing business as usual.
Blairās period in government saw Labour building public infrastructure with private money at consumer credit card interest rates, and enabled the spark of continual conflict in this world, which every government since, Labour or Tory, has done its bit to exacerbate.
When the fuck are you going to realise that these are once again, two cheeks of the same festering arse?
Oh I recognise that very well, but unlike yourself who is demanding an arse transplant, I am more of the opinion that when all there is a festering arse, you try and ensure you have ample toilet paper and donāt wipe the wrong wayā¦
ā¦ belief in an alternative system, acknowledging the current one is fucked and was never fit for purpose anyway is all well and good, but implementation of an alternative is impossibleā¦ and not just because the global power broker will never let it happen, but simply because nor will the electorate. As cynical as it may sound, we are ALL fundamentally selfish when it comes to a choices that affect those closest to usā¦ the big con of the globalisation cloven hoofed cunt is that the alternative is worse than what we have nowā¦
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I think the electorate is becoming acutely aware of what they actually need at the moment. If you look at the bullet points I mentioned that apply to both governments, how much of that do you reckon the electorate think they need right now?
The Governmentās current pivot towards their goal being āhaving the capacityā to do 100,000 tests per day, as opposed to actually ācarrying outā 100,000 tests per day could well save Hancock embarrassment/his job. Would be a shame if it was in writing anywhere.
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Yep, I noticed the pivot in the language he was using at the weekend.
That said, this language on the .gov.uk link you posted seems pretty unequivocal.
The UK will carry out 100,000 tests for coronavirus every day by the end of this month, Health Secretary Matt Hancock pledged today.
Sky just said that capacity for tests was only 40,000 a day at the moment with 8 days to go.
So it looks like it might still be a stretch to have the capacity available.
Agreed, now she isnāt close to any sort of office I wish her well.
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think the Labour party thread is missing some of the above?
Anyhow. I was wondering, If I get ill I can now have a test (the benefits of key working eh?) but I only see drive in ones and I donāt drive and my partner has pretty much he said he will not be going anywhere near me if he can help it (Que jokes about that). So is there another option Iāve missed? In the early stages they were sending an ambulance out to do swabs.
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