A welcome break of focus for the SNP among other things
Chuckled when I read this
People always say Sir Keir Starmer is dull. But I think that’s unfair. Because, in one respect at least, he’s dazzlingly original. Traditionally, party leaders make big promises when they’re in opposition, and then ditch them once they’re in power. Not Sir Keir. He’s different. He’s ditching them all before he’s even won.
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They’ll have very mixed feelings this morning. Uxbridge should have been an easy win, but Khan’s ULEZ has lost it for them. What do they do? Could be very bad for the London seats.
But on the positive side, Selby shows the red wall is recoverable.
And the unspoken electoral pact with the LibDems worked a treat: that will scare the Tories.
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Tell Sadiq to stop being a massive knob
Come out publically against it and throw him under the bus
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The Tories “won” by 495 votes…
Not a resounding result imho.
But yes Khan was wot won it for them.
I think the Tories will take it as a win, particularly against the backdrop of the other results - This should have been a shoe in for Labour
Rayner has started - said that Londoners cannot afford ULEZ and Labour were not listening
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I am pretty sure that if ULEZ was introduced nationwide it would be the next poll tax and bring down any govt daft enough to try and implement it
Why do you say it is Khan’s ULEZ? It’s nothing of the sort, its a Conservative policy introduced by Boris Johnson. So it’s Johnson’s ULEZ. It’s quite amusing watching the Tory hypocrisy about this. But of course there were few votes to be had admitting this fact, and plenty to be gained by shifting it all on the Mayor, especially when his name is Khan. It always amazes me how people who live nowhere near London start frothing at the mouth whenever Khan’s name is mentioned!
Of course Starmer supported ULEZ up until focus group polling suggested it might be unpopular, then did an abrupt about turn and refused to give an opinion when asked during the by-election campaign. As per usual, the man is utterly spineless and dishonest. And of course if the media in this country were not so corrupt and biased this would all have been made much clearer during the campaign.
The expansion of Johnson’s ULEZ policy was speeded up and imposed on the mayor as a condition set by Johnson’s government for Transport For London getting it’s Covid bailout. So the Tories campaigned locally against something the Party were nationally responsible for. And of course our ‘free press’ campaigns against anything green because it stands in the way of making money. Of course Kahn supports ULEZ and champions it because he considers it the right thing to do. Unlike most of the rest of our politicians he doesn’t back track and disown it just because that might be electorally advantageous for him, a refreshing lack of hypocrisy in my opinion. So the ‘massive knob’ in this case is certainly not Sadiq Khan!
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Well it’s good to see there’s at least one honest Conservative MP. Chris Skidmore, the Conservative MP who led a review of net zero policies for the government has today urged politicians to be honest about policies like the ULEZ extension.
Accepting that the Uxbridge By-election became a referendum on ULEZ, he said,“The reality is that ULEZ was a Conservative policy, introduced by Boris Johnson as mayor and recently agreed by this government to be expanded in 2020 as part of Covid loans to the mayor. It helps no one in politics if we are not honest about this, and the reality of pollution in our cities and the health consequences of this.”
Starmer of course has piled in on Sadiq Khan and blamed him exclusively for not gaining the Uxbridge seat. What a vile person he is, beyond contempt.
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U turn of week - gender Self ID
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Ed Miliband wibbling on about the Coutts affair.
Labour’s Ed Miliband told the BBC that the row was a “bad episode” for NatWest and Coutts but added we need to “move on”.
The shadow climate change and net zero secretary said it was “right” for NatWest boss Dame Alison to resign, but added: “When people try and then sort of make it into a sort of grand conspiracy against lots of people, I sort of slightly part company with it.”
He continued: “I think it was bad, it shouldn’t have happened but let’s not blow it up into sort of the biggest thing ever.”
How he ever got the leadership gig ahead of his brother, I will never understand.
Personally I think he’s right.
If people think Farage isn’t milking the whole thing for his own ends then they need to give their head a wobble imho obviously
Who doesn’t secretly agree with the banks assessment of him?
Man of the people, my arse
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I think the Tories are going to get rinsed at the next eleection, but they will have a lot of ammunition consisting of Keir saying one thing then saying the complete opposite.
Most of the footage will come from the last couple of years.
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I’m not saying he’s right or wrong about Farage and the Coutts thing, although watching left wingers line up to defend Coutts bank is frankly hilarious 
I’m saying he sounds like the clueless inarticulate twat he portrayed so perfectly during his disastrous stint as leader. “Sort of” this, “sort of” that… FFS.
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Insert name of most politicians tbf.
This is something I’ve noticed as well.
https://twitter.com/raphaeldogg/status/1686754389220888577?s=20
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Yeah not great is it. I’ve seen nothing policy/direction/leadership wise that makes me think Labour is a good choice, at this point in time I can’t even see them as a ‘less shit’ choice.
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Absolutely right Scotty. It really pisses me off.
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