Nothing is going right for this govt on borrowing, inflation or growth so change the narrative. We have had similar figures for the whole of the last govt including a double dip recession. Austerity does not work. Start spending to produce growth but most of all make most people better off.
So here in southern England we have lost over 3 hrs of light since mid June. 1.5hrs in the morning and same in evening. Thats a lot of light lost. And another month will be worse. Why we don’t put clocks back at end of Sept I’ve no idea. So we have whole of Oct with dark mornings.
So Isak is a rat but Wissa is a Toon. Hypocrisy alive and well in Newcastle.
So the “hero” Steve Parish turns out not to be. “Fighting” for Palace to be in the Europa league rather than the Conference league - for the money. Trying to sell his captain - for the money. Why he is the football equivalent of Farage- appealing to the masses while he screws them.
Watch Hojland succeed at Napoli. Watch Anthony to continue to succeed at RBetis. Hojland for Ballon d’or in a year? Watch Utd’s new keeper struggle. Then wonder what’s going on until you realise this has been going on since 2014- when the Glazers took over. Then put 2 and 2 together.
Question: if all the asylum people in the Epping Forest hotel had been white would there have been any protests at all?
Rangers are like Man Utd - crap and esp under current manager - but they will raise their game for Celtic.
St George: born in Turkey.
100% that Starmer will lose the 2029 election. That much was clear from his first 6 months. Main reason apart from this govt’s incompetence and ceding of ground to far right is of course press support for Farage. He will give them what they want - lower taxes for wealthy.
We can all complain about the dumbing down about politics here and in US esp the election of Trump, Brexit and the rise of Reform but surely the biggest and worst example of a fracture in our political narrative is parents not vaccinating their babies. I mean wtf!
For Clegg the stuff about tuition fees does not bother me at all. It was more his support for unnecessary austerity measures which created a double dip recession and the consequences we are all still feeling today . Lib Dem’s lost any degree of respect and dignity with support for extremism.
Hands up who didn’t think Man Utd would rescue themselves in the last minute?
The film Keir Starmer and Nick Clegg should watch over and over again is on Sky this pm. The Bridge on the River Kwai with the immortal line at the end said by the Alec Guinness character, Col Nicholson- what have I done.
Turns out St George was born in Turkey.
Why is no one in football joining the dots regarding Man Utd? Why are the owners being excused of any responsibility . On Sky just now Simon Thomas thinks it’s de ja vu regarding their failures but still won’t criticise the ownership. It’s toxic and corrupt and it starts at the top.
Man Utd owners and hierarchy are intrinsically linked to failure. They can’t sack Amorim as the whole corrupt edifice will be questioned- the Glazers loan to buy the club, the siphoning off of money to give to family members and the toxic nature of Ratcliffe’s tenure. They can’t risk it.
So Farage says it’s not genocide in Gaza. So we know where he stands then. Wonder if he’d say that if Palestinians were white and Israelis brown?
In 2 or 3 managerial appointments time Ruben Amorim will be seen as a great as Solskjaer is being seen now. This is not about managers but the toxic owners. The club is run appallingly from top to bottom. Glazers and Ratcliffe need to go. Any businessman seeing brexit as a good idea is flawed.
Why do Andrex only have Asian looking people needing to go for a poo at work/school?
Why is energy cap increasing when it’s been low since April? Is it because in Oct they put the prices up so shareholders get a big dividend for Xmas? We are paying the highest in energy costs in the whole of Europe.
And so it goes. The cash cow that is Britain for businesses, retailers, energy companies- rinse and repeat. Now the energy cap is set to rise by more than expected after rail fares rose by …more than expected. By the end of the autumn interest rates will rise as banks get in on the act.
Wirtz is fast becoming one of the most unnecessary purchases. A fine player but because he’s neither midfield nor striker I’m not sure where he fits in. Accommodating him has left us so open. If Mac is available I’d play our best midfield 3 from last season with Gakpo Ekitike and Salah up front.
Without the UN and many western countries Israel would not exist.
Retailers here in UK are lying to the public if they say they need to raise prices. They are swimming in profits.
You were v unlucky and deserved at least a point. We lacked what was Slot’s trademark last season - control. We looked like the team playing with 10.
Slot has some serious thinking to do. We cannot accommodate a player - Wirtz- who is not a striker or a midfielder. We must play 3 working midfielders - Szob/Mac/Grav - against Arsenal. We cannot persist with this imbalance.
Is this Trump as POTUS in 2035?
With those famous words Maxell’s recent statements about Trump have the whiff of “she would say that wouldn’t she”. A convicted underage sex trafficker faced with potential pardon , pardons the felon in the White House. Couldn’t make it up.
Er… no . That’s the filtered view from your campsite.
Proof that the so called debate - it isn’t anything of the sort as it seems one way traffic - is unhinged comes with news that people protesting are unaware of difference between asylum and refugee. It’s actually not even about immigration. Instead it’s all about skin colour.
Why not protest in support of This Palestinian people in Gaza. Why put “action” on the end?
The invective aimed at anyone not white British by the likes of Alison Pearson is incendiary even by her extremist standards.
There must be Nuremberg like trials for both Netanyahu and Putin. If not then the world has lost any moral authority whatsoever. The key of course is the US. Whilst Trump is its president morals are absent.
Israeli govt are famine deniers.
So a convicted sex trafficker excuses a serial sex offender. Who knew?
I genuinely believe that when Osbourne and Cameron took over in 2010 (and remember they inherited an economy that was recovering from the financial crash) they looked at things and decided they’d make it better for just the rich so gave up on the economy being about the national interests.
Same in Britain. Ratio is well beyond justifiable.
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It’s not too great a step to think that a lab MP or even minister will be protesting with these thugs outside the hotels.
Israel govt says there is no famine in Gaza despite all the evidence including there own saying 83% of deaths are civilian. Israel govt are behaving like Holocaust deniers.
Russia rules out European troops in Ukraine. Yep you read that right. Sort of like France saying to Britain you can’t have any US personnel in Britain.
Basically the very rich have had a field day for decades. So whilst the rest of us have suffered from austerity Brexit the pandemic, cost of living +high energy prices they have seen incomes rise - yes RISE! And then when they’re asked to contribute they react like you’re going to amputate a limb.
I can see my breath this morning for first time here in southern England since Feb. Just 9 degrees this morning - that’s 5-8 degrees colder than it has been at 7 in the morning for ages.
The very definition of “client journalism” they should be looking out for the people of the USA but instead they are looking out for the POTUS
Football joins politics and business in rewarding failure with the appointment of Russell Martin as Rangers manager. Who in their right mind would make this appointment.
Trump the peacemaker eh? As long as the peace is to the advantage of the aggressor.
Prices rising is the biggest issue for middle and low income earners along with access to health care and poor council services. If the govt doesn’t get a hold of this they have a problem. Britain is a cash cow for retailers and the finance sector as price rises are followed by interest rate hikes.
Here we go again as food prices in shops start to rise again. Amid rampant profiteering most British people will face further pressure on their megre wages with rail fares set to rise by almost double inflation. Before long energy companies will be putting their prices up too.
Anyone think that Putin has a double or even doubles and that he has seemed more animated at most recent talks.
Most of above perfectly fine if he was a talk show host but he isn’t and so it isn’t fine.
Yep. How about this rather than Ukraine could get peace if it wants it. It can’t but Russia can. Only one country can stop this war and that is Russia.
Trump is an American president who deals in small talk. How rich you are or how rich he can be. How you look and whether you suck up to him. He likes blondes so the Italian PM sat next to him. But at the same time he is allowing despots and dictators to gain acceptance. Very worrying.
The rw narrative put into action in the UK particularly since 2010 of austerity, cuts to public services, low wages and no growth has not worked yet we still have its advocates in govt like Streeting at the health dept, an obsessive private enterprise nutjob. It doesn’t work and never will.
We now have a US president who rewards aggression whether in the Middle East or Eastern Europe. He doesn’t care as long as he can get his hands on mineral wealth or real estate.
Ukraine issues order to Trump. No tariffs. No setting budget. No military spending . How would Trump like orders from another country?
What is possible is the unheard of possibility of the US sending support to Russia.
Trump (not the president of Ukraine) rules out Ukraine joining NATO
Zelensky could end the war immediately if he wants to says Trump. But only if he gives up land and sovereignty- something the US would never do.
Exactly!
Fully expect Trump to have another go at Zelensky saying he should give up land to Russia. Zelensky should retort -would you give up Texas and New Mexico if Brazil invaded?
So all Man Utd supporters have renewed their season tickets I see. So much for the protest against Glazers and Ratcliffe. Hypocrites
Oasis are the Nigel Farage of pop. Leading people to rebel against an establishment they are part of, making millions from poor working class people whilst maintaining they are working class. In the end hypocrites is the best description of them.
Imagine Mexico invading the US annexing Arizona New Mexico Texas Florida and the Carolina’s. Brazil steps in to help but only to have talks with Mexico to which the US is not invited. Imagine.
Thank you very much Vladimir says Trump to Putin. So he thanks a guy who has invaded a sovereign country. You would not hear Nixon Reagan or Bush utter those words- they’d barely set foot in the same room as Putin. Trump being played. Why? Well money basically and probably sex.
Trump’s been played again by his benefactor and pimp.
That’s a new one for me. Centrist plank. Wow. Intrigued as to how you arrive at that conclusion given my views but I guess left and right is quite nebulous if you’re one of them.
Not what I’ve heard and seen. Putin is seen as anti USA so is supported. He is supported by the left because he is also anti Israel.
How Lab are even thinking of reducing regulation I don’t know. To say they don’t learn from history is an understatement. And this is not about the Lab party’s election chances this is about the whole British economy.
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Trump threatens severe consequences if Putin does not agree a truce in talks involving the aggressor and its supporter but not Ukraine. What will he do? Scweam and scweam and scweam?
PSG about to be done over by the second average London team. How embarrassing.
Thought you may be an unreconstructed leftie. You’ve just proved it. My views are far more radical than yours. Left and right wingers are ultra conservative. They only like democracy if it suits them and are all anti EU.
I think not. Corbyn was one who disputed the Salisbury poisonings verdict. Many on the left sympathise with Putin purely because he is anti American
Since the Johnson appointments- how can a PM be allowed to appoint bbc chair and DG?- the bbc has become the poodle of the right, even to the extent of cosying up to Farage.
The govt - a Lab Govt remember- will deeply regret proscribing PA esp when it sees in custody retired magistrates, doctors and a whole swathe of middle Britain finding themselves being treated as if they’re Al Queda. Yet another own goal to add to WFP and welfare cuts. When will they learn?
Just stand outside a newsagents in a poorish working class/lower middle class area and count those coming out with a newspaper and tell me social media has taken over news feeds for most people. It’s a lie perpetrated by the right. And most of those newspapers are right wing.
The right wing of the Lab party - the so called blue Lab - together with the left have left the party without any progressive ideas. Claire Fox a former revolutionary communist party member was elevated to the Lords by Boris Johnson because she supported Brexit. The left incl Corbyn support Putin.
If he was a pragmatist he’d look at the tax take and employ more HMRC staff - cut under Johnson (can’t think why😊) or look at austerity and realise it’s hit the same people for 17 years. But he won’t because he’s under the thumb of the Tory press. They say jump and he says how high.
Correct. I thought he was a pragmatist but how wrong I was.
Be good if for once our press barons had to live through what they preach like potholes or more homeless or more mentally ill people not getting a service but no they’re in some tax haven writing this nonsense gratefully sucked up by a subservient readership.
Yep and instead of adopting a slowly slowly catch the monkey approach the left put people off a left wing cause. Having said that Starmer’s pragmatism or some would call it reactionary approach gives pragmatism a bad name.
We are in love with the rich. Look at how we love the royals, popular soaps on rich families. This is of course largely the result of what we read in our daily press. They are largely owned by rich non domicile people pushing anti people/pro rich stories. And the left acquiesce in this eg Brexit
Exactly. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster. And the left have to take their share of blame. Even now there’s left wingers still believing in it like Mick Lynch of Aslef
They are doing it themselves without any help from enemies. The latest is Reeves offering the finance sector even less regulation. (They never learn do they)
Since 1979 and certainly since 2010 the whole way society was ordered and run was utterly changed with those already rich benefitting from govts which sucked up to them and gave them obligation- free lives to live in a society taking benefits but having to offer very little themselves.
Where the Tories were around time of Sunak I suspect
Reform are a more extreme version of the tories. If people think 14 years of the tories were bad have no idea how much worse Reform will be. They applauded the Truss budget ffs.
Yes there is. That is the narrative of the Tories. Firstly Brexit has lost us 4% of GDP then there’s uncollected taxes mainly from those better off (£36bn in 2021/22 alone) . Then there’s austerity which is aiding low growth. Reeves is Osbourne 2
It’s that but also the economics - what part of 15 years of austerity leading to no growth do they not understand.
I really do not know. I’m anti Brexit and above all but also in favour of widespread political and constitutional reform.
I know Lab supporters who have supported them their whole lives -30/40 years who are deserting them. For myself I’m disenfranchised- I can’t vote labour, would never vote Lib Dem after 2010 and greens have no chance. Labour need to tackle people who have seen their incomes rise since 2010.
The 2 cheeks of same arse was penned by the appalling Galloway who along with Corbyn and left in general have done progressive politics a massive disservice. There’s also Brexit which the left support and seemingly Starmer too
Agreed but they’ve also continued austerity and people on medium or less incomes are no better off. There’s nothing being done about utility costs or cost of living in general. With public services being cut people are thinking this is Tory lite. Also rhetoric from Starmer on race is like Tories.
Care to add any explanation or just leave it at that. Don’t know what “rubbish” is about
Don’t know about tories but I think we can stop doing the “lab should do this or lab should do that”. They won’t. They are exactly the same as the last govt in tone, in policies and in rhetoric.
Natalie? Was lead singer wasn’t she?
Mexico invades the US and the peace talks involve Mexico and Brazil but not US. Ok or not ok?
The fight for truth is on says the BBC. But they are not even starting to look for it. For example was the shooting of Trump last year staged? The BBC don’t appear to be interested in finding out.
The messaging from the US on Ukraine like so much else they are saying on the world stage at the moment is contradictory. They want Europe to step up but are excluding both Europe and Ukraine from talks about Ukraine. One minute Trump is critical of Putin the next he’s all pally with him.
Presumably a demo in support of genocide in Gaza with placards reading “I support Israel Govt’s actions in Gaza” would not lead to any arrests?