Let’s hope a new party forms before then or the alternative is Starmer and Rayner, I can hardly say it without a bit of sick coming up.
I don’t mind Starmer I think he has a straight bat. I respect Rayner for what she has achieved and where she’s come from - she can’t keep her mouth shut though and comes across as a bit stupid. I really want to vote green but pointless without PR. Something that shows what a joke our system is was yesterday - the Bury MP defected after the Tory whip told him if they didn’t back Johnson they would lose their seats when there were boundary changes. How can the party in power change the boundaries to suit themselves and how can they chose a voting system to suit themselves. It needs reform and fast.
I really really hope the serious part of Covid19 is over and Bonko and chums are not lifting restrictions as part of 'save big dog'
We moved to North lincs around 75 and I’m sure Labour changed it to Humberside at that time for the same reason. Worth checking though.
As recently as 2018, the Independent was saying that constituency boundaries were biased in Labour's favour.
The bloke who makes John Major look like a swaggering charisma explosion and a stereotypical northern gobshite. What a choice to have. Not to mention Labour would instantly be consumed by civil war if the big job was available.
I assume you perceive Johnson as charismatic? - a bumbling, lying, unscrupulous, selfish oaf but this is all trumped by your perceived charisma. Gone great hasn’t it this charisma experiment? I’d take brains and pragmatism over Johnson every day of the week but hey I must just be boring coz people like you vote in a bit of a laugh bloke (which is just an act by the way propped up by the likes of the Sun, Mail and Express) I’d also much prefer a northern, working class, hard working real person like Raynor representing us than stereotypical out of touch, eton bullingdon club, over privileged, self entitled toffs who have used Covid to absolutely rinse the country. Your final line is pure guesswork. Nearly a decade and a half of this governments underachievements and disappointments, mixed with a load of scandals and you are still parroting ‘but labour’ like a good little fella. Honestly I despair sometimes.
It's a fact that Labour spend more time settling scores with each other than fighting the tories. Until they sort themselves out they won't win back enough voters to put them in power. Given the state of the current incumbents the ball is entirely in Labour's court, but they're too busy tying themselves in knots about fringe issues like whether a man can have a uterus or not and a country several thousand miles away that the electorate don't give a **** about. Raynor is exactly the kind of gobshite that turns people off Labour. The solution to a **** government is not to replace them with another **** government. I too despair sometimes. 'as long as it's my useless side in charge I don't care if they're useless'.
I live in Essex, after several years spent living in Hertfordshire. Despite this, I spend a lot of time advocating to friends and in laws what a great place my native north-east is. I find Angela Rayner embarrassing. When she was criticised for calling Johnson 'scum', she defended herself by saying 'I'm only saying what anyone in any northern town would say'. I thought that was offensive and reductive. No matter what you think of Johnson, she was rightly called out for using language that wasn't appropriate in public office. There are 10s if not 100s of thousands of working class northern people who do know how to behave in public office, who are erudite, educated and sophisticated, who wouldn't behave in the way that she did. Furthermore, I could go into any town in the south and find just as many people who demonstrate the same kind of attitude as her. I think she demonstrated ignorance and a lack of worldliness in those comments. She plays up to a stereotype, which is harmful to the north, just as much Johnson et al represent one.
The biggest opposition to the PM comes from within his own party. That speaks volumes about this current Labour outfit.
Rayner is like Corbyn in a way. Gets people passionate but is too polarising to lead Labour to a win.
