Bloody Brexit https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61859881 France's Emmanuel Macron set to lose majority - projection
Well, that's a feather in his cap. In a rousing speech to his supporters, Mr Mélenchon said the result marked the moral failure of "Macronie", accusing the ruling party of enabling the far right by refusing to give clear guidance in seats where Nupes was running head to head with Marine Le Pen's party.
Oh dear. Haven't they a history of this sort of thing? SNP threatens own MPs with criminal action over leaked recording The SNP has threatened its own MPs with criminal action after a leaked recording of Ian Blackford defending a colleague who committed sexual misconduct led to calls for him to be sacked. Critics claimed that the launch of a heavy-handed hunt for the leaker showed the party cared more about protecting powerful senior figures than the teenage victim of Patrick Grady, the Glasgow North MP who was found to have inappropriately propositioned a 19-year-old in a London pub. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...pc=U531&cvid=80b03a9717f645158459bf1ba615853f
please log in to view this image ‘He comes over as weak’: Keir Starmer fails to convince Wakefield voters Barbara Hall was enjoying a quiet morning at her senior citizens’ group in Wakefield when word went round that a special guest would be attending. Hall, a retired saleswoman, watched Keir Starmer work the room. “I wasn’t convinced,” she said. “He’s an awkward person, isn’t he? He doesn’t fit in. Boris Johnson would fit in. He would have us screaming and laughing.” Support worker Gary Firm, out enjoying the sunshine with a client on Friday, illustrated Labour’s problem. “I don’t believe in any of the politicians around at the minute,” he said. “I see Boris at the head and yeah, he’s made some mistakes. He’s been pretty dreadful in parts. But on the big picture, he’s done good stuff. So I’d support him.” There is little love for Starmer in Wakefield, who made his third visit to the constituency on Saturday. “He’s a criticiser. He’s not an action person,” said Hall. Caroline Walker, an art teacher, was also unimpressed: “What is it they call him? Captain Hindsight. That’s him to a tee. [He should] come up with something that’s believable. But he doesn’t. He just has a go all the time.” The idea of Johnson having got the “big calls” right is widespread. “I feel that Boris Johnson has handled Covid well. I feel like if someone else would was in his position, they might have not done as good as him,” said Ayesha Ahmed, an 18-year-old college student. She also approves of Johnson extending the right-to-buy council houses: “I think that’s really good, because paying rent adds up to more than a mortgage.” https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...pc=U531&cvid=80b03a9717f645158459bf1ba615853f
To be fair, if they can't find one of their number that's capable of negotiating, maybe they're in the wrong job anyway. Barristers are to walk out from next Monday in a strike over pay that could bring the courts to a halt. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...pc=U531&cvid=a33d9f60b4d243768cba55a2db920f8f
Reading those it's clear that Starmer has failed to get support from the non intellectual part of the electorate. We wil see on Friday morning his the whole thing pans out. Currently the polls are showing a 9% swing to Labour since 2019. My guess is that, if that is a genuine Guardian article and not something faked up then it was penned by a Corbynite.
Lammy now faces SLEAZE Labour the party of sleaze, who so many of them so bad? https://www.express.co.uk/news/poli...ndards-Commissioner-probe-keir-starmer-labour
please log in to view this image The lesson politicians refuse to learn? People are crying out for a leader who is honest about what they stand for It emerged at the weekend that Keir Starmer’s forthcoming speech on immigration will rule out freedom of movement, maybe it’s less depressing when he can’t decide. But it is all pretty depressing. Anyone who thinks they can explain the party’s general timidity on this issue by analysing this leader, with this team, in this context, has a very short memory. Labour has a rich history of rolling over, especially on issues of race, immigration and asylum. It was Tony Blair who barred asylum seekers from working and created a cycle of destitution that persists. Who could forget Ed Miliband’s “controls on immigration” mug (certainly not me, as I still own one. I use it to drink bitter herbs, while doing incantations), or Harriet Harman’s decision to ask Labour MPs to abstain on welfare cuts, while furiously castigating Tory welfare cuts? Who could forget Gordon Brown’s “British jobs for British workers” in 2007, a phrase lifted straight from the National Front, which he always claimed never to regret, and yet we all knew was miles away from what he believed? Even Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott, who were initially so good at taking rightwing narratives head on, faltered on the immigration bill in 2019, whipping their MPs to abstain before a backbench rebellion forced them to oppose it. If a leader fails to oppose xenophobic policy ideas, the press will merely find a front-bench colleague who does, then make hay over the party’s “divisions”. Or it will dig out his previous speeches, from back when he had a spine, and laugh at the inconsistency. It doesn’t matter how much you roll over to Mail or the Express – you’ll always be the same old leftie, only now you’re a lying leftie. There is no sophisticated formula, no elegant alternative to saying who you are. Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist
Would that be the same Zoe Williams that endorsed Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour leadership election? I rest my case.
Bloody buggery brexit. German firms pay the price for Russian energy reliance as distress soars Companies in Germany are at the greatest risk of default compared with their European counterparts, according to the Weil European Distress Index, which looked at data from more than 3,750 listed companies across Europe. Levels of corporate distress in Germany are at their highest point since July 2020, when the world was in the midst of the global pandemic. While countries across Europe are facing a cost-of-living crisis caused by supply chain issues and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Germany has been hit particularly hard. A separate study from German insurer Allianz predicts that the number of German insolvencies will climb by 10pc to 16,130 cases next year. Moreover, German companies that have recently gone through bankruptcy proceedings have the highest level of debt since 2009. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/oth...pc=U531&cvid=bbd1264bb24d43b288c1a290893391ce
It looks like they've found another potential replacement for Dianne Abbott. Labour hopeful 'gets his own name wrong' in bid to become Huddersfield's next MP Labour supporters in Huddersfield were left scratching their heads when an election message for Shabir Pandor, who hopes to be the party's candidate to replace veteran MP Barry Sheerman, began with a reference to "Danny". The online message, which was sent over the weekend, features several sections and begins with "Why I'm standing." Then the opening line reads: "Danny is a Service Manager at Peopletoo." The paragraph continues with information about someone who is clearly not Clr Pandor, the leader of the Labour group on Kirklees Council. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/othe...pc=U531&cvid=bbd1264bb24d43b288c1a290893391ce
It stems from a series of exchanges between Pete and Dunc. Dunc was arguing everything in the media was fake. There was then a post about a peado politician, so Pete asked if Dunc thought that was fake too. Pumpey accused Pete of using *****'s to score points, and got him banned because of it, despite Pete explaining. This is the post that got Pete banned, but the context is not as puppet pumpey tries to pedal. https://www.not606.com/threads/british-politics.383388/page-2695#post-15759142 (1 minute...)
