That would be an extraordinary story wouldnt it!. Highly improbable though I would imagine. I might be wrong but I assume it is the Labour MP who was co chair of the leave campaign. She was regularly seen in front of that bus, up and down the country I think. If I remember correctly shortly after the winning leave vote she told us the figure was just an example and we shouldnt expect it! Before anyone acuses me of dragging Labour into anything unfairly, I am simply pointing out the cross party exageration that went on. That picture is always put up by anti Boris / conservatives, but it always grates on me that the Labour MP is absolved of accountability, it seems. Makes me quite angry actually...
And nobody knows who she is, whilst everybody knows who Bonko is. Some Tories were against Brexit, some Labour were for, hardly surprising as they were given a free vote and the whole population was split 50/50 more or less. Clutching at straws to try to implicate the Labour Party in a campaign organised by Bonko and the odious creep Gove doesn't make me angry, it evokes pity to be honest.
Centrica operating profits up to £3.3bn while people are having to choose between heating their home or putting food on the table. This government are a ****ing disgrace for not doing anything about this blatant extortion.
It's the way Sunak is so blasé in the way he just shrugs these things of with his pre-planned answers. There's zero sincerity or compassion it's just like a game to run down interviews without being caught out then grinning at the end.
Taking a nationalised company owned by the population (where operating profits helped keep prices down for the whole population) , and privatising it (so operating profits are shared amongst a few shareholders) I would think that this government is highly delighted with what has come to pass. A perfect example of the neoliberalism Maggie and her pal Pinochet advocated.
Unbelievable Jeff, need to get rid of these tories Centrica boss about to take his bonus of over £1m. No morales
How on earth is it clutching at straws? She was the co chair and stood in front of that bus, smiling. If she had no hand in organising that campaign, as the co chair of it, then what did she do? Of course she had a hand in it. You seem completely unwilling to accept any Labour MP has ever been on the wrong side of anything in the last 12 years. The tories are an absolute shambles. Yet they have had power for 12 years because for the most part Labour have offered less of an option. That bit also makes me angry, as someone who wants to support Labour.
It's broadly true that there was less support for Brexit amongst the Parliamentary Labour Party but there were notable MPs who were pro-Leave; they had the Labour Leave group which had a core of 5 MPs and this didn't include all of the leavers in the Labour Party. Gisela Stuart, for example, wasn't a member despite chairing the official leave campaign. Where it all gets a bit silly is that there was huge support for Leave at grassroots level and amongst then Labour-voting public. When I pointed out on here that Leave was anti-internationalist and therefore antithetical to true Socialism I was told that I was wrong and that the EU was a right-wing organisation. There was also a lot of complaining that Labour MPs who, after the referendum, continued to be on the side of Remain were being disrespectful of the democratic process.
What really boils my p*ss is they’ve made a load of that by doubling and trebling the daily charge. I can’t see where that charge is linked to the market price of the raw material. My p*ss is more boiled that ofgem , who we thought were there to help us, work with them to fix and rubber stamp their prices
That vote was a fraud, few knew what the consequences would be, not even the two buffoons leading the charge.
Who came across extremely well throughout the entire campaign. One side wants the narrative to be 'dafties fell for Johnson and Farage's bullshit' when that's simply not true.
If you Google her, she went into the Lords as a crossbencher, no longer labour. She's just landed a plumb role with the backing of the tories.
Exactly. Everyone knows that the Brexit vote didn't follow party divisions but when you see it discussed now it is almost always presented as a left versus right (if not Labour v Conservative) issue. Even the General Secretary of the Islington Soviet was a noted Eurosceptic. This is what I find so bizarre about the current state of politics (and the more long-standing blind adherence to one party). Most issues are more complex than a simple left vs right, red vs blue situation but people are desperate to cast everything as that.
