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How are Labour doing after their first 12 months


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On Skinner, i'm just not a socialist and view someone spouting his boring rhetoric and quips all the time in Parliament, getting himself purposely thrown out just jokes. He was basically a mascot by the time Blair got elected, a dancing monkey. Token socialist.

When I have read some books and/or interviews Dennis seemed to come across as an Arthur Scargillesque bully boy who liked to mock anyone who didn't align with him, type of dude desperate for a job on a select committee in the Soviet Union so he can add none believers to a list.

Very similar to Archers actually

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I should explain why I laughed...

When I googled Skinner, who should come up as search recommendations....Arthur Scargill, the shhite.

If it was down to the Scargills of this world, you'd be shovelling coal down some pit, rather than living the life in Norway. :bandit: As it turned out Thatcher was a fooking genius and was thinking Green before the Greens were even born.

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I've got this caricature of Rishi in the sense of words, where he says you are all my brothers or all my family, it's what I see as a false front, a mask, and sadly today to me, he played out that caricature very much how I would have predicted him to behave - it's using words as protectionism of ones personality, where in reality he would never rescue you from the fire, he's the guy that would have run miles away. Very disrespectful.

"First of all, let me say how sorry I am to hear your story. Secondly, I know about D-day; my family had members that lived at the time of D-day. We've got plans that the Treasury have drawn up and properly costed for the next D-day. The Conservatives are the D-day party. Labour will just tax it ..."
 
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Looks like Rishi has apologised for leaving the D Day commemerations to do the ITV interview.

He reckons 'on reflection' it was a bad idea.

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and as usual he read the room wrong, he never thinks things through properly. I'm no great fan of commemorating war, we have remembrance day and that's as far as it stretches for me, but yesterday where was his advisors, we have 24/7 news channels now, and social media, along with devices that contact people within seconds, so there is no excuse for this type of cock up. I'd say he needs to sack someone, but he'll be getting the sack himself soon, so no point.
 
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and as usual he read the room wrong, he never thinks things through properly. I'm no great fan of commemorating war, we have remembrance day and that's as far as it stretches for me, but yesterday where was his advisors, we have 24/7 news channels now, and social media, along with devices that contact people within seconds, so there is no excuse for this type of cock up. I'd say he needs to sack someone, but he'll be getting the sack himself soon, so no point.

Sunak is the archetypal rich boy who has never had to really work or struggle in his life for owt - as such he has made political fame his Holy Grail - it glosses over a large number of inadquacies whilst still pandering to an inflated ego - he's also under the severe delusion that politics is also continually at the forefront of the minds of the general populace ... hence the huge faux pas yesterday ..
 
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"First of all, let me say how sorry I am to hear your story. Secondly, I know about D-day; my family had members that lived at the time of D-day. We've got plans that the Treasury have drawn up and properly costed for the next D-day. The Conservatives are the D-day party. Labour will just tax it ..."

We are a country of Churchill, Boris and Dougal. Ours is a country of ideas, invention and discovery and we are truly the best at national cock ups...did you know my mum owned a chemist!

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Sunak is the archetypal rich boy who has never had to really work or struggle in his life for owt - as such he has made political fame his Holy Grail - it glosses over a large number of inadquacies whilst still pandering to an inflated ego - he's also under the severe delusion that politics is also continually at the forefront of the minds of the general populace ... hence the huge faux pas yesterday ..

Part of life is learning and especially learning from your mistakes in life, I'd like to know what Sunak learned from this cock up and what values it has taught him, remembering this is the guy that wants to bring in National Service and yesterday our King stood in front of a memorial wall and you couldn't but help note the ages of those that died on it.
 
You just know every time he gets up to speak it will be exactly like in the EU parliament, having a go.

I doubt anyone in there will care but it'll still be all over every news channel.


That’s the thing; the media have created this monster, and nothing will stop them feeding it because Farage sells papers. Well alright, not papers, no one buys them anymore; but he’s clickbait as they say.

More people probably support the Greens than Reform, but how much coverage do they get ffs?
 
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and as usual he read the room wrong, he never thinks things through properly. I'm no great fan of commemorating war, we have remembrance day and that's as far as it stretches for me, but yesterday where was his advisors, we have 24/7 news channels now, and social media, along with devices that contact people within seconds, so there is no excuse for this type of cock up. I'd say he needs to sack someone, but he'll be getting the sack himself soon, so no point.

I cannot see how no one advised him not to do it. What about Cameron? Sunak obv asked him to stand in for him. Cameron must've thought it odd and said something. So assuming he was given advice he might not be able to sack anyone I don't know. Out of everyone though I think Cameron would've told him.
 
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Part of life is learning and especially learning from your mistakes in life, I'd like to know what Sunak learned from this cock up and what values it has taught him, remembering this is the guy that wants to bring in National Service and yesterday our King stood in front of a memorial wall and you couldn't but help note the ages of those that died on it.


This is just round the corner from my mum’s house; Southampton’s D Day wall, which US soldiers carved their names in, waiting for the transports to Normandy. It’s quite moving…

https://www.liberationroute.com/pois/866/d-day-graffiti-wall
 
That’s the thing; the media have created this monster, and nothing will stop them feeding it because Farage sells papers. Well alright, not papers, no one buys them anymore; but he’s clickbait as they say.

More people probably support the Greens than Reform, but how much coverage do they get ffs?

A few days ago he was on Nick Ferrari who asked him how many seats Reform were going to win. Farage says I can't say yet but x, y, z and I'll know in a week. To which Ferrari says, can I have you back in a week to tell us. Farage says yes and Ferrari says you promise? I can hold you to that?

Like no **** duhhhhh <doh> <laugh>

I swear some of these ****s are shills promoting him.
 
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Anyway, I'm off to GC, just to see if any one is defending poor ole Rishi....
 
Got bored waiting for the England game.

Popped over to the Leeds politics thread and threw a grenade in.

D Day + 1 <whistle>