Ah yes, that national renewal which worked absolute wonders for communities based around coal, steel and shipbuilding **** out of here
Only putting this here cos the Solomon speculation was moved here... he has issued a statement on the spurs sight saying he's still injured
Amy Schumer is one of the 450 signees of the "Jonathan Glazer is an raving antisemite" letter, having previously been one of the first high profile professional victims whose life has become so hard since Israel started openly committing genocide in Gaza
Zone of Interest (Jonathan Glazer, 2023) https://bsky.app/profile/efinkel.bsky.social/post/3ko2pbsxvj32t ...and because I'm not sure how Not606 will handle Bluesky
That's behind a paywall and I'm not a Telegraph subscriber, which will surprise nobody. She simply didn't say that she'd be embracing Thatcher's policies, though. Feel free to quote her doing so.
BBC and ITV consider it newsworthy enough to report, on their main news programmes, that two royals have been seen……walking!! Somebody even covertly recorded it on their ‘phone. Those bastions of inherited wealth and privilege can walk? Wow. They can wave too, apparently. Although I’m not sure what they can do beyond that. I’m baffled that we need to be told this at the expense of issues of importance and relevance which could be reported. But as our society seems to be obsessed and entranced by people who are on the public eye - for no other reason than they are in the public eye- I guess I’m in the minority on this one. But more worryingly or me, these people who find this newsworthy can vote
See also The Independent, the i, and the Daily Record For some strange reason The Grauniad has kept their lip buttoned, outside of their news feed...
All three support exactly what I've said. Reeves explicitly rejects what Thatcher did in her speech, yet some journalists are saying the opposite. “And unlike the 1980s, growth in the years to come must be broad-based, inclusive, and resilient." Feel free to quote Reeves herself, though. Where does she claim to be the next Iron Lady?
Rachel Reeves says Labour wants ‘inclusive’ version of supply-side policies that followed Thatcher’s election in 1979 Good morning. Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, is delivering the Mais lecture today, an annual City of London event where someone from the world of finance is invited to give an hour-long, heavyweight address on economics. (It’s called the Mais lecture, not the Mais speech, for a reason.) It’s a very presitigious gig, and the organisers like to invite someone powerful and important. It seems they didn’t want to hear from Jeremy Hunt. We won’t get the full text of Reeve’s lecture until later, but Labour has released some substantial extracts in advance and there are two elements of particular note. First, in news terms, Reeves is announcing plans to rewire the Treasury to put more focus on achieving growth. Larry Elliott has the details here. Second, in political positioning terms, Reeves is aligning herself with Margaret Thatcher. She is stressing the need for supply-side reform, and she is arguing that Britain’s challenges are similar to those faced in 1979. She will say: We have found ourselves in a moment of political turbulence and recurrent crises with the burden falling on the shoulders of working people. With at its root, a failure to deliver the supply-side reform needed to equip Britain to compete in a fast changing world …. I remain an optimist about our ability to rise to the challenges we face. If we can bring together public and private sectors, in a national mission – directed at restoring strong economic growth across Britain. When we speak of a decade of national renewal, that is what we mean. As we did at the end of the 1970s, we stand at an inflection point, and as in earlier decades, the solution lies in wide-ranging supply-side reform to drive investment, remove the blockages constraining our productive capacity, and fashion a new economic settlement, drawing on evolutions in economic thought. But Reeves will also stress that in some respects she does not want to follow the Thatcher model. She will say that Labour wants “a new chapter in Britain’s economic history” but she will add: And unlike the 1980s, growth in the years to come must be broad-based, inclusive, and resilient. Growth achieved through stability – built on the strength of our institutions. Investment – through partnership between active government and enterprising business. And reform – of our planning system, our public services, our labour market, and our democracy. In other words, she’s offering inclusive Thatcherism. This does not seem to be going down well with the Labour left (more on that soon), but Labour’s campaigns team will probably care more about the fact that they are getting positive coverage on the front page of the Daily Telegraph. That's where she's embracing Thatcher's economic policies Economic policies which saw mass unemployment, the GDP shrink, the UK's production base crash, and a young Gideon Osborne think "Hmmm..."
That's literally a quote from a Guardian journalist, a paper which you slagged off earlier. https://www.theguardian.com/politic...sing the need,the shoulders of working people. Still no quote from Reeves claiming to be the new Thatcher. Just some claims from a pro-Corbyn Brexiteer, who still thinks that Brexit is working.
The fact Reeves' right hand Darren Jones was doing the rounds yesterday morning making Thatcher comparisons is not a coincidence But apart from reeves' underling drawing comparisons to Thatcher, the press being briefed about the Thatcher comparisons prior to reeves' speech (as covered by the Guardian, Independent, Times and Torygraph - where you won't find anyone pro-Corbyn - all previously linked), and the fact the policies are straight out of Thacher's playbook, no, absolutely no reason to believe that Rachel Reeves decided that instead of economically illiterate bollocks about national credit cards or helping balance the household budget when she was eight, instead she'll just pretend that Thatcher did good things for the economy
