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Labour, Liberal Democrats and Geens will NOT support Trump and Israel as their action is illegal given it is contrary to both International Law and the US constitution.
On the other hand, the Conservatives and Reform both think we should support illegal wars because (a) they are both up Trumps backside and (b) they don’t support International Law.
In addition, Reform have promised to spend £2 billion in forming an ICE type agency; they will also abolish the Equalities Act and the Employment Protection Act. As well, they will privatise the NHS to allow American companies to make billions of pounds overcharging for their services.
The question is: do the British public want to allow companies to hire and fire without compensation and have their holidays restricted to two weeks per year? Do they want benefits cut right back so if they need help, well hard luck? Do they want us to be turned into an American society? Well, if they don’t they know what to do in the future.
“The question is: do the British public want to allow companies to hire and fire without compensation and have their holidays restricted to two weeks per year?”
Yes – because the British public are idiots.
Unless there’s another explanation for Brexit, Bozo, the popularity of Farage, etc.
I know I’m a little behind but think this needs airing.
From Dan Hodges column (published Feb 15)
Let us focus on something that’s been submerged. Namely the fundamentals of probity, rectitude and integrity that we have been told – principally by Sir Kier himself – represent the new guard-rails of our national governance.
a bit later…
Now set those words against three specific things we witnessed over the past week. The first was the ongoing attempt by Sir Kier to insulate himself from the crisis over his decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as Washington ambassador when – by Starmer’s own admission – he was fully aware Mandelson had maintained a relationship with the world’s most famous paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The second was his decision to belatedly remove the Labour whip from Matthew Doyle, his former communications director, after appointing him to the House of Lords. Even though Starmer had again been aware Doyle had maintained a friendship with a man charged with possessing indecent images of children – a charge that was later proven.
The third was the news he had summarily ousted his Cabinet Secretary Chris Wormald, and replaced him with Home Office Permanent Secretary Antonia Romeo. Even though Romeo is the subject of serious allegations of bullying and misuse of taxpayers money from her time at the Foreign Office, and multiple Civil Service sources claimed those allegations have not been properly investigated.
So, as I say, what are the rules?
When Starrmer was elected, they appeared clear. Probity in public office had been grotesquely perverted under Boris Johnson, he charged. So restoring the highest standards of honesty, humility and transparency represented his driving mission….
… Then last week, all thhat suddenly changed. Even highlighting these issues had in itself suddenly become a dereliction of public duty.
Starmer’s allies began berating the media for focusing on Mandelson rather than the Government’s policy agenda.
On Wednesday I was chided by a minister for my own part in focusing on Westminster intrigue rather than the Government’s achievements. So this appears to be the new rule. Or the Starmer Rule, if you like. Under the Tories breaches of standards in public office went to the heart of their mismanagement of the nation. But under him, thhey are of secondary importance. Not to be confused with the serious business of establishing breakfast clubs and preventing teenagers from accessing TikTok…..
… During the Labour leadership election he piously demanded: ‘Hear me out! I had 8,000 staff for five years as the Director of Public Prosecutions …. when they made mistakes. I carried the can. I never turn on my staff and you should never turn on your staff’
(about Johnson) …It’s no good the PM flailing around trying to blame others. It’s time he took responsibility for his own failures’ he railed repeatedly. Yet in the past week, this rule too has been inverted. He has turned on – and turfed out – every one of his most senior officials…… As another senior government official told me: ‘I struggle to think of a PM more willing to throw under the bus those who have been loyal to him’
So this is the other new Starmer Rule. The buck should have stopped with Boris Johnson. But there is no need for it to even pause for breath when it’s in the vicinity of himself.
later about Antonia Romeo ….. The new Starmer Rule? Due process not longer matters. Parachute her into the most senior job in te Civil Service regardless.
….Which when it comes to the crunch, the rules governing the Starmer premiership are as duplicitous and hypocritical and mendacious and self-serving as they always were.
good luck to allBlackcountry Kid,
What a load of rubbish you write. The reality is that Johnson took decisions that cost taxpayers millions of pounds through fraudulent covid contracts, whereas all Starmer has done wrong is to fail to appreciate what went on several years before he became PM.
There is a massive difference between merely knowing Epstein and having sex with an underaged girl supplied by him. If you want the true definition of hypocrisy it is the fact than any British person involved with Epstein is pilloried whereas there is no sanction against any American, including Trump.
Another thing we should all remember is that any change made by Starmer is scrutinised by our gutter right wing press whereas any adverse action by Reform or Conservatives is ignored.
It is important to be evenhanded.
I America Murdoch is out to get Gavin Newsom. We somehow need to stop the press from controlling the electorate.
“We somehow need to stop the press from controlling the electorate.”
It’s been going on for decades. If you haven’t done so, try to read Manufacturing Consent, by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, published in 1988.
Waiting for the rightwing media to call out Badenoch and Farage on their u-turns regarding joining the illegal war in Iran… I won’t be holding my breath.
As Starmer rightly pointed out today, the UK would be at war right now if either of those two imbeciles had been running the country.
The right are never wrong … Just missinformed and lead astray
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
*laughs*
Oh the pompous self righteous left will lay the blame for things at anyone else’s door except their own.
Under the present administration
Starmer, his wife and several other high ranking Labour MP’s (Ministers) accepted gifts from a Labour peer who was afterwards granted special access to Downing St.
Then there’s anti- corruption Minister Tulip Siddiq who was caught up in a family corruption scandal in Bangladesh, where she has been sentenced in absentia.
Housing Minister Angela Rayner and her failing to pay her property taxes.
Minister for the homeless Rushanara Ali evicting tenants so she could relist the property with a £700 rent increase.
Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigning after it was revealed had been convicted of fraud for misleading police.
Josh Simmons is the latest to bite the dust.It’s emerged he had commissioned a ‘dirty dossier’ with which to smear journalists who had investigated the finances of Labour Together.
And of course the latest scandal over Mandelson and other things not mentioned here.
ALL in less than TWO years!
good luck to all“laughs” I must admit I had a good one reading Blackcounty Kid’s lastest nonsense. We read a list of alleged minor offences which pale into insignificance compared to the billions the Conservatives cost the taxpayers in fraudulent Covid contracts. If Labour should pick up a few fines then the Conservatives should be in jail, which we assume they are based on the opinion polls. Which is why many are fleeing to Reform; they hope they can put wool over the voters again.
Starmer isn’t perfect , mistakes have been made however if Badenoch or Farage were in charge theyd in army fatiges with us in a war we don’t want to be in just now , Badenoch had another awful pmqs , trying to pin on Labour a rise in fuel duty , duty that’s frozen to Sept , she really is miles off being a leader , as the polls show the public believe that to
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Starmer not a great pm but has been a steady hand especially in the last 2 weeks. Boring is perfect in these times. As for the right wing press. The are an abomination and an affront to democracy especially if you look into their owners. We have it in scotland where the snp constantly attacked. As i said to a relative who is a tory that youd be happy when your free bus pass,free medication and nhs were taken off you. She wasnt aware thet could well happen if the right win in scotland. God forbid reform win a majority as you would soon have horrendous buyers remorse as our friends over the pond are finding out. The two things i said to my sons is dont dont drugs, the heavy sort,ir vote right wing or it will only cause you pain. One is a big green fan the other liberal and im hugely proud of both of them.
The worst tbing about the right at this time is how utterly incompetent they are on both sides of the pond. They are full of folk not fit for any public office but who are utter sychophants to their ridiculous mindsets. Much as i detested thatcher at least she was competent at her job. Since 2010 the tories have been a shambles that reached its peak with the buffoon johnson. Fortunately i feel folk have cottoned on that tactical voting can keep them out of power. I hope this trend continues.
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What’s ‘alleged’ as you put it about the things this government has perpetrated on the public?
Reeves again blames others for the economy despite the latest released figures show ZERO growth for January which is before anything happened in Iran.
good luck to allKid, we all know that you’re one of the biggest RWNJ on here but how can Labour be expected to overturn fourteen years of Tory economic mismanagement so quickly?
Labour are far from perfect, but they aren’t genies either: they can’t just click their fingers to undo the rightwing mess.
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