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“… which he has regrettably achieved.”
Could be worse – it could be your mate Nige, or that imbecile Badenoch.
The Tories are still standing with an empty petrol can … Asking who started the fire , Farage is prob horing himself somewhere for cash , We will get a dose of reality today and we to take it onboard , we need to pay more tax and it needs to be spent properly
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
Tighten the public service budgets first.
The economy does NOT need another dose of tax rises, only for the increased revenue to be dished out for public sector pay rises with no productivity agreements.
The other week Burnham said that better funded public services will drive growth🤣 …for the birds Andy.Means test all benefits.
Cut out the payments for trivial tik-tok driven ‘illnesses’.
Add timeouts for those claiming with trivial stuff.
Close immediately the public sector defined benefit pension schemes (legal 60-day consultation).Hard evidence that HMG is going to act, will drive down bond yields, resulting in lower interest rates.
Get some money back into workers’ pockets.
Latest YouGov shows Reform back in the lead, up 4 points apparently, at 25.
A fickle electorate at the mo, for sure.
Unite already challenged Burnham this morn, over the triple lock. Oh dear, he is up against it.
Healey, the Chancellor yday, clueless, like Rayner et all.
Healey spoke of a ‘new age of industrialisation’, without saying what it actually means; it’s a meaningless nonsense.
The idea Britain can reindustrialise lumbered with the highest industrial energy costs in the world is for the birds.
The rush to Net Zero, to the exclusion of all other issues, means British industry pays on average £238 per MWh for electricity versus £138 in Germany, £122 in France and £65 in America.
British manufacturing companies paid £17billion combined in energy costs in 2024; if they’d been in the US their energy bill would have been £5billion. As long as that’s the case there can be no British industrial meaningful expansion, whatever the politicians promise.
Britain is a services superpower. We export more services – legal, financial, consultancy, audio-visual, digital – than any other country in the world, bar America.
Concentrate on what we’re good at, rather than hanker for a lost industrial past.
Liam Sides, director of Oxford Economics, said high energy costs, trade barriers and skills shortages were major obstacles to reindustrialise the UK “I cannot think of an advanced economy less suited for an industrial resurgence”, he said.
Burnham commits to electoral reform.
Brilliant move – FPTP is a total anachronism and should have been binned years ago.
“Could be worse – it could be your mate Nige, or that imbecile Badenoch.”
I must have missed it when I have ever praised either of those people.
My take on our political class is rather like the great Mr Mackay in “Porridge” towards the prisoners:
“I don’t want you to think there is any favouritism here. I regard you all with equal contempt”.
“Burnham commits to electoral reform.”
He needs to win under FPTP first.
Based on what I have heard about his speech, it makes me all the more convinced he should call a snap election while his poll numbers are reasonably good. Issues such as abolishing the triple lock are not likely to be popular, so he may as well go for it while the outlook is reasonably good for him.
You only want a snap election to land your bet.
Anyone with any political nous would advise Burnham to wait until 2029, for reasons I have already explained.
Admit it: your mate Nige will never be PM; just go upstairs and cry on your pillow.
Why , the Tories are lost without a map , Reform can’t help shooting themselves in the foot , he needs to remain calm and hope things keep getting better , it slow but it is , at some point the Iran war will end ( Trump even in his demented mind needs it over before November ) sometimes the hardest thing to do is nothing at all
Pick 3 on Saturday champion 2025/2026
“You only want a snap election to land your bet.”
That is part of the reason, yes. But I am resigned to that losing now.
As I said at the time, it was purely speculative. Instead, what I was thinking about in my earlier post was the spring. I still wouldn’t be surprised if it happens then.
“Admit it: your mate Nige will never be PM; just go upstairs and cry on your pillow.”
Rather lame trolling. 1/10. Must do better.
I doubt his figures will get better, HDLG. The economic outlook is not good and as you say the international situation is uncertain.
I believe it is very unlikely that he is going to have a surge in popularity. If it looks like he can get some sort of mandate in the spring, he may have to go for it. Otherwise all his talk today is hot air.
I’m far too long in the tooth to take Party Conference speeches with anything other than a biggish pinch of salt but I thought Burnham’s today was pretty good – relatively speaking – and promising at least.
The ‘triple lock’ to be reduced to a ‘double lock’ with savings invested in a nascent National Care Service: thumbs up from this OAP.
Some sort of PR to replace FPTP: thumbs up once again.
Time to forget Burnham’s somewhat dubious method by which he rose to the top and wish him well methinks.
The alternative stinks.
“Burnham’s somewhat dubious method”
How was it in any way “dubious”?
BTW, for the very slow on here, I am not a Burnham (or Labour) fanboy – I have explained many times that I was a Green Party member for many years, and only cancelled my membership over their approach to legalising cannabis.
“If the triple lock never existed and the proposed change was what we already had, I don’t think many would be complaining.”
The problem is that it’s difficult to take something away once it’s been established in society. Despite how bad they are for both individuals and society, try making driving or alcohol consumption illegal…
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