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‘A shame the news progs and the nurses reps dont mention the rest of their benefits package, like being able to retire at 55 with no early retirement deduction applied to their pension, unlike vast majority of similar private sector pension schemes.’
The reason they don’t mention that is because it isn’t true:
Chezza’s just had his latest (he has quite a few, a Waitrose diet where everything is washed down by a free cappuccino helps) epiphany.
Sunak’s austere policies WILL stabilise the economy, a period of recession will be ending by the time a January 2025 Election arrives.
But it will be to no avail.
Starmer will have spent the last two years doing an even better “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Tory” impression than Blair in 1997 in pursuit of an even bigger majority than Blair secured.
Starmer won’t quite get a landslide, but he will get into power with a working majority (meaning all talk of electoral reform can be conveniently forgotten until perhaps the next time Labour look like losing at the polls).
But Starmer won’t be the hero – he will have a perpetual monkey on his back.
Mick Lynch, by a country mile the most consistently impressive trade union leader in my lifetime, will be the real darling of the Labour Party.
He will have spearheaded the industrial unrest that contributed to Sunak’s downfall and he and Conference won’t ever let “Metropolitan Luvvie Elite Class Traitor” Starmer forget it.
Twas ever thus, twill be forever thus.
Here endeth the Chezza epiphany – the kettle just boiled.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Following the Chester by-election Labour are 1.37 to win Most Seats at the next General Election, the shortest they’ve been since the last Election.
They’re a shade of odds-on at 1.97 to get an Overall Majority too.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Rishi Sunak keeps saying the strikes are an attack on Britain’s workers.
Chezza is confused.
Aren’t the people taking industrial action workers, then?
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"One of his PMQs ‘zingers’ yesterday was about how we’d still be in lockdown if Starmer was PM.
Less to him than meets the eye is looking a more accurate assessment by the day.
One of my better observations, I like to think.
This is a truly surreal period in British politics – older forumites will recall how Pam Ewing woke up and it turned out she had dreamed the entire previous series of Dallas.
My forlorn hope is to wake up and find out I dreamed literally everything that happened since the night of the Brexit referendum.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"I understand it’s irreversible, but would the referendum get the same result now? it really has been terribly divisive.
I wouldn’t say it’s irreversible, they got the result of the first one from the 70s reversed because they didn’t like it 😉
Nothing is forever – but most things are for quite a while.
I suspect Brexit will be no exception.
PS: Homer’s contribution above TERRIFIED me.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Mick Lynch supported brexit and told his union colleagues to do the same. So, in the words of Liz Truss, imo the jury’s out when it comes to him. He also undermines Keir whenever he can, knowing full well that if Keir was too open about supporting the strikes the gutter press would have a field day with it. As would Sunk at PMQT.
Already signs Lynch is backtracking as support wanes. His decision to up the ante over Xmas has backfired.
The TSSA union at Network Rail have voted to accept an improved pay deal in a referendum. The RMT is looking increasingly isolated, esp as support amongst its own members is fast disintegrating.
All of a sudden his tone of voice has softened today, knowing he’s on the verge of having to negotiate.
The TSSA is mainly the signal person’s union and once it reaches 80% to return to work the actual train service i.e. running trains can suddenly increase quite quickly.Lynch is looking like a right chump; from hero to near-zero.
At the end of the day money talks; peeps can only take so much of losing income. Obs if ur an union leader on c£90k/annum u can soak up some ‘lost days’.
The long, drawn out nature of such a strike aint no different from 30-40 years ago; peeps can only take so much.
HMG absolutely right to ‘sit tight’.
Only muppets think they can defeat.As current govt are destined to lose next GE they aint got nowt more to lose. May as well go out ‘fighting’.
Did anyone see the poll midweek saying at the next GE the Tories would be massacred …..even Sunak would lose his seat , it’s quite telling a number of big hitters have already said they arent sitting again ….they don’t want the embarrassment
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I consider Mick Lynch to be, be a country mile, the most intelligent and articulate prominent trade unionist figure in my lifetime – he’s certainly a lot brighter than the likes of Arthur Scargill was.
Politics, a bit like economics and business, is all about spotting a gap in the market.
The Tories, after 12 years in office, have moved further and further to the right.
They have vacated the middle ground which is where Kier Starmer has shifted to in an attempt to not only win the next Election, but attempt to wipe out the Tories for a generation.
This means Starmer has vacated the Left which, after 12 years of Conservatism, was still a valid (though less universally vote grabbing) place to be.
With Starmer entrenched in the grubby job of getting Tories to vote for him, Lynch has become the new hero of the left and the indirect, external, socialist conscience of the Labour Party.
Lynch will become more powerful and influential still if Labour win the next Election because he will never stop reminding Starmer whose interests Labour are meant to be representing.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Blair never budged from the middle ground ….nor will Starmer , it’s the place to be …. to far left or right and you’ll just feel the cold
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Yes, Starmer, like Blair, is all about winning power and staying in power.
Starmer will leave socialist agitation to those who don’t ever have to face the innately-moderate national electorate.
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