The significant news is NI Assembly reconvening. A knock on effect from Boris’s majority and a shakeup in NI itself. The left’s obsession with issues that don’t concern people continues unabated. The Big Ben Bong is a bit of fun, national pride. Not worth getting heated up about.
But the sweeping generalisations continue and lessons haven’t been learned. Meanwhile, it’s business as usual at the grassroots.
Swinging bell ends"Bung a bob for Big Ben bongs."
It would appear not.
The dinosaurs still pulling the strings.
Really worrying now. I like Lisa Nandy, but for the sake of the Labour Party, she needs to back out of the race and publicity endorse Starmer. Rebecca Long Bailey cannot be allowed to lead Labour under any circumstances or you might as well extend the Tory lease on Downing Street by at least another ten years.
Nandy would be my first choice as leader don’t get me wrong. But she won’t get the votes that Starmer will. That’s why I believe she needs to play tactically to ensure Starmer beats Long Bailey.I agree re Long Bailey, but not Nandy. A Srarmer/Nandy partnership would be formidable.
Using a football analogy, I think Long Bailey and the others are not up to Championship level, like Jacobs and Massey. We (Labour) needs to be aiming to get back in the Premier League. Starmer and Nandy can do it.
To be fair to Nandy she comes across as the most credible candidate and has done very well in the media rounds. Assured and confident. Far more pragmatic and less ideological that that idiot Wrong Daily. Whether she has the gravitas to take on the role and lead this dysfunctional party at this point in history I’m not too sure.
If the Labour Party and it’s supporters quit patronising voters. With claims they weren’t intelligent enough to make an informed decision. Portraying them as helpless victims in rundown communities. Maybe we wouldn’t have seen working class communities across the country vote Tory.The torags destroyed mining communities, why should tory MP's be invited or included in a working class tradition because they have conned the British public with a wave of nationalism that will further destroy communities in the north of this country. These MP's are sticking their chests out and making demands with a total lack of humility or consideration because they think they have been given the right to do so.
If the Labour Party and it’s supporters quit patronising voters. With claims they weren’t intelligent enough to make an informed decision. Portraying them as helpless victims in rundown communities. Maybe we wouldn’t have seen working class communities across the country vote Tory.
Also worth noting many of the northern Tory MP’s are locals from working class backgrounds. Momentum favoured candidates got the nod with Labour regardless of local connections.
The people of this country are aspirational. That’s what Blair tapped into. All candidates are reluctant to praise their most successful leader yet won’t criticise Corbyn’s failures.
It’s 2020 and yet Labour’s ideologies are rooted back in the 1970’s. They were unelectable then, and they’re unelectable, now.