Mandelson failed security vetting. Starmer says he didn’t know

Casdon
Is your council not having a pothole blitz (their words) like mine is Mollygo?^^Everybody here is moaning about all the roadworks instead now.

MayBee70

We travelled up north today and the roads have improved dramatically in the space of a few weeks. I’m sure the government said they were putting a lot of money into repairing potholes?

There’s an awful lot of roads up North.

The improvements haven’t reached us yet, unless you count them putting white lines round them especially the deeper potholes, so they’re easier to see in the dark.😂😂

The government can say a lot of things.
But if you query your local MP about potholes, they say they can’t do anything because your County Council isn’t Labour.

So who knows where the money is going? If it’s not improving our roads then Thé LP boast is useless.

They’d resurfaced a lot of the A1 round Newcastle and the potholes in the side roads when we left it had been filled in.

MayBee70

Casdon

Is your council not having a pothole blitz (their words) like mine is Mollygo? Everybody here is moaning about all the roadworks instead now.

We travelled up north today and the roads have improved dramatically in the space of a few weeks. I’m sure the government said they were putting a lot of money into repairing potholes?

You didn't come anywhere near where I live, then, MayBee

Casdon

Is your council not having a pothole blitz (their words) like mine is Mollygo? Everybody here is moaning about all the roadworks instead now.

We travelled up north today and the roads have improved dramatically in the space of a few weeks. I’m sure the government said they were putting a lot of money into repairing potholes?

Is your council not having a pothole blitz (their words) like mine is Mollygo? Everybody here is moaning about all the roadworks instead now.

stop the boats
Or even, at the moment, mend the potholes!

Many back benchers and activists were clear, they’d support Keir because he’d win the election, then move to replace him
None of this is a surprise to anyone,
Ditto many voters were so angry and disillusioned they voted against the Conservatives but were never really Labour supporters

Then we have so many grumpy, dissatisfied disaffected moaners who love to complain but have no constructive suggestions other than stop the boats

Oreo

A lot do it seems.

Where has that been said?

Thankfully it won’t happen.

A lot do it seems.

I was responding to your specific point saying that Labour Party members want Angela Rayner Oreo, there is no indication that that is the case.

Casdon

Labour Party members don’t actually want a change of leadership.
labourlist.org/2026/04/mandelson-scandal-keir-starmer-leadership-survation-poll/

Labour Party members may not, but the backbenchers and a lot of people in this country do.

Party members don’t want a leadership challenge now. Angela Raynor the choice of the left not the moderate majority

Id be tempted if Andy Burnham could be a candidate but not right now

The country has been cracking on with Labour in Government for nearly 2 years but the country gets a vote to elect a new government every 4 years based on performance to date....

The UK has been cracking on for 10 years since the Brexit vote in 2016!

Labour Party members don’t actually want a change of leadership.
labourlist.org/2026/04/mandelson-scandal-keir-starmer-leadership-survation-poll/

It’s high time after ten years to put the Referendum behind us and crack on!

Ed Miliband? Just NO.

I’m just a Labour voter not a member, and I realise that Party Members if they have their own way want Angela Rayner as PM.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire!

I’m a party member. I don’t know anyone who wants Ed milliband as leader

From the man, Philip Rycroft, who knows the ins and outs and ups and downs of Brexit- today says “we should start talking about rejoining the EU”

Philip Rycroft, who was permanent secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU, said the “argument was there to be won” about going back into Europe, adding that a “clear-headed appraisal of what is in the country’s best interests” was needed. However, he said rejoining the bloc could be a “long and windy” road. “Most economic analysis suggests that we have taken a significant hit to GDP as a result of leaving the single market,” he wrote in the Times.

“The precise number, and the impact on our export performance to the EU and beyond, might be subject to debate, but no one can credibly claim that we have marched to the sunny uplands of sustained economic growth as a consequence of Brexit.”

Rycroft said the promises of the Brexit campaign on issues from economics to immigration had not lived up to expectations. “The great promise of a comprehensive trade deal with the USA now seems like an impossible dream,” he said.

“Chill winds don’t just blow through the international trading order. The postwar certainties that underpinned our security as a nation are visibly crumbling. With a hot war on the European mainland perpetrated by a revanchist Russia and an increasingly disengaged America, it is beyond peradventure that we must look to solidarity with our friends and neighbours in Europe to secure our defences.”

He concluded: “The argument is there to be won. It is time to talk about rejoining. It might be time to knock on the EU’s door.”

Galaxy

It is more the memberships lack of understanding that Ed milliband would not be an electoral success rather than whether he would take the post but then again maybe 'electoral success' isn't the prize I thought it was.

Membership of any party is in no way a representation of public opinion though, is it?

I don't believe they will want to rejoin when they know the terms that will be needed, there will be a majority maybe even 60%. You cant believe much that is printed in the Mail or most of the other newspapers.

There are still a lot of the UK that dont like foreigners and don't trust them

It is more the memberships lack of understanding that Ed milliband would not be an electoral success rather than whether he would take the post but then again maybe 'electoral success' isn't the prize I thought it was.

twaddle

Ooops! Cross post. Sorry!

I tend to look at figures and didn't even notice the blue!