Revolving door politics

Primrose, do you not scan the headlines of the national press?If you look further back in this site you will see two examples , one from the Mail and one from the Express showing exactly that bias.Perfect examples of the tack the right wing press have taken.

Oh and then there was the picture of him with a hangover after partying with Lebedev ( who he then have a knighthood to) when he was Foreign Minister. Good job the press were there to see it because I believe he gave his security guards the slip….

Which family is that? His new one or the one he walked out on? As for being a buffoon, it wasn’t a good look seeing him at international functions with his shirt hanging out. Fiddling about with umbrellas and rambling on about Peppa Pig when giving talks…he was a total embarrassment on the world stage.

I just saw a clip of Anne Widdecombe saying that in the past there were just two main parties but now there is a serious contender in Reform and people are voting for them because they are fed up with both Labour and Conservatives and want change. She is a wise old owl and yes, I do know she is in Reform.

MT62

& that’s why I like Kemi, she can hold her own at PMQS

Sadly politics has been reduced to a game show - theatrics, performance, who ‘does best at PMQs’ 🙈

westendgirl

Oreo, the media attack stuff is not nonsense. It started from the moment Starmer became P.M.. There has been constant negative reporting , all reflected on this site .

For goodness sake - that is a lame excuse.

Starmer has had nothing like Boris had to contend with from the moment he became Mayor and then carried on when he became PM. He was photographed and videod out jogging, cycling, walking, abseiling, holidaying, with his family …. Just every occasion. He was ridiculed and called a buffoon and other names. I don’t recall Starmer being called horrible names by the Conservatives. The worst description of him has been that he is boring and wooden.

FGT I knew what you meant but couldn't resist 😂

Both work 😁

😂😂 The thick plotters 😂😂

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Ha my play on words just bombed.

And now … Any Burnham has apparently just arrived in London. The thick plotters. 😁

MT62

I haven’t seen much on climate change with the greens lately.
Just going on about Gaza.

I don’t agree with legalising hard drugs apart from dope for medicinal use if, it isn’t smoked outside as our small town stinks of cannabis.

I agree sex workers should be treated better. Better controlled units where they can do their job safely.

I personally don’t want open borders as we don’t know who is entering.
Anyone throwing away passports/ paper work should be detained/or deported.

Cossy

I haven’t seen much on climate change with the greens lately.
Just going on about Gaza.

I don’t agree with legalising hard drugs apart from dope for medicinal use if, it isn’t smoked outside as our small town stinks of cannabis.

I agree sex workers should be treated better. Better controlled units where they can do their job safely.

I personally don’t want open borders as we don’t know who is entering.
Anyone throwing away passports/ paper work should be detained/or deported.

Yes, it does help if posters know the difference between a Councillor and a Counsellor…

Bloody ridiculous. What on earth is wrong with the Labour MPs calling for his resignation? Prior to the Iran situation and oil price hikes, the economic figures were improving. Labour has put into place several good policies which many people don’t seem to realise: its communications people are atrocious.

The public is sick tired of the constant chopping and changing. He has a mandate for 5 years and that’s what he should serve.

mum2three

I think our whole system is flawed. So often people are forced to choose between a candidate and the party. How many good counsellors lost their seats at the last election because of the party they represented?
I think a committee (if that's the right word) would be better, with debates to decide policies.

Councillors ARE a committee who discuss and decide local policies.

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I hope you know what you voted for.

Fallingstar

fancythat

I am probably out of sync with a lot of people on this one, but I dont see the problem if Leaders come and go.
More democracy that way.

I don’t see it as more democracy but more political turmoil and shenanigans with members of a party revealed as simply careerist politicians ready to stick the knife in. Is horrible.

I completely agree Fallingstar, there have been a couple of interesting GN threads of late about the bias in our media which is almost totally owned by billionaires who control what is published.

I couldn't help seeing yesterday the Daily Mail headline 'Fears Starmer is plotting a full blown Brexit betrayal'. All the Express headlines I see are full blown hyperbole/outright nonsensical lies aimed at the lowest educated of the populace who will have already been fed racist lies and bigotry against immigrants.

I noticed this morning an article on the BBC about Zak Polanski living in a narrowboat in London 'and not paying council tax' and I just thought - oh more slurs against any opposition to we all know which party - the one now with more financial backing than any other UK political party.

We don't have democracy any longer in this country. If we had proportional representation we would at least have parliamentary seats allocated on the basis of votes. I can see why Starmer upsets people but our political situation is in such disarray, Labour is in pieces running in all directions on the basis of social media and news reports in mainstream media. I just can't believe what I'm seeing day after day.

*pumps mm pimps!

MT62

GREENS! Cossy. Why?

Not Zack. I’d like to preserve our world and mitigate the damage us humans have done, I would like to see some steps taken re climate control, and their manifesto states very clearly that Greens would like to see a more equitable society and believe in social justice.

I don’t want entirely open borders.

I do actually agree with the decriminalising of many drugs, and I’d like to see sex workers treated better.

Ideally, of course, there would be no drugs at all, there’d be no sex workers, but I just think some way of dealing with both the above could be found that rids our country of gangs, pumps, child sex workers and needless deaths from tampered cut drugs!

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TerriBull

I didn't vote for Labour, but I really hope Starmer doesn't go, better the devil you know are my thoughts. I think he's been disappointing apart from when he stood up to Trump. Rachel Reeves has been a positively awful Chancellor imo, she's reeked havoc on business and the effects of which are catastrophic.

The problems Starmer can't resolve ( boat migration, cost of living, fuel supply) are issues that will face any other PM . These are rooted in global events which have nothing to do with KS popularity or personality.

When a foreign billionaire can buy a proven charlatan like Farage to take over our political system via social media THAT is a real threat to this country.

Something that Labour are trying to do something about. Which might be why somebody somewhere aided by the media, want to destabilise the party?

MT62

& that’s why I like Kemi, she can hold her own at PMQS

Cossy

GREENS! Cossy. Why?

& that’s why I like Kemi, she can hold her own at PMQS

Casdon

It’s a dirty game. Between Starmer being hounded out, Polanski not paying his poll tax, and Farage and the mystery bungs, today is an embarrassment for British politics.

I agree! Grown adult people who should know better!