June 6, 20241 yr The debate on Friday will be a nightmare with 7 of them shouting over each other. Like the QT leaders special and the bbc Head to Head on the 26th!
June 6, 20241 yr Ghastly right wing Labour stooge Luke Akehurst,parachuted into a safe Labour seat at the last minuge, has been caught on video saying about (left wing Jewish Labour members) - "They have abandoned very much of their Jewish identity. They don't go to shul at all. It's become a purely cultural thing around a bowl of chicken soup." I would strongly hope that Starmer suspends him immediately as he has suspended several candidates for far, far less.
June 6, 20241 yr He’s the exact kind of person who should not be in politics. Real shame people like this always seem to gravitate into powerful roles and positions.
June 6, 20241 yr Author So - night before the general election nominations deadline and my seat still has no confirmed Conservative candidate...
June 6, 20241 yr Author Just means they'll use emergency rules to parachute a party favourite in I don't think any party favourites are gonna want a Labour safe seat.
June 7, 20241 yr Latest Sunak disaster he left Normandy early to record an interview which hasn’t gone down well with anybody now he has made a lengthy apology. Just a mess and the Tories getting under 100 seats has never seemed more likely
June 7, 20241 yr He's so bad at this part 867 That's a gift for any room temperature IQ leader in the middle of an election campaign, show up and look stately at an important event. He can't even do that on top of most reputable media calling him a liar the past few days.
June 7, 20241 yr Sunak should just hide in a fridge for the rest of the month :D Found the perfect one for him!
June 7, 20241 yr Found the perfect one for him! :D Although the hiding in a fridge strategy worked for Johnson last time around
June 7, 20241 yr There's evidence floating about that Sunak was not even going to attend Normandy in the first place! Such a bad look, and an easy open goal for Labour/Reform here. I don't know who is advising Sunak, but this is just another example of showing how out of touch he is. Anyone watch QT last night? Thought it was a pretty poor performance from everyone. Labour struggled, the Tories did terrible and The Greens have seemingly moved on to the magic money tree.
June 7, 20241 yr Author There's evidence floating about that Sunak was not even going to attend Normandy in the first place! Such a bad look, and an easy open goal for Labour/Reform here. I don't know who is advising Sunak, but this is just another example of showing how out of touch he is. Anyone watch QT last night? Thought it was a pretty poor performance from everyone. Labour struggled, the Tories did terrible and The Greens have seemingly moved on to the magic money tree. The magic money tree dismissal is beginning to irk me - the only way to rescue our public services is with more borrowing - borrowing invested properly will grow the economy. The state budget needs to be looked at more likely a business than a household one. The Tories forcing Labour so far to the right they now accept this household budget/balance the books narrative since 2010 is the reason this country is in such a dire state. If you invest in the economy with borrowed money you promote growth and can then raise more money in taxes - only the Greens and other socialist parties seem willing to say this. We need infrastructure projects that will create jobs as well as investment in public services. If you need to borrow money you need to borrow money, cutting more and more until there's nothing as the two main parties have agreed to do is not the answer. Edited June 7, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
June 7, 20241 yr The magic money tree dismissal is beginning to irk me - the only way to rescue our public services is with more borrowing - borrowing invested properly will grow the economy. The state budget needs to be looked at more likely a business than a household one. The Tories forcing Labour so far to the right they now accept this household budget/balance the books narrative since 2010 is the reason this country is in such a dire state. If you invest in the economy with borrowed money you promote growth and can then raise more money in taxes - only the Greens and other socialist parties seem willing to say this. We need infrastructure projects that will create jobs as well as investment in public services. If you need to borrow money you need to borrow money, cutting more and more until there's nothing as the two main parties have agreed to do is not the answer. Except we've already borrowed a load of money and can't pay it back, unless the money is properly accounted for with guarantees of how we will raise it, the Markets will have a field day and crash our economy again. This whole "oh we will tax the rich even more" policy is so dumb. Yes in theory it works, but how many people do we really think will stick around and not find a tax loophole, rendering the whole thing pointless.
June 7, 20241 yr Author You can borrow without spooking the markets if it's invested properly. Improved infrastructure from investment is a economic bonus. The problem with Truss was that she wanted to borrow to cut taxes rather than to invest which was insane. Edited June 7, 20241 yr by DoBelieveTheHype
June 7, 20241 yr Anyone watch QT last night? Thought it was a pretty poor performance from everyone. Labour struggled, the Tories did terrible and The Greens have seemingly moved on to the magic money tree. Yep wasn’t great all round - the Labour lady didn’t answer questions directly though good on her for continuing to speak whenever Fiona kept interrupting. Carla from Green spent a lot of time talking about nothing. Maybe nerves but she seemed a bit out of her depth at times. I think the Plaid Cymru lady made some great points, especially regarding social care funding and the burden of tax falling on the broadest shoulders in society.
June 7, 20241 yr You can borrow without spooking the markets if it's invested properly. Improved infrastructure from investment is a economic bonus. The problem with Truss was that she wanted to borrow to cut taxes rather than to invest which was insane. Problem is when you forecast the borrowing, the actual spend is likely to be far higher, that's even without the current borrowing rates we have at the moment. It's great on paper and does make sense, but the reality is far different.
June 7, 20241 yr Yep wasn’t great all round - the Labour lady didn’t answer questions directly though good on her for continuing to speak whenever Fiona kept interrupting. Carla from Green spent a lot of time talking about nothing. Maybe nerves but she seemed a bit out of her depth at times. I think the Plaid Cymru lady made some great points, especially regarding social care funding and the burden of tax falling on the broadest shoulders in society. Labour definitely struggled, it might have been harder because it was Chester and clearly some Welsh specific issues, but some really woolly answers and not sure they did very well to capture any swing voters. I thought it was interesting the Brexit question came up again, although I totally get why Labour are playing that down during this election cycle, it's the right political play. As I said about above, the Greens were just talking about nothing, all very flimsy and then when challenged there were some dreadful answers. Also agree that Plaid Cymru came off best!
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