James Alan Anslow

Journalist (not posting here at the moment).

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@TimesRadio @afneil It happened to Labour in 1951!

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@John_Stepek ?? Yes it is..depending on when you got it.

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@MelJStride @UKLabour But the benefit is hugely undersubscribed. It just means more people are likely to seek out and claim their entitlement.

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@IsabelOakeshott Please stop whipping up animus then.

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@Cathyryanair I have now DMd you.

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@Ryanair Why are you not giving water to child passengers held up for 2 hours on FR29 on the hottest day of the year? Outrageous. Press will pick this up. One child pount-blank refused water.

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@Ryanair Plane has now taken off. Praps they can buy some water on the trolley..

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@Ryanair Will do that. But not helpfull. They are on the plane at Stasted as I write. Your crew let them board a plane with no fuel.

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@ammacj That is exactly the choice as 2019 general election showed. I remember New Labour gov being called Tory Lite etc and Blair ridiculed as Bambi. Yet its achievements, some of which I listed above, were radical, transformative and largely left untouched by Tory govs. Ditto Wilson's.

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@ammacj Only 3 weeks old. Give it a chance

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@ammacj 3. Starmer sees big picture that will take 10 years not short-term wins that could see party out of power in five. We'd be back to Tory government gutting public services and flogging country's assets as it did with social housing and utilities. Our kids would be blocked from uni

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@ammacj The 'right thing' is what can actually be achieved in the real political world. Not fantasy politics. Labour has a consistent record of doing that from 1945 onwards

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@ammacj 2. Lab govts always pragmatic AND progressive. Gave UK NHS, Nat Insurance, school beyond 14, higher education for working class, Open Uni, end of state censorship, legal gay sex and civil partners, abortion rights, end of cap punishment, min wage, Sure Start, devolution, NI peace

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@ammacj 1. To u-turn in office so quickly would be a political error. Nukes v child poverty is not either or. I'm a republican who wishes Lords was axed and we were in EU, Schengen and Euro. I'd prefer us to have a unified defence force without nukes.

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@ammacj Don't have time/space to cover all. Lab said when running it wouldn't scrap cap immediately. To reverse that stance as soon as it took office would be breach of faith. Think it'll address cap structurally in autumn budget. Ditto, it pledged to retain nukes. Can't then cut them.

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@ammacj 'Reverse Brexit'? Seriously? That is magical thinking. Would mean another disastrous referendum and dumping the pound. And EU would only consider us if all the polling showed we meant it. Sadly impossible. But I could maybe see us in EEA via EFTA in ten years or so.

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@ammacj I disagree.

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@William230616 The government front bech is hugely talented. I guess you are suggesting it isn't. But you are unclear

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