@daniellloyd1 I think you are right. Unfortunately watching this years tour is like watching one of the tours dominated by Armstrong. First week isnt even done and its all over bar the shouting. A pity from a fan point of view
@nick_pope@djjmilner Network Rail as a Statutory Undertaker is exempt under the Buildings Act 1984 from having to seek building regulations approval for certain works, limited to the operational estate and including most works at stations.
@mrewanmurray You are kidding yourself on, the SFA just like the majority of the TA only interested in qualifying. Competing is a whole new ball game that would require serious investment and a manager with vision
Andy Burnham…
🚩Joined Labour Friends of Israel in 2015
🚩Said the first place he’d visit as leader would be Israel
🚩Refused to call what’s happening in Gaza a genocide
🚩Opposes the BDS movement calling it “spiteful”
The players change, but the game stays the same
@maryharristw Although in Wealden, all those future residents will utilise services in TW. if this goes ahead opens up development in future to link TW with Bells Yew Green and Frant. Be no green belt left
Keir Starmer was not merely a disappointment. He is a mendacious figure of ethical decrepitude, a man who won the Labour Party leadership based on promises that he jettisoned five seconds after winning - a Labour leader who dared banish from the Labour Party not only his predecessor but also remarkable human beings like director Ken Loach - the gentleman who has taken the historic Labour Party and transformed it into a vessel for the very oligarchy it was elected to restrain.
Consider the litany of Starmer’s moral and logical failures. He promised a 'different Britain', yet his actions were a masterclass in Tory-lite politics—using the same maxed-out credit card analogies that once served the austerity brigades to justify his own failure of vision. He promised a human rights lawyer’s approach but he embraced a racist-lite version of Farage.
On Europe, Starmer promised Brexiteers that Brexit is Brexit yet stood before those who yearn to rejoin the European Union, winked at them to make them feel that Britain would gradually reconnect, even rejoin, with the EU while offering nothing of substance. This is not leadership; it is a fraud.
And then there's the manner in which Starmer and his government rushed to offer Israel unequivocal support in pursuing its genocide in Gaza, sacrificing precious political and civil liberties in the UK by imprisoning grandmothers, priests and peaceful activists who dared support Palestine Action, an organisation that Starmer and his minions proscribed as terrorists for practising the usual activist tactics of trespassing to spray paint military planes that had demonstrably aided in the genocide. To add insult to injury, Starmer performed the diplomatic pantomime of recognising a Palestinian state, in a manner that ensured it would never happen.
But above all else, this is a government that has learned nothing from the post-2008 era. Starmer and his Chancellor are playing the same tired austerity game while enabling and empowering the Finance Curse perpetrated by the City of London, throwing in forgood measure cuts in international aid to fund a military spending trickle under the guise of a "Strategic Defence Review" . It is the same old doctrine: austerity for the masses, socialism for the financiers and the arms dealers.
History will remember Mr Starmer as a man without conviction, a Prime Minister who offers not a shred of honesty, but merely the cruel illusion of change. He is ethically decrepit because he had chosen, consciously, to abandon principle for power. And for that, history will indict him. Good riddance, I say.
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@JimSpenceDundee The same as Gordon Brown, only interested in becoming PM for his footnote in history not to actually govern in the interests of all the people