@KemiBadenoch@Conservatives They are already nationalised.. just owned by other countries governments… a failed experiment introduced by the conservatives 🤡
@TomK_Brit1993 If that happens, Starmer will stay on without challenge for 3 years, meanwhile rebadged Conservatives masquerading as Reform will expose themselves for the grifting grifters they are… you don’t get strategy do you?
@ZiaYusufUK I seem to recall that the last time a political leader referred to the opposition as “the enemy of the people”, was Berlin in 1933.
The more you tell us what you are, the more you reveal who you are.
I have read both letters, carefully and several times. As someone who loves this country and who is fighting to build something of my own here, I cannot help but notice the massive difference in character between these two men who, until yesterday, were leading our nation.
I am not writing this as a political analyst, but as a voter and a citizen who values people with character.
Wes's letter is full of 'I'.
I cut the waiting lists, I recruited the staff, I was successful.
Then, in the same breath, he attacks the team he was part of. If the situation was truly that bad, why did he not stay to fix it? Why did he not have the courage to stand for election and say: 'I have a better vision, elect me'?
Instead, he chose to walk away at the very moment we need stability most, feeding the media the drama they love so much. That is not protecting the party. It is protecting his own career.
On the other hand, Starmer’s response reminded me why I trusted him. He did not stoop to insults. He did not defend himself. He simply reminded Wes that those successes in the NHS were a collective effort.
Starmer showed what I admire most in the British, decency. Dignity. He remained the adult in the room, focused on us, the citizens, while Wes remained focused on his next job title.
Politics should be about us, about the people who pay their taxes and hope for a better future, not about who can best 'twist the knife' in a resignation letter.
Wes has shown his true face, and Starmer has shown that the stability of the country matters more than his personal ego.
That is what gives me hope that we will not allow chaos and populists to take the helm.
@AngelaRayner If only those good MP’s who lost their jobs, livelihoods and reputation had a way to clear their names via the ‘independent’ parliamentary standards process rather than hiding behind parliamentary privilege and blocking any appeals even though the evidence would clear them
@RhonddaBryant It’s actually disinformation and Britain desperately needs your government to urgently implement legislation to stop it.
Not least because it’s a method used by those interfering in our democracy.
This country is not ruled by politicians.
It is ruled by the media.
(and billionaires, obviously)
Media regulation must become an urgent priority.
Without an informed population you cannot have a functioning democracy.
If I had any power whatsoever, I’d clamp down mercilessly on both just so we could salvage some semblance of order and truth.
That’s what the government should be doing.
We have a press focused on clicks and reactions competing with social media algorithms primed to promote division and hate, and a government which is, despite its faults, trying to rebuild a country it had no part in destroying, all while being relentlessly targeted by both.
Labour didn’t lose council seats because of @Keir_Starmer’s leadership…
They lost seats because there’s a pernicious fascist cancer infecting public discourse and giving simplistic solutions to people that would never normally vote in local elections