Whoever came up with this deserves a standing ovation. 😂😂😂
“Stop the bungs” with Count Binface standing on the beach while Nigel Farage rows away in a boat full of cash… satire doesn’t get much better than this.
Manchester is the North of England, but only an England-only view treats it as the North. Dundee is further from Manchester than Manchester is from London. A PM needs a UK-wide perspective. If it stops at Manchester, what hope for those north of it?
Also: the current chancellor represents a Leeds constituency and Burnham is going to sack her. So perhaps the "perspective" isn't actually very important and all this is just nonsense.
@alexmassie Manchester is the North of England, but only an England-only view treats it as the North. Dundee is further from Manchester than Manchester is from London. A PM needs a UK-wide perspective. If it stops at Manchester, what hope for those north of it?
@Maria59914@BTimberley Thanks for your sympathetic response! Perhaps I have neither friends or working brain cells. Please just explain if you understand as I don’t.
Keir Starmer has delivered his speech to Labour conference - and actually I think it's one of the most impressive speeches he's made.
Which is weird, because it was all about Nigel Farage. It felt a bit like we'd wandered into the wrong conference with all the mentions of Reform UK.
But here's the thing - a PM struggling to define himself has finally managed to do that - by defining himself AGAINST Nigel Farage.
He described a fork in the road, a choice, between Labour and Reform.
Two different parties. Two different visions. Two different versions of patriotism. Two different ways of flying the flag.
Rather than fishing in the same pond as Reform - trying to attract the same voters - this is a change of strategy for Labour.
Instead they're going for the voters who DONT like Nigel Farage.
Because people don't just vote for who they like but who they don't like. And Labour are gambling that if they can be the anti Reform party - that hoovers up the votes of people who don't like farage - then they might just have a chance
Starmer makes wild accusations about what I'm responsible for- but my pro-growth policies weren't actually implemented (with the exception of getting rid of Sunak's Health and Care Levy).
The havoc was caused by the Bank of England/economic establishment and their allies in the Conservative party in order to STOP them happening.
This was an extraordinary undermining of a Prime Minister who had the mandate to deliver those policies.
The problem cannot therefore be the policies (in fact the counterfactual has driven up debt and stymied growth). It's bigger than that.
All of the attacks and smears on me since are an effort to cover up how deeply undemocratic the British system has become.
@northyorksc Can you "donate" taxpayers money? This is not an act of charity, they have decided to award this money, from a budget that they hold, this money. That may be a good thing but it is not a donation.
Da iawn @YsgolTreganna Rwy'n betio pan wnaethoch chi ddeffro'r bore 'ma, nad oeddech chi'n meddwl y byddai'r Prif Weinidog newydd @Keir_Starmer yn mynd i glywed eich canu gwych! 😉
This government was elected with a mandate to take immediate action to boost Britain's energy independence.
The onshore wind ban is a symbol of how bad decisions in the last fourteen years have put up energy bills for families.
Today, it ends.
https://t.co/3fYOoQzaur
@patmcfaddenmp@meaglemp It is only right that the public know whether their candidates are under suspicion or not.
The alternative is to assume all senior conservatives and conservative candidates had advance knowledge and so time to place a bet.
My letter to Rishi Sunak on the gambling scandal engulfing the Tory Party.
How far does it go? What will he do to those involved? And what does it say about today’s Tory party that once again their first instinct was to fill their boots?