Can't remember which broadcast opiner it was yesterday saying he was going to launch legal proceedings

Perfect example! If I remember correctly, much the same thing happened when Kodak closed down a bunch of their operations across the UK.

When Novartis closed, near where I lived, the redundant workers got half the redundancy pay, that the laid off workers got in Liverpool.
The Liverpool branch was unionised, the Sussex one, was not.

Trump -42 approval on inflation

Trump -60 with independents on inflation

At this point you have to ask: do these look like the poll numbers of someone who really gives a shit about elections?

The irony here, in this scandal about political appointments, is that silence over this issue could've presumably been guaranteed by chucking a peerage at an already ennobled civil servant. Ye Olde Ermine Inducement.

Pretty good advert for joining a union, here.

I hope to live to see the word competence excised from politics discourse. Competence is for the civil service. What I want from politicians is wisdom and judgement instead.

They made him, they could destroy him. Unless he destroys them first....

Starmer lying and boring the shit out of Parliament

Starmer speaking in the Commons now is the absolute personifcation of the "dull is competent" mythos.

A galaxy-class forcefield of dreariness that is usually more than sufficient to buy off the Scriveners of Wapping.

LOL they have actually gone for this option. That tHe dEeP sTaTE, through subterfuge and omission, shoehorned Mandelson into the UK's highest ambassadorial post for shits and giggles.

It's horrifically stupid, and entirely in keeping with Starmer's Labour Party so far.

Presuming that to every question he will keep on nasally repeating slightly amended versions of the same lawyered, boilerplate answers over and over again, hammering home how incredibly bent this all is.

My assumption is that, given just how robotic and insincere a communicator Starmer is, plus the fact he will be lying out of his arse, means that this upcoming appearance in Parliament will do nowt to aid his case in the long run.

Only one I'd discount in this case is the mandarins going to bat for Mandy.

That's excellent

My assumption is also that his performance in Parliament today will make things a lot worse in the long run

Again, the options are:

- One of the UK's foremost legal minds & the current PM has the IQ of a paintbrush

- The deEp sTatE mandarins of Whitehall circumnavigated procedures & appointed Mandelson themselves

- Starmer is just a gray-scale fiddle plucked by the hands of others

- Sir Keir is lying

D-Day for Sir Keir

Starmer will stand in Parliament today &, like Johnson before him, lie to try & save his job.

Before this gets lost in the depths of procedure & fingerpointing, the bottom line is this: from watching the news as a child, I, a mere bum, knew Mandeslon was a corrupt individual, how did the PM not?

Nigel Farage sang antisemitic songs to Jewish classmates, former Dulwich pupil claims Two former Dulwich pupils have spoken to Sky News about their time at the school with Nigel Farage.

Pretty odd that this guy is so concerned about AS now. Unless, of course, everybody is lying and this is all a grand conspiracy. Mindboggling just how many of those are flying about.

Weird how people who are credibly accused of hate crimes against a group were actually the staunchest defenders of those who they inveighed against all along—and it's all been a massive and deliberate mix-up.

Mad how that continually happens. And with such frequency!

The wheel spins as it should.

Shared "Judeo-Christian values" latest.

That's excellent

And even that was beyond the pale.

You don't "change your mind" with promises: you either deliver them or you don't.

Fail to deliver one promise and that's excusable. Failure to deliver all of them is called betrayal.

A perfect case study into the petty vindictiveness of the Starmeroid project was what happened to Faiza.

Deselected as a candidate in favour of a blandroid centrist, she still ran. The Left vote was split, returning austerity ghoul IDS as MP.

Labour *intentionally* lost that race out of spite.

Yep he's a tabula rasa, but the only thing he seems to have been actually gung ho for is running cover for/supporting genocide.

Soul saved, chief 😂

Possibly, but I have to say that the percentage of people I've met on my travels who have never been wrong about anything is very high

Reform or Ruin: Could Labour Win the Next Election but Lose the Future? AV Deggar considers the structural changes needed from Labour, if it knocks the Conservatives out of power at the next election

Look, here's me from 2022, naïvely outlining what Starmer needed to do to turn the tide in this wretched nation. I was right about the required actions & huffing copium about the Labour Party's will to do them.

This wasn't wrong, though:

"It is entirely possible to win power but lose the future."

I have not pretended I was right, nor have I doubled down from under a rock in cyberspace.

There's no shame in being wrong, only shame for not learning from it etc.

And atonement is active, not passive—it requires repair, restitution, and change, not just silence or remorse etc etc.