Utter bollocks

Well if you get really lucky Starmer will be out by Friday .....

Magyar takes on a hostile press with style. Lessons for us in the UK here (and the US?), methinks.

I can’t hear anyone saying that - apart from anyone except Starmer and Reeves. They are trying to make the existing system work. Not sure it ever will but it’s more honest that the simplicities of Polanski and Farage. The Greens need to start being honest about their programme.

Agree - but once that is announced voters will think twice. It is the trap that the labour left have been in for decades. And that’s before we start taking the climate disaster seriously. Things need to change in years not decades …. Even months. And the will in voters is simply not there.

All true but even with that you still need to raise taxes. Only the Lib Dems have tried being honest about this woth hypothecated tax promises. Labour should have in 2024. Tax needs to go up and the thresholds need to rise. And they need to be open about it and stop all this populist ‘soak the rich’

And no party - including the greens is honest enough to say this. Polanski constantly hammers Labour for not spending but they have learned the electoral consequences of unfunded spending promises. … and they have aimed a lot lower

I agree with all these policies but the reality is general taxation to achieve this needs to rise. When social services were well funded income tax was 30% it is now 20. The reality is you can’t fund public services on 20% even if you do expand the economy- and greens are rightly suspicious of that

The Greens are not promising anything substantial at the moment - wisely. But the Green Party is highly democratic and policy is decided by the party and party conference not the leadership. As it stands they are committed to UBI, nationalisation, increased spending across social services and more.

And if that was the two choices you would be right. But the greens will need more than a wealth tax to raise the large sums needed for their programme. Nationalisation, social justice, UBI….

‘The masses’ might have ideas of their own :-)

…… haven’t flown anywhere in years and take all my holidays in UK, try again…. Oh and if you are arguing with people try find a better counter than calling them ‘delusional’. It rarely works.

Agreed - it’s shit. If it was that easy to deal with it would have been done a long time ago. I am in favour of everything the Greens are trying to achieve and who knows the electorate might just go for a radical programme of tax increases, increased spending, defence cuts a social justice.

It is tedious but it is about taxes and how they are spent. As soon as real decisions are made the Greens will rip themselves apart. And calling Labour Farage in a red rosette, red Tories and all the other tedious stuff won’t help. Green Party conference decides policy - but not how to pay for it.

Because they are light on policies and haven’t to do anything. Same position Labour were in before the election. A general election campaign promising tax increases will introduce the Greens to the dilemma Labour has faced for decades. Increase taxes, please the followers don’t get elected.

Phenomenal

Cruel but very accurate

Wow

More gossip.

It certainly is. The lack of access to law and lawyers makes it a tool for the wealthy.

So you literally said that some people shouldn’t get an experience lawyer because you don’t like them? I don’t like him but that is no reason Blair can’t argue his case

so people you don’t like shouldn’t have capable lawyers? Ok I get the argument…… so who are on the list not to be entitled to decent lawyers?

That’s a poor argument and I am surprised a lawyer would put it forward. Care to list the categories of people who are more/less entitled to a fair trial? Or is it everyone? Even if they are obnoxious and corrupt.

Great album - great band

UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

If it's sometimes hard to tell the difference between fossil-fuel lobbyists and the billionaire press, that's because there isn’t one.
My column on the politicians, journalists and junktanks using the Iran crisis as an excuse to extract our remaining gas and oil.
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This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

The real world is so much trickier than the one journalists seem to inhabit.

And next week it’s something else. Or someone. This stuff is noise not news

It is. The lesson is not to fall out in public. By elections are rarely good for governments. The local elections will be a mess as well. They won’t matter in three years……
A divided and warring Labour Party will.