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Just watching KS’s speech, now Q&A in Dudley. Hoping for policy meat on the bone, I didn’t hear any, just cliches :confused:. Guess I’ll have to learn to be patient. Obviously an echo chamber audience, but the feeling was clearly that Labour will have power within months.

The closer it gets to the GE, it's clearer than ever imho that housing and the NHS are the THE biggest issues to resolve. Housing - literally millions of social sector homes are required. Whilst the next income bracket above that invariably can only see a lifetime of private renting ahead...

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It’s right that boundary changes evolve. Without it we end up with lower electorate seats, typically a bunch of city centre seats. In times past this was more extreme with rotten boroughs. Now that term only applies to the smell of Croydon.

Just goes to show.

YouGov have carried out the largest poll in 5 years, 14,000 polled. The effect of Reform will contribute hugely to Starmer’s victory. With a crushing blow to the SNP, seats almost halved, Labour upping their seats from 2 to 23.

Teresa May wanted a bill with a free vote to repeal the Act. Not the nice person she might seem, imho.

Everyone's different, animal welfare is huge to me, it's in my very soul. By coincidence I had a nightmare about it last night :confused: :lolol: . The pushback was from t@ssers, right wing posh tw@ts and their rural henchmen. Blair had such a great majority he could've sailed through with...

Especially when he implements policies not exactly aligned to their rigid (unelectable) agenda.

Imho they can be useful eg planned policies on bloodsports, where new homes will go, taxation. It certainly helped me in 97, 01, 05. You are correct, a good example would be Blair reneging on fox hunting in a significant way … he watered it down so that in reality the thugs are still...

Me. I have a peruse through the Labour and Green manifestos pre elections. With specific interest in taxation, housebuilding, environment, etc. I’d advise others to do the same, rather than just voting based on lifelong tribal beliefs.

I’m an inpatient person, I await ‘meat on the bone’. I actually agree, I was thinking as KS spoke that ‘inspiring characters’ gave us Iraq, soft touch non-reg of The City in the 00’s, PFI, Brexit and vast PPE fraud.

I want Starmer to win with a healthy majority (but not Brighton Pavilion, Green’s please) and he will. But I’m bored by these speeches …. each one is a waffling ‘vision’, JFK or Martin Luther King he isn’t. I like facts, proposed policies. Looks like I’ll have to until the manifestos...

I want a nationalised, one entity rail operation. But it will still cost the taxpayer £10b’s a year and there won’t be a reduction in ticket prices. The reason, the cash paid out in dividends is minuscule relative to rail fare income and subsidies.

A necessity until we’ve further increased renewables and nuclear.

Labour plan to carry on with the new North Sea oil field, citing the same reason of energy security. Putin/OPEC+ trying to screw Western Europe last winter was the eye-opener.

The Nazis and their henchmen literally murdered people from day one in 1920. Based on race, or left wingers. This widespread silly thing in 2023 of labelling opponents an equal of the worst people in history, detracts from balanced debate. How did it get to this …. I suspect social media...

Great minds! [Or just bothering to know about or checking timelines].

The National Socialist German Workers' Party from their beginning in 1920 were explicitly antisemitic, promoted race theories/eugenics, were anti-liberal and sought a greater empire. Hitler spoke of “the Jewish Question”. By 1922 the first political/Jewish murders were undertaken.

KS could've shared some of his soap :mad: