He laughs them into bed apparently, plus people like Acuri and Carrie are probably using him to make contacts for business.
I'm hoping he has a strategy too. The only way the Tories will he held to account in 2024 or whenever the next election is is if we have a credible, electable opposition. We havent had one for many years. Starmer has years until the next election so he has to whip Labour into shape. They have an uphill battle to win, but they need to make a serious dent in the Tory majority at the very least. I dont know if he is the man to do that, but I honestly cant think of any Labour MP' s who could take his place. The Tories are doing enough to hang themselves without Starmer chiming in at this stage although how the shambles of the PPE contracts and the subsequent but apparent unrelated lack of money for health and care staff pay rises wasnt made more of, is alarming and doesn't bode well. I'm still hopeful.
The thing is, everyone knew he was sexually incontinent before the election and that he had several undeclared children. He still won the election by a landslide. The press arent as important as they used to be or they like to think they are.
That was plainly obvious - her background doesn't make sense. Being in a senior role on £90k plus expenses doesn't just happen in the real world unless you've got a first class maths/physics degree and go straight to the City. There's clearly a LOT to her story.
She is only interested in herself. She originally hung around with my ex as he started his own publishing company (which was more aligned with her degree, although not that it really mattered) and she was desperate to be involved, then at some point decided to get into politics. A lot of people think she's very smart and intelligent but she isn't - well, nothing spectacular - she just knows the right people.
Sadly, people don't care. They know Johnson Gove and Patel are incompetent and nasty with it, but people seem to want a English Nationalist government. Locally where I am, people are delighted with brexit because they think it means less immigrants (it wont), tougher sentences for criminals (probably not), more jobs (nope, well there will be but not the ones they want) etc.
Yes I agree with you re PR but neither Labour or the Tories will enact it, and I'm not sure how happy the SNP will be either, considering their virtual monopoly in Scotland.
This. And in doing so they’ve driven Scotland, Wales and NI further towards independence.
I think Labour might, particularly if they think scotland is lost for a generation. That way at least it would keep the tories out of a majority.
Or rather, she's only interested in knowing the people who can help her advance herself.
Yes maybe they will now. If Scotland goes independent they have no chance without PR. I cant believe we have got to the stage where we live in a one party state!
Also a victim of rapist Worboys
I think that is very deliberate tbh. Labour have lost Scotland forever and they deserved to. Lifelong Labour voter here, was a member up until last year and one of those people that knocked on doors and did the hard slog. I've accepted there is virtually no way back for a Labour majority. The best we can hope for is a coalition with the SNP but that is clearly not going to happen. This country is in very big trouble. Nationalism is being pushed and we all know where that leads. It's utterly depressing.
I don't know why or how it has come to this though. I have also always voted Labour but they have not been fit for purpose for a long time. They need to be an effective opposition and an alternative government and they are not. They cant keep blaming mainstream media for their failures. The media has always been an issue, and is less of an issue now than it was in the past due to social media. They just don't appeal to enough voters and spend their time fighting amongst their various factions most of the time. Maybe we need a new party, but if that was to work, you'd have thought the Lib Dems would have made some kind of progress but they are more or less irrelevant. Hopefully now Brexit is out of the way, other issues will come to the fore.
Next week an in-depth investigation into the religion of Pope Francis......
