robgomm.bsky.social
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Good god
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Also many of their supporters think it should be universal...
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Not sure what it says about Tories other than they are toast.
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Also again showing the left wing economic views of Reform voters, which is why Farage is moderating his language despite the party in reality being a Truss-esque disaster waiting to happen.
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That figure was compared to the previous election. I'm not sure that someone voting Labour in 2005 is now at all relevant. It's chasing ever diminishing returns really. The Brexit divide is the most defining of the last 10 years, simply not winning many of those voters back I think.
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77% of Reform's 2024 voters were previously Tory, 6.5% Lab.
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OK, Lab voters would probably need to have a favourable view of Farage to vote Reform. 9% of Lab voters did in April, up to 16% after Lab's strategy amped up.
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Yes probably some international cooperation in form of EU but also - my political leanings revealed swiftly - a hefty dose of socialism in Britain, rather than obsessing over growth.
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Labour never could implement a wealth tax before. Jenkins thought about it, Healey found it impossible. What really needs to change is the situations that allow generations to become wealthy: huge amounts of property acquisition, heavily regulating financialisation of capital, huge inheritances.
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Given wealth inequality has dramatically outstripped incomes, we now have a situation where very rich people hoard very large sums of money. This is fundamentally going to take some reordered economic thinking to fix. I agree, beyond wealth taxes.
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Why do you think they are sitting there not finding ways to do it, genuinely? There is no question it isn't easy but being held hostage by millionaires who say they will leave as has happened to Reeves is malign. It's not a conspiracy, though, it's a lack of imagination and will.
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They're too busy fighting fantasy genocides
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Phwoar what a collection
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Lots of veg prep especially for me. Incision cutting! You whetstone sharpen to the tip as well, I'm not sure how you'd prevent it being sharpened again anyway.
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Former chef: a knife with a blunt tip is useless for certain tasks. Also, you sharpen to the tip! Better surely to control who can buy chefs knives.
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Be even more likely if they shift out Starmer before the next election.
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"I told you I'd win a trophy!"
The league table: 👁️👄👁️
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This is wonderful.
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I don't think a better thing has ever happened.
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The NEC is a joke. No democracy in this party.
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Fortunately Harry Cole is emigrating to America soon.
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They won't take "you don't meaningfully exist" as an answer damn them!!! She's absolutely awful.
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Thank you! Last I heard was Diana and Jess Philips raising this. Glad to see a push from MPs.
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Diana Johnson?
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😅 opposing the radical right doesn't require being radically left. It does require not writing naval gazing articles about Middle England though and actually facing the problem.
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I mean this quite sincerely Alan, people like you will be standing by arguing about the middle ground when Farage is in power and towns like mine are in the hands of radical wing nutcases. Get a grip.
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Republicans utterly vile on LGBT issues. Even +23 on erasure.
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A bitter man, needs to quit to save his sanity.
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At my third sector work the mantra is 'work yourself out of a job'. Movements aren't built forever, they aren't built to last a thousand years. That doesn't mean Labour's work is finished either but it shouldn't place itself ahead of national need on electoral reform.
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I don't understand why nobody is talking about it, really. Kudos to Rob.
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In counter to that, he will get most of the anti-European hardliners though whereas any benefit to Starmer will be shared across Lib Dems and Greens.
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This is one where he'll be struggling as there's no prospect of rejoining but perfectly reasonable arguments for doing better deals. He's against the tide on Europe now.
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Vile.
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We must go back to Saudi Arabia...
...so what do you guys think about trans people????
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The bizarre thing in this scenario is why go onto the ground of your only opponent as opposed to providing an alternative to it.
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What left wing ones
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The headline 🤌
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One minor query I have is whether coaches have already reduced playing time, mitigating the effects of increased fixture list? (has fixture list actually increased in another question)
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I've been saying for some time we need the return of the game that gave us Jan Molby
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Blue Labour zealotry taking Labour to oblivion.
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Starmer as shifty as Wilson too really. But less in the name of party union and more I think in the name of... something??
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Brilliant and methodical destruction of Lowe's racist narrative.
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He's an honest to goodness ethnonationalist. A nasty human being.
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Thanks Sunder. Won't go over Powell stuff again but Jenkins is ironic given Kenyan Asian treatment that was profoundly racist.
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Who said the Roy Jenkins part? 😅 That's barmy.
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Oooof! Thank you.
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Hey don't leave us shy on a reason Dylan!! 😁
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They don't have a clue. There are vastly more ex-Tory voters and disenfranchised combined than their romanticised Blue Labour 1960s working class bloke that they seem to think is every Reformer.
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Do you who would not have forgotten that - Taz. And he still made his tribute.