As a lifelong Labour voter, I don’t think I’ve ever seen them so confused as to who they actually are and where they want to go
It’s farcical. If the number one goal is growth, but Rachel Reeves point blank refuses to entertain rejoining the Customs Union, then the number one goal ain’t growth
Grim
It’s farcical. If the number one goal is growth, but Rachel Reeves point blank refuses to entertain rejoining the Customs Union, then the number one goal ain’t growth
Grim
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Bloomberg's John Micklethwait, "Surely the single thing you could do to give the biggest amount of growth is to do a fresh deal with Europe.. Something like a customs union"
"That shows the biggest growth in GDP compared to all the other things you're talking about"
Part 1 of Reynold's answer
"That shows the biggest growth in GDP compared to all the other things you're talking about"
Part 1 of Reynold's answer
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Life long Labour supporter from a Labour family but I’m not sure I’ll vote Labour again
I didn't vote Labour for the first time since 1983. They've been worse than I feared.
I felt like this when Clegg went into coalition with Cameron. Total betrayal.
Now much happier Davey is coming out pro EU anti Trump.
Think you’ll have to lend them your vote?
Those will be my 'red-lines' before I examine other policies to choose final party.
BUT without #PR ???????
20 degrees here and I’m shivering 🥶
I’ve acclimatised now so it feels like the middle of winter ❄️
Asking regulators how to grow industries they are supposed to regulate
Having commissions that won't report on Health and Social care for years.
They are in a complete mess and seem to be getting worse. Following tory dogma won't help.
The EU decisions will start to move post the EU-UK summit.
If we go all guns blazing it'll play into Farage's hands.
If there were others, we’d have more choice but we don’t.
However, Labour's EU policy (or lack of it), poorly implemented winter fuel allowance changes, WASPI decision and piss poor comms ability are testing my patience.
Where has that team gone?
But Kinnock and Smith knew what they were doing (mostly). This bunch are flailing around. It’s rather desperate to watch their ineptitude.
The Tories lived and breathed effective comms until Partygate irreparably damaged them.
The current approach baffles me.
They are afraid of offending the new money they are getting, they pander to big corps and the super rich.
Be bold, or go home… we’ll get kicked out of power
they'll try to "make brexit work" the next couple of years, fail because it's untenable, then flop out the plan to rejoin as a last resort to get re-elected.
we all kinda knew it was going to get worse before it got better
Yet it appears that revisiting the non dom change is being investigated.
The problem is that the votes their trying to hang on to are rapidly becoming the minority.
What happened to "country before party?"
I really don't get where we are supposed to be going.
The direct attacks on asylum-seekers and benefits claimants whilst no mention of tax avoiders or CU/SM leave me baffled
Give them time ffs
The right, the Brexiters, they control the media.
The problem is that Starmer is a spineless halfwit unable to take them on.
He has an overwhelming majority and could complete the Levison Inquiry and have the Tory media’s bollocks in a vice.
Instead, he grovels to the Oligarchs.
Make it worthwhile. Do something radical.
Currently he just cowers from them. Which is pathetic.
Although in Free Gear Keir’a case he will just pimp himself out to the highest bidder anyway.
He loves the taste of Billionaire arse crack.
Rapidly loosing both faith and patience.
Frog-Face must be rubbing his hands together for 2029. Hoards more disillusioned voters for him to court.
Very few of them have ever been in a fight. They scare easy methinks.
And in fairness to Reeves and Reynolds it’s not down to them, only Starmer can change the course
For example, if they signed up to the youth mobility scheme, it would cut immigration because young Italians, Spaniards, French, etc would come for a few years to work in the service industry before returning home.
The priority is not even to simply not "betray" Brexit.
Anything that APPEARS to indicate warming towards the EU is beyond the pale.
So very depressing.
Reset? What reset?
Sunak made it infinitely worse, to benefit Infosys.
Treasury claims £1.8bn tax raised due to Sunak's changes.
Reeves CAN'T value the crippled UK projects, skills shortages & cost to industry.
Prob > £1.8bn though.
I think most voters (bar Reform) can see this is the only way out of this mess.