lol, I think we all know what's going to happen now, don't we?
Lucy is holding the Rugby Ball the Yanks call a 'Football'....Charlie Brown is feeling hopeful.....
Those people who thought Labour would heed warnings they are verging too far right need to get a look at Natalie "Stop The Boats" Elphicke and David Lammy courting the Republicans today.
Given the virtual embargo Greens live under with U.K. media and BBC prime time political programmes like Question Time heavily promoting Farage and now Reform instead, Green Party of England and Wales should be bloody proud of the results they pulled off in #LocalElections
Once the hoo-haa settles on local elections (that no-one in Scotland voted in — slight problem when you’re feverishly trying to extrapolate piss poor turn out into a General Election results map, eh?) even Beth Rigby is sounding crestfallen that Starmer has fucked up her chance to break a ‘landslide for our times’ prediction.
Starmer could still piss away the General Election. He’s so awful no one’s actively running too him — he’s winning because the Tories are staying home or voting Lunatic.
Today’s consensus analysis as the #LocalElections dust settles…
EVEN faced with the most corrupt and loathed Conservative Government Britain has ever suffered, Starmer still isn’t gaining enough votes to win even a single seat majority in Parliament at #GE2024
His revolting position backing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and generally him just being a Tory not all that attractive to anyone progressive, bar the tribally blinkered it seems.
Sunak rejects the offer of a mobility scheme for young people between the EU & UK
Labour also rejected the EU's proposal which would've allowed young people to live, work & study in the bloc
Opinion: This is what I hate about politics! The Tories know they've made a mess of Brexit, but daren't do anything to repair the damage. Labour can't agree to it because they'll be accused of reversing Brexit
#Sunak is battling with #ReformUK for the #FarRight#Gammon vote, so there's zero chance he'd touch it for fear of #Farage claiming #Brexit's failed because it's the wrong type of Brexit. 🙄
#Starmer doesn't want to reignite the 2019 "Get Brexit Done" battle which proved so effective against the hapless #Corbyn.
For #Labour it's a case of power first, then resolve issues like this if they gain power after #GE2024. Starmer won't say or do anything beforehand to jeopardise that.
lol, taking vast swathes of the voters for granted are we Keir?
Never mind, it's only spiteful Tory voters that matter, isn't it lads?
The rest of us are a burden and a chore, aren't we?
Note how the the Brexit-voting lady exporting dinosaur models to the EU, doesn't outright say it was wrong to leave the EU -- she might have second thoughts if she were to vote on it today, is the most she'd admit to. https://youtu.be/x-7rDYo3FR4
And that is why reversing Brexit will not be a vote winner this election. People realise #Brexit has been a failure but struggle to connect the reality with their vote for Leave which they still view in emotional identity terms #ukpol#politics#EU
Liz Webster (#SaveBritishFarming) notices that same disconnect I picked up on in the FT video https://youtu.be/2NogsEzkFnM
This is why a majority recognising that #Brexit has failed does not automatically imply there is a majority in favour of rejoining the #EU
Starmer's grand plan (or is that Peters?) to ditch the Lefties and appeal to the Tories only half works, he's ditching the Lefties but the Righties he loves are more interested in Reform.
Meanwhile decent people who understand what problems this declining nation are facing have little to vote for.
Westminster doesn't want us to exist.
The Tories making a 'commitment' is like Labour making a 'pledge', hollow words.
But I don't need to tell anybody on Mastodon that, it's a discerning audience here
The BBC have managed to make that Jeremy Hunt Pension story last a whole day.
(I can put the word 'jeremy' in front of 'hunt' and make you hear the swear in your mind)
Awww, we'd like to trust you on that but you've not really earned that trust, what will all the pledges you break.
Do you see how that works lads, how 'Trust' works? It doesn't come from insulting critics and talking over them.
Fuck me. If New Labour is too left wing for you, you’re basically a Tory. Makes sense mind, Labour has a closet Tory Leader so why not a out and proud Tory Chancellor too?
Rachel Reeves criticises New Labour's economic legacy as she pitches herself as a ‘modern-day Margaret Thatcher’
If Labour are your answer in #GE2024 you’ve either really not been paying attention or you’re a closet Tory.
A proper country would know when their general election would be now so they can make plans.
We are not a proper country, we are a pantomime run for posh clowns detached from the real world.
"Please sir, can we have an election, pleeeaasseee Sir!"