'It is difficult to identify the purpose of a future Starmer government – what he seeks to accomplish beyond achieving office' [and] 'apart from his actual name, little ties Starmer to the ethical and spiritual concerns of Labour’s early founders, figures such as Keir Hardie and George Lansbury'!
While this certainly chimes which much expressed here.... perhaps it also means he's amenable to a post-election influence from those with good/appealing ideas?
@ChrisMayLA6 I suspect that, like so many politicians, #Starmer is likely to be more amenable to post-election influence from those with deep pockets and addresses in #TuftonStreet .
Imagine reading the latest poll saying your party is going to be savagely hacked down from being the governing party to just having 66 seats…and then you hear #Farage is back in town. He’s not only running as a candidate to be MP, he’s leading the #Reform party.
I think we can now safely assume #Sunak has got those plane tickets back to California booked.
#ToryAnnihilation on 4th July will mean the implosion of Britain’s most historically successful party.
The party of reinvention has perhaps reached the same point in the road as Madonna.
But the dark money that funnels it’s way through shell companies to #TuftonStreet think tanks won’t just disappear…it will find its way into new pockets. Whose?
A decimated #Tory party will not make the opaquely funded think tanks of #TuftonStreet go away. They are now an entrenched part of the political scenery as this latest speedy investigation by the charity commission revealed.
@Peternimmo It is worth while reposting the very interesting link that was posted in a previous discussion about Restore[sic] Trust By Bob Parson which discusses the origins if not the motivations for the Tufton Street Bar Stewards.
How easy is it for the junktanks on Tufton Street to be Downing Street’s outriders and put completely bogus ‘research’ into the rightwing papers of the UK about #NetZero? And do they get away with it?
It has been long understood that the use of the word democratic in a state's name is a good indicator that it is anything but. Witness the Deutsche Demokratische Republik (t East Germany) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
We must to accept that any British organisation with the name ‘Research’ in the title must assumed to be anything but. Beloved of Tufton St, the Northern/European research groups represent an absence of any. #TuftonStreet#Gaslighting
Labour’s plan to boost care workers’ pay ‘could cost taxpayers billions’
Another day, another Article in The Times promoting the Tufton Street cabal who re unwilling to contribute to society but very eager to leech from the public purse. Intriguingly, they are called out on it (‘fink tank’ and paper) by all of the comments as of Sunday morning.