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Post by bpg on Oct 14, 2022 19:36:47 GMT
What's the differentiator ?
When Labour left the chancellor apparently quipped the cupboard was bare, the current Government are hell bent on making sure the cupboard doors, screws, hinges are gone.
When a new Government is elected what changes happen behind the scenes in Whitehall ?
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Post by WDB on Oct 15, 2022 5:29:51 GMT
I think you mean this, BPG. It wasn’t a quip. This is its author, not the chancellor, explaining and regretting. amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/09/liam-byrne-apology-letter-there-is-no-money-labour-general-electionCircumstances were rather different. Personalities were very different. Just look at Gordon Brown — not a naturally charismatic leader like Blair but a politician entirely on top of the job, without whom the 2008 crisis might well have become a catastrophe. The 1997-2010 Labour government is the only one in modern times to have made significant progress on equality of opportunity, which has been going rapidly backwards ever since. The Tory press mock Starmer because they fear him, but he has some of Brown’s intellectual heft and is conscientious in a way that’s been hard to find in government recently. You don’t have to try very hard, do you, to see the difference between him and the venal Johnson or the vacuous Truss? |
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Post by bpg on Oct 15, 2022 10:22:13 GMT
I don't deny progress was made, significant ? Debatable. The fact it was so easily and quickly unwound indicates a sticking plaster rather than anything of great significance but that's down to individual interpretation I suppose.
Gordon Brown may be a great politician but he is very naïve at the same time getting caught the way he was hence my Facebook politicians comment. They're all very media savvy but politically empty.
The current options are what they are and the electorate have to work out the best way to choose from what they have the problem is team sport voting. Some people are unwilling to work out what is currently the best for them and society they live in. I've read a lot recently of life long conservative voters not going to vote at the next GE as though that absolves them of any kind of responsibility for what happens next.
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Post by EspadaIII on Oct 16, 2022 7:28:44 GMT
Had lunch yesterday with a former senior Tory councillor in a London authority. She voted Remain and wanted Rishi as PM. Now she wants a GE.
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Post by WDB on Oct 16, 2022 17:58:37 GMT
…and a holiday, I imagine.
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Post by WDB on Oct 18, 2022 8:21:06 GMT
 My favourite Denial You Really Shouldn’t Be Having to Make since David Davis and “Post-Brexit Britain will not be like Mad Max.” |
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