[Politics] Labour Party meltdown incoming.......

Bozza said:

He told us he'd be dealing with that on "Day One".

It's one broken promise after another...

Labour’s Streeting Seeks to End Junior Doctor Strikes in England on ‘Day One’

Labour’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, urged England’s junior doctors to cancel a round of strikes planned before the UK’s general election next month, and pledged to seek a compromise to end more than a year of industrial action from “day one” if his party wins the July 4 vote.

www.bloomberg.com

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Bozza said:

He told us he'd be dealing with that on "Day One".

It's one broken promise after another...

Labour’s Streeting Seeks to End Junior Doctor Strikes in England on ‘Day One’

Labour’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, urged England’s junior doctors to cancel a round of strikes planned before the UK’s general election next month, and pledged to seek a compromise to end more than a year of industrial action from “day one” if his party wins the July 4 vote.

www.bloomberg.com

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Thunder Bolt said:

An interesting appointment.

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pocketseagull said:

It's also a way of packing the House of Lords with Labour appointees so serves two purposes.

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UK House of Lords composition 2024 | Statista

As of 2024, there are 785 members of the House of Lords in the United Kingdom, with 270 Lords belonging to the Conservative Party, 184 Crossbench Lords, and 175 that are members of the Labour Party.

www.statista.com

Fungus said:

Yeah, there was a good interview with him in the Big Issue recently, he comes across very well.

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beorhthelm said:

410 odd MPs and Starmer is appointing Lords for ministers? is this lack of faith in the intake, or novel approach of using experienced people?

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mejonaNO12 aka riskit said:

I don't like this whole "lets appoint people with experience in the specific field to the head of govt".

It's much more fun when it's as before
"Good evening Janet"
"Hello Prime minister"
"Janet, you know what a huge fan I am of your work in the banking sector and your extensive work as a lecturer on economic analysis before becoming an MP. And it is that expertise that I want to use in my cabinet"
"Oh. This is such an honour, never did I dream of being The Chancell"
"Congratulations Janet. You are the new foreign secretary"

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Giraffe said:

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

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Giraffe said:

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

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ozzygull said:

I have to say that this my only worry about this Government I hope that houses that get built are social housing that stay in the council portfolio rather then more poorly overpriced privet estates.

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ozzygull said:

I have to say that this my only worry about this Government I hope that houses that get built are social housing that stay in the council portfolio rather then more poorly overpriced privet estates.

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Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor

Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinance at UWE Bristol

www.theguardian.com

pocketseagull said:

Doesn't appear that hopeful according to this:

Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor

Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinance at UWE Bristol

www.theguardian.com

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Giraffe said:

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

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Levelling up: what has the government spent – and where?

Much of the money allocated to ‘unite and level up’ the UK is unspent while some funding decisions have been criticised for impartiality

www.theguardian.com

Giraffe said:

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

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Giraffe said:

Interesting reading their housing plans. Not good news for the South Down and Worthing in particular. A return to shared housing targets effectively means everywhere (no matter how crowded already it is) has to contribute the same share as a % of their current housing. Sounds fair in theory but ignores the fact there is a lot more space further North.

It has also dropped levelling up from their housing policy title because this won't help. More and more houses will get poured into the South East, filling field after field because that is where house builders get more value.

Short sighted in my view. One of the few good things the Tories did was the levelling scheme. It was starting to work, certainly for the Midlands where house prices were catching up. To abandon that is a problem for protecting the South Downs and beyond.

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Guinness Boy said:

Levelling up was nonsense.

They've spunked huge amounts on a bowls club, skate park and park on wealthy West Hove seafront, a place so undeserving of levelling up that many of its residents tutted into their hummus at the plans. And where there was already a park, skate park and bowls club.

Meanwhile, actual shitholes were ignored to the point where their residents voted for those mad Nazis, Reform.

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Guinness Boy said:

Levelling up was nonsense.

They've spunked huge amounts on a bowls club, skate park and park on wealthy West Hove seafront, a place so undeserving of levelling up that many of its residents tutted into their hummus at the plans. And where there was already a park, skate park and bowls club.

Meanwhile, actual shitholes were ignored to the point where their residents voted for those mad Nazis, Reform.

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