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We had the Dublin agreement, whilst in the EU, whereby we could return them to France. Johnson 'forgot' to include that in his hastily thrown together Withdrawal Agreement, that nobody read.
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The press would have a field day. He's keeping his powder dry and knows that any change will require patience.Voters have changed their opinions about Brexit, but does it still matter to them? | Adam Boulton
An election will take place in the next 13 months, and Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are trying to keep their 2019 voters by branding Sir Keir an EU lover.news.sky.com
Interesting anyalyses and sums up why I am so disappointed with Starmer. A real opportunity to stand up for what he actually believes in, to show genuine leadership to both the country and his party and campaign to change views. Like many, I will vote labour to keep to the Tories out but I have little faith that Starmer will deliver anything much different or even that he himself knows what 'different' looks like
It’s unfortunately the nature of the game. Playing the game as a Tory is politics on Easy mode. You can be as crackpot as you like and get lauded for it. The Tory right are no better than the Labour left, yet look at the opprobrium heaped by the press on Abbott and Corbyn compared to Francois and Gullis.
I was planning similar until Sir Starmer gave the nod to Israel to keep slaughtering Palestinian women and children in Gaza. Earlier this week on R4 he was given several opportunities by the interviewer to call for a ceasefire. He refused. He is standing fast next to Sunak and Biden in refusing to call for an end to the needless slaughter. (And Biden's now wavering; in his latest speech he warned Israel that they were going too far).Voters have changed their opinions about Brexit, but does it still matter to them? | Adam Boulton
An election will take place in the next 13 months, and Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are trying to keep their 2019 voters by branding Sir Keir an EU lover.
Interesting anyalyses and sums up why I am so disappointed with Starmer. A real opportunity to stand up for what he actually believes in, to show genuine leadership to both the country and his party and campaign to change views. Like many, I will vote labour to keep to the Tories out but I have little faith that Starmer will deliver anything much different or even that he himself knows what 'different' looks like
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Fair play. May I ask which constituency you're in, and who you're going to vote for if you don't vote for the Labour MP in your constituency? Also, is it purely an exercise of principle when you vote?I was planning similar until Sir Starmer gave the nod to Israel to keep slaughtering Palestinian women and children in Gaza. Earlier this week on R4 he was given several opportunities by the interviewer to call for a ceasefire. He refused. He is standing fast next to Sunak and Biden in refusing to call for an end to the needless slaughter. (And Biden's now wavering; in his latest speech he warned Israel that they were going too far).
The man has no compassion. A cynic might suggest that the fact he, and two-fifths of the Shadow Cabinet, are funded by pro-Israeli lobby groups might have something to do with the stance he is taking.
Two-fifths of Keir Starmer’s cabinet have been funded by pro-Israel lobbyists
As Labour refuses to join calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, Declassified reveals the extent to which the shadow cabinet, including Starmer himself, has been financed by a pro-Israel lobby group and an individual funder.
Not for me Clive
If he said he's going to take us back into the EU then Sunk would win the general election.Voters have changed their opinions about Brexit, but does it still matter to them? | Adam Boulton
An election will take place in the next 13 months, and Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives are trying to keep their 2019 voters by branding Sir Keir an EU lover.
Interesting anyalyses and sums up why I am so disappointed with Starmer. A real opportunity to stand up for what he actually believes in, to show genuine leadership to both the country and his party and campaign to change views. Like many, I will vote labour to keep to the Tories out but I have little faith that Starmer will deliver anything much different or even that he himself knows what 'different' looks like
My middle brother is one of those on the left who will use any act of 'betrayal' of pure socialist principle to justify not voting labour.
I'm very much of the left, and note that the only options we're supposed to have is either the right or the centre. It's a common trope on NSC's politics thread. But ...
I am content for labour to start cranking up the rhetoric when the election is announced. Don't peak too soon. Sunk is doing a brilliant job of promoting the labour cause presently. Too many promises made too soon are a hostage to fortune.
Whose principles did you have in mind?
Not sure how you imagine he lacks leadership. He's been nothing but surefooted in my estimation, dispatching Corbyn and the likes of Wrong-Bailey without fuss. He has angered 'momentum' and succeeded in doing so without their having any traction whatsoever outside their echo chamber.
And he has the likes of potty and flagshit on here unsure whether to label him red in tooth and claw or 'just the same' as, er, the tories.
I'm happy with that.
If you anticipate that a labour government will disappoint you then stand by to be massively disappointed. I can see Starmer's measured, fair and decent approach driving certain people completely mad. Good.
(By baubles I mean promises - uncosted, unrealistic but deliciously "Socialist" in some eyes).
Well, previously we couldn’t because Labour’s policy under Miliband and Corbyn was basically to say the opposite of the Tories on every issue, then take a further two sidesteps to the left - alienating not only the centre ground (the right was a write off with left wing candidates anyway) - as well as much of the New Labour stalwarts.
