Oh Andy, Andy, Andy.. just Why?

But he isn"t a breath of fresh air, he is someone who failed twice previously to become leader who has been parachuted in at great cost to the taxpayer because the last leader was a train wreck, and who has no new ideas that are realistically/financially doable, he is everything that is wrong with modern politics! Either he doesn"t have the self-awareness to realise this or he is just there to top up his credits for the speaking circuit when he inevitably gets forced out or loses a GE, old swivel eyes who sits near him at PMQ"s etc. is so obviously desperate for the job that you can smell the saliva through the television.

How did you feel about the Conservative PMs?

Same

🙄 It really is a deeply entrenched trend to ‘hate the prime minister’ isn’t it?!

I agree with you in that he is engaging- here we are talking about all his props and antics on Insta!

Just Stop Oil have started up again. I guess we’ll see if what you mention dents the AB vote.

I'm still drumming my fingers waiting for any explanation as to how he is going to grow the private sector economy to pay for his plans .....

AB is far less 'Green' than KS if we look at what I think of as Green policies. AB immediately cancelled our support for climate renewables support in other countries (and said they'll have to take out loans).

Also the drill, baby, drill - which is part of Burnham's new stance.

Fair! 😆

He does seem to be aware that same topics aren’t prop-appropriate. But it’s a risk!

Well, I’ll start worrying if I see him using toy aircraft carriers the way Argentina is behaving.

The simple reason as to why he’s doing it, is his audience like it. On that specific “wakey-wakey” post, on IG the top rated comment is about what a breathe of fresh air Andy Burnham is.

Other party leaders aren’t using social media to make complex statements and explanations about fiscal policy either, by the way. But it seems the online audience prefer props and toys to name-calling and mudslinging about other politicians, which is what Kemi Badenboch and Nigel Farage both do a lot of online. In an online world saturated in cynicism and outrage, I really struggle to see that as a bad thing.

I think they’re trying more to get Green voters back.

Unlikely, Reform voters know you can"t solve anything by spending 5 million that isn"t yours on a vanity project.

I thought his core voters were middle class champagne socialists. Could be just London though.

Maybe there is some research out there that suggests that infantile voters with less intellect have gone towards Reform and they need to be won back. Complex statements and explanations about fiscal policy won't cut it hence the use of props and toys.

I quite like AB and I'm a Tory, but he does have a tendency to infantilise his audience. Although I disagree with a lot of what he says, he strikes me as able to build bridges for important matters. Social care is one of the obvious problem areas that we shall need cross-party consensus to solve. So while I don't agree with him very closely on political points, I am happy to go along for now.

I liked SKS, especially on the international stage where I thought he performed superbly, but he was leaden in UK events.

Because he knows his core vote.

They have no idea what it actually is.

They have bought into a warm and fuzzy feelz.

Undef communism they will most likely live in a mouldy two bed flat with parents and siblings and at with least one grandparent.

Wakey wakey 'the alarm goes off...'
Why is he treating us like we are in preschool show and tell.

I like him as a person, he means well. He's not a PM though, by any stretch, and I think he'll be another short stay.

It appears the young uns are still hankering after Communism though. Maybe because they can't afford to buy a house and are suffering from job insecurity. Housing and jobs is what Labour has to get to grips with. But knowing them, they'll just tinker around the edges.

I have been on holiday in Russia before the Iron Curtain fell. There wasn't enough to eat, for tourists or for the locals.

Housing was a tiny utilitarian flat for most families.

Jobs, there's a Russian joke "we pretend to work and they pretend to pay us".

We went to an exhibition of "state of the art" products, they were so proud to show us. It was 1983, I think, and the TVs and motorcycles on display looked like the ones we had in the 1950s.

People on the street tried to buy our jeans and our watches.

Communism doesn't work. State control of the means of production doesn't work.

Love that film.

I think that’s because even though the basic needs of a person are met, it’s within a collective setting. everybody wants to be seen as an individual and that’s just not there.
State planning is very rigid, there is no place for material frivolities and there is no space for ideological luxuries, such as individual beliefs.
So, people’s eyes wander to the other side of the fence.

I would say, because those that thought for themselves felt suffocated by the level of control that was exerted over them. Have you seen this

Bing Videos

I have studied Communism for a long time and been to see the Stasi Musems in Berlin and Leipzig. I would just like to know after providing all the physical needs of people like jobs, housing and health care why they still wanted to escape?