Thread 3 Starmer: Digging has started, bigger shovel required

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The level of delusion is genuinely incredible.

Maybe Braverman will finally defect to Reform?

I think Tom Tugendhat will win it.

So that she can say what she wants to say

Exactly.

I don’t. My money’s on Badenoch.

I think she will too. Just imagine the excitement if the sainted Kemi prevails, and how many comments there'll be about the Tories' track record of appointing women and people of colour ( regardless of their competence).

I think it very much depends on who she is up against if she makes it to the final two.

God, PMQs will be awful if she does win. Four or five years of her sneering condescension 🤮

If she lasts that long

Bookies have Badenoch as favourite to win.

She might win but she will alienate the rest of her party within a month. How soon could they put in a vote of no confidence?

"God, PMQs will be awful if she does win. Four or five years of her sneering condescension 🤮"

Judging from what I've just read of the breakfast club thread that will go down very well with a select group of the electorate.

She’d last long enough to completely finish them off in 2029 with a bit of luck.

Let's hope so. She has her fangirls but hopefully there aren't enough of them to matter. And after all, a good number of Tory members won't even be alive by the time of the next election.

News sites reporting that Rachel Reeves is offering junior doctors 22.3% payrise over the next two years.

According to the Telegraph it’s 20% over three years, they’ve already had 8.8% this year which is included. Total cost is a billion. Hopefully the offer will be accepted.

So it costs not much more than sending no one to Rwanda, remind me why this wasn't the offer made sooner?

Bonkers, isn’t it? Particularly when you bear in mind that there were strikes happening around the election which must have been a factor in them losing. It reinforces my suspicion that they really wanted to lose.

"So it costs not much more than sending no one to Rwanda, remind me why this wasn't the offer made sooner?"

Because then they were doctors in training.

Also because it was handy to try and pin the waiting lists on strikes before the election rather than a decade without a decent workforce plan.

When one factors in the money that has been spent on emergency cover on strike days, the cost of lost appointments and so on.

I thought Conservatives were meant to be good with money and the economy?

I think any claim that they had to be fiscally responsible is dead in the water now.

The BTL frothing on the Telegraph’s website is a joy to behold. Ironic that the biggest beneficiaries of a functional health service are those angriest about paying for it.

Cat tax paid. She's not too keen on the hot weather.

What hot weather? Still waiting for summer up here

Although I did manage to dry two washings out on the line at the weekend (one of which had to stay out an extra half day, after I forgot to bring it in in the evening and it got caught in a shower overnight).

I blame the Conservatives

Horrible news from Southport

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