Labour isn't working - Thread 3

[TheNuthatch]

A thread for those who don't like this Labour government.

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Busy day at work today so I only caught a bit of pmqs. Starmer was as odious and machiavellian as always in the bit I heard.

Not only does he think he is so special that he doesn't need to answer questions (unless they're from a labour plant), he accused Badenoch again of being some kind of Russian sympathiser. I also heard that line again; 'in the same column as Russia, Iran and China'.
This is how Starmer reacts when his atrocious governance is interrogated.

Ed Davey is being oh so polite with the PM. He's obviously eyeing a future coalition, so wouldn't dare hold Starmer's feet to the fire on issues that the Lib Dems claim to care about.

Rant over 😂

Thanks for taking one for the team @TheNuthatchI find him so odious I can’t listen these days.

This made me laugh.
I only managed 5 minutes through a single airpod before I got angry. 😂

James Cleverly is giving a speech tonight. Be still my beating heart! 💙

Haha a single AirPod 😬

Good luck to Cleverly wonder if there’ll be a leadership change at some point.

I don’t mind Kemi but I think she faces extra misogyny and worse from Labour lot.

Keir Starmer sounds like a petulant schoolboy most days!

Badenoch is awful and needs replacing. They haven't got a hope with her. Cleverly is probably the best chance they have.

Chancelbore of the exchequer 😂

The videos of this guy eye rolling have been all over my SM today. Watch the man over her right shoulder 😂
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14779629/Chancelbore-Exchequer-factory-workers-Rachel-Reeves.html

I can't tolerate the incompetence.
The only half good thing looks like castrating peadophiles

Those poor chaps having to listen to that crap droning on 🤣🤣🤣

Haha that is brilliant.

He’s really hating it all. I don’t blame him 😬

Just listening to a very good baroness on the creative industry, AI and opposing the bill. She’s right, we’re undervaluing what we have creatively and allowing theft.

I hope they win on that.

I missed that, sounds like a good interview. I had the radio on on my commute but it was the lovely Phillipson spouting crap. Yes I hope it's defeated too. Hopefully the Lords will see to it.

I'm also hoping the planning bill fails. The Guardian have done some good reporting on this. There are some important habitats at risk that we will never get back.

I suspect Mahmood will lose her castration budget in next week's spending review 😂

A good piece by Deborah Haynes re defence spending. Could explain why Reeves is throwing so much borrowed capital spending at transport projects.
https://news.sky.com/story/the-uk-and-nato-expected-to-agree-to-a-trump-inspired-pledge-for-5-on-defence-spending-but-watch-out-for-smoke-and-mirrors-13379213

Zia Yusuf has resigned as chair of Reform UK.

That's a shame but he always was a businessman and not a politician.

He's a multi-millionaire and probably has other (more lucrative) fish to fry.

Shame he’s great eye
candy and talks sense

I think Reform will miss having him on board. He seemed talented.

Hamilton results, and shares.

Thanks for this. That Reform increase looks like it’ll cause some headaches for other parties.

Interesting interview with the head of The Council of Europe on the front of the Times this morning re ECHR. (I can't link as I buy the actual newspaper).

The European Convention on Human Rights must adapt in the face of a growing political backlash against migration, with '"no taboo" on rewriting it's rules, the head of the Council of Europe has said.
In a rare interview, the chief of the organisation said the binding legal text for 46 countries including Britain which is regularly invoked in asylum cases, should be reformed.
Alan Berset, secretary general of the Council of Europe (CoE) and a former president of Switzerland, acknowledged recent criticism from across the continent of the 75 year old convention.
"We are witnessing a world where things are changing rapidly. It is accelerating. We see this and it is normal that we must also adapt to this. We need adaptation. We need discussion about the rules that we want to have, and there is no taboo".

Amen to that!

@TheNuthatch I was going to buy the paper for once as I don't subscribe either. About time it was addressed, I've been saying the same for ages! It'll be interesting to see what they propose.

I've lost count of the arguments I've had on MN over this. PPs suggesting it can't be done, without losing all of our human rights etc.

Berset's comments are an invitation to British and European critics of the ECHR in it's present form to contact him at the council in Strasbourg to begin talks on reform.

Lets hope they do. Perhaps Starmer will pretend that this was his view all along . Badenoch is giving a speech this morning on the ECHR.

Same. I said a couple of years ago the laws would change. The usual backlash of course. Seems being ahead gets you nada but Labour inspired carnage.

Another good story in the The Times about Downing St 'examining proposals to issue every adult in Britain with a digital ID card'.
'Detailed plans for the card have been shared with Downing St by Labour Together, a think tank which was previously led by Morgan McSweeney'.
It it's report, published today, it calls for Starmer to make digital identity a top prime ministerial priority'.