General Election - 4th July 2024

[hilts]

Beth Rigby was so impressive on the Sky debate last night - asked questions, let the victims answer then it was like a professional Abatoir operator with bolts to the head and Sunak and Starmar then they were skined and sliced into cuts of meat.
Neither had answers.

Non of the above.

I was impressed with her.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I was impressed with her.

I'm glad she did it over Hurley Burley.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Erm, yeah, this is, er, quite something.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Have labour just launched their manifesto because I didn't see much being announced?

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Have labour just launched their manifesto because I didn't see much being announced?

Can’t be pulled up on policy if there are none.

 

[TinFoilHat]

It's a Arsenal playing for a draw at City manifesto.

 

[Lowtower]

Wes Streeting is as Tory as they come.

Horrible slimey bastard.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Sounds like the Labour manifesto is going down quite well.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Labour managed to find a man the Tories have actually killed to speak at their manifesto launch.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

Sounds like the Labour manifesto is going down quite well.

Eliminating age bands and increasing minimum wage was one I wasn’t expecting.

Gradually re-acquiring and nationalising railway contracts, a nationalised energy solution, reform of planning laws for housing, binning hereditary peers from House of Lords, bin Rwanda, restricting second jobs for MPs and increased scrutiny on post-MP roles.

There’s some good stuff in there for sure. It’s all understandably very measured but I don’t really know what more can reasonably be expected in this Parliament. If there were a way, I would want the two child benefit cap gone and I’d want them to be more ambitious with infrastructure investment… but I understand why they want the foundations in place with better planning and implementation before promising those things. There’s more than one way to skin a cat.

I think even if you don’t like Starmer (and I reserve judgement on him), if they deliver what’s in this manifesto people will be very happy.