Maybe straight to camera isn't his thing.
But it is a bit of a gamble strategy, appealing to the good taste and common sense of the electorate. Lying works so much better.
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But it is a bit of a gamble strategy, appealing to the good taste and common sense of the electorate. Lying works so much better.
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David Millibland gave Keith his seal of approval on Sky News an hour ago. All the former new labour bods seem to be popping up in the media again. Just waiting for Blunkett's dog to appear on BBC saying even his owner can see Starmer is a winner.
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A Labour Party group with links to Keir Starmer is being investigated for failing to declare financial backers
EXCLUSIVE: Labour Together is under investigation by the Electoral Commission after failing to declare over £800,000 worth of donations in time.
www.businessinsider.com
Hope we get to find out who these backers are.
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I would have loved Starmer to say this.
By redeploying the resources capitalism has so considerately stored up for us, socialism can allow the economic to take more of a backseat. It will not evaporate, but it will become less obtrusive. To enjoy a sufficiency of goods means not to have to think about money all the time. It frees us for less tedious pursuits. Far from being obsessed with economic matters, Marx saw them as a travesty of true human potential. He wanted society where the economic no longer monopolised so much time and energy.
That our ancestors should have been so preoccupied with material matters is understandable. When you can produce only a slim economic surplus, or scarcely any surplus at all, you will perish without ceaseless hard labour. Capitalism, however, generates the sort of surplus that really could be used to increase leisure on a sizeable scale. The irony is that it creates this wealth in a way that demands constant accumulation and expansion, and thus constant labour. It also creates it in ways that generate poverty and hardship. It is a self-thwarting system. As a result, modern men and women, surrounded by an affluence unimaginable to hunter-gatherers, ancient slaves or feudal serfs, end up working as long and hard as these predecessors ever did. Marx's work is all about human enjoyment. The good life for him is not one of labour but of leisure.
Credit to Terry Eagleton. Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.
By redeploying the resources capitalism has so considerately stored up for us, socialism can allow the economic to take more of a backseat. It will not evaporate, but it will become less obtrusive. To enjoy a sufficiency of goods means not to have to think about money all the time. It frees us for less tedious pursuits. Far from being obsessed with economic matters, Marx saw them as a travesty of true human potential. He wanted society where the economic no longer monopolised so much time and energy.
That our ancestors should have been so preoccupied with material matters is understandable. When you can produce only a slim economic surplus, or scarcely any surplus at all, you will perish without ceaseless hard labour. Capitalism, however, generates the sort of surplus that really could be used to increase leisure on a sizeable scale. The irony is that it creates this wealth in a way that demands constant accumulation and expansion, and thus constant labour. It also creates it in ways that generate poverty and hardship. It is a self-thwarting system. As a result, modern men and women, surrounded by an affluence unimaginable to hunter-gatherers, ancient slaves or feudal serfs, end up working as long and hard as these predecessors ever did. Marx's work is all about human enjoyment. The good life for him is not one of labour but of leisure.
Credit to Terry Eagleton. Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University.
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He’s not going for a job as a Saturday evening gameshow presenter. All that matters are his policies.
urban genie
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Which are?
Strarmers problen and the team around them is theu have put forward quite a lot of policy ideas, normally in two's, then they never bring them up again, thehm a few weeks past he makes aspeach and put a few more ideas about, but as he never fleshed out the last people have already forgotten them.
His detractors both on the right and the left use the arfuement he has too many short term ideas which as the opposition he cannot effect but also not enough long term policies.
No one denies his ranking as the most polpular and likeable labour leader amongst the general public since blair, but his is gaining no points on whether he is a considered a capable leader or Prime Minnesterial and on the crucial one for any Labour leader, if he is trusted with the economy.
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Can you please point to the evidence you are relying on to make this claim? Specifically on average hours worked.