Keir Starmer

TinFoilHat said:
What concerned me was the enthusiastic clapping at stopping the boats.
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That proves how well Sunak and Braverman has persuaded parts of the electorate those boats are responsible for all the NHS waiting lists and why there’s no money for anything anymore.
People believe it aided and abetted by the sun and the mail
 
TinFoilHat said:
Yep. I think Beth mentioned 70% voted for Brexit?
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A colleague of mine used to work as a fisherman as a kid and said his family had turned to the Tories (latterly Johnson) because of pledge to the UK fishing industry. They are all now furious with what transpired and have now reconsidered their original position to trust anything they could achieve for them.

TBF, he said that the region had been decimated by cuts and a lot of them didn’t realise it was the central funding, not local, that had brought them to where they were. Others just wanted levelling up to work, thus sucking up to the Tories.

We live and learn.
 
It's a fair point. Not saying they would have won but this was the we must destroy the village to save it moment. Dennis knew.

 
bluethrunthru said:
The bigger question is that over the last decade fees have gone up @30% with no mass exodus and most of those parents still go skiing and to the Maldives so why would this change cause a meltdown? The parents can make sacrifices, work harder, work 2 jobs or get a paying job. Thats what they tell you to do if you can't afford premium label baked beans.
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Something going up ~30% in a decade is hardly surprising if you want inflation around 2.5% which acts cumulatively.

Going up 20% overnight is entirely different.

Anyway let’s look at the rationale being provided for increasing fees - it’s to raise funds to improve state schools. Ok let’s take that at face value and assume this is going to pay for all these things Labour want to do - none of which anyone would disagree with. Is it fair that a small section of society who do not use that facility should pay for these improvements? Would it not be fairer to share that investment across a wider group of tax payers through a simple increase in taxation? Those with the broadest shoulders bearing the burden of a small amount each versus a small group bearing a much larger burden? The former approach would likely raise more money (the numbers being muted as this raising are questionable), not tax education as a principle, and which would be better for all concerned - no?
 
Grimsby, like many other towns, has lost its purpose, and not yet found another. It was, at one time, possibly the premier fishing port of the entire world.

There used to be trains, whole trains, carrying fish from Grimsby to various parts of the country. That has almost all gone - what remains goes by road - because we lost our fishing grounds around Iceland donkey's years ago.

Why anyone, even of the meanest intellect, would think that leaving the EU would move all the cod and haddock* into British waters I cannot conceive.

It's rather like Radcliffe (for example) thinking that a vote could bring back the cotton mills.

* We eat little else, and what we do eat is far less than 50 or 100 years ago.
 
metalblue said:
Something going up ~30% in a decade is hardly surprising if you want inflation around 2.5% which acts cumulatively.

Going up 20% overnight is entirely different.

Anyway let’s look at the rationale being provided for increasing fees - it’s to raise funds to improve state schools. Ok let’s take that at face value and assume this is going to pay for all these things Labour want to do - none of which anyone would disagree with. Is it fair that a small section of society who do not use that facility should pay for these improvements? Would it not be fairer to share that investment across a wider group of tax payers through a simple increase in taxation? Those with the broadest shoulders bearing the burden of a small amount each versus a small group bearing a much larger burden? The former approach would likely raise more money (the numbers being muted as this raising are questionable), not tax education as a principle, and which would be better for all concerned - no?
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Why not do both if it helped rectify public services that need urgent investment.

As a lot of popes have suggested, it’s about your taxes seemingly not doing anything that frustrates people most.
 
BrianW said:
Grimsby, like many other towns, has lost its purpose, and not yet found another. It was, at one time, possibly the premier fishing port of the entire world.

There used to be trains, whole trains, carrying fish from Grimsby to various parts of the country. That has almost all gone - what remains goes by road - because we lost our fishing grounds around Iceland donkey's years ago.

Why anyone, even of the meanest intellect, would think that leaving the EU would move all the cod and haddock* into British waters I cannot conceive.

It's rather like Radcliffe (for example) thinking that a vote could bring back the cotton mills.

* We eat little else, and what we do eat is far less than 50 or 100 years ago.
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That can’t be true anymore because since Brexit all the fish are now proper English fish again like they used to be in the good old days before the French and those unelected bureaucrats in Brussels stole are fishing rights!!

Make fishing great again!!
 
The fact that most of the commentary about Starmer following last night’s Sky News interviews relates to him stumbling to find a response to a daft question about him being robotic suggests that the media couldn’t find anything of substance to criticise him about when it comes to policy. Can see why 64% of viewers thought he performed better than Sunak.

Someone should tell him that constantly repeating the toolmaker thing makes him a laughing stock though.
 
BrianW said:
It's rather like Radcliffe (for example) thinking that a vote could bring back the cotton mills.
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Can they at least have Halls back?

I feel like the kids today aren't tough enough - and that's probably because they've never faced the disappointment of their Dad returning from the pub with a big box of "free sweets".

Which turn out to be Halls Mentholyptus.
 
west didsblue said:
The fact that most of the commentary about Starmer following last night’s Sky News interviews relates to him stumbling to find a response to a daft question about him being robotic suggests that the media couldn’t find anything of substance to criticise him about when it comes to policy. Can see why 64% of viewers thought he performed better than Sunak.

Someone should tell him that constantly repeating the toolmaker thing makes him a laughing stock though.
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I think if he wants to tell the toolmaker story, he should laugh along with the audience. Even a simple start of, "You probably won't have heard, but my dad was a toolmaker". Gets the point across and is an easy way of seeming a bit more human.
 
A57 the snake said:
Those sniggering would have no clue what a tool maker was or is trust me , theses pricks on twatter wouldn’t have a scooby how to start.
They couldn’t even use a micrometer, to start with, sums up the modern day school play ground thinking.
Been in the game for years you learn from your elders and peers in this job.
Feeds and speeds.
Free hand tool making was on another level.
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They're not laughing at the actual job

Pmsl
 
bluenova said:
Can they at least have Halls back?

I feel like the kids today aren't tough enough - and that's probably because they've never faced the disappointment of their Dad returning from the pub with a big box of "free sweets".

Which turn out to be Halls Mentholyptus.
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as an interesting micro tale of modern capiltalisim in which a household name of a working class staple during a cough becomes part of a bundle of names sold around venture capitalists and global conglomerates after they have taken their slice of the pie out of it. The rich get richer and the poor sweet maker gets a P45

history of Halls Menthol-yptus - Let's Look Again

letslookagain.com letslookagain.com
 
west didsblue said:
The fact that most of the commentary about Starmer following last night’s Sky News interviews relates to him stumbling to find a response to a daft question about him being robotic suggests that the media couldn’t find anything of substance to criticise him about when it comes to policy. Can see why 64% of viewers thought he performed better than Sunak.

Someone should tell him that constantly repeating the toolmaker thing makes him a laughing stock though.
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Wait let me get this right, the next prime minister of this country when saying something that makes everyone in the room laugh at him needs a quiet word in his ear.
He can't work it out for himself? He really lacks any kind of self awareness,? He can't read a room and has never thought I wonder if I'm repeating myself a bit too much here.

It's like he rehearsed something and cannot divert from this no matter what happens. Like a doll with a button you press. What is it specifically with politicians that makes them act this way?

Fuckin hell we don't have much of a choice in this country.
 
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