Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,075
It hasn't even started and already the band of brothers are fighting!
That Jon Lansman really is doing his best to keep Boris in No10!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Good to see Corbyn has got on top of this, albeit by kicking into the long grass. With the Tories all over the show and the Lib Dems on the surge, Labour has to be bang on its game, not obsessing about internal nonsense.
ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
- Posts: 2,158
Rarely do I find myself in agreement with the Good Cap'n but he's spot on. The worst government in my lifetime has no fears from what is equally the worst opposition.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,875
Conservatives and Labour busy with their internal problems will open the door for the LibDems to gain a decent foothold at the next election.
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,920
The 2 major parties do clearly have internal issues which are surfacing
Labour wanting to move to the left
But the country probably elect a left leaning Labour party
There appears to be issues of people frightened to speak out in case of being kicked out
Whilst others speak out attacking their own leader which only gets more people not to vote
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
Brexit has destroyed traditional party boundaries. It's far more a generational thing than a party political view subject.
The parties doing well now are those with a clear position - namely the Brexit Party on the one hand, and the Lib Dems and SNP on the other.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,075
THIS could be the woman in charge of our Prisons, Police Force and Security Services.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Bob Whysman
- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 1,937
[quote Captain Haddock] THIS could be the woman in charge of our Prisons, Police Force and Security Services.[unquote]
It would be interesting to see how the numbers add up in the future if the Labour Party win an election and rely on her mathematical expertise.
Do nothing and nothing happens.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Marr: "Why do you want to abolish Ofsted?"
Corbyn: “Because it is a very assertive form of investigation into a school. They turn up every few years and then make a decision about it and criticise the negatives.”
Yes, you absolute moron. That’s what inspectors do.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,875
Maybe he thinks the inspectors should criticise the positives and ignore the negatives.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Don't think I'll bother watching Naked Attraction this week.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
Just listened to the shadow chancellor .What is he on .Where will this money come from ?Jobs need to be created .The people who create the jobs need encouragement not taxed to the hilt Working week to be reduced with no loss of wage.Cuckcoo land.
I will never support a Labour Government.What do you class as poverty.Rant over.
Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 6,025
I’m now listening to some red hot Labour lady discussing with a panel of people the whys and where fore s of some of the suggested policies .They just hate the hard working people who have educated their children privately.These parents still pay into the state system by their taxes.My sons Grammar school place went to some one else.I still paid KCC through council tax for education .for some one else’s child My son was bright so some of the fee was paid for by a scholarship but I still had a lot of outgoings .
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,920
Sue,
come on, you have never come from the socialist side of things
liberal then tory
so wouldn't expect you to support a left leaning labour party.
But then maybe we should look at the tory policies on free markets and maggies old views and the present plight of those poor people employed by Thomas cook and those booked or booking holidays (as a starter)
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,875
I just want to know how all these wonderful plans from Labour will be funded.
Nothing being promised will be for free, there must be a cost to all of us somewhere along the line. The usual thing from those in power is give with one hand and take with the other.
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Sue Nicholas- Location: river
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Yes Jan you are right.Keith is correct I have never been Labour. but I think some people could help them selves.My in laws also my parents hard working never had any help.Dad at one time only had Christmas Day off and after a days work went in the fields and helped with the harvest .Mum worked until she was 83;.I made my children’s clothes and darned socks never threw any thing away.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,065
Right, hands up: who are the other three Yorkshiremen?
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,875
I really do not think we can compare our parents lives or even those of us over a certain age with present day ones. I used to make my children's clothes as well as most of mine, now it is cheaper to buy rather than make, I gave up darning socks shortly after I married but they came in useful to stuff toys or cushions.
Back to the conference and Brexit seems Labour are running scared of the LibDems by also wanting to remain.
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Neil Moors- Registered: 3 Feb 2016
- Posts: 1,299
So, the Labour Party is committed, under all circumstances, to offer a people's vote. That much is now crystal clear. As to what the people will be asked to vote on, assuming an election win, it'll be Labour's negotiated agreement with the EU, or, straight remain. The decision taken at its Conference today is to delay taking a position on whether, as the Government, it would campaign to leave with its own deal, or to remain.
You can only assume that this holding pattern is because it is scared of losing it's northern vote to the Brexit party. You cannot help but think in doing so, the party will lose stacks of votes to the Lib Dems.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
I do not watch/ listen to party conferences. all hot air and back stabbing.
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