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Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 1:42 pm If only he'd turned up to the cenotaph with a poppy that size, it all could have been so different.

Friend or faux wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:20 pm CEB you are seeming to be obsessing with Stella Creasey. I hope you are not trolling her on other Forums. I am personally worried about some of your postings. Why not obsess about someone who deserves it like Moggie or Christopher Chope. Or is it only women that come up on your radar?

Friend or faux wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:20 pm CEB you are seeming to be obsessing with Stella Creasey. I hope you are not trolling her on other Forums. I am personally worried about some of your postings. Why not obsess about someone who deserves it like Moggie or Christopher Chope. Or is it only women that come up on your radar?

Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 10:01 am

Friend or faux wrote: ↑Fri Jun 07, 2024 4:20 pm CEB you are seeming to be obsessing with Stella Creasey. I hope you are not trolling her on other Forums. I am personally worried about some of your postings. Why not obsess about someone who deserves it like Moggie or Christopher Chope. Or is it only women that come up on your radar?

I see we have to add "don't criticise your own MP" to your weird list of dos and don'ts now.

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:03 pm The fear for me was that a bad Labour defeat would have been spun as a rejection of these policies.

E10EU wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 11:19 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:03 pm The fear for me was that a bad Labour defeat would have been spun as a rejection of these policies.

Well, that's how Starmer is still spinning it now, with an extra determination to demonise Corbyn.
(The Forde report, commissioned by Starmer, has NOT drawn the conclusion that Starmer and his obliging fan club are still presenting to the media.)

'Reforming something' is similar to 'changing something' and Starmer's banner for the Labour party now looks quite similar to the banner for the far right GB news channel. The man is a fraud. Is he the first LP leader who has lost the backing of several Trades Unions?

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 11:36 pm

E10EU wrote: ↑Sun Jun 09, 2024 11:19 pm

Dunners wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:03 pm The fear for me was that a bad Labour defeat would have been spun as a rejection of these policies.

Well, that's how Starmer is still spinning it now, with an extra determination to demonise Corbyn.
(The Forde report, commissioned by Starmer, has NOT drawn the conclusion that Starmer and his obliging fan club are still presenting to the media.)

'Reforming something' is similar to 'changing something' and Starmer's banner for the Labour party now looks quite similar to the banner for the far right GB news channel. The man is a fraud. Is he the first LP leader who has lost the backing of several Trades Unions?

Losing the support of Trade Unions is a differentiator that even Blair never attempted.

But the Labour right have seen off the "Left" for ever (so far as their limited vision and understanding is concerned).

Their actions feed the rightwards movement in Europe. Time to pick a side.

Dunners wrote: ↑Thu Jun 13, 2024 4:19 pm Labour have issued their manifesto. I will just comment on their proposals for housing, as I know this

Immediately end Section 21 'no fault' evictions - Good, but they won't be able to do it 'immediately'. They need to undertake reform of key judicial processes (as they well know), which could take at least another year (probably longer). Without this the UK Court system will just grind to a halt.

Enact Law Commission proposals on leasehold enfranchisement, right to manage, and commonhold - And they'll promptly find the large land ownership companies immediately taking them off for years of litigation through the ECHR.

Ban new leasehold flats and make commonhold the default tenure - Fine for small, simply stock. Absolute carnage for large, high-density, mixed-use modern developments. Expect the Courts to grind to t halt as a surge of litigation takes place through company law.

Address unregulated and unaffordable ground rent charges - Already happening through the Leasehold Reform (Ground Rent) Act.

End 'fleecehold' private housing estates and unfair maintenance costs - Then they need to reform the Town & Country Planning Act and stop local authorities refusing to adopt external estate areas. Good luck. LAs have been using that squeeze for years, as they increase the number of council tax paying units without having to increase their costs.

Develop a new cross-government strategy with Mayors and Councils to end homelessness in Britain - Sounds a bit woolly. But fine, I guess.

Build 1.5 million new homes and new social renter homes - Over what time period and what percentage will be social rent homes (and I'm pretty sure that what they actually mean is Affordable Rent homes)?

Build new towns and reviewing Right to Buy discounts - FFS. Just scrap RTB! Also, given the shambles of infrastructure projects like HS2, I look forward to reading about how they're going to extend transport links and other public amenities to enable these new towns to be viable.

I reckon most of the above will either never see the light of day or will be watered down to the point that a homeopathist would be envious.