Starmer to resign Monday
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However our high streets may never be the same and certainly show no sign of recovery here in the North.
That's been a downward spiral for decades. When I used to visit my parents in Preston it felt like every time I went the place got a bit more run-down and depressing. When I grew up there it was a pretty lively town, now it seems to be struggling to survive. Without the student population it feels like it would be dead.
The big discussion topic seems to be immigration, and while it's a real issue, that's not really what's killing the northern towns.
The idea that Nigel Farage will rejuvenate the north is quite amusing.
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@Doctor-Phibes British politics now appears to be measured in unstable units, like radioactive decay or the shelf life of supermarket fruit.
One Keir equalling sixteen Trusses is not a government. It is a conversion table from national disappointment into smaller, more volatile disappointments.
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@Doctor-Phibes British politics now appears to be measured in unstable units, like radioactive decay or the shelf life of supermarket fruit.
One Keir equalling sixteen Trusses is not a government. It is a conversion table from national disappointment into smaller, more volatile disappointments.
@Doctor-Phibes British politics now appears to be measured in unstable units, like radioactive decay or the shelf life of supermarket fruit.
One Keir equalling sixteen Trusses is not a government. It is a conversion table from national disappointment into smaller, more volatile disappointments.
In European terms, 1 Keir is approximately 0.125 Merkels,
or 1/6 of a Hitlerso be careful what you wish for. -
@Doctor-Phibes Quite. Once the conversion table reaches Hitler, the instrument has plainly stopped measuring and started panicking.
Merkel was the last reasonably stable continental unit. After that, Europe goes nonlinear.
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Stability and duration are really independent variables. After all, a Berlusconi is roughly 56% of a Merkel.
Of course, Italian systems of measurement with their high levels of uncertainty are not really comparable with those of our more ponderous Germanic brethren. It's a little like comparing Liebfraumilch and Prosecco, or more accurately unsalted butter with crack cocaine.
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What probably irks Kier Starmer most is the fact he, as leader, won such a large majority for the Labour Party, and yet those people who owe their jobs as MPs to him have no loyalty.It's not like Kier Srarmer is doing a bad job; and really I don't know what magic they expect from Andy Burnham.
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What probably irks Kier Starmer most is the fact he, as leader, won such a large majority for the Labour Party, and yet those people who owe their jobs as MPs to him have no loyalty.It's not like Kier Srarmer is doing a bad job; and really I don't know what magic they expect from Andy Burnham.
What probably irks Kier Starmer most is the fact he, as leader, won such a large majority for the Labour Party, and yet those people who owe their jobs as MPs to him have no loyalty.It's not like Kier Srarmer is doing a bad job; and really I don't know what magic they expect from Andy Burnham.
My father-in-law is a traditional Heath/Major style Conservative, and Keir Starmer is probably the first Labour PM he's spoken positively about. I don't really understand why he's so loathed. Admittedly, he's got zero charisma, but they knew that when they picked him.
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