The Times reports that people are opposed to Milliband being chancellor and the US is even more opposed to him being Foreign Secretary. No doubt the BBC will be explaining why the US takes a view.
The Times reports that people are opposed to Milliband being chancellor and the US is even more opposed to him being Foreign Secretary. No doubt the BBC will be explaining why the US takes a view.
I'm guessing some combination of:
1. They think they run the world.
2. Miliband has become the net zero bogeyman for climate change denialists.
3. Israel.
The Times reports that people are opposed to Milliband being chancellor and the US is even more opposed to him being Foreign Secretary. No doubt the BBC will be explaining why the US takes a view.
I'm guessing some combination of:
1. They think they run the world.
2. Miliband has become the net zero bogeyman for climate change denialists.
3. Israel.
Sure, I'm just waiting for the BBCs senior political editor to spell this out, something you never see (inform, educate, etc)
Had a hanger [anger due to hunger] induced row with a bloke (a white pensioner) at a bus stop today who was extolling the virtues of Farage and Trump and spouting racist crap while reading the Daily Mail - this is what happens when I leave my headphones at home! I'm not proud of myself for not just ignoring him but it really pisses me off the way this variety of white pensioner can just sit on their arse all day absorbing hatred via GB News and the Mail etc and the political class bends over backwards to accommodate them. Andy Burnham is very far from perfect but he's not Farage or Trump, but how do you rescue Britain from the tentacles of fascism when its footsoldiers are the most privileged people in society aka old white men?
Had a hanger [anger due to hunger] induced row with a bloke (a white pensioner) at a bus stop today who was extolling the virtues of Farage and Trump and spouting racist crap while reading the Daily Mail - this is what happens when I leave my headphones at home! I'm not proud of myself for not just ignoring him but it really pisses me off the way this variety of white pensioner can just sit on their arse all day absorbing hatred via GB News and the Mail etc and the political class bends over backwards to accommodate them. Andy Burnham is very far from perfect but he's not Farage or Trump, but how do you rescue Britain from the tentacles of fascism when its footsoldiers are the most privileged people in society aka old white men?
Those type of old white men are being replaced as they shuffle off this mortal coil. I am 60 next year and am definitely not a GB news watcher or Daily Mail reader. Many of us are left leaning. Change is on its way, slowly but on its way.
Minor point - I've not heard any Americans yet try to pronounce his surname. Given the American tendency for a breathy h in the middle of words/names, I wondered if they were pronouncing his name like an instruction to incinerate pork products.
The problem is, they pass the hatred down to others and we can see the influence on events like the unrest in Southampton. Plenty of people arrested for violence (both against the police and civillians) were in their 30s or younger. Racism has become normalised in British society, and people feel emboldened to say the most awful bigoted crap in real life (not even hiding behind a keyboard) because people like Farage and Trump being successful makes them feel untouchable.
And of course, the real victims of these people are the ones least able to fight back. I don't care if some old gammon has a go at me, I do care that asylum seekers have people threatening to burn down the hotels where they are housed.
Had a hanger [anger due to hunger] induced row with a bloke (a white pensioner) at a bus stop today who was extolling the virtues of Farage and Trump and spouting racist crap while reading the Daily Mail - this is what happens when I leave my headphones at home! I'm not proud of myself for not just ignoring him but it really pisses me off the way this variety of white pensioner can just sit on their arse all day absorbing hatred via GB News and the Mail etc and the political class bends over backwards to accommodate them. Andy Burnham is very far from perfect but he's not Farage or Trump, but how do you rescue Britain from the tentacles of fascism when its footsoldiers are the most privileged people in society aka old white men?
Those type of old white men are being replaced as they shuffle off this mortal coil. I am 60 next year and am definitely not a GB news watcher or Daily Mail reader. Many of us are left leaning. Change is on its way, slowly but on its way.
Me too - 60 is just around the corner and I'm still a clueless naive stupid lefty.
For my entire voting life of fifty years I have been drifting un/steadily leftwards, from the Liberal Party to reluctantly voting Labour when there is no credible Socialist alternative.
John Healey to be Chancellor. Whoever the Defence Minister is should be pleased.
Ed Miliband to be Foreign Secretary. The US will NOT be pleased!
Shabana Mahmood to stay where she is. Like Louise I really don’t like her views on human rights. But I suppose it could have been worse. I’m glad she’s not going to be Chancellor.
Wow - he kept Mahmood as home secretary, that's even worse. Government for racists and xenophobes by racists and xenophobes. That blows any chance that they reverse their Reform Lite policies.
I understand the urge to proclaim your (general "your") leftist credentials in response to criticism of those who don't share them - but the Ship is not typical. I'm quite aware that the Ship contains many leftwing pensioners, it still doesn't mean that the phenomenon I described doesn't exist. It exists so much that an entire word was coined to describe the phenomenon!
He could have made Mahmood Chancellor, as lots protected. And the Home Office, to put it politely, has a somewhat mixed reputation re administrative competence. It used, justifiably, to be regarded as a bit of a graveyard for the politically ambitious.
But I accept what you say about Reform-lite risks. Personally I don’t think the Blue Labour segment will thrive under Andy Burnham Also, let’s see who he appoints as justice minister.
The odd thing about the Mail-reading Right is that they assume everyone agrees with them so they have no hesitation in spouting their views as an opening gambit and are shocked when challenged.
I also am still a leftie despite moving from the number of trombones to an address in Sunset Strip next week.
For my entire voting life of fifty years I have been drifting un/steadily leftwards, from the Liberal Party to reluctantly voting Labour when there is no credible Socialist alternative.
He could have made Mahmood Chancellor, as lots protected. And the Home Office, to put it politely, has a somewhat mixed reputation re administrative competence. It used, justifiably, to be regarded as a bit of a graveyard for the politically ambitious.
But I accept what you say about Reform-lite risks. Personally I don’t think the Blue Labour segment will thrive under Andy Burnham Also, let’s see who he appoints as justice minister.
The Home Office has a poor record when it is taken to the courts regarding human rights. I really believe the civil servants at the Home Office resent Human Rights legislation and they push their ministers, hence the reputation it has as a poisoned chalice.
Steve Reed has gone. I know Steve quite well as he used to my MP until the boundary changes at the last election, and he’s been known to show up in my church from time to time. He has a tendency to get extremely stroppy if anyone disagrees with him, so I wasn’t surprised at the rather snotty, sarcastic and passive aggressive tone of his resignation letter
With the announcement this morning of a cut to VAT on electricity bills, I wonder if this will provoke a reprimand from the Speaker for not announcing it in the House first.
I cannot see Wes Streeting being allowed to do run down our defence capability in this government.
As for a reprimand from Mr Speaker, a little opportunity for the new Prime Minister to eat humble pie will at least look good.
With the announcement this morning of a cut to VAT on electricity bills, I wonder if this will provoke a reprimand from the Speaker for not announcing it in the House first.
Unlikely, as the House of Commons is not sitting until 1st September.
Not sure leaving Nandy in charge of the DCMS is a great idea as charter renewal comes up, as aside from the odd minor flurry of activity -- usually involving crackdowns or spreading Russian conspiracy theories -- she's been in a prolonged sulk.
Not sure about Alex Norris as Mimister of Justice.
Given the parlous state of the judicial system (CPS under-resourcing and incompetence, hugely overloaded Crown Court, massive and increasing delays) it’s clearly in need of urgent reform.
I really don’t see how his experience makes him a good fit for that job.
Not sure leaving Nandy in charge of the DCMS is a great idea as charter renewal comes up, as aside from the odd minor flurry of activity -- usually involving crackdowns or spreading Russian conspiracy theories -- she's been in a prolonged sulk.
Iirc Nandy has historical family connections to the arts/UK film industry.
Not sure leaving Nandy in charge of the DCMS is a great idea as charter renewal comes up, as aside from the odd minor flurry of activity -- usually involving crackdowns or spreading Russian conspiracy theories -- she's been in a prolonged sulk.
Iirc Nandy has historical family connections to the arts/UK film industry.
.. and her dad is a Marxist, these things don't necessarily get inherited as some kind of genetic legacy.
Practically speaking she's done very little of note apart from the aforementioned crackdowns (and taking the Russian Boxing Federations line on Imane Khelif).
It should be a lesson to all those who politics understanders who used to stan her.
As Culture Minister Lisa Nandy might find herself pleading for the creative parts of our universities which are under attack to fund extra defence spending. I’m not sure she’s brave enough and I don’t think the savings from gutting creative studies in general will raise anything like enough to pay for the extra defence capabilities.
Why is it that "defence" is never expected to make "efficiency savings" the way health and education are? Can you imagine if we procured medical equipment the way we procure weapons?
As Culture Minister Lisa Nandy might find herself pleading for the creative parts of our universities which are under attack to fund extra defence spending.
I don't think the Labour PLP really understands the issues around universities and their wider economic impact, especially as they pursue a track that simultaneously reduces funding while implementing immigration changes that effectively making it harder for foreign students to pursue advanced qualifications in the UK.
There was an episode a few months back where someone engaged an MP in conversation on this topic on bsky, and she replied that universities weren't a concern 'around my ends' as the university was actually one constituency over. The wider impact, and the fact that many of the students at that university lived in her constituency seemed to have entirely passed her by.
On the subject of Foreign students, the university based predominantly in my hometown aggressively recruited students, especially from Nigeria, but since visa requirement changes, the number of foreign applicants has halved. Many former student houses are now empty as landlords are reluctant to let permanently to families.
I see Larry the Cat missed out again. I do think the King should give him a Knighthood for being the longest resident of 10 Downing Street for a good number years.
Meanwhile, I observed to a local Labour figure that one of the least attainable of Burnham's aspirations was to end factionalism in the Labour Party.
He laughed and said that although he was himself in the faction within the Labour family that was ostensibly anti-factional, that was, by its very nature a factional position.
It seems Burnham's honeymoon period has lasted all of 30 seconds.
If that.
Whatever his Cabinet decisions they are going to hack someone off. Not least those who were hoping to be around the table.
Why is it that "defence" is never expected to make "efficiency savings" the way health and education are? Can you imagine if we procured medical equipment the way we procure weapons?
They would arrive years late, cost ten times the original price and immediately break down.
Why is it that "defence" is never expected to make "efficiency savings" the way health and education are? Can you imagine if we procured medical equipment the way we procure weapons?
They would arrive years late, cost ten times the original price and immediately break down.
Why is it that "defence" is never expected to make "efficiency savings" the way health and education are? Can you imagine if we procured medical equipment the way we procure weapons?
They would arrive years late, cost ten times the original price and immediately break down.
So, pretty much the same as current procurement.
Our local city had a brand new hospital bult at huge cost. However the builders used substandard materials for the floors so they couldn't stand the weight of heavy CAT scanners etc. The cladding was found to be unsafe too. The opening was delayed for years while the problem was rectified. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-48554318
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Ah, but as chancellor she has the oppurtunity to make us all suffer. I would fear for my pension.
I'm guessing some combination of:
1. They think they run the world.
2. Miliband has become the net zero bogeyman for climate change denialists.
3. Israel.
Sure, I'm just waiting for the BBCs senior political editor to spell this out, something you never see (inform, educate, etc)
And of course, the real victims of these people are the ones least able to fight back. I don't care if some old gammon has a go at me, I do care that asylum seekers have people threatening to burn down the hotels where they are housed.
Me too - 60 is just around the corner and I'm still a clueless naive stupid lefty.
Same, but I'm in the final year of my 60s
Ed Miliband to be Foreign Secretary. The US will NOT be pleased!
Shabana Mahmood to stay where she is. Like Louise I really don’t like her views on human rights. But I suppose it could have been worse. I’m glad she’s not going to be Chancellor.
I'm rapidly approaching 77 and I seem to be getting more and more left of centre as I get older..
He could have made Mahmood Chancellor, as lots protected. And the Home Office, to put it politely, has a somewhat mixed reputation re administrative competence. It used, justifiably, to be regarded as a bit of a graveyard for the politically ambitious.
But I accept what you say about Reform-lite risks. Personally I don’t think the Blue Labour segment will thrive under Andy Burnham Also, let’s see who he appoints as justice minister.
I also am still a leftie despite moving from the number of trombones to an address in Sunset Strip next week.
We could start a club. I'd be a senior member.
The Home Office has a poor record when it is taken to the courts regarding human rights. I really believe the civil servants at the Home Office resent Human Rights legislation and they push their ministers, hence the reputation it has as a poisoned chalice.
As for a reprimand from Mr Speaker, a little opportunity for the new Prime Minister to eat humble pie will at least look good.
Unlikely, as the House of Commons is not sitting until 1st September.
Given the parlous state of the judicial system (CPS under-resourcing and incompetence, hugely overloaded Crown Court, massive and increasing delays) it’s clearly in need of urgent reform.
I really don’t see how his experience makes him a good fit for that job.
Iirc Nandy has historical family connections to the arts/UK film industry.
Missed this comment - this is certainly good news.
.. and her dad is a Marxist, these things don't necessarily get inherited as some kind of genetic legacy.
Practically speaking she's done very little of note apart from the aforementioned crackdowns (and taking the Russian Boxing Federations line on Imane Khelif).
It should be a lesson to all those who politics understanders who used to stan her.
I don't think the Labour PLP really understands the issues around universities and their wider economic impact, especially as they pursue a track that simultaneously reduces funding while implementing immigration changes that effectively making it harder for foreign students to pursue advanced qualifications in the UK.
There was an episode a few months back where someone engaged an MP in conversation on this topic on bsky, and she replied that universities weren't a concern 'around my ends' as the university was actually one constituency over. The wider impact, and the fact that many of the students at that university lived in her constituency seemed to have entirely passed her by.
He laughed and said that although he was himself in the faction within the Labour family that was ostensibly anti-factional, that was, by its very nature a factional position.
It seems Burnham's honeymoon period has lasted all of 30 seconds.
If that.
Whatever his Cabinet decisions they are going to hack someone off. Not least those who were hoping to be around the table.
They would arrive years late, cost ten times the original price and immediately break down.
This will cost 3 billion and take 10 years. Ok but have you added a reasonable estimate of 10 years inflation into that ?
Our local city had a brand new hospital bult at huge cost. However the builders used substandard materials for the floors so they couldn't stand the weight of heavy CAT scanners etc. The cladding was found to be unsafe too. The opening was delayed for years while the problem was rectified.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-48554318