| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week 18:31 - May 30 with 12618 views | onceablue |
Slagging off Nigel Farage
Who are his PR Advisors?
I would be telling him not to even mention Farage. An election is at least 4 years away he should be concentrating on his party and his policies.
The speech he made at that factory is the sort of speech you make the week before an election
Everytime he mentions Farage it just strengthens the Reform Leader’s position
Reform is not the answer for this Country but Starmer is making this unlikely outcome a real possibility
Even the press have started to take the mickey out of Starmer
That
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| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 17:08 - Jun 3 with 289 views | flykickingbybgunn |
| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 16:43 - Jun 3 by DJR |
It is clearly possible for people's views to change over time. Indeed, when it comes to politics, the fact that many people change the party they vote for is perhaps evidence of this.
But at any one time, it is generally difficult to change a person's particular opinion, as evidenced by the numerous threads on TWTD.
Still, I quite enjoy engaging in the threads, even if any upvotes I get merely demonstrate that I am preaching to the converted. [Post edited 3 Jun 16:47]
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Yes, it's the uppies and downies that reveal our true thoughts. |  | | |
| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 17:11 - Jun 3 with 285 views | jasondozzell |
| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 15:15 - Jun 3 by chicoazul |
Can you please explain to me in what way is Nigel Farage, a man who wants to legalise drug use, “hard right”? |
Well he's not soft left...
(although outflanking Labour on the left!) |  | | |
| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 17:22 - Jun 3 with 247 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 16:17 - Jun 3 by The_Flashing_Smile |
Quick google: "Being willing to accept mistakes and learn from them, leading to personal or organizational change, is a demonstration of having strong principles. It shows integrity, accountability, and a commitment to improvement, all of which are hallmarks of principled behavior." |
LOL, a downarrow and disappearance for posting a factual definition...
TWTD never changes. |  |
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| Keir Starmer looked a desperate man this week on 10:22 - Jun 5 with 58 views | DJR |
I said at the time that if they couldn't remove winter fuel payments fairly, they shouldn't do it at all.
Setting it as pension credit level was not fair but was administratively easy.
It now looks like the proposed alternative, which would set the level higher, may itself have issues.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/04/bereaved-families-of-dead-pensio
"Winter fuel changes could tax dead pensioners’ families
Insiders describe chaotic process of reinstating payment and ‘dire optics’ of proposal to claw it back from wealthy pensioners who might die before their taxes come due
Bereaved families of tens of thousands of dead pensioners could be pursued by tax officials to recoup winter fuel payments under a new system being explored by the Treasury, the Guardian has learned.
Ministers are looking at restoring the payments as a universal benefit and then recouping the money when high-income pensioners fill in their tax returns, as creating a new means test would be a highly complex option
However, government insiders are concerned about a time lag of at least six months between the payment of up to £300 being made and it then being clawed back. It is feared that thousands could have died in that time, leaving grieving families to pick up the bill.
One source said: “We should never have scrapped the winter fuel payment in the first place, but the whole process of reinstating it has been completely chaotic. The optics of us demanding the money back from grieving families are dire.”
There is a reason some benefits were universal. [Post edited 5 Jun 10:23]
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