| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another 21:02 - Nov 12 with 1464 views | GlasgowBlue |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:06 - Nov 12 with 1409 views | SitfcB |
It’s the same with every party in power isn’t it, controversy after controversy, day after day.
Change and replace yet it stays the same.
Being PM is basically like being a Watford manager these days. |  |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:23 - Nov 12 with 1285 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:06 - Nov 12 by SitfcB |
It’s the same with every party in power isn’t it, controversy after controversy, day after day.
Change and replace yet it stays the same.
Being PM is basically like being a Watford manager these days. |
They're not the same. The right wing media would like you to think that, but these Labour 'scandals' would've been mild inconveniences under the last government. |  |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:28 - Nov 12 with 1274 views | SitfcB |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:23 - Nov 12 by The_Flashing_Smile |
They're not the same. The right wing media would like you to think that, but these Labour 'scandals' would've been mild inconveniences under the last government. |
It always seems blown out of proportion from both sides.
Labour have been in just over a year and are getting it in the neck left, right and centre and a lot of people have seemingly forgotten the 14 years of Tory shíte including all the fiascos that happened during COVID. | |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:29 - Nov 12 with 1260 views | Perublue |
Aside from the UK political fun don’t FIFA those paragons of virtue generally take a dim view of governments getting involved with national football associations ? |  |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:53 - Nov 12 with 1147 views | WD19 |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:06 - Nov 12 by SitfcB |
It’s the same with every party in power isn’t it, controversy after controversy, day after day.
Change and replace yet it stays the same.
Being PM is basically like being a Watford manager these days. |
Except the local Tesco is less good….. |  | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 22:00 - Nov 12 with 1107 views | DarkBrandon |
“Disaster”?
Come come old bean. A slight smack on the wrist for being asked whether he was ok on an appointment he wasn’t involved in making. |  | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 09:47 - Nov 13 with 531 views | MrBeckinsale |
I opened this thinking it was going to be yet another post about Norwich |  | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:06 - Nov 13 with 475 views | ElderGrizzly |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 21:28 - Nov 12 by SitfcB |
It always seems blown out of proportion from both sides.
Labour have been in just over a year and are getting it in the neck left, right and centre and a lot of people have seemingly forgotten the 14 years of Tory shíte including all the fiascos that happened during COVID. |
Which is exactly what the mainly RW media want you to believe.
They were never going to give them a chance to 'fix' the last 14 years.
It's the equivalent of your kid saying "are we there yet" repeatedly, when we set off 2 minutes ago with 500 miles to go. |  | | |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:07 - Nov 13 with 469 views | ElderGrizzly |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 22:00 - Nov 12 by DarkBrandon |
“Disaster”?
Come come old bean. A slight smack on the wrist for being asked whether he was ok on an appointment he wasn’t involved in making. |
Indeed. Something that doesn't affect almost anyone's lives, but it has to be "BREAKING NEWS" to keep the news cycle going... | | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:15 - Nov 13 with 437 views | SomethingBlue |
Disaster? | |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:54 - Nov 13 with 356 views | Cafe_Newman |
What is a DISASTER is the state of our democracy. Since the end of Tony Blair's leadership in June 2007, we have been governed by a PM not elected at the ballot box for 56% of the time until today.
I suspect Starmer won't see out his term in office and will be replaced by someone in a Labour party leadership contest and that figure of 56% is likely to grow.
Every effort is made by the media, party members and other political commentators to present the "uniparty" as some sort of functioning multi-party democracy.
I suspect this post will be down-voted by the sort of "politicos" on here who like to create such an illusion. |  | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 11:33 - Nov 13 with 280 views | WD19 |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:06 - Nov 13 by ElderGrizzly |
Which is exactly what the mainly RW media want you to believe.
They were never going to give them a chance to 'fix' the last 14 years.
It's the equivalent of your kid saying "are we there yet" repeatedly, when we set off 2 minutes ago with 500 miles to go. |
…..except the kid isn’t stupid and has noticed that the parent turned the wrong way when they left the drive and have been going around the same roundabout on the wrong side of town for quite a while now….. | | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 11:39 - Nov 13 with 262 views | GlasgowBlue |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:15 - Nov 13 by SomethingBlue |
Disaster? |
Disaster from a PR point of view. Absolutely. Some small beer, but still a steady drip of avoidable cock ups which make the government appear incompetent and accident prone at best and mildly corrupt at worst.
It started with the appointment of Sue Gray as Starmer’s Chief of Staff. There were suggestions she held talks with Starmer while she was advising cross-party MPs on Boris Johnson’s involvement in party-gate. That dogged her through her short tenure, which ended in acrimony. Sacked twice and shuffled off to the House of Lords.
Then we had the Lord Ali stuff. Where he funded Starmer and his wife’s clothing.
A holiday gifted to Rachel Reeves by now West Midlands Mayor Richard Parker.
£22k worth of Taylor Swift freebies.
Reeves rather embellished CV.
The Louise Haigh Resignation, after revelations of a fraud conviction.
The Anti-Corruption Minister Tulip Siddiq Resignation after an investigation into her over corruption. (Arf!)
Mike Amesbury drunkly kicking the crap out of a constituent on the street late at night.
Health Minister Andrew Gwynn sacked for saying in a WhatsApp group he hoped a pensioner who didn’t vote Labour would die.
Homelessness Minister Rushanara Ali resigned after evicting her tenants before quickly listing her property again at a higher rate.
Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner resigning over tax avoidance.
Worst of all, the resignation of Peter Mandelson leaked emails revealed his close relationship with ‘best pal’ Jeffrey Epstein.
Rachel Reeves admitting breaking housing rental law.
And here is today’s latest instalment.
No one doubts that Starmer is a decent man. And he shares Theresa May’s one redeeming quality. A sense of public duty. But he has zero political instinct. The Blair government under Jonathan Powell and Alistair Campbell would have sniffed out 90% of the above and dealt with it long before it was in the public domain. | |
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| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 11:41 - Nov 13 with 254 views | leitrimblue |
Enoughs enough, we need to get Reform in now  |  | | |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 12:55 - Nov 13 with 127 views | Clapham_Junction |
| They do seem to stumble from one disaster to another on 10:54 - Nov 13 by Cafe_Newman |
What is a DISASTER is the state of our democracy. Since the end of Tony Blair's leadership in June 2007, we have been governed by a PM not elected at the ballot box for 56% of the time until today.
I suspect Starmer won't see out his term in office and will be replaced by someone in a Labour party leadership contest and that figure of 56% is likely to grow.
Every effort is made by the media, party members and other political commentators to present the "uniparty" as some sort of functioning multi-party democracy.
I suspect this post will be down-voted by the sort of "politicos" on here who like to create such an illusion. |
We're a parliamentary democracy, not a presidential republic. We do not elect a Prime Minister, we elect individual MPs who are then responsible for determining the government. This can change during the course of a parliamentary term. |  | | |
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