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"Soft left" or not mate, there were a set of policies Starmer agreed to take forward that he then dropped almost immediately after being elected. You asked who is there on the left as a plausible candidate, and the most plausible person at that time who supported left-ish policies was...

Just on the endless self-harming lunacy of Brexit, this at least cheered me up. The 'Brexit' tackle. It's one for @Nick really. 😄 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/14/brexit-tackle-politics-children-football

Not just Israel. This overt hypocrisy from the west will inevitably stir up terrorism across the whole of Europe and the U.S. I'm not saying for a moment that slaughtering more innocents anywhere is in any way justified, but I think that's the reality of the situation.

How? How can the left do that exactly. I voted for a centre-left set of broadly popular policies, as promised by the prospective Labour leader, Keir Starmer. He then quickly rowed back on everything vaguely to the left and effectively moved the whole party towards the centre-right. Rather...

Ah, that's sad. Spent a lot of time listening to him in the days when I used to do a lot of driving. Always cheered me up. I don't think there's a single radio DJ or station that I'd go out of my way to listen to now. I'm too old for Radio 1, Radio 2 leaves me cold, and Radio 6 "music" always...

I'm thinking that the best thing we can do as citizens, is to support the BDS movement. This is nothing to do with anti-Semitism, it's about denying the Israeli state income and (more importantly, perhaps) status until it changes its ways. Much like the anti-apartheid movement against South...

I think this is kind of what I've been trying to say on the problem with Starmer, except professionally written and referenced... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/11/keir-starmer-labour-party-british-democracy

Don't forget how much talent is simply overlooked at the top echelons of civil service, politics, and industry, just for not going to the right school. There's no lack of talent and serious brain power in my current line of work (finance), or where I was before (the car industry), but they...

There's nothing in either of those articles that actually says that redistributive tax lost more overall than it earned. Some very rich people left and complained long and loud about it, some stayed and paid up. This is similar to the Laffer curve argument, one that actually doesn't really have...

You'll need to start charging visitors £10 an hour to park in your drive to pay for it then - it's that or cut your staffing costs. 😁

I hear you mate, and believe it or not I'm enjoying the debate. You make a lot of fair points. Just to say though, a lot of the policies that Corbyn proposed, and that Starmer said he'd support when he ran as party leader (I voted for him, as a Labour member at that time), were popular...

It's not just about wealth, it's about how that gap is growing whilst things are the bottom are getting measurably worse. Why doesn't anyone in the current Labour party want to tackle that? If you're not talking about a fairer society and and a more equitable distribution of wealth and income...

It could be that everyone does have to pay a bit more, but to have that conversation without talking about redistribution is madness.

Beg to differ, I suspect it's one of the few things that might cut through. I don't think it will stop Labour getting into power, but I suspect it will start thinning down support. In essence, it becomes a matter of trust. If you can't trust anything he says, why bother voting for him? In a...

Nope, but he might want to start getting concerned about his reputation. It's increasingly hard for him to claim that there's a single thing that he stands for today that he won't change his mind on tomorrow. That might start to resonate with voters, and you can bet it's an attack line the...

The mental gymnastics that the lunatic far-right have to undergo nowadays must be exhausting. Before Trump, anyone vaguely left-wing was accused by the right of being pro-Russia and anti-democracy. Now, the mad fuckers, having tried to overturn a legitimate election in the US, are aligning...

A simple apology takes all of the heat out of this. The fact that Sunak didn't do it straight away speaks volumes. I've no problem with him going for Starmer on the flip-flopping thing, it's not just the Tories picking him up on that. But to attempt to open a jokey attack line on the trans...

Just on the insomnia thing, I obviously don't get it anywhere as badly as some here. It's generally stress over money or family stuff that will set me off, and in truth there's probably a bit of PTSD in there too that flares up sometimes. Computer/phone games help distract from the latter, for...

I was with you until the "work hard at it", bit. Like I always say, if I'd known they wanted me to work, I'd have asked for more money. 😁 But yes, why would it bother me who our players support, as long as they're doing it for us on the pitch. Given the nomadic lifestyle of most...

Apologies, shmmeee, not quite getting the humour mate. Unless I'm missing it, that does seem to be the truth about Starmer (and his 'vote for the Welfare Cap' sidekick, Reeves). At least the Tories pretended to have an aim, remember "levelling up". It was bullshit, of course, but it got them...