The reason why Johnson was eventually caught out in parliamentary standards terms was largely due to the way starmer played the long game at pmq's.
Its very hard to break the 2 party system. If you're in Labour now, you'd be mad to join Corbyn.
I think the reason that Johnson was caught out was that he was such a compulsive liar, a corrupt and useless individual and incompetent PM that being ‘caught out’ was inevitable. Giving Starmer credit via one PMQs is stretching it a bit!
I would like to think that he has enough decency to recognize that standing as an independent (which is all he's mooting - the 'Corbyn Party' is right wing made-up bollocks, which ironically has been gleefully accepted as true by a couple of extreme left wing twits on NSC) would be nothing but a vanity project, with no chance of effecting any change, and likely to do nothing more than reduce the labour vote by a small amount. Even the latter is moot because the sort of coves who would vote for Corbyn would never vote for the current labour party, anyway.
I don't see any reason why Corbyn would worry about that.
Finally an aspirational self-made leader of the government. Fantastic.Born the son of a toolmaker and a nurse, passed the 11+ and went to a state grammar school, got a degree in law from Leeds University, appointed QC, went on to become Director of Public Prosecutions and was knighted for it.
Not bad
What an extraordinary insight into @wellquickwoody 's reading habits. I never would have thunk it.
Thatcher?
In London, for the Mayor vote, we used to have a Supplementary vote system which meant that we could vote for a smaller party first and then a main one assuming that the smaller party wasn't going to win. Not perfect but gave the smaller parties a chance.
Gotta be better than the self entitled Bullingdon Club collective that has driven our country off a cliffBorn the son of a toolmaker and a nurse, passed the 11+ and went to a state grammar school, got a degree in law from Leeds University, appointed QC, went on to become Director of Public Prosecutions and was knighted for it.
Not bad
Account needs to be taken of a Labour party split, with Momentum going their own way which is a possibility.
Very much how I feel. Starmer appears to have no credible policies for change which may not hinder him but I want to be inspired to vote for someone, like I was with Blair. Then the country went into the election with a sense of genuine hope and belief that things could (only) get better. We need this now to lift the whole country from this disaffected malaise that we are all experiencing. Starmer is sadly not going to deliver this and therefore I am not optimistic that much will change under labour
I'm not sure that this matters. In 1979, Callaghan's personal ratings were well above Thatcher but that didn't make any difference to the result of the election.
All fair points. See my comment about Starmer's translucence and the parallel with 'Bambi' Blair before he became PM and showed us what he was really all about.
Small point, Clause IV was changed in 1995. And Blair had apparently suggested rewriting it even before becoming leader of the party.
