I heard the voting/election guru John Curtice suggest that every time the Tories mention immigration, they now lose votes to Reform.
A couple of years ago, I had dinner with someone I know really well, who works in the Westminster bubble and he said it was more likely the Tories would go for rejoining the Single Market than Labour. I put him on the spot, happily took the bet and have felt my money has been safe ever since.
However, given that this cabal has managed to turn every good satirical idea into reality, I'm wondering if my bet is as safe as I thought.
They couldn't, could they
Why did you expect that to happen? Most on the right care more about our borders than Israels, Starmers lead is down to 2 things. Stay at home Tories and the reform surge, the big lead by Starmer is due to that nothing else.
I think it won't happen until they've had their inevitable post-election combustion and someone emerges who's prepared to face down the nutters in the rank-and-file, Neil Kinnock style.A couple of years ago, I had dinner with someone I know really well, who works in the Westminster bubble and he said it was more likely the Tories would go for rejoining the Single Market than Labour. I put him on the spot, happily took the bet and have felt my money has been safe ever since.
However, given that this cabal has managed to turn every good satirical idea into reality, I'm wondering if my bet is as safe as I thought.
They couldn't, could they
Bless...
Its nothing of the sort.
.....don't forget the SNP......
You may have seen my friends mum in the corridor, she was blue-lighted up there around 11am Mon morn. She has dementia & cancer and was in that corridor until 1pm on Wed when they finally found her her bed. On the plus side she now has a private room with en-suite in the new building but I'm not sure it makes up for 48 hours in a corridor getting really distressed as she has no idea why she's there. She only knows 1 of her daughters and doesn't recognise her mum, she was very distressed. Things like this should not be happening.
Good point.
They can do this without waiting for the economy to grow. Central government can kick start the economy by investing in the NHS and public infrastructure. It’s economically illiterate to suggest otherwiseAgree completely
Unfortunately, in order to do that, whatever else they do, they will need to invest more in housing and the NHS.
They will be unable to do that with the economy as it currently stands and the direction it is currently heading. They'll need to get us out of recession, grow the economy, get inflation down, stop business bleeding out of the city to other financial centres, lessen costs for businesses operating in the UK, find workers for industries that now can't recruit sufficient staff and get them working and paying more tax etc etc.
Now I have an idea of the biggest simplest way to do that but we're only supposed to discuss that on one thread and it's not this one
Crikey. Is it really that easy? Why don't the government go the whole hog and just print tonnes of money and give everyone in the country some of it. £10m each would do it. We could all have everything we wanted and everyone would be happy. What could possibly go wrong? I cannot believe that no-one has thought of this before. It's so simple.
Needs reform first. Wes Streeting has described the NHS as a leaky bucket.
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None of those problems can possibly be solved within 100days, regardless of how they're funded.
