how many others were involved with Jimmy Saville. this should be investigated first thing. onus is on starmer unless he was part of the ring who molested kids.i think everyone will agree to this because Starmer has been accused of protecting Jimmy Saville Now he has the power to investigate. How did Jimmy molest kids for over 30 years. who protected him at the bbc? who else is and was involved?. PLEASE DO THIS on first day. its fair thing to ask..
Actually they began to win when I began to watch their play. And you Keir felt they "were dying" after previous game as you didn't appear on tv as usual when smth good happens without you (as usual).
Kier always wanted to be a lion tamer - until he discovered that ‘lions’ aren’t those little creatures that live behind skirting boards and eat cheese (apologies to Monty Python)
Hope Labour wins and am hoping they deliver change. The Tories trashed the country for the last 14 years, time to have an adult with integrity in No10.
I'm sick to death of hearing this view in a few different places, so I'm going to address it, in detail. First of all, in the UK, we do not *vote for our overall political leader; this is not US politics. In this country, we vote for our constituency representatives. Next, to address what is basically a personal attack on someone you don't know personally, which is without grounds and factually is incorrect. You're saying you want a 'charismatic' populist jolly-japing joker of a showman for PM? For instance say, someone who's incapable of doing the job, has nil competence or relative experience, appears to be permanently half-cut and who lied throughout his whole life, to partners, employers and then, as its leader, the nation, but is entertaining? Perhaps someone who was so incapable of making a decision, that he wrote two opposing views of Brexit, and only chose which one to publish once he could see which way the wind was blowing? Someone who made massive promises (eg saying on the steps of No 10 that he was going to sort out the Care system) and then never carried out one single constructive policy regarding them? Someone who accepts, perhaps even encourages, corruption and wasted OUR hard earned money on profits for his pals? Someone who made emergency laws and then failed to adhere to them himself? Someone who chooses his friends and those he promotes from dubious quarters? Sounds pretty incompetent and untrustworthy to me. But hey, at least #LiarJohnson made jokes though, right? Perhaps you consider that Truss was competent? With her ridiculous US sourced Libertarian methods, she cost the UK purse £Billions, and crashed the economy, causing rocketing interest rates and everyone's housing costs (not just mortgages for homeowners, but also mortgages for landlords, and therefore rents too)? And, in true Trumpian fashion, gave unfunded tax breaks to the wealthy, the borrowing for which WE, the ordinary UK working people will be paying for, for decades? Or do you think Sunak has been competent, with waiting lists now three times what they were when Labour was last in power (and people, including the elderly and terminally ill, now dying unaccompanied, on trollies in corridors)? And no, it's not all down to Covid; waiting lists had risen well before 2000. All our public services are on their knees: NHS, the Care Sector, Mental Health services, Education (at all levels), Transport and travel (Sunak couldn't see any further than his nose re HS2, which would have massively benefitted the North) and he's has completely turned his back on Climate too. Ah yes, the steps of No 10 promises again: “integrity, professionalism and accountability”; how do you think Sunak's done with that? He's not even respectful of our War dead, turning his back on the D-Day memorial; perhaps he thinks our Veterans are 'losers' and 'suckers' too, like Trump? And he's wasted £Millions of OUR money on this Rwanda farce, a propaganda exercise, which he knew and said before he was PM, was never going to work? Who wants to pull out of the ECHR, an international NOT FOREIGN court, of which the UK, is a founding and current member, in order to achieve it? Who uses helicopters and private jets like we use buses and trains, if we can even get one when we need it at an acceptable fare? Seriously? And let's not forget Cameron, who was so weak that he gave in and had a Brexit Referendum, did next to nothing to promote Remain - his preferred outcome - and then threw in the towel, whistling a merry "I've washed my hands of this" tune to himself on the walk back into No 10 - when the decision didn't go how he'd guessed. And then May, who could have put it all straight on the back burner, since the decision was supposed to be only 'advisory' anyway? 14 years of these mendacious, entitled and clearly corrupt Tories, and, by definition, you want a re-run of the very person of theirs that put us on this slide to the bottom with his lies? 🤦♀ What I want, and what the country needs, is someone more in the Clem Attlee mould, who's not forever courting controversy and dangerously letting his mouth run away with him (eg re Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe) and making dubious (including Russian) friends, but who is reliable and lawful, and gets on with the job, for us. Attlee was no showman, he was a serious, hardworking, progressive socialist, but after Churchill (another alcoholic) got us through WW2, Attlee was exactly who we needed and it was he who sorted out the aftermath, and gave us the NHS. To use a goalkeeping term, since you started your comment about a football manager, he was someone with 'safe hands'. In any case, Starmer clearly does have a sense of humour; you've only got to watch this video of his interview. It may not be your type of humour, if perhaps you respond better to belly-laugh one line soundbites. And can you seriously accuse him of weakness, A compared to the Tories, bending this way and that to appeal to try to corral their MPs, and B given the fact that he's fundamentally changed the Labour Party, ridding it of anti-semitism? Starmer was an excellent Barrister and DPP, and so also has experience of running a very large organisation, so he's clearly extremely competent, whereas each of the above PMs has no experience of that at all. Indeed, a couple of them could barely 'run' themselves. So, if you're choosing who to vote for - ie judging someone's political beliefs and policies - on the basis of their 'charisma', you need to think about your priorities better. It's not about a leader's projected personality; you're not looking for a new beer buddy. It's about their their experience and capability (proven by their employment history) and their ethics, which I might add are quite possible to have without any particular religion, or indeed any religion at all, since Sunak's decided to bring religion into the issue. He knows full well that Starmer's wife is Jewish, so carving out a few hours on a Friday night for his family seems perfectly legitimate to me. He’ll still be on call 24/7/365. I’m guessing that many people who had parents in positions of responsibility, and spent too many hours at work making them inaccessible during their formative years, will applaud this. In any case, religion and politics should be separate, rather like they are still supposed to be under the US Constitution, even though the Republicans inject their faux-christianity into law making at every available opportunity. Electing a populist leader with 'charisma' is not only what got us in trouble, it's what also got the US in the mess they're in now, with a man from a broken family and a corrupt company, nothing more than a gameshow barker, an actual convict indeed, who's now up for POTUS again, and who has backers with plans to make him a dangerous dictator. Read Project 2025 if you have any doubts about that. And a very wealthy one too, since after the SCOTUS ruling yesterday says he can literally charge for Pardons. And if you think a President Trump 2.0 is going to make any useful deals with us? Forget it. He's all about the personal quid pro quo. 'The US sneezes and we catch a cold' is the old saying; it means where they go, we follow. Farage is the ultimate proof of that; he not only reveres Putin, but is actually a Trump advocate. Populism is the thin edge of the fascist wedge. Look at Europe right now if you don't believe me, especially France and Italy, but also Germany and even, amazingly, Sweden. Since we're no longer part of the EU we have no standing to persuade people away from this route; what would happen if we, our lonely little archipelago just off the French coast, were surrounded by a fascist Europe? That wasn't easy last time. But last time, the US was on our side and, quite frankly, bailed us out; Trump wouldn't do that. And don't forget, Russia was an ally then too, not a hostile country as it is now under Putin's dictatorship. We do not need charisma, we need competence.
@ptodd1306 Reform couldn't me less Nazi if they tried dopey. As I said do your homework buddy, you might be a little surprised what reform are about and who's actually funding them. To be honest, I don't think they'll miss your vote.
WHAT UTTER RUBBISH! You know, full well, that a PM is on call 24/7/365. It's not written in stone. All he's trying to do is carve out a few hours each week to be a good father and husband. I think that's admirable; more parents should do this. And I think, anyone who's had a parent of responsibility who's been absent most of the time, due to work, will agree. Grow up.
