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No Shmmeee, their overall policy is to hit the same targets as the current government. Why would that be? The most charitable assumption would be it’s an opportunity for good PR by beating the targets. More likely, they don’t think the policies will have that much of an impact. Why else keep...

It’s a consequence of the centre-left in addressing the concerns of their traditional working class base. In the UK, you can trace this disconnect back to Brown’s ‘bigot-gate’ on the campaign trail. If Labour can find an answer to net migration, they’ll be in power for 3-4 parliaments. If things...

Lurched to the right, as expected. I wonder how the EU will be viewed by the centre/centre-left when Starmer needs to deal with an EU that’s a lot more RW than our government. I wonder if he’ll be as keen on EU alignment.

After England’s poor loss to Iceland, there’s some news to make us feel better: - Portugal losing to Croatia - Italy unconvincing against Bosnia - France drawing with Canada 0-0 - Wales lost (and they’re staying home)

Labour might not be safe either, the Greens could make real inroads if they fumble it in government. Reform will take a lot of votes from Labour in the Midlands and the North. If anything, I think Labour’s electoral coalition is more fragile than the Conservatives.

Agreed. Labour will win this election purely because the public have had enough of the Tories. In my view, a lot of people are going to be disappointed. Rachel Reeves is an ex-banker, she will not deviate from the orthodoxy at the OBR. The same orthodoxy that’s led to low growth, soaring asset...

One of Labour’s ideas was to bring in ‘top-down’ targets from central government. A policy that the tories had in their tenure and scrapped It’s well and good saying they will build houses and ‘new towns’ but the delivery seems identical to the previous government. I struggle to see how...

So Labour’s commitment is to match the Tories 300k target - which is not a new policy and still roughly 215k per annum (or 1.075m) short of houses we need. Jacinda Aldern in NZ promised big things on housing in NZ and failed to deliver. I hope our Labour government does better - reforming the...

Then surely you’ve weighed up the advantages and disadvantages or each form of funding? The government is battling with multiple spending priorities. We need more school, houses, hospitals, prisons and all the staff and equipment that is required with that. This is without considering roads...

A quick google search or two and they’re not the same person, thankfully. https://croydonconstitutionalists.uk/john-poynton-ukip/ https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/news-opinion/red-button-sisu-fell-down-8192985

I haven’t looked at the details but SFE payments per month is roughly similar to my NI payments. So quite a hit on a monthly basis and iirc, it’s only servicing the debt. That and housing are two policy priorities for me. The tories aren’t interested in taking on the NIMBYs and tuitions fees...

I wouldn’t describe my views as centre-left but there are some specific policies that could swing my vote to Labour. Especially around plans to forgive student finance - a purely selfish policy priority I’ll admit.

It’s not good for democracy imo. Even in 2019 I felt Labour getting trounced as they did wasn’t good. Instinctively, I think governments with big majorities tend to squander their time in government.

You’re right. The money we’ve spent on the players we will double or even triple our money if we manage things right. We’re not in control of these events, if we have to let a player or two go to bring in the 8 or so player we need, then it’s a trade we need to make.

Namely, that we are a better team now than then.

Use of PFI, at the time, was to alleviate the burden of government actually funding projects. The government doesn’t have the cash it’ll borrow from the bond markets and so on. PFI transfers the risk to the private sector and alleviates the need for government to raise capital. That was the...

I’m sorry Fern, but first those two sentences contradict one another. We agree that PFI has been a failure, that isn’t the point. It’s the rationale behind the policy is because the traditional funding method is expensive and doesn’t look good on the country’s balance sheet.

That’s a rather naive point of view. A lot of the issues in the NHS today stem from PFI which was introduced by Blair. This was a policy designed to make the running of the NHS more sustainable. Again, as far back as the last Labour government, the sustainability of the system was a concern. The...

Agreed, the club should act in good faith and let him go for a reasonable price. Additionally, we need to be more forward thinking and get a player who’s capable of impacting games from the bench if Wright and Simms are the starters. Godden was rarely able to impact the game from the bench and...

I for one, agree. One of my first posts on this topic said that there’s a lot of pressure on Labour to fix the NHS in the next 1-2 parliaments before there’s a serious national conversation on how fund healthcare. There’s an assumption that Labour will come in and just like that, it’ll be...