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True, but the £22bn fairytale was used as an excuse,

Is that Q2 calendar year 2024? I.e. before the election.

From the document you linked GDP: Muted economic growth momentum ahead Following a rebound at the start of the year, UK GDP growth is expected to have slowed again in the second half of 2024. and Labour market: Firms could see easier hiring and wage growth ahead

But the clusterfuck (a) shouldn’t have been a surprise and (b) wasn’t £22 bn according to the OBR.

I said “quite Well”

Most train drivers are in the private sector (for now) and have done quite well.

You were saying that they had a plan and have stuck to it. I’m pointing out something that wasn’t in the plan, and may have affected their vote had it been. Yes, I know older voters - those directly affected - don't tend to vote Labour but younger members of their families may have been...

Can you just remind me where in the manifesto they promised to stop Winter Fuel Payments for millions of Pensioners?

Or off the line.

They have certainly got a plan to review lots of stuff - is it 70 reviews? Thereby kicking the can down the road. Even you must admit they have hardly hit the ground running. Economic trends heading in the same direction as approval ratings - in the wrong direction. It really doesn’t seem as...

I’m sure there’s a seeing along the ,Ines of “start as you mean to go on”. I do hope I haven’t wasted my membership fees🙁

Over 10% by your reckoning then.

The country doesn’t need to give him the chance to develop a vision (which he should have had pre election) or to articulate it. He is PM with a huge majority in Parliament ffs. He has just hired Pinewood for a day and presented what? Fuck all, and at his usual level of inspirational style...

“We’ve done some good work and some physical work. An assessment of mine after the game last week, this league is ruthless in terms of that how you should be at peak fitness and sharpness and competitive to the second ball, so there’s been an element of that to our work.”

Should perhaps organise a poll.

He said both Stu.

By whom?

I guess I spotted that. Need an articulatable vision first, and then the ability to articulate it in an inspiring way. Starmer has none of that.

You see, it’s people defending the PD that refer to her as female, it me. This is an area where gender / sex makes no difference to the ability to do this job. Some of us just don’t see the role as having made any discernible difference.

Who knows whether the intel Alex Whickham has quoted is true or not. If it is, it ties in with my belief that Starmer won’t last full term. He is totally uninspiring. Competence is more than just making decisions. He is supposedly a leader which requires taking people with him. He is failing...