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We're all in this together:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/15/british-gas-profits-energy-bills-centrica
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28 minutes ago, pink_triangle said:
I think Starmer doesn’t have many close friends, neither does he have many enemies. I am hoping that means we get new labour without the Blair/Brown infighting. You say he is loathed by many on the left, but who are talking about here? People like Owen Jones changing likes and retweets? Corbynites who have left the party?
I mean personally, I consider the fact that Neil Coyle has been welcomed back into the party, to be Starmer endorsing all of the sinophobic abuse and assault that I and others have suffered post-covid. I think it's a toxic pile of crap and that he's more interested in factionalism over protecting minorities.
I had the same criticism of Corbyn and his defense of Chris Williamson just to be clear.
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48 minutes ago, charlierc said:
Talking of Man Utd and their monies, I find it puzzling the new joint regime at Old Trafford is willing to spend £10M+ on Newcastle's Director of Football. I would not be so snooty as to say he must stay at all costs, more that other DoFs with a decent track record and no club are currently available and that it's odd to think English football has now gone from seeing that position as a bit of a joke to now thinking that one is worth that much. But maybe it'll help with the Toon's FFP or something.
Admittedly I'd have been more desperate to say he must stay at all costs had we not had a summer where imo our business didn't really work. Though this could just be me being pouty given Callum Wilson being out for 3 months just adds to our comically bad injury problems.
Wolves' situation is something if I wonder has to do with Fosun pulling their spending as much as anything. Though I expected Pedro Neto to leave anyway as he's clearly been playing at an exceptional level and Wolves are probably not going to be in Europe next season.
I think it's literally just they're realised they're throwing money away and seeing if they can find a different way to do it.
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4 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
The transphobia row is probably less damaging to Sunak than the £1k bet would've been with more headlines. Sadly.
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13 hours ago, Neil said:
they're not going to get a 23% swing, there's nothing to suggest that sort of serge
/(, i don't think a new constituency can really count as a gain)
there's far fewer green posters around Bristol now than there was 10+ years ago (Londoners don't vote green, do they?????)
I mean, it's a changed constituency. But the shift to me doesn't actually read as "Labour to Green" it's the the posh bits just west of Clifton Suspension Bridge that would've voted Tory have gone from the old Bristol West constituency, and its added in more flats with ppl aged 18-35 in, that'll vote either Labour or Green.
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25 minutes ago, mattiloy said:
That doesn't surprise me. I don't think it'll be that vote split, but Starmer is very unpopular here, and Labour have been f**king a lot up (more the mayor's fault than MPs)
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11 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
I like climate armageddon or climate apocalypse.
How about call it climate Kardashian to get people interested?
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A number of places have started using the phrases "climate crisis" or "climate emergency" instead of "climate change" because of how catastrophic it will reach unless something changes.
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49 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
only that they're starting to fling mud at each other, and Labour infighting so often a problem.
Couple of by-election wins later this week would help.
The Tories will fling mud at each other soon enough. I don't think this stuff matters much. "Same old Labour" and "Same old Tories" views will stay static.
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Cameron being reasonable and talking sense is something that deeply unnerves me.
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5 hours ago, eFestivals said:
Thanks for the feedback guys! Just testing something new to see how people feel about it. I do agree with your points so it has now been removed from the top of the main forum page. Sadly there's no option for users to customise this themselves at this point in time.
It might actually be a cool thing to have not in the forums, but further down the homepage as a "we've got active forums" hint, although I don't know if that's possible.
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Yeah, it's nowhere near enough pressure yet, and isn't going to stop the genocide, but at least the West are actually calling things war crimes and trying to stop Israel continuing to escalate.
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UN would not cooperate with any forced Rafah evacuation
The UN humanitarian office has not received any communication from Israel of a plan to evacuate Gaza's Rafah area either alone or jointly and would not participate in any forced evacuation even if it did, a spokesperson told Reuters on Tuesday.
"We have not received any official communication from Israeli officials," Jens Laerke, spokesperson for OCHA said in response to Reuters questions about Rafah plans. "Regardless, the UN does not participate in forced, non-voluntary evacuations. There is no plan at this time to facilitate the evacuation of civilians," he said.
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51 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
If it's his biggest crisis he's done very well!
I don't think it is, I think there's been much bigger issues than this, and that's just media hyperbole.
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10 minutes ago, charlierc said:
I even saw someone suggesting England's best chances at this summer's Euros could be to leave Kane at home, such is the feeling some have of him being a curse.
lmao. I don't in the slightest bit believe that, but that's legit hilarious.
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2 hours ago, clarkete said:
By contrast I think the idea of not having them seems a little absurd.
You presumably accept that there are circumstance where an MP dies, resigns or is forced to step down?
In turn you understand that they represent electors, so those people have a democratic right to elect someone who will represent their area?
I get all this. I generally support by-elections, and I don't begrudge anyone the right to a MP, it's more that I think there just should be a GE pretty ASAP now.
And also, there's people like those in Dorries' constituency who were effectively without a MP for ages.
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43 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
why meaningless?
Just because they're not going to impact parliament's status, or any votes, or even many politicians' careers.
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These by-elections have to happen because of proper procedure, but frankly, I think they're so utterly meaningless.
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40 minutes ago, Neil said:
not anyone that wants the tories out and labour in!
There's still a lot of Corbynistas who think that "winning the argument" and "being on the right side of history" matters more than shaping history/the country. I'm no fan of Starmer but I think holding onto sh*t like this to damage him is idiotic BS.
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3 hours ago, Ozanne said:
Some are saying he’s been formally suspended, will receive no further support and will have the whip withdrawn. It’s a tricky situation as nominations have closed.
If that's the case then it's the right action. We'll see I guess.
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26 minutes ago, steviewevie said:
It's a good point tbf. It's prob someone anti-Starmer loving the chance to throw this at him.
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3 hours ago, steviewevie said:
Labour not having the best week.
Sunak neither though.
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They've got to suspend campaigning for him I reckon.
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3 hours ago, charlierc said:
When Harry Kane to Bayern Munich was confirmed, many people thought it was Kane going for an easy trophy due to Bayern's Bundesliga domination.
And yet, here we are, with Munich having just been thrashed 3-0 by a still-unbeaten Bayer Leverkusen who are now 5 points clear.
You can take the boy out of Tottenham
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Williamson had more than one incident though, pushing places to give platforms to Gilad Atzmon for instance.
Coyle has no business being in the Labour party. Even if he was just suspended initially there's absolutely no way it should have ever been lifted. As I said, welcoming him back in says to me that Starmer is endorsing sinophobic assault, which has been rising post-covid.