Wednesday 22nd January 2020
Posted: Wed 22 Jan, 2020 7:00 am
Morning all.
Good morfternoon.
I was quite taken with Lisa Nandy after listening to her speech a bit earlier.
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The decision to shut History, Languages and Politics courses at Sunderland isn't (only) local philistinism but a logical consequence of the government decision to remove the quotas on student recruitment from 2015.
Ngl, the juxtaposition of these two posts is amusing.PorFavor wrote:Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.
The Black Spot . . .
Ha! An outbreak of Black Spots?AnatolyKasparov wrote:Ngl, the juxtaposition of these two posts is amusing.PorFavor wrote:Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.
The Black Spot . . .
Can it really call itself a "university", then? Remember what the word actually means, after all.....gilsey wrote:Interesting thread for those of us who know nowt about it. The 'only' is a bit cheeky mind.
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@cath_fletcher
The decision to shut History, Languages and Politics courses at Sunderland isn't (only) local philistinism but a logical consequence of the government decision to remove the quotas on student recruitment from 2015.
oh I hope notPorFavor wrote:Ha! An outbreak of Black Spots?AnatolyKasparov wrote:Ngl, the juxtaposition of these two posts is amusing.PorFavor wrote:Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.
The Black Spot . . .
Nandy confirmed on final ballot for Labour leadership after securing third affiliate nomination
Lisa Nandy will now definitely be on the ballot for the Labour leadership, HuffPost’s Paul Waugh reports. Nandy already had the backing of two unions this morning, the GMB and the NUM, but now a tiny socialist society affiliated to Labour, Chinese for Labour, has backed her. That means that she has the three affiliates she needs, accounting for at least 5% of the affilates vote, to be on the final ballot. (Politics Live, Guardian)
I doubt it. There's no such thing as assertive Tory backbenchers, Mr. Sparrow.PMQ's Snap Verdict
Boris Johnson was remarkably bad. It did not matter very much, because his MPs were hugely supportive, and the nation as a whole, like the Commons, is not paying much attention to Jeremy Corbyn at the moment, but under a different Labour leader the prime minister’s glib complacency and lack of attention to detail when supposed to be defending the record of his government could - in fact, should - become a liability.
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At some point Conservative backbenchers will start to assert their independence. But there is not much evidence of that yet... .
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Ian Blackford
"This is a man who is not fit for office. It has been said, “The ultimate measure of a person is not where they stand in moments of comfort, but where they stand at times of challenge and controversy.” This is a time of challenge, so does the Prime Minister realise that not only is the Member racist, but he is stoking division in communities and has a record of dishonesty?
Does the Prime Minister honestly believe that this man is fit for the office of Prime Minister?"The Prime Minister
[Theresa May]
"The right hon. Gentleman has been leader of the SNP in this Chamber and has asked Prime Minister’s questions for some time, so he might understand that the purpose is to ask the Prime Minister about the actions of the Government. That is what he should be asking us about. I believe that any future Conservative Prime Minister will be better for Scotland than the Scottish nationalist party."
Um...no!PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
I miss our Ed Miliband Labour government.PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
Willow904 wrote:Um...no!PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
I tend to get what Ed Miliband is saying.
I barely got 10% of that. Didn't really seem to add up to anything meaningful at all.
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But arguably that is part of his appeal, if it helps make him more of a unifying figure by appearing to be somewhat different things to different people.PorFavor wrote:Willow904 wrote:Um...no!PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
I tend to get what Ed Miliband is saying.
I barely got 10% of that. Didn't really seem to add up to anything meaningful at all.
Oh. I thought it was rather good. That's not to say that I'm a convert to Nandyism - Keir Starmer still seems like the best bet. But as I said here before, there's something about him that I can't get to grips with.
How odd! To me it was just a lot of words that didn't really add up to anything meaningful!PorFavor wrote:Willow904 wrote:Um...no!PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
I tend to get what Ed Miliband is saying.
I barely got 10% of that. Didn't really seem to add up to anything meaningful at all.
Oh. I thought it was rather good. That's not to say that I'm a convert to Nandyism - Keir Starmer still seems like the best bet. But as I said here before, there's something about him that I can't get to grips with.
IMO Labour should strike a balance on this and treat the welfare state, including the NHS, as fundamentals that the general population should be encouraged to take for granted if they vote Labour.One example that I’ll give of how I was crushed in the election campaign was one of my constituents was on a driveway and we were having a chat about whether she was going to vote Labour - her and her husband - and they worked hard, they bought their own home.
And they wanted to have that recognised and they felt that we were a party that was giving handouts and not helping people like them.
And I tried to explain, because I was crushed at that point, because I thought we are the party that’s for you, we’re there to pick you up if you fall on hard times and you lose your job. We want you to do well, we want you to work hard and get paid well and have a decent life, be able to buy your own home, if that’s what you want, be able to go on holiday, and for your children to be given the best possible education so that they can climb whatever ladder they want to, and reach their aspirational goals.
But they didn’t believe we were doing that, despite that being the fundamental principles that drives every single one of us as Labour party members.
Can't disagree with that.gilsey wrote:
IMO Labour should strike a balance on this and treat the welfare state, including the NHS, as fundamentals that the general population should be encouraged to take for granted if they vote Labour.
It is quite hard to see Johnson really doing the things Springford outlines in this article, as opposed to talking about them.there are ways to soften the effects of Brexit on these regions, too, although many of them go against Johnson’s instincts.
Of the 54 seats that the Conservatives gained from Labour, 42 have more manufacturing jobs than the average UK constituency, and 22 of those seats have more than twice the national average. While voters in these seats may refuse to believe that Brexit is to blame for the loss of jobs, they will blame the Tories.
I think he is right about the blame based upon what I've been picking up in our constituency.gilsey wrote:Brexit will undermine Johnson’s plans for poorer regionsIt is quite hard to see Johnson really doing the things Springford outlines in this article, as opposed to talking about them.there are ways to soften the effects of Brexit on these regions, too, although many of them go against Johnson’s instincts.
Hope he's right about this though.Of the 54 seats that the Conservatives gained from Labour, 42 have more manufacturing jobs than the average UK constituency, and 22 of those seats have more than twice the national average. While voters in these seats may refuse to believe that Brexit is to blame for the loss of jobs, they will blame the Tories.