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citizenJA wrote:If I were as gifted and skilled a writer as Willow904, I'd have written this one from yesterday. I attempted something related to it the other day. It's regarding recommended strategy for Labour.

Most important is effectively countering a media image created and imposed on any Labour leader and the Labour party by interests hostile to a Labour government. The Tory party isn't protecting the interests of most people they've been elected to represent. People need clarity about the who's in charge and have been for the last decade. Labour must make the realities of harmful Tory legislation vividly clear and unequivocal. Find Tory party weaknesses, find where they've the least defence, get in there and effectively take them down in the eyes and minds of the general public. Clear, simple, relevant, consistent messages distilled from good Labour policies juxtaposed to demonstrably damaging Tory policy and legislation can win Labour the hearts and minds of people. Labour must be the party people like, identify with and believe their best interests are protects by Labour.

Jeremy Corbyn favours Ed Miliband, the former Labour leader and former energy secretary, as a candidate to chair the COP 26 climate change summit, HuffPost’s Paul Waugh reports. (Politics Live, Guardian)

Political jargon is primarily about artifice, about projecting a certain image of the party and of the politician speaking. In this case, Conservative politicians can sidestep the thorny issue of gaping economic inequalities. “Levelling up” implies improvements for the needy without any redistribution of wealth or opportunity from the wealthiest. This, by definition, is impossible.

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... erests-nhs

Willow904 wrote:

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/society/202 ... erests-nhs

Given the way he talked and acted when in the role I'm not sure Jeremy Hunt actually realised he was in charge of or responsible for the NHS when he was health minister, so who knows. Maybe he'll be more critical than we expect, not realising he's criticising himself.

adam wrote:Good piece by Imogen West-Knights in the graun

‘Levelling up’ is a semantic sleight of hand to let the Tories off the hook

Political jargon is primarily about artifice, about projecting a certain image of the party and of the politician speaking. In this case, Conservative politicians can sidestep the thorny issue of gaping economic inequalities. “Levelling up” implies improvements for the needy without any redistribution of wealth or opportunity from the wealthiest. This, by definition, is impossible.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Inert Tommy given a shake will vote to impeach Trump (4,6).

tinyclanger2 wrote:Am avoiding sorting out the planet and listening to PSB new album instead

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tinyclanger2 wrote:Oh no! It’s over!

tinyclanger2 wrote:Oh no! It’s over!

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People's PMQs - Snap verdict
Boris Johnson has many faults, but he is not stupid. He is also an accomplished performer who, like most good performers, can tell when he is losing his audience. By the end of this session he looked like someone finding it increasingly hard to pretend that what he was doing was anything other than utterly pointless.

And he was right; it was.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Oh no! It’s over!

Labour’s Lilian Greenwood asks about a constituent who starved to death when the DWP stopped his benefits. How many more vulnerable claimants will have to die before the government values their cases?

Johnson says this is a tragic case. He says the DWP has allocated millions of pounds to improve the way it handles these vulnerable cases.