Thursday 27th August 2020
Posted: Thu 27 Aug, 2020 6:46 am
Morning all.
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“This is not sabotage – it was the right approach to win as many votes and seats for Labour as possible. Targeted materials happen in every single election campaign. Our job as organisers is to make objective judgements on what is necessary to win a constituency, not go along with an Emperor’s New Clothes fantasy that the leader is popular in every demographic in every constituency.”
Rick
@FlipChartRick
So Labour and the Lib Dems have Sirs as leaders and the Tories have a plain old Mr. Who’d a thought it?
Aaron Bastani
@AaronBastani
Labour should adopt PR and federalism and say to the electorate, quite fairly, why bother with this lot.
Fat chance getting Braverman to be on the side of the legal profession.The CBA
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This is an outrageous attack on the rule of law & lawyers who seek to uphold it. Act lawfully or face challenge.
It requires immediate condemnation by the Lord Chancellor
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@attorneygeneral
@SuellaBraverman
Harry Cole
@MrHarryCole
Astonishing really that the only major opposition leader now without a knighthood is Nigel Farage - the only one with any semblance of impact in the last ten years. Helped sway two general elections and a referendum. And the People’s Vote bros have the gongs.
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Well both Davey and Starmer actually have relatively modest backgrounds. And before them there was Ed Miliband.Willow904 wrote:Neither Davey or Starmer come anywhere close to Boris Johnson's level of privilege, though. Something the above comment doesn't really convey. Moran would have provided more diversity in terms of sex, sure, but that's it. She still belongs to that small, elite majority that attend private schools. We're still a long way from seeing a regular person of ability rise to the top of English politics similar to the likes of Nicola Sturgeon. To be frank, it's not a problem that can be fixed at the top because the pool of candidates are already far too narrow. Only a society that provides equal opportunities throughout life will see people of ability from all walks of life competing for top jobs and we are currently going in the completely opposite direction.
Agreed - DfE performance over the last few months has been appalling.Instead, largely, there has been silence. That itself represents an evasion of the responsibility that has been his throughout. If there are no consequences for ministers when the performance of their department is found wanting, the system of democratic accountability that underpins government in the UK will be undermined. He should go.
I was kind of trying to say as much when I pointed out Davey and Starmer don't come from anything like Johnson's level of privilege. And in terms of going backwards, I was meaning more Cameron & Johnson, from Major, Blair and Brown. Along with a bit of exasperation that women from the same small pool of privately educated people are offered as some kind of triumph of diversity. I want to support sexual equality on the one hand but also want to see an end to the class divide, which can sometimes be tricky if only men seem able to cross it.AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well both Davey and Starmer actually have relatively modest backgrounds. And before them there was Ed Miliband.Willow904 wrote:Neither Davey or Starmer come anywhere close to Boris Johnson's level of privilege, though. Something the above comment doesn't really convey. Moran would have provided more diversity in terms of sex, sure, but that's it. She still belongs to that small, elite majority that attend private schools. We're still a long way from seeing a regular person of ability rise to the top of English politics similar to the likes of Nicola Sturgeon. To be frank, it's not a problem that can be fixed at the top because the pool of candidates are already far too narrow. Only a society that provides equal opportunities throughout life will see people of ability from all walks of life competing for top jobs and we are currently going in the completely opposite direction.
If you think that is important in who the next Labour leader should be, though, then there is a fairly obvious choice......
She's already half way there, as it were?Willow904 wrote:
As for your obvious choice for next Labour leader, I'm afraid it's not so obvious to me.
Jonathan Portes
@jdportes
Update: Response from
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PermSec to my complaint:
"I agree the phrase you quote should not have been used on an official government channel. I have made clear to the team this post should not be used again from Home Office accounts or anywhere else by civil servants."
Jonathan Portes
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This was a very clear breach of the Government Communications Service Propriety Standards. The prompt reaction of the Permanent Secretary is very welcome. I hope comms teams/Press Offices in Home Office & other Depts take note, & this unacceptable behaviour is not repeated.
I admit to being a fan. And quite a few thought she should have run for leader earlier this year rather than her flatmate.Willow904 wrote:Angela Rayner?
I guess she's a possibility, I'm not sure obviously so, though.
Not that I'm personally likely to accidentally hold a well-attended party, but this seems hugely out of proportion to the offense of celebrating a birthday during a pandemic.Adam Wagner@AdamWagner1
It's that time again - new lockdown regulations
The Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions on Holding of Gatherings and Amendment) (England) Regulations 2020
New £10,000 fines for holding raves *or* gatherings of over 30 people in private gatherings or public places /1
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Harry Cole
@MrHarryCole
EXC: Home Office forced to abandon deportation flight to Spain today for Channel migrants after all 23 were sprung by three law firms:
Surely Starmer's a regular person of ability risen to the top? He went to grammar school because he passed the 11-plus, so did I. Later his school went private and mine went comprehensive but they started from the same place. His first degree was from Leeds.Willow904 wrote:Neither Davey or Starmer come anywhere close to Boris Johnson's level of privilege, though. Something the above comment doesn't really convey. Moran would have provided more diversity in terms of sex, sure, but that's it. She still belongs to that small, elite majority that attend private schools. We're still a long way from seeing a regular person of ability rise to the top of English politics similar to the likes of Nicola Sturgeon. To be frank, it's not a problem that can be fixed at the top because the pool of candidates are already far too narrow. Only a society that provides equal opportunities throughout life will see people of ability from all walks of life competing for top jobs and we are currently going in the completely opposite direction.
Very good.RogerOThornhill wrote:As one might expect from Chris Cook, this is good...
Accidents and A-levels
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If you do not have the information you need to award normal A-levels, do not try. Award something else. You cannot wish information into being.
Neil Henderson
@hendopolis
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Yes, especially when compared to Johnson, which was the point I started with. The idea Davey,Starmer and Johnson are the same deliberately ignores the important ways in which they're different. Ways that are more significant than the ways in which a posh, privately educated woman like May is different from a posh, privately educated man like Cameron. It was the complexity of relative privilege and status that I was trying to comment on. It wasn't really specifically about Moran, more the idea in general that diversity has been accomplished by swapping a posh woman for a posh man, while the 93% or whatever it is who didn't go to a private school remain unrepresented that I have trouble with. To be clear, I would definitely consider Starmer as PM as a win against the upper classes and for regular people with ability.gilsey wrote:Surely Starmer's a regular person of ability risen to the top? He went to grammar school because he passed the 11-plus, so did I. Later his school went private and mine went comprehensive but they started from the same place. His first degree was from Leeds.Willow904 wrote:Neither Davey or Starmer come anywhere close to Boris Johnson's level of privilege, though. Something the above comment doesn't really convey. Moran would have provided more diversity in terms of sex, sure, but that's it. She still belongs to that small, elite majority that attend private schools. We're still a long way from seeing a regular person of ability rise to the top of English politics similar to the likes of Nicola Sturgeon. To be frank, it's not a problem that can be fixed at the top because the pool of candidates are already far too narrow. Only a society that provides equal opportunities throughout life will see people of ability from all walks of life competing for top jobs and we are currently going in the completely opposite direction.
Layla Moran comes over to me as a significantly more interesting person than Ed Davey*, that's all, privileged or not. Did anyone else see her talking to Cathy Newman on C4 a few weeks ago? Moran was 20st and had bariatric surgery when she was 24, I'd say being prepared to front up and talk about that on national TV says something about her character.
*not a high bar