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Wednesday 22nd January 2020

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Morning all.
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Good morfternoon.

I was quite taken with Lisa Nandy after listening to her speech a bit earlier.
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Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.

The Black Spot . . .
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Interesting thread for those of us who know nowt about it. The 'only' is a bit cheeky mind.

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PorFavor wrote:Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.

The Black Spot . . .
Ngl, the juxtaposition of these two posts is amusing.
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:
PorFavor wrote:Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.

The Black Spot . . .
Ngl, the juxtaposition of these two posts is amusing.
Ha! An outbreak of Black Spots?
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gilsey wrote:Interesting thread for those of us who know nowt about it. The 'only' is a bit cheeky mind.

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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.
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Can it really call itself a "university", then? Remember what the word actually means, after all.....

(of course, this brings me onto a personal hobby horse that the polys should never have been abolished, mumble mumble)
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Terry Jones has died, a few years after his diagnosis with demetia. Very funny man who stood up to be counted and make his voice heard during the Iraq war.
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Wrote a funny little column in the Guardian back in the 1980s (I think it was actually aimed at teenagers, but very well done)
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PorFavor wrote:
AnatolyKasparov wrote:
PorFavor wrote:Oh, bollocks. Sky breaking news - Jess Phillips has just endorsed Lisa Nandy. Bad luck, Lisa Nandy.

The Black Spot . . .
Ngl, the juxtaposition of these two posts is amusing.
Ha! An outbreak of Black Spots?
oh I hope not
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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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)


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Which is a reminder that RLB is (maybe surprisingly) not officially on the ballot yet, that will likely change in the next few days though.
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It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
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"We need far less complexity."


Hmm,yes and no dependent on if pertaining to process or necessary and crucial accounting for circumstance in very specific terms.
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"we’re cutting national insurance contributions for everybody, so that will disproportionately benefit, of course, people on lower incomes."
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PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
Um...no!

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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I know that Tariq Ali won't be everybody's cup of tea (he isn't mine either, really) but he has a piece up on the GE result in the LRB and most of it is pretty easy to agree with. One observation he makes - that there isn't really *that* much difference between Starmer and RLB - will not please the noisy Twitter warriors on both sides in particular, but the more I think about it the more I agree with him (and yes, Nandy too, especially with her recent "turn")
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PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
I miss our Ed Miliband Labour government.
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Willow904 wrote:
PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
Um...no!

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.
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US drinking water contamination with ‘forever chemicals’ far worse than scientists thought

Highest levels of PFAS in Miami, Philadelphia and New Orleans, report by environmental watchdog finds
Highest standards in the history of the universe . . .



Edited to add link. Bigly omission.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... icals-pfas
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PorFavor wrote:
Willow904 wrote:
PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
Um...no!

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.
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.
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Out out
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Nobody talks about young fries of treachery any more
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We need radical difference - when people say tax the rich what do they mean by rich and - as i’ve Asked before - what do we, or anyone else mean by working class
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Spoiler alert: accusations of class traitorship more or less since birth
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Vis a vis: sugar is sweet and so are yous
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I can be drawn into discussion but only either in the pub or over a bottle of gin
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PS. Suit yourselves
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Anyway great to see that we’re back to no functional opposition mode
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Oh yeah and on stand aside Kier Starmer (regardless of my views), Thatcher, by all accounts, was the first Tory woman leader. Right?
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Blame it on the boogie.
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Being stoically of no class,I am a traitor to all and none at the same time.
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Can't claim since birth
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Suite yourselves
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Surely,under a bottle of gin?
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Or attached to a drip of,inPF's case.
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PorFavor wrote:
Willow904 wrote:
PorFavor wrote:It's very Ed Miliband, don't you think?
Um...no!

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!

With Starmer, I'm not sure he has the charm to instantly win people over but I'm more confident he has the ability to work with others to achieve real, meaningful results. His leadership ability has been more tested in the real world than any of the others. I just feel Labour really can't afford to take a punt on an untested "up and coming". He and Thornberry are the only ones with enough experience in a high profile shadow cabinet role imo.
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@Willow904

It's true that Lisa Nandy seems very much a "work in progress" with the finished article still an unknown. However, Keir Starmer is a finished article - and I still don't feel that I know exactly what that comprises of.


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I'm not sure how helpful it would be for Labour to stress the Welfare State to the extent that Nandy's doing in that piece.

Remember Rachel Reeves and 'we're not the party for people on benefits', we don't like that at all but the GE's demonstrated pretty brutally that we're in the minority. See also RLB today
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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.
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.

We might not like it but the poorest people are the least likely to vote.

Labour have good stories to tell, the Green agenda is going to be looking more and more important over the next 5 years and we know there won't be any competition on that front from the tories.

Similarly, there's not much more aspirational than free university education and the tories aren't going to be shooting that fox either.
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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.
Can't disagree with that.
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Brexit will undermine Johnson’s plans for poorer regions
there are ways to soften the effects of Brexit on these regions, too, although many of them go against Johnson’s instincts.
It is quite hard to see Johnson really doing the things Springford outlines in this article, as opposed to talking about them.

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.
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gilsey wrote:Brexit will undermine Johnson’s plans for poorer regions
there are ways to soften the effects of Brexit on these regions, too, although many of them go against Johnson’s instincts.
It is quite hard to see Johnson really doing the things Springford outlines in this article, as opposed to talking about them.

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.
I think he is right about the blame based upon what I've been picking up in our constituency.
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