Tories have total control until the next GE. Everything is a smash grab with them right now. They know their card is marked for at least a decade after this lot.
Yeah, this sounds ridiculous. So basically grab as much cash as possible on your way out? It always baffles me as to why and who votes for people like these? People who clearly work so hard against their own citizens.
“Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled.”
I don’t know. He was re-elected with a majority of 66 in 2005, two years after Iraq started, and then in 2007 the Labour party membership forced him out in favour of Brown, who promptly lost the 2010 election to the Tories.
I’ll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.
most of the horrors of the Iraq War weren’t well understood by the public in spring 2005 yet, 2 years after the invasion. the mood was souring - that’s why he lost 54 seats when compared to '97 - he was forced out by labour leadership because by '07 the public’s opinion on him had continued to sour - brown losing in 2010 is extremely unsurprising given the financial crash of '08
I’ll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.
I’m sure you would lol. have fun in your decaying empire, I hope neoliberalism administered by the other party will actually fix things this time round (spoiler: it won’t)
What Starmer said was that the private use would run alongside efforts to train new staff and create new infrastructure. People need treatment and we do not have the infrastructure to do that. Health services don’t just materialise out of thin air.
Tories have total control until the next GE. Everything is a smash grab with them right now. They know their card is marked for at least a decade after this lot.
Yeah, this sounds ridiculous. So basically grab as much cash as possible on your way out? It always baffles me as to why and who votes for people like these? People who clearly work so hard against their own citizens.
People are conned by expensive campaigns.
Absolutely. Expensive campaigns made Trump look amazing to a lot of people, and some are even willing to die for him.
Worked for Hitler as well.
“Contemporarily speaking, the term carpetbagger refers to roving financial opportunists, often of modest means, who spot investment opportunities and aim to benefit from a set of circumstances to which they are not ordinarily entitled.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpetbagger#Modern_use
but Starmer’s labour has been saying he’ll do the same: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-66319064
I don’t know how much things will change after the next GE. the current opposition leadership are neoliberals just like Rishi and co
Oh, man, as a murican, sounds like you somehow received our shipment of Democrats.
yeah… actually we got them back in '97 with Blair and co, this is them on their comeback 😟
Ah yes, those terrible Blair years. If only the Major government had kept going for longer.
where from my comment did you get that I think major was better
anyway there’s a reason Blair is not very popular anymore, unlike when he won in '97. the Iraq War was not very good imo
I don’t know. He was re-elected with a majority of 66 in 2005, two years after Iraq started, and then in 2007 the Labour party membership forced him out in favour of Brown, who promptly lost the 2010 election to the Tories.
I’ll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.
most of the horrors of the Iraq War weren’t well understood by the public in spring 2005 yet, 2 years after the invasion. the mood was souring - that’s why he lost 54 seats when compared to '97 - he was forced out by labour leadership because by '07 the public’s opinion on him had continued to sour - brown losing in 2010 is extremely unsurprising given the financial crash of '08
I’m sure you would lol. have fun in your decaying empire, I hope neoliberalism administered by the other party will actually fix things this time round (spoiler: it won’t)
Brown was extremely popular among members of the Labour party, and never had a snowball’s chance in hell in a general election.
Bit of a pattern there.
Eventually you have to grow up and accept that the perfect is the enemy of the good.
What Starmer said was that the private use would run alongside efforts to train new staff and create new infrastructure. People need treatment and we do not have the infrastructure to do that. Health services don’t just materialise out of thin air.