@David__Osland And who can win an election. Which rules out Taynor and Miliband. With Burnham unable
To run, welcome PM Carns.
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The Northchurch One
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Labour needs a leader who doesn't hate the party's core voters. I'm not sure either Streeting or Starmer is that guy.
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@BenObeseJecty @adamboultonTABB Given the options available I’d say Al Carns is probably the best alternative PM Labour has. Excellent communicator, done a great job as Armed Forces Minister and unsullied by association. If Labour want to show a new dynamic leader to the public, they should call on Al.
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Prediction: Al Carns drops out of the leadership contest once his profile is sufficiently raised, cutting a deal with whoever looks most likely to win in return for becoming their Defence Secretary.
If I were John Healey I’d be very worried about my position…
Larisa Brown@larisamlbrown
EXCLUSIVE: Al Carns WILL join the race to become PM if there is a contest. A parliamentary source told @thetimes "Al Carns has said ‘he is getting on with doing his job, but if someone fires the starting gun, he isn’t afraid of gunfire’." They said the implication was Carns "would throw his hat in the ring should someone trigger a race"
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There’s a touch of the ‘Portillos’ about Wes Streeting at the moment.
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@Jonathan_Hinder I knew nothing about you before you appeared on our television screens this weekend. You did not come across well I’m afraid.
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The Brexit Derangement Syndrome is off the scale at the moment.
Reform (formerly known as the BREXIT PARTY) just swept to victory across working class areas.
Response? Oh, it’s obviously time to rejoin the EU…
Do these people even believe in democracy?
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@SteveBrown_sb Interesting way for him to announce his retirement from football management.
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@piersmorgan @ben6white Great news for England fans though.
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Awful news for Ben, and for Arsenal. He’s been superb in our last few crucial matches. Hope he’s fit again for WC. @ben6white
Arsenal@Arsenal
Medical update: Ben White
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@Spelt_D_o_n_a_l @TikiTakaConnor True. But they take every opportunity they get. They are trained to do it.
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@Andyndee @TikiTakaConnor They’re not better at it, though. They’re shit at diving. You can see them diving. Everyone sees them diving. The refs just give them the calls anyway.
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Anyway here’s Arsenal top of the fair play league table.
🥤@TheImmortalKop
A fitting way for this Arsenal side to win the league. Blatant cheating. Story of their season. Cheating, dirty tactics, time wasting, diving and corruption
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@AlistairCarns hi there. If this all goes down tomorrow I sincerely hope you are thinking of throwing your hat in the ring.
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If a decision made by VAR could reasonably be different depending on which official is considering it, then VAR has no business getting involved - the referee is there to make these calls.
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@OllieHolt22 Arsenal have had goals given under worse situations than that this season. This is corruption of sorts. Mob the referee, challenge everything and you’ll get your way.
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It was a foul on David Raya. VAR made the correct decision. VAR is a terrible way to decide a game of this magnitude for both teams. All these things can be true at the same time.
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@piersmorgan This Arsenal team really do represent everything that is wrong with modern football. A horrible team to watch, they constantly cheat, whine, mob the ref - I sincerely hope they are humiliated by PSG. Rice looked ashamed at the end of that game. Sat on his own with his head bowed.
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OMG.
My heart stopped for 5 minutes.
That was unbearable.
But we won… we’re 5pts clear… we’re 2 games from being Champions.
Football.. BLOODY HELL!!!!
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@PhilipProudfoot @snowleopardess He is not the worst PM in living memory FFS. We literally had to remove a deranged loon after 49 days. And that wasn’t Boris Johnson. Get a grip.
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Labour MPs are too cowardly to remove the worst PM in living memory, and because of their cowardice, we’re getting fascism in three years.
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@PhilipProudfoot @mehdirhasan It doesn’t stop facism. It ends up putting them into power in some back room deal. FPTP is not a perfect system by any means but it does tend to keep the more extreme elements out of Downing Street. And it will do so again.
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This is the obvious thing to do if you wanted to stop fascism. But they don’t.
Tom Newton Dunn@tnewtondunn
There is an escape route for Labour from certain disaster at the general election: use their Commons majority to ram through PR. It’s cynical, + they’d never govern alone again, but it locks Reform out of No10. The left (Lab, Gr, LD) still have a majority over the right in the UK
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@Heccles94 Labour Conservative and Lib Dems (all 'centrists') have policies that verge on far right though. We have to convince the electorate of this.
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Far right vote: 26%
Non far right vote: 74%
Right wing vote: 43%
Non right wing vote: 57%
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@Heccles94 These are the most important statistics of the whole thing. The next election will be about stopping Reform. Whatever it takes. And we easily have the numbers on our side.
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@Heccles94 A Lab/Lib/Grn alliance holds 51%. That sounds OK to me.
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Predicted vote share for England based on results so far:
🟣 Reform 26%
💚 Greens 18%
🥀 Lab 17%
🔵 Tories 17%
🔶 LibDems 16%
What do you make of that?
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@Neets21 @SueSuezep Thatcher was a bit preoccupied with the Battle of Hastings though to be fair…….
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Just for clarity. List of PM’s that had huge losses in local elections and didn’t resign..
Thatcher 1066
Major 2018
Blair 818
Brown 331
Cameron 405
May 1134
Johnson 485
Sunak 474
#Labour
#KeirStarmer
#LocalElections
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