Elizabeth Bangs -No accountability? No democracy.

I wrote a piece on the old Turkish proverb (not) that has been a thread running right through my year from January and still ongoing: elizabethbangs.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/whe…

If you've shut brain down so completely all you've got is: take your meds, cunt, hand yourself in to nurse, everybody hates him, Liebour, paedo or one of only about 3 idiot gifs FFS, of course Starmer isn't the one for you. He's a thoughtful, serious PM in a deadly serious world.

@burbkev @beneathbluster Shame your not thinking ... is what? 🤷‍♀️ Finish your sentence so we know what you're talking about FFS.

@beneathbluster Shame your not thinking

So the Starmer bashing continues. Laura Kuenssberg writes and Chanel4 makes a documentary both about how unpopular Sir Keir is. They really are afraid because actually he is popular with most thinking people. #standwithKeir #TenYearKeir

@Seansfanclub @beneathbluster Don't be ridiculous. He did no such thing. Wtf are you getting that from? Jesus Christ the misinformation on here 🙄

@beneathbluster While I wish it wasn’t so he isn’t popular. He had all the good will of voters after 14 years of the Tories and he wasted it all by working against the people to further his own pocket and the pockets of folk like Mandelson.

@WardChrist32716 @beneathbluster Hey, blue tick Christ32716 🙄 with 7 followers, what bot factory do you come from?

Thinking people??…really so what were the thinking people thinking about when Starmer changed his polices on: Didital ID, Inheritance tax,local elections,Business rates,winter fuel,welfare& benefits,workers rights & grooming gangs??…more importantly did you thinking people agree with his original stance?

@Hypatia1885 @beneathbluster You know very few people then, yet you think your tiny circle of acquaintances is representative of the whole population 🙄?

@beneathbluster I don't know one single person who thinks he's a nice bloke based on his policies so far.

@28dogs @beneathbluster He's popular with many. In a volatile world of batshit leaders who think nothing of visiting chaos on their people with *devastating* consequences, what's not to like about a cautious, listening PM who makes solid improvements step by step without crazy unacceptable risk-taking?

@beneathbluster It is a stretch to say that he is popular with anyone.

Clean information and clean elections are as important as clean water. But are the regulators up to the job? The way GB News has quietly been allowed to become Reform TV should alarm us all app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/co…

@Lesley_kr Replies get filtered to block those who add nothing but pointless asinine insults, like 'my 7yo grandaughter would make a better PM'. Other morons contribute stuff like are I want some of what you're taking, stupid cunt, fucking bitch, Starmer's a paedo that means you are too.

Why do you turn the comments off on all your posts? Is it because you know the majority of the country don’t agree with you and your views? My 7yo granddaughter would make a better PM than this person 👇🏼 #imho

@rollocs @jamese_uk My right what?

@jamese_uk No, your right, it’s not close at all. Starmer is far, far worse: lying, hypocrisy, gaslighting, economic illiteracy and general incompetence Starmer is delivering all in spades

Still can't believe that the people who brought us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss have the f**king temerity to even suggest that Kier Starmer is the worst Prime Minister ever. It's not even remotely close.

@_TheHodler @DavidMcGregorBN It is free. This parroting of it's not free whether it's the the NHS, this or any other aspect of rights and freedoms is ideological, not an economic or commercial. It refers to the experience of the user in the financial process. Bye. Muting you now. This is done.

@ElizabethBangs @DavidMcGregorBN Quote marks around ‘Free’ as it isn’t Free and you keep referring to it as such Dealing with governments is very different to having them dictate what you can charge someone

Not to be hyperbolic, but this is such a massive change to people’s lives. Tories brought the 15 hours in and refused to fund the 30 needed. Now Labour are providing parents the freedom to return to work.

@_TheHodler @DavidMcGregorBN I had to deal with a lot of governments, over every aspect of my business. Quote marks round 'free' signal your position. I don't know the nursery business as a business well enough to argue. I should butt out. I only know the free hours work in our circs for all involved.

@ElizabethBangs @DavidMcGregorBN Did you ever have the Government dictate your prices? I have no agenda but the idea that private businesses are not affected by ‘Free’ 30 hours of childcare is dishonest.

@_TheHodler @DavidMcGregorBN I'm sorry it doesn't work in her circumstance. I don't know enough about the business to know why it works for some and not others. Your last sentence reveals an agenda and assumptions though. I built a business from almost nothing to a being a player in a competitive market.

@ElizabethBangs @DavidMcGregorBN For my Wife that runs a Nursery it does not work But the last thing you will worry about is a Buisness being viable as everything needs to be ‘Free’

@_TheHodler @DavidMcGregorBN It's more ok than you're implying. You're staying it doesn't work. For us and for the nursery it's worked well.

@ElizabethBangs @DavidMcGregorBN That’s OK then is it?

Shocked that @BBCNews are running a story about Andrew and Fergie refusing to give testimony in the USA on Epstein, but won't mention @pritipatel blocked a request from the FBI for them to be questioned. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

@_TheHodler @DavidMcGregorBN Well it works fine where we are. xxxx

@DavidMcGregorBN The problem is - and something nobody ever talks about, is private Nurseries now have to accept 30 x the hourly rate that the Government tell them, and quite honestly it isn’t anywhere near enough for that business to be viable.

@DavidMcGregorBN @Chelnigellines Fabulous for my son and his partner. Makes thimgs possible for them. Makes a huge difference.

Laura Kuenssberg, let us be clear. The only real divide within the Labour Party now sits on the fringes of the far left, those who have yet to accept that that chapter of Labour’s history has closed. The party has moved on. It is now firmly positioned as a centre left government under Sir Keir Starmer, and that is where the overwhelming support lies. What has become increasingly tiresome is the conduct of you and your colleagues across the BBC, ITV, and others, who appear more interested in shaping narratives than reporting facts. Day after day, since Labour came into power, there has been a steady stream of misdirection, exaggeration, and at times outright falsehoods, all presented under the guise of analysis. The BBC Charter is quite clear. It requires balance, fairness, and accuracy. It does not permit the creation of news to fit a narrative, nor the persistent framing of division where it does not meaningfully exist. The vast majority of Labour voters, what might reasonably be described as the quiet majority, remain supportive of the government and its direction. There is a clear understanding that Sir Keir Starmer holds the mandate, and that leadership should not be undermined by speculative commentary about internal rivals. Figures such as Andy Burnham or Angela Rayner are not the story, and to present them as such is to manufacture distraction rather than report reality. Governing for a full term is not without difficulty. It requires focus, discipline, and delivery against a manifesto. That is the task at hand, not responding to the constant noise generated by political commentary. Sir Keir Starmer has demonstrated resilience and steadiness in office. Those are precisely the qualities the country requires at this time. It would be refreshing to see journalism return to its proper role, to reflect what is actually happening in the country, to engage with the views of the wider public, and to step outside the narrow bubble in which much of this commentary now seems to exist. Because the greater risk is not disagreement, it is the erosion of trust. And it is this kind of reporting that risks pushing it further.

Garry Kasparov: “trump’s people are suddenly making visits and deals in places like Hungary and Belarus with autocratic leaders where the US has little or no interests, but that are of high importance to putin. This is not a coincidenc.