TiztheBluenoseSaint
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TiztheBluenoseSaint
@TiztheS
Retired History teacher. Love sport, but shockingly incompetent when it came to playing it. Everton, Saints RLFC, Lancashire CCC. 💖 Labour, NHS, EU.
Katılım Mayıs 2019
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Who had the COVID vaccine and had zero side effects except for a sore arm and feeling little rough for a day
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Such an ignorant bellend.
We have a home in Frome. I have the passport, among a few others. My wife’s professional pension and her government pension are tied to the UK government.
I will be marching this weekend for change. We live in Singapore as expats and are moving soon to Texas. The UK is untenable under this regime.
You, sir, are the sucker.
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The Labour Party has 20,000 new members. They joined to support Starmer as PM. Not to support rebels because they can’t vote for them for at least 6 months after joining.
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@FredThomasUK @AndyBurnhamGM We already had the seat, if you remember. This is not a good idea.
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I hope to campaign for @AndyBurnhamGM in the Makerfield by-election.
He represents our best chance of keeping the seat, and I hope our NEC and local party members make that choice.
We do need our best players on the pitch.
Andy Burnham@AndyBurnhamGM
I can confirm that I will be requesting the permission of the NEC to stand in the Makerfield by-election. I grew up in this area and have lived here for 25 years. I care deeply about it and its people. I know they have been let down by national politics. Ten years ago, I decided to leave Westminster. Why? Because, after 16 years, I came to the conclusion that our national political system does not work for areas like ours. I learnt this fighting its failure to invest in the Wigan borough, for justice for the Hillsborough families and against its treatment of Greater Manchester during the pandemic. Over the last decade, I have been challenging this failure from the outside and building a new and better way of doing politics. We have built Greater Manchester into the fastest-growing city-region in the UK and put buses back under public control, introducing a £2 fare cap to help people with cost-of-living pressures. However, there is only so much that can be done from Greater Manchester. Much bigger change is needed at a national level if everyday life is to be made more affordable again. This is why I now seek people’s support to return to Parliament: to bring the change we have brought to Greater Manchester to the whole of the UK and make politics work properly for people. Millions are struggling and they need the Labour Government to succeed. It has already made changes to make life better for them in its first two years. After this week, we owe it to people to come back together as a Labour movement, giving the Prime Minister and the Government the space and stability they need as the by-election takes place. I want to recognise the difficult decision taken by Josh Simons and the sacrifice he and his family are making. I have worked closely with him as Mayor on issues like flooding and illegal waste dumping and have seen first-hand how effective he has been. He has put the communities of Makerfield first, made a real difference for them and should take great pride in that. Finally, I truly do not take a single vote for granted and will work hard to regain the trust of people in the Makerfield constituency, many of whom have long supported our party but lost faith in recent times. We will change Labour for the better and make it a party you can believe in again. ENDS
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@Peston I seriously doubt that Cabinet ministers are confiding in you.
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The consensus at the top of the Labour Party appears to be that Keir Starmer won’t announce a timetable for his departure until Andy Burnham fights the Makerfield by-election. But that makes very little sense to me.
Because, as I said on ITV’s News at Ten, the probability he can survive as PM, even if Burnham were to lose the by-election is low. This is what his cabinet colleagues and trade union leaders have made clear to him (and to me).
So the timing and manner of his exit are now at the mercy of events, which makes him a lame duck prime minister - whose utterances about policy will barely be heard above the racket of speculation about how and when he will go.
This would be humiliating for any PM, but perhaps doubly so for Starmer given that his genuine success in taking Labour to a landslide victory after the nadir of the 2019 election would risk being forgotten and ignored if his last weeks in office are spectacularly chaotic.
The limitations on his power are already conspicuous.
As his closest colleagues tell me, he was only powerful enough to do the most limited and unambitious of reshuffles to fill the vacancy at health created by Wes Streeting’s resignation - although the disaster of last week’s elections would have been the trigger for a more comprehensive reshaping of the Cabinet if the PM were stronger.
Starmer lacks the authority to force any of his ministers to move or leave the government. It’s telling that the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood kept her job even after her allies briefed she told the PM his time is up, and that Streeting dictated the timing of his own resignation, even though his enforcers were actively briefing against the PM.
In the Cabinet, the prime minister is supposed to be the first among equals. In Starmer’s case, scrap “the first” and maybe insert “second”.
Also, resignations and sackings have over months left his Downing Street team depleted. As even his friends tell me, few want to take a career risk by working for him, partly because of the open secret that he won’t be in post much longer (and partly because the Whitehall zeitgeist is that he is the worst kind of delegator, one who insists on delegating but then shows little loyalty or understanding when things go wrong).
So what’s the alternative to him being in office but not in power, as it were?
Perhaps he should emulate Tony Blair, despite many in his party having repudiated the Blair years. In September 2006, Blair announced he would resign within a year and he stood down the following June.
This longer timetable meant Blair wasn’t tainted by the chaos of unexpected immediate elections. And because the election schedule was dictated by him rather than by factors beyond his control, he looked commensurately stronger. He appeared to be the master of events, not the victim.
The “will he? won’t he?” about Starmer last week was exhausting just to narrate, as I had to do. Goodness knows how bad it was for the main protagonist, Starmer.
To be clear, any PM that says he’s off is weakened by that very pledge. But Starmer might actually have even less authority in today’s limbo, where everyone but he acknowledges the reality that he is a short-dated stock.
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@MarcPilot75 @markofagenius @UKLabour Your abusive language shows you have no valid arguments. Not sure about the 'we' if you don't live in this country.
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Just yesterday, reinstated.
Why are we giving money for more than two children when it’s only the fucking Pakistanis and the immigrants that have more than two children? It’s not British.
Why were we going to pay the Chagos Islands to give them their land back?
Why are we giving hundreds of millions to Ukraine instead of keeping it in Britain?
Why did Starmer go to the EU with £100 million the other day?
You’re out to lunch (along with Lammy the pig).
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@MarcPilot75 @markofagenius @UKLabour Winter fuel payments have been reinstated, and triple lock has boosted state pension. Two child cap removed, to name but 3.
Fourteen years of Tory austerity and mismanagement to rectify doesn't come cheap.
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@TiztheS @markofagenius @UKLabour Removing fuel payments for OAP.
No new taxes?
There are 57 you turns
Labour lies
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TiztheBluenoseSaint retweetledi
@MarcPilot75 @markofagenius @UKLabour Approximately 2/3 of Labour's manifesto pledges have been delivered, or close to being delivered.
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@markofagenius Hardly sir,
@UKLabour is done.
They have destroyed the country.
Council elections were the tip of the iceberg.
Starmer is universally hated, over 120 of his own MPs have abandoned him.
All promises he was elected on have been broken,
Which bit is daft?
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@TiztheS The York......Shire..🧙♂️☺🙋♂️
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Fiona Bruce says people don't want to talk about the traitor Nathan Gill and Russia bribing Reform politicians.
Retweet to tell #bbcqt @BBCPolitics and @Nigel_Farage that we really do want to talk about it.
#Farage #Putin
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@johnandi The attacks on Keir Starmer seem to have escalated since he spoke of closer ties with the EU...
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Understand this. Keir Starmer is an existential threat to the dark forces who are trying to tear down our democracy and replace it with fascism, for their own profit. The more he achieves, the more the hysterical attacks will grow. THINK !.
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