Dave
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Our party has suffered a historic defeat.
Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.
What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.
The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.
We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.
Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.
Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.
Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.
In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.
We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.
The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.
Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.
For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.
But we have the chance to fix this.
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This man literally put the WWF on his back, and built it into a worldwide empire. 👇
Not Sammartino, not Austin, not Rock, not Taker, and certainly not Bret "The Crybaby" Hart....ONLY Hogan, Jack!
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So I finally got around to watching the Hulk Hogan Real American documentary and here’s my takeaways.
The Hulkster sacrificed his body to entertain and make a good living for himself and his family. The amount of surgeries and pain he had was brutal.
Linda divorcing him and preventing him from living in one of the houses that he paid for is unforgivable.
Then she dates a 19 year old and they take his boat out in front of his apartment so they can flaunt it in his face is next level trash.
The judge giving her 70% of what that man sacrificed for shows how broken the system is.
Triple H and the WWE banning him for a period of time because he said a word once is pathetic.
Wrestling Fans booing him when he came back to me was odd..they cheer for the crap that modern wrestling is and hated one of the men who was the biggest star when it was actually relevant and didn’t suck.
Overall it just reminded me of the time when the WWF was worth watching and entertaining. What they’ve been doing for over 20 years is why it’s a niche thing with a bunch of no names that the average person has never heard of.
Hulkamania will live forever but professional wrestling is basically dead.
It will never reach the heights that it once had. It’s now just a glorified soap opera and like many other industries such as Hollywood, music and others that have their best days in the rear view mirror.
Hulk was 1 of 1 and will always be missed.
#HulkHogan #RealAmerican #WWE #Wrestling
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Rocky Balboa was little more than a street slugger. Sure, he was fit but in real life he wouldn't last a round with a real fighter. Boxers have form and technique. Balboa had neither.
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@Alarsenalnews_ Six pterodactyls carried it on ropes. They do a few hours and then six new pterodactyls come and take over cos of labour laws
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Someone explain to me like im a 5yrs old how Atlético Madrid's team bus came to London
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“Have some of that bruv, you Scouse xxxx” probably…….😂
Not like you to make sure you were in the picture of someone else’s goal 😅
You now carry on this ritual by hanging around mixed zones bothering star players & asking your lackeys to film it!
Rio Ferdinand@rioferdy5
Caption this… 💭
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Need a job where I can make six figures but I have no skills and I’m not very smart
What field is this?
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@mattjamesfirth @CiaranBloo @D_Fens_Ghost @MattCarrick5 Heard he liked a nice bit of meat inside him
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Talk to your mates
Interesting AF@interesting_aIl
81 years ago, Adolf Hitler took his life in a bunker in Berlin
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@PstafarianPrice Practicing for the Musical Statues World Championships
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I don't use drugs why are they standing up. Wouldn't it be cozier to curl up and enjoy their drugs. Why are they standing frozen like zombies in a paused video game.
jj smith@war24182236
SAN FRANCISCO 7th & Market st
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