Renton

This is depressing and apparently not newsworthy.

Burnham has said he would introduce PR. Really hope this gains momentum [No pun intended there, I hear Streeting has renamed them inertia].

Can't win with you lot. Newcastle are 2 up, but the final whistle hasn't gone. Put it this way, if its a marathon Labour is Paula Radcliffe and Truss is Jo Brand.

And here. Note this is a 7k poll which greatly increases the certainty of the outcome. Truss is getting an inverse new leader bounce. Bedwetters of toontastic take heart!

Every poll I've seen shows it's tye tories who should be the ones avoiding the Brexit issue. Meanwhile: But doing much worse in the red wall: And Starmer being human. I wish he'd go further and call Truss and cohort a bunch of cunts, but then I guess that would have a lot of Labour feminists frothing.

The place is wasted on you. You should be banned.

Are you going to some hillwalking whilst the weather is nice or what? I recommend a round trip of Derwent water via Catbells (pictured) and Lodore. Come back with some summit views.

Have we said Braverman is a cunt enough yet? Anyway, she's a cunt.

I think that's fair enough. The thing that most pisses me off is the weight given to vox pops. But anyway, all this is happening and STILL labour are way ahead in the polls. Maybe see the glass half full instead of half empty. Seems strange me saying this.

Being a bit facetious tbh, but Starmer won't deliver what's needed imo. Which is complete constitutional reform.

Who hasn't changed much.

That's what the Lib Dems are for.

Get wor flags on the case! Very apt for the Gallowgate.

NaaH, Gemmill's post nailed it. You cant spin people's own experiences. I also think people are hugely overestimating the power of the legacy press here. Hardly any fucker reads them and when they do they are preaching to the converted. Loads of NUFC type of cognition bias here and poor analysis. Labour were annihilated last election for 3 reasons. Johnson, Brexit, and (most importantly imo) Corbyn. None of those are true any more. Johnson may come back, but he is no longer popular. Brexit is demonstrably a disaster with no tangible benefits 6 years on. Corbyn has been well and truly defenestrated. Don't worry about the tories now, worry about the country instead. We're in a tail spin and it's going to be hard for anyone to pull out of it.

I can't see any of these policy decisions causing a boom either, not even a short term one. Because the thresholds have been held static, you need to be on 150k or more to get any tax relief. Then utility bills are still going up, interest rates too. Corporation tax is staying ridiculously low but that hasn't encouraged any investment because of Brexit. The BoE raised interest rates by 0.5% this week and Stirling still tanked. Let that sink in, we are in major trouble here. Truss can't bullshit the market. Then she's introducing universally toxic policies like fracking. I'd put her chance of winning a GE at less than 1%.. I think its unlikely she'll get a chance to fight a GE personality. This isn't remotely like the boom and bust we saw in the 80s and 90s under your favoured government CT, the situation is much more grave and the quality of our leadership to handle this has never been worse. And we are alone, out of the EU. The only thing that gives me cause for optimism is a complete crash might bring in fundamental change. But then I look at Starmer and my hope fades.

Yeah, we've talked about this. You're making an assumption of competence here, probably misplaced.

Informative and depresing, cheers.

Oh, hold on [checks notes], no, he's a corbynite nowadays.

Woohooo, we are going for the full banana republic here, both pollitically and economically.

Apparently if you earn less than 155k you're a low income worker. Nice to know.

Honestly, I do feel for you situation, you have been shafted by this government on every level.

Suits you sir.

Pound down 3% against the dollar, and 2% against the euro. Interest on bonds up 0.5%. These cunts have managed to completely fuck the country in less than a month! Stirling work Truss.