Nov 2024
7:37am, 29 Nov 2024
11,858 posts
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Fields
Louise Haigh, who had been passionately pro public transport and pro worker and seemed committed to her transport brief, has resigned. To do with a historic thing when she was mugged and she thought she lost her mobile but then didn’t. Suspect this has been backchanneled to team Starmer by someone, she was unhappy about the 50% rise in bus fares and her statement on P&O |
Nov 2024
7:45am, 29 Nov 2024
71,265 posts
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LindsD
Starmer already knew
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Nov 2024
7:46am, 29 Nov 2024
71,266 posts
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LindsD
She resigned because the press got hold of it
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Nov 2024
7:56am, 29 Nov 2024
11,859 posts
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Fields
And how did that happen?
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Nov 2024
8:05am, 29 Nov 2024
18,180 posts
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jda
I’m sure all the Starmer Stans are delighted to see the promise of a crackdown on immigration. I’d call it a lurch to the right but it isn’t at all, it’s exactly what he was campaigning on. The lurch was years ago and they were all fully behind it.
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Nov 2024
8:07am, 29 Nov 2024
22,458 posts
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Chrisull
Well on the plus side at least Haigh resigned, rather than Tory style pretending they'd done nothing wrong and brazening it out. It's a sign that standards had sunken so low that I was slightly surprised a minister resigned when something like that came out.
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Nov 2024
8:10am, 29 Nov 2024
11,860 posts
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Fields
jda wrote: I’m sure all the Starmer Stans are delighted to see the promise of a crackdown on immigration. I’d call it a lurch to the right but it isn’t at all, it’s exactly what he was campaigning on. The lurch was years ago and they were all fully behind it. Can’t wait for the JB take on this, he’s the biggest Keir Stormfront fan around here I think. |
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Nov 2024
8:10am, 29 Nov 2024
71,267 posts
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LindsD
Me too
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Nov 2024
8:24am, 29 Nov 2024
27,728 posts
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Bazoaxe
The haigh thing is weird. On one hand it’s much ado about nothing but the whole story doesn’t quite add up but it’s hard to understand why or what’s being hidden Contrast that with Michael matheson who actually did commit fraud snd he is hanging on and being supported by his leaders. |
Nov 2024
8:24am, 29 Nov 2024
30,317 posts
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richmac
Put like that Chris is definitely an upswing in behaviour. I'm quite there are those will make out it was the plan all along. |
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