25 Jul
5:34pm, 25 Jul 2024
17,524 posts
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jda
Well it's taken Sir Kid Starver off the front pages.
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25 Jul
9:02pm, 25 Jul 2024
1,156 posts
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Fenners-Reborn
Ha, ha, ha, you are a comedian @jda Labour are doing a great job in such a short period overturning 14-years of incompetence and mismanagement. |
25 Jul
9:36pm, 25 Jul 2024
20,912 posts
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Dave W
They’d have been soooo much better with Lord Jeremy of Corbin in charge though.
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25 Jul
9:43pm, 25 Jul 2024
32,860 posts
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Johnny Blaze
I'm sure Rish! would have reversed the policy by now.
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26 Jul
9:23am, 26 Jul 2024
25,294 posts
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larkim
My dad bought me this fory recent birthday. I now suspect he may be @Fields 
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26 Jul
12:26pm, 26 Jul 2024
22,759 posts
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rf_fozzy
Obama X2 have endorsed Harris. Unsurprising at this stage! |
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26 Jul
12:41pm, 26 Jul 2024
25,301 posts
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larkim
Unsurprising, but there was some lingering doubts. Maybe BO doesn't think she's the best of the best, but he can read the room; if he doesn't back her, he's opposing her, and she's getting the nomination. Some tittle-tattle that Trump is now unhappy with Vance on the ticket. Could be a bit of fun to poke at for the Dems. I get the sense this race isn't over just yet... |
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26 Jul
12:52pm, 26 Jul 2024
22,760 posts
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rf_fozzy
larkim wrote: but there was some lingering doubts. Maybe BO doesn't think she's the best of the best, but he can read the room; if he doesn't back her, he's opposing her, and she's getting the nomination. I don't think it's this at all. That's way over reading the tea leaves. He waited until late to endorse Biden in 2020 too (and Clinton in 2016) - at the time it was said he waits until a concensus is formed within the party before endorsing, because then, as a very influential figure within the party, he cannot be accused of trying to shift the debate one way or the other. |
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26 Jul
1:02pm, 26 Jul 2024
25,302 posts
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larkim
Less tea leaves, more some of the allegedly insider reports. Apparently BO was unhappy that Biden backed Harris from the off, that caught him off guard. Those reports may not be true, of course, and now it's all moot.
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26 Jul
2:48pm, 26 Jul 2024
25,306 posts
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larkim
£20bn black hole - I'm not so naive that I can't see that this is well played politics from a Party that knew what they were going to come in and see, but couldn't say it before hand because it would have undermined everything they wanted to do / get a mandate for. I only post this now as I've seen plenty of carping / "I told you so" from the usual LW detractors who are taking this at face value and saying "this is what we told you they would find, and we were right" without taking time to think why Labour was sticking to the mantra of abiding by the Tory plans as a mandate pledge, because now it gives them the opportunity to do things "because" they've discovered the gap in the finances. |
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