Who Will You Vote For?

[mangocrazy]

One things for sure about Labour. Being unelectable was never a total hindrance to becoming leader.

It will be interesting to see how many teeth Starmer has actually drawn on the dogmatic left (and whether he can actually kick Momentum in the nuts if he gets a big majority. I think they're a bit like the Wizard of Oz though - a lot smaller than they sound).

Some friends of ours are/were fervid Corbynistas and they've been totally marginalised in their local Labour branch to the point they've given up on their party membership. It seems that Starmer has been executing a very effective 'behind the scenes' purge of Momentum and Corbynites. But that doesn't sit well with the alarmist 'Reds under the bed' propaganda espoused by a few on here. Most if not all of my left-leaning friends view Starmer as a pale blue Tory and will hold their nose while voting Labour or (more likely) voting tactically to get the Tories out.

Despite Starmer claiming to be a socialist I think he is middle of the road, if he has driven most of the socialists out then who made him keep Abbott?

I'm not privy to that info, but I'd guess he didn't want a display of disunity and just wanted the issue to go away. She hadn't actually done enything 'wrong' but was guilty by association with Corbyn.

[Taipan]

IFS not exactly waxing lyrical about Labours manifesto. No surprises there though...

Summing up, Johnson said while there were some spending increases for health and education already promised, there was “essentially nothing new in the Conservatives’ manifesto”.
“Labour, by contrast, want to change everything. Their vision is of a state with a far greater role than anything we have seen for more than 40 years. They would tax and spend more than ever before, putting in place a new universal welfare state with free childcare, free university, free personal care, free prescriptions and more besides; they would impose a swathe of new labour market regulations.”
A Labour plan to spend £58bn compensating Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality) for losses during the equalisation of the state pension at 66 years of age over the last 25 years, was described as an “extraordinary” unfunded promise.
Johnson added: “In the face of such vast ambition from Labour, one should not forget that the Liberal Democrat manifesto is itself a radical document that would involve a decisive move away from the policies of the past decade.
“Rarely can a starker choice have been placed before the UK electorate.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... nding-plan

[Saga Lout]

Man up and place your bet, then.

Brave Sir Irie...

I know you're busy goading irie but I'll put a soapy tenner on one or the other being gone next time around. Maybe Starmer will find a way to get rid of her first but I think she's after his job.

OK, the bet I was prepared to make was that Starmer would still be PM (i.e. no secret plan to install Rayner or anyone else had taken place) at the end of the next Parliament. Are you OK with that as a basis for a wager?

I'm just trying to get irie to put his money where his mouth is...

I'd take that bet. I'd even give you 100/1 odds, no, make it 1,000,000/1, or whatever odds you want. It's a SOAPY tenner, it's not like it's real money.

[mangocrazy]

IFS not exactly waxing lyrical about Labours manifesto. No surprises there though...

Summing up, Johnson said while there were some spending increases for health and education already promised, there was “essentially nothing new in the Conservatives’ manifesto”.
“Labour, by contrast, want to change everything. Their vision is of a state with a far greater role than anything we have seen for more than 40 years. They would tax and spend more than ever before, putting in place a new universal welfare state with free childcare, free university, free personal care, free prescriptions and more besides; they would impose a swathe of new labour market regulations.”
A Labour plan to spend £58bn compensating Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality) for losses during the equalisation of the state pension at 66 years of age over the last 25 years, was described as an “extraordinary” unfunded promise.
Johnson added: “In the face of such vast ambition from Labour, one should not forget that the Liberal Democrat manifesto is itself a radical document that would involve a decisive move away from the policies of the past decade.
“Rarely can a starker choice have been placed before the UK electorate.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... nding-plan

Errm - this is fighting yesterday's battles, you know? It relates to the Corbyn years manifesto.

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[Count Steer]

IFS not exactly waxing lyrical about Labours manifesto. No surprises there though...

A load of stuff from more than 4 years ago.

At least make a small attempt to keep it factual and about THIS election.

[mangocrazy]

I know you're busy goading irie but I'll put a soapy tenner on one or the other being gone next time around. Maybe Starmer will find a way to get rid of her first but I think she's after his job.

OK, the bet I was prepared to make was that Starmer would still be PM (i.e. no secret plan to install Rayner or anyone else had taken place) at the end of the next Parliament. Are you OK with that as a basis for a wager?

I'm just trying to get irie to put his money where his mouth is...

I'd take that bet. I'd even give you 100/1 odds, no, make it 1,000,000/1, or whatever odds you want. It's a SOAPY tenner, it's not like it's real money.

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That's a real tenner. I'd even throw in the bar of soap if you won...

[Taipan]

IFS not exactly waxing lyrical about Labours manifesto. No surprises there though...

Summing up, Johnson said while there were some spending increases for health and education already promised, there was “essentially nothing new in the Conservatives’ manifesto”.
“Labour, by contrast, want to change everything. Their vision is of a state with a far greater role than anything we have seen for more than 40 years. They would tax and spend more than ever before, putting in place a new universal welfare state with free childcare, free university, free personal care, free prescriptions and more besides; they would impose a swathe of new labour market regulations.”
A Labour plan to spend £58bn compensating Waspi women (Women Against State Pension Inequality) for losses during the equalisation of the state pension at 66 years of age over the last 25 years, was described as an “extraordinary” unfunded promise.
Johnson added: “In the face of such vast ambition from Labour, one should not forget that the Liberal Democrat manifesto is itself a radical document that would involve a decisive move away from the policies of the past decade.
“Rarely can a starker choice have been placed before the UK electorate.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... nding-plan

Errm - this is fighting yesterday's battles, you know? It relates to the Corbyn years manifesto.



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Whoops! Wrong link! Tis on the news for more detail...

https://ifs.org.uk/articles/labour-part ... 0education.

[Mr. Dazzle]

That's a real tenner. I'd even throw in the bar of soap if you won...

Does the Soapy Tenner actually refer to Soap though?....I was under the impression that it did not, but you're going back a bit!

[mangocrazy]

That's a real tenner. I'd even throw in the bar of soap if you won...

Does the Soapy Tenner actually refer to Soap though?....I was under the impression that it did not, but you're going back a bit!

It goes back longer than I've been a member of any forum where it originated, so I just took the phrase at face value. I'd be very interested to hear of the phrase's true origins and meaning.

[Mr. Dazzle]

It's not Soapy 'cause of Soap, but because of who it comes from

[Taipan]

Mr Soap on visordown.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Mr Soap on visordown.

Who never actually intended to deliver the £10. So ironically, posting a photo of an actual tenner in the context of a soapy tenner couldn't be more wrong.

Mango's out here performing semantic bleaching! Using a phrase not how it was originally intended, thus eroding it's meaning and utility.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar ... an%20“That

[mangocrazy]

Mr Soap on visordown.

Who never actually intended to deliver the £10. So ironically, posting a photo of an actual tenner in the context of a soapy tenner couldn't be more wrong.

Mango's out here performing semantic bleaching! Using a phrase not how it was originally intended, thus eroding it's meaning and utility.

In my defence, it was done unintentionally. And at least it's preferable to anal bleaching...

I'll photoshop the soap bar out.

[Mr. Dazzle]

In my defence, it was done unintentionally.

YEah it usually is, which is why it's such a problem. Means words and phrases are no longer as useful because the meaning has been sucked out of them.

It's literally the worst thing in the world.

[mangocrazy]

Bloody Johnny-come-latelys destroying our forum cultural heritage! Worse than immigrants! Send them back!

[Taipan]

He makes a fair point! The Tories must be cringing with embarrassment at their fall from grace!

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer are taking part in a BBC debate on 26th June.

As we are now ahead of the Conservatives in the polls, I demand that Reform UK is a part of this debate.

If the BBC want a fight with me on this, they can have one

https://x.com/Nigel_Farage/status/1801596499735835075

[mangocrazy]

It's just one favourable poll out of dozens. When all the polls show Reform ahead of the Cons, then he might have a bit more of a point.

Not backward in coming forward, is he?

[Ian]

Soapy or otherwise I'll be happy to lose a tenner if Starmer can hang on and keep momentum under control. I think it's inevitable labour will win the only issue is what labour does.

[irie]

Mr Soap on visordown.

Who never actually intended to deliver the £10. So ironically, posting a photo of an actual tenner in the context of a soapy tenner couldn't be more wrong.

Mango's out here performing semantic bleaching! Using a phrase not how it was originally intended, thus eroding it's meaning and utility.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar ... an%20“That

Ah yes, Soapy and his tenner on VD.

Mango talking about stuff he doesn't understand? Surely not. Oh.

[demographic]

It will be interesting to see just how many seats Reform get cos I can't remember em getting a single seat in Parliament yet?
First past the post system.for you, also available in such democratic luminaries as Belarus.