Taking the piss out of politics

[slinger]

Some of the Labour rebels (including some of the front bench ones) will have been doing so to protect their vote at the next GE. That's political expediency.

I replied to that very point on Twatter...

[savvypaul]

Some of the Labour rebels (including some of the front bench ones) will have been doing so to protect their vote at the next GE. That's political expediency.

I replied to that very point on Twatter...

This is probably one where Starmer is fine with it. Phillips secures her seat...and she can come back to the front bench once the party is in government.

[Grumpytim]

Why he did not go for a free vote eludes me, it's not as if it was ever going to change anything. Last night was very much in the realms of gesture politics and regrettably he fluffed his lines and shot himself in the tush.

[slinger]

[NSNO2021]

Neither Labour or the Conservatives resemble the parties I grew up around and that cannot be a surprise given the fundamental change in communications brought about by the web, social media, smart phones etc.
Big money has always influenced politics, it's one of the few factors that hasn't changed but whilst I am desperate to see the end of 13 years of Tory mismanagement I have zero faith in Starmer, he is a "whiter shade of pale" lacking any sort of vision or desire for the big changes that are needed

[TheMarlin]