General Election 2024: General UK Politics Discussion here

[Derby]

Diane Abbott has the Labour whip restored then is banned from standing for Labour in the election.  Why rub salt into a wound?

[Ridgewalk]

11 minutes ago, Derby said:

Diane Abbott has the Labour whip restored then is banned from standing for Labour in the election.  Why rub salt into a wound?

Starmer and his close advisors are very very vindictive 

[Ridgewalk]

13 hours ago, hackey lad said:

😂😂😂

He’s such a poseur 

[Ridgewalk]

25 minutes ago, Anna B said:

Probably true, but I've never understood why anyone who pays tax via PAYE would vote Tory, yet some of them do. In fact, now the middle classes living standards are threatened by neoliberalism, (and they've seen what the Tories are doing to aid it,) I'm very surprised they still vote Tory.

Beware, the Tories protect their own, ie the 1%, the elite. and that's all. They're just very good at PR and are masters of spin, lies and obuscation. Shameless . 

1/3 of working class people vote Tory otherwise they’d never get in.

 

[m williamson]

33 minutes ago, Ridgewalk said:

Starmer and his close advisors are very very vindictive 

 

Whereas the Tories always behave in a genteel and kindly manner 🙄

 

https://news.sky.com/story/tory-leadership-contests-beer-brownies-smoothies-and-dirty-tricks-12650507

 

https://novaramedia.com/2024/03/19/plot-to-oust-sunak-amid-increased-tory-infighting/

[Mister M]

11 hours ago, Paul P said:

Has the  Labour party got any policies?  The Tories are bossing the election campaign because their policies are being discussed.

And what evidence do you have that they're "bossing the election campaign"?

Rishi looking like a drowned rat outside Downing Street, while "Things Can Only Get Better" played in the background?

Tory policies not being discussed - people want them gone.

Yep Labour do have policies you can look them up. 

 

[PRESLEY]

42 minutes ago, Ridgewalk said:

Starmer and his close advisors are very very vindictive 

Nothing like the Conservative who tried to stitch Angela Rayner up. 

[hackey lad]

33 minutes ago, PRESLEY said:

Nothing like the Conservative who tried to stitch Angela Rayner up. 

Her own party are stitching up Abbot . 

[m williamson]

2 minutes ago, hackey lad said:

Her own party are stitching up Abbot . 

 

The ex wife of one of my closest friends worked for a number of years for a London council in an administrative capacity.  She had the misfortune to get to know Diane Abbot quite well. Abbot is an obnoxious individual and no credit or practical use to any political party. 

[cressida]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69071603

 

Not true that Abbott has been barred from standing as MP for Labour says Sir Keir.