General Election 2024: Landslide Labour Win

[alchresearch]

Starmer and his six pledges.  Rings a bell....

 

[SheffieldForum]

1 minute ago, alchresearch said:

Starmer and his six pledges.  Rings a bell....

 

 

 

It was being compared more to Blair in the journalist questions this morning. Apparently he did similar (and also had a launch event where he took off his tie, etc).

 

 

[Mister M]

13 minutes ago, SheffieldForum said:

 

It was being compared more to Blair in the journalist questions this morning. Apparently he did similar (and also had a launch event where he took off his tie, etc).

 

 

Yes I seem to recall that Blair had his wallet size card with his pledges on, which is what Starmer has also done.

Not sure that going back to Blair style politics / 'the 3rd way' is the answer, if that's what Starmer is intending to do. 2024 is very different to 1997

[SheffieldForum]

26 minutes ago, Mister M said:

Yes I seem to recall that Blair had his wallet size card with his pledges on, which is what Starmer has also done.

Not sure that going back to Blair style politics / 'the 3rd way' is the answer, if that's what Starmer is intending to do. 2024 is very different to 1997

 

His answer to 'are you just another Blair' from one journalist was well answered I thought.

 

 

[geared]

2 hours ago, SheffieldForum said:

 

We had seperate threads for each political party and yet all of them had exactly the same arguments from the same people in them over and over and I'd like to try and get away from the usual lazy baiting they constantly contained.

 

I mean you can probably say that about most threads to be honest, sooner or later it ends up with the same old argument.

[crookesey]

It’s much of the same at our time of life, no mortgage, no other debt, no schooling, either party could be in power. I’m pretty certain that my recent visit to the NGH will be much the same next time, no matter who is in control. 

[Prettytom]

1 hour ago, geared said:

 

I mean you can probably say that about most threads to be honest, sooner or later it ends up with the same old argument.

No it doesn’t.

[geared]

43 minutes ago, Prettytom said:

No it doesn’t.

 

Yes it does

[melthebell]

hes behind you....errrrm i mean

[Mister M]

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