Tracey feckin Brabin

Nice little earner for her as well as the MP salary.

how does she manage to have two full time jobs and do them both

 

Don't hold your breath, that guy will never teach again.

 

Well there will be a bye election in Batley and Spen now. The Labour Majority there is only about 3k. With what happened in Hartlepool, it's a very winnable target by the Tories.

 

Vote early, vote often.

 

It made me laugh when James O'Brien said on his show today there was little history of voting fraud in this country. Really? Peterborough and Bradford spring to mind straight away.

 

He is in full support of Covid passports for people to enter say a pub or cinema. However he is outraged at having to take a piece of ID to prove who you are to vote.

I could literally walk into a polling station give someone elses name and address say off a piece of stolen mail and get to vote for them.

 

He's clearly an intelligent guy but still can't fathom the fact the the majority of the public don't agree with his views. If they did Labour would get into power

 

He's a woke champion. And as a champion of the woke he doesn't accept anyones opinion but his own.

 

Not AWOL. Just have had nothing much to say really, that I haven't already said and couldn't see the point of spending too much of my time on here reading your tedious reactionary gloating. I was fully expecting a terrible set of election results for Labour and that's mostly what happened. Good to see Tracey Brabin get in though.

Many English people seem to like having a lying, overprivileged public school Twit and his equally overprivileged public school mates as their Prime Minister and cabinet. Their prerogative, I guess. Johnson is undoubtedly benefitting from the vaccine bounce at present, despite having made disastrous decisions (or the lack of them) for most of last year. He is also being shielded by the pandemic from any negative consequences of Brexit. And the almighty *@?$ up made by the EU over vaccines has, of course, played into his hands big time.
But he has also stolen Labour's thunder by spending money in targeted areas, which is shrewd. And he is still waging his culture wars which, of course, appeals to the lowest common denominator views of many people in England.

The country is now hopelessly divided between the socially liberal big cities, which vote Labour, and the socially conservative ex industrial towns and rural areas which vote Tory. Because of the way our first past the post system works it takes many more votes to elect a metropolitan MP than a rural or provincial one, so the Tories end up with big majorities that significantly inflate the extent of their support. This makes it very difficult to see how Labour can win a general election any time soon, unless the Tories do something truly horrendous.

The Labour Party is also hopelessly split. The idiots who claim that last Thursday's results vindicate Corbyn and that we need to be swinging further left are living in cloud cuckoo land. Unfortunately the Starmer end of the party has been totally uninspiring. Starmer has been massively hamstrung by the pandemic, of course. If he criticises the government too much he gets accused by the right of 'playing politics' with a national crisis. And if he doesn't then he gets accused by the left of being a closet Tory. It's doubtful that any Labour leader could have turned things around in a year, even in normal circumstances and certainly not in these exceptional ones.. But there's still no doubt that Starmer, who I voted for as leader, has been a big disappointment. I think he'll have to buck his ideas up soon or there will be a push to get him out. If that happens then I think Andy Burnham would be the next leader. I think he'd have a better chance of uniting the various party factions and appealing to ordinary working people - and I think he'd be a tough cookie opponent to Johnson.

I think Johnson will abolish the Fixed Term Act and call a general election in 2023 and win it. By how much will depend on factors such as how the economy recovers from the pandemic, how well or badly Brexit pans out once the pandemic recedes and stops masking the issue and, of course, whether Labour can stop infighting and become a coherent opposition, which they certainly aren't at the moment.
That enough for you?

 

There's no evidence of significant voter fraud in this country. Yes, there have been small pockets in places like Bradford but it's insignificant in the scheme of things.
The Tories introducing voter ID is straight out of the Trump/GOP playbook. It's a 'solution' to a non existent problem. It's designed to make it harder for young people and minorities, who often don't have driving licences or passports, to vote, knowing full well that those people are more likely to vote Labour than Tory. It's a totally cynical piece of voter suppression imported from states like Florida and Georgia, who have been doing this stuff for years.

 

And you being a married man @Storck, don't you know they can multi task.

 

Nope