Labour does have a process for policies. It is called the National Policy Forum. He ignores it. So your suggestion that you can push internally is false. Keir doesn’t tolerate dissent because he’s an autocrat.

Labour used to get most funding from unions, it’s now less than 30%, so wealthy business folk got control of that.

It’s a shame that Keir’s labour doesn’t have policies that aren’t cruel on people.

That poster has a point. I’m a Brit here, so no skin in the game. You’re more focussed on being right that trying to comprehend that people look at things differently.

No one thought Biden was good, but he was the candidate and most know that name recognition is key in US elections. Most presential candidates fail on their first run. Kamala, despite having some OK polling numbers still has to get through to disengaged American voters who do not follow politics and probably know little more than the attack lines heropponents will throw at her this campaign. They have to define her before others do. This option is riskier than you realise, the only thing that changed was Biden became a riskier option than before.

Things are less black and white than you want them to be. Nuance and grey area is key, despite being inconvenient.

It isn’t rocket science. You recruit from the market or train your own.

It’s painful they do not get this.

Or-der… Or-derrrrr?

Yup, and for the avoidance of doubt:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg3j131327yo (see graph at bottom)

Labour used to be funded by trade unions. Now it’s just a 5th of total funding. Corporate takeover of the Labour party. Of course, businesses will be wanting a return on investment here.

So Tories screwed our economic situations and Keir’s Labour will keep us here.

What is the point in a massive majority if you’ll do what the predecessors did? Power for power’s sake?

Streeting is a Tory with a red rosette. From the right-wing Blairite faction (Progress) and one of the most disloyal and unprofessional politicians when Corbyn was leader.

Expectations of better in this guy would be misplaced.

We can debate this all day long but we all know torque is cheap.

Very much so, and apologies if my last sentence was a bit heavy. I’m a bit too used to reddit and the astroturfing that goes on there.

I agree with most of what you said here but do take exception to point about the risk not being extensive compared to other things we are exposed to. I think we should not accept hazardous materials because we are subject to them elsewhere. I’m not a hairdresser, but risks to their health should be eradicated. Harmful particulate should be eradicated, and aspartame too. Let’s take bullets out of the chambers handed to us in this corporate run game of life Russian Roulette.

My take wasnt that this is bad news. My take is moving from 1 poison to another is not a good thing. There are studies either way, and it’s worth considering where the scientists funding came from. Industry do invest in research for a reason which can result in more studies.

The following summarises some of the risks. While my accuracy wasn’t great, the conclusion that aspartame is safe is highly questionable. If you’re promoting it like it’s a great thing, it’s a very bizarre take to have.

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/news/behind-the-headlines/are-artificial-sweeteners-safe

Sugar is rubbish, but doesn’t make artificial sweeteners good. Best things to drink are water, with maybe occasional fruit juice/smoothie. Not artificial rubbish.

Oh and the World Health Organisation considers aspartame a possible carcinogen. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/aspartame-risks

Football season is good and I’ve always preferred grass to astroturf. Industry are always gonna push the “there is no proof” until the deaths/illness become hard to ignore and the profit already made.

And increased amount of aspartame and asulfate k, that can have an even worse effect on blood sugar than sugar can. Industry still making a killing.

Remind me when they tried to cut CO2 by pushing folk to diesel…

But yeah, only Coca-Cola is really drinkable now as most moved to artificial sweeteners which IMHO taste like chemicals.

Biden won in 2021. The policy was going under under Trump, and carried on under Biden. If you look at Assange and further, it was going on under Obama and Bush.

It’s standard operating policy and no president has attempted to change or improve this.

Oh US, next time you want to renew a lease for a strategically important base, the answer is no until you stop being dicks.*

• this is what should happen, but will not. No one ever holds the US to account.

As a Brit, it’s so painfully embarrassing how 1 sided this special relationship is. We are certainly the sub. The whole Assange complicity was intolerable.

Corbyn, and no. He got 40% in 2017. Keir only 34% here. When the right wing turned on him, including Streeting and his Progress chums on countless occasions there isn’t a lot you can do.

The right of the Labour party won’t tolerate a left wing party, but the left wing are much more professional, despite treatment of Abbot, Corbyn and others joining strikes.

Not sure it’s centre left.

They campaigned on being hard on immigration and not increasing taxes to increase spending.

Keir has been quite deceptive and dropped all the policies he claimed in the leadership. He could be more right wing than Blair. So probably center right. The right wing of the party took over. Funded by business.

Very true. Just not to the ultra nationalists and racists that ran to reform.

Labour were like 1% point better than 2019. The only difference was the collapse of SNP, and the collapse of the Tory nationalist vote that ran to Reform.

Labour just walked the ball into the open net.

Its in the rules. Dems got embarrassed because they assumed Republicans would play fairly. Which over decades, it has been proven, no they do not.

They left it wayyy too late in the term to do it. If you leave anything to the last minute, you have no margin for error.

What’s your excuses for why it was fine to leave it until last minute?

Do you want to tell me who you think was responsible for the 6 - 3 majority on the supreme court? Do you want to tell me how what I said was not the reason for that balance on the SC? Do you not think the overturning of Roe vs Wade was the erosion of women’s rights?

Why are you so fixated on a candidate from the past that was just no good?

Misogyny happens everywhere, but it doesn’t help fight it when calling the public misogynists because they didn’t support a dreadful candidate. A man can be a dreadful candidate, and so can a woman.

The degradation of women’s rights is down to failure of the Democrats to maintain balance in the supreme court. It also represents RBGs inability to step aside when Democrats were in power. Supreme Court justices should have some decency, retire at say 67, and allow a new generation to come along. Clinging on until 87 was insanely risky as you certainly need 5 to 10 years leeway to navigate out on your terms. RBG was eulogised, but her clinging to her seat undermined a careers work and any progress on women’s rights amongst other core rights.