Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Speaking of politics and PMs
Whether or not my vote at the last general election helped or hindered his rise, I must say that Keir Starmer’s quiet style has been a great relief from what might be called the media-obsessed celeb style of politician (often surrounded by image masseurs) that has become increasingly obtrusive in recent years and is now exemplified to an extreme degree by Donald Trump. So there you have it, Keir Starmer is the polar opposite and long may he remain so. I suppose that we shall never find him trying to fill the airwaves with sensational garbage intended to distract attention from his failings. He pays attention to the job, not to we think of him. More power to his elbow, I say.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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THE local ex-leader has joined in the chorus of Labour members calling for Starmer to resign.
But not all leaders of Labour Councils lost their seats.
There is:
- No recognition on environment failure
- No reflection on personal responsibility
- No recognition of local governance failings
- No recognition of Labour's particular local policy failures
- No recognition of the effectiveness of the political opposition, where there was ample and all too much worthy of justified criticism
In a Donald Trump-like feature, many of Haringey Labour's election leaflets revolved heavily around a single person.
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Ahmet’s X post has received a significant amount of derision in the comments section, with some accusing Ahmet of failing to take responsibility for her own failures.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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Martin Woodside, can you explain who exactly constitutes the foreign and the idle before hard-working British people?
I'm retired and have a state pension. so I assume I count as idle. How foreign do I have to be before Keir Starmer represents me? Would a London-born Grandmother take me into hard working British Category? Did she have to go out to paid work or did bringing up children make her a hard working British person? (She didn't live to get a pension as she was knocked down by a car in the street).
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I hope forlornly that "working families" "working people" and "hard working families" could be banned from the political lexicon.
They are expressions used by New Labour that are essentially worthless. I write as a former Member of the BoilerMakers Union who was employed in a motor car assembly factory. It was hard work.
IMO, too few New Labour politicos have actually performed traditional "working class" hard work in jobs in the real world, where expectations can be higher than elsewhere. I expect that some traditional "working class" voters, especially in the north, see the limited life experience of some New Labour politicians and, outside London, have deserted Labour for Nigel Farage's Reform Party.
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