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UK is fastest-growing G7 country in Q1 2025, as US exports jump ahead of trade war – business live
Post-Covid home working has failed to level up UK economy, study finds | Working from home | The Guardian
Obviously, home working in any form is rapidly being throttled due to dinosaur era management thinking. The less available it is the more things return to the stale old modelComment
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Ministers to block Thames Water paying bosses bonuses out of emergency loan
Exclusive: Firm close to insolvency says using £3bn loan to pay ‘substantial’ bonuses is vital to retain senior managers
It's a good job this story boils my piss because it's then safer to drink than water as Thames Water puts the emergency loan towards boss bonuses over cleaning up.
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I don't know who's giving Starmer his ideas, but his increased peacocking to the right is getting increasingly frustrating.
This week, he went to Albania and chose to only take one broadcaster - GB News.
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It's likely Morgan McSweeney.Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
This will only end with Labour suffering at the ballot box.
Pathetic.Comment
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Yeah, I heard the same thing:Originally posted by Nu-Eclipse View Post
You're also right about the ballot box:
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You know you're using the Tory Playbook when you have your own Dominic CummingsComment
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Those poll should worry the govt. I know anecdotally that they’re pissing off their own voters (including me) with some of their rhetoric but it’s stark to see this in the numbers.Comment
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It's not even that hard a prospect they face either. Everyone at this point expects the push to drive down immigration numbers, simply accomplish it and Reform's wind will start to blow out anyway. After that they need to protect their own rather than chase Reform voters, the majority of whom where Tory voters anyway. The main thing in Labours favour is that people have short memories so what they do in Years 3&4 will be overwhelmingly more important than what they do in Years 1&2 so there's tons of time yet to learn the right lessons. It needs to build to a pay off though. I still think the best weapon against Reform is a rebooted Conservatives, let the two eat at each other with neither getting high enough to get into power.
The Tories already have the issue that no-one is going to look twice at them unless they pull a complete New Tory rebrand and restart that shifts them away from being yet another Reform-lite offering. They face an incredibly hard journey to regain voters and have shown absolutely no sign so far of recognising that everything they do and say is wrong. Should they accomplish some sort of restart they can't then have a coalition with Reform because it's an immediate betrayal of their restart.
I presume that the biggest driver for Starmer is that he must genuinely think there's a good chance the Tories are permanently down and because voters are leaving them for Reform rather than give a massive surge to the Lib Dems or Greens (enough to make them a credible threat), he thinks left wing thinking won't win over right wing leavers.
A bit like Boris though - they need to forget their massive majority - it's gone next GE no matter what they do. Some of Labours controversial decisions aren't even that controversial on paper, but like the Tories they're appaling at marketing them and implementing them.Comment
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Starmer rejects claim ‘win-win’ UK-EU deal has sold out fishing sector – UK politics live
The papers and Reform/Tories should be dizzy from the sheer amount of Brexit-Betrayal spin they're desperately trying to put on this. Regardless of what anyone voted, Brexit was not a vote to spend eternity telling the EU to **** off whilst we bleed out on the floor.Comment
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