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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
Starmer bots appear to be highly effective. I hear Labour are considering a rollout across the country.
That Keirbot is weirdly hot. Will be holding you responsible if it, or a Keirbot army, features in some bizarre sex dream tonight.
I know right? I suspect Keir Starmer would be much more popular if he was as weirdly hot as Keirbot.
Now there's a sentence I never thought I would say/type.
A whole week later and no bizarre dreams involving the Keirbot army, nor anything related to same.
Which ombudsman do I go to here about this complaint?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It seems a failing, until you remember Theresa May – fighting what was the worst campaign in living memory, before Rishi Sunak asked her to hold his beer – threw away a 20-point poll lead in 2017 by proposing a social care policy that instantly became the “dementia tax”.
Yet now the Conservatives are falling apart, reduced to warning of a Labour “supermajority” – misusing the term that does not, as Grant Shapps seems to think, mean “a really big majority”, but one capable of overriding a constitutional veto – as they plead with the voters for mercy.
History suggests the Lib Dems do best when disaffected Tory voters feel safe casting a ballot that will put a Labour prime minister in Downing Street.
Tactical voting depends, yes, on collective loathing of the Tories, but also a Labour alternative palatable to the broadest possible number: that rarely means a leader who stirs the passions of the party faithful.
If he gets his mandate, he could use it as blanket permission to pursue a range of serious policy shifts about which he stayed mum during the campaign – whether on investment in infrastructure and public services or resetting the relationship with the European Union – all in the name of growing the economy.
But, given the scale of the task that will confront the next government – a social fabric that lies in tatters, a weak economy, ailing public services and a country that feels broken – it is no guide for how that power should be used.
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