Is the danger now that with Starmer in charge Lib Dems will be tempted to shift their support to Labour?
Why are politicians now so useless & pathetic? Could it be the fault of the media who now wage a relentless hostile war against them? From the start of any political career MPs constantly have to be careful what they say, what they Tweet, even what they think for fear of their career crumbling to dust by Gotcha traps. And the public grumble that politicians are evasive & don’t answer questions in a straightforward manner - is that hardly a surprise with the sort of media interrogation they have to pick their way through now?
I do agree that the faults of the Chinese Govt need to be addressed, these have been discussed adequately here & elsewhere. But I haven’t heard that much criticism of the Chinese culture for eating wild animals & using animal parts of endangered species (from anywhere in the world) for useless medical nostrums. These have to be questioned by the international community because it is highly likely that these archaic practices are killing us. I had a friend with a Chinese wife, I remember quite often when we saw some animal or bird she would comment that “we eat them in China”. I found this disgusting, as did my friend who when in China was disgusted by the things he saw in Chinese markets such as skinned frogs still alive.
Black culture now contrasts starkly with bebop in the 1940s. Parker & Gillespie purposely played highly complex music in order to get rid of ‘the no-talent guys’.
Whether the BBC is financed by a licence fee or a subscription it ought to be accessible to those paying when they are anywhere in the world. I work abroad half the year & it galls me that my yearly licence fee only allows me half of what I’m forking out for. I know rights issues are at the moment the problem; but if access is only available by some sort of system to UK subscribers, be they temporarily out of the country, I would have thought a solution could be found.
Labour lost all their female MPs with any intellectual capacity in December.
Starmer’s as wooden as a clog! He would be useless, good for us Tories though.
Richard Burgon as deputy would be fun, a laugh a day for us.
O’Grady is staggeringly feeble, a complete waste of space!
Hmm, the Conservatives collapsed in the mid nineties because they started in-fighting & ran out of relevant ideas. Labour is in a far more serious pickle because the party has been seized by Marxist extremists, that will be far harder for them to fix than a party just becoming tired of governing.
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