• Syldon@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Tories have total control until the next GE. Everything is a smash grab with them right now. They know their card is marked for at least a decade after this lot.

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        1 year ago

        Oh, man, as a murican, sounds like you somehow received our shipment of Democrats.

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            1 year ago

            Ah yes, those terrible Blair years. If only the Major government had kept going for longer.

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                I don’t know. He was re-elected with a majority of 66 in 2005, two years after Iraq started, and then in 2007 the Labour party membership forced him out in favour of Brown, who promptly lost the 2010 election to the Tories.

                I’ll take Blair Mk II in office over Corbyn in opposition any day.

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                    Brown was extremely popular among members of the Labour party, and never had a snowball’s chance in hell in a general election.

                    Bit of a pattern there.

                    Eventually you have to grow up and accept that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

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        1 year ago

        What Starmer said was that the private use would run alongside efforts to train new staff and create new infrastructure. People need treatment and we do not have the infrastructure to do that. Health services don’t just materialise out of thin air.