#315

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#316

We stan

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#317

Tories just announced plans to build 6000 new homes for the homeless. This is a good thing, in theory. Will they build them? Will they fuck

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#318

if there’s one thing the homeless can afford, it’s a brand new home!

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#319

Something about the phrase “starter homes” really fucks me off.

It’s very diminutive (to the target audience) and dogwhistle-y (to pricks who worry that all the advantages that their homeownership are about to be eroded).

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#320

Makes me think of houses like the ones we looked at where anything bigger than a double bed pushed against the opposite wall meant you couldn’t actually open the bedroom door and a living room that you could just about squeeze one sofa and a small dining table in.

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#321

Oh, you want to air dry your laundry*?

Fuck you. Do your time in a habitation module, starter prole.

*or any other life thing that requires more space than the bare minimum

#322

‘We’d be 20 points ahead with literally anyone else as leader!’

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#323

don’t talk about points losses, talk about net points gained

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#324

Aggregated polling has been showing a movement in Labour’s direction of course. Although it would’ve probably been the same had Corbyn still been in post. 4 years out from an election, government doing a bad job, people start to look at the alternative, hooray for a two party system.

#325

Only the Lib Dems…

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#326

Nah. The only thing that could distract the press from the story of government failure is their hatred/apathy towards Corbyn and the desire to frame any Opposition led criticism of the government as business as usual, left vs right bickering. Corbyn would have played right into that.

Corbyn only ever had net unfavourables. Starmer’s only ever had net favourable ratings. He’s not the story - the donkey sanctuary failure proved that - so the government has to be, even for the right wing press who really don’t want to be in this situation.

EDIT: Apologies, JC had positive net favourability in 2017, just not in 2018, 2019 or 2020.

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#327

Ahaha you believe this, incredible.

#328

Probably should reboot this for June particularly since Cohen has just dropped this incredibly insightful article.

How could we have seen this coming :open_mouth:

#329

Don’t think that was ever a real attack tbh, it was just a jab to test the defences - see who’d come out on Starmer’s behalf compared to Corbyn, so they know what to expect when the real smears start (which will be Savile etc)

#330

Yeah some of their first attempts on Corbyn didn’t stick either, doesn’t mean they didn’t keep trying

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#331

if you’d given me the headline without the rest of it, I’d have been totally convinced it was the star not the mail

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#332

Bit political for the Star that

#333

And in spite of this for significant periods post 2017 Labour and the Tories were evenly matched in the polls. I differ with absolutely EVERYONE on here re: press influence on voting intention - but I think in this instance it’s particularly notable. We live in essentially a two party system, public confidence in the Government is falling notably at present. The median voter who isn’t remotely keyed in to anything in politics outside of the issues of the day and their own engrained biases (as are we all) will, when asked in a poll, be starting to look at ‘the other lot’ out of dissatisfaction with the incumbent. Starmer’s job now is to not do anything that will turn people off him and his party and give people a reason to think early doors “yes he, and they, seem alright”.

#334

Which is why people like this don’t infuriate me as much as they used to. If he goes into the next election with something vaguely resembling Corbyn’s old platform and he’s biege and posh enough for the cretins of this country to vote for him, I’m on board. I’ll admit I was wrong all along about him. Three cheers for the jawline long con.

However the fact that people like David Miliband are lining up to say they support him though tells me they know something we don’t, i.e. that he has no real intention of redistributive politics if he ever did get that far.

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