Can Sir Keir Starmer revive the Labour Party? (Vol. 2)
Discussion
SKS a announces his ambition to raise the defence budget to 2.5% and his unerring support for the nuclear deterrent. No surprise to read of the disdain from the corbynites (momentum) once again raising their voices getting very twitchy over their leaders ‘U’ turn’ since becoming the Labour leader. Thought they may have waited until Labour are in power, nope, not a bit of it, brother.
crankedup5 said:
SKS a announces his ambition to raise the defence budget to 2.5% and his unerring support for the nuclear deterrent. No surprise to read of the disdain from the corbynites (momentum) once again raising their voices getting very twitchy over their leaders ‘U’ turn’ since becoming the Labour leader. Thought they may have waited until Labour are in power, nope, not a bit of it, brother.
Tbh, that is why SKS is going to need a decent majority. Some decisions are going to be unpopular with some parts of the party. Confident he will deliver just that. 80-100 seats would be my guess. crankedup5 said:
SKS a announces his ambition to raise the defence budget to 2.5% and his unerring support for the nuclear deterrent. No surprise to read of the disdain from the corbynites (momentum) once again raising their voices getting very twitchy over their leaders ‘U’ turn’ since becoming the Labour leader. Thought they may have waited until Labour are in power, nope, not a bit of it, brother.
Who in the labour party is getting twitchy over potential defence spending?
S600BSB said:
Tbh, that is why SKS is going to need a decent majority. Some decisions are going to be unpopular with some parts of the party. Confident he will deliver just that. 80-100 seats would be my guess.
That would be reasonable. I don't want any party to have a 200 seat majority as it means they cannot be held to account of have more extreme legislation kept in check. A healthy majority is fine and SKS sounds like a centrist more and more. UK is generally centrist/mild conservative in values so probably 2 terms for Labour minimum. vaud said:
S600BSB said:
Tbh, that is why SKS is going to need a decent majority. Some decisions are going to be unpopular with some parts of the party. Confident he will deliver just that. 80-100 seats would be my guess.
That would be reasonable. I don't want any party to have a 200 seat majority as it means they cannot be held to account of have more extreme legislation kept in check. A healthy majority is fine and SKS sounds like a centrist more and more. UK is generally centrist/mild conservative in values so probably 2 terms for Labour minimum. S600BSB said:
vaud said:
S600BSB said:
Tbh, that is why SKS is going to need a decent majority. Some decisions are going to be unpopular with some parts of the party. Confident he will deliver just that. 80-100 seats would be my guess.
That would be reasonable. I don't want any party to have a 200 seat majority as it means they cannot be held to account of have more extreme legislation kept in check. A healthy majority is fine and SKS sounds like a centrist more and more. UK is generally centrist/mild conservative in values so probably 2 terms for Labour minimum. Mind you , expecting him to maintain any position for more than about 10 minutes is optimistic!
Wombat3 said:
S600BSB said:
vaud said:
S600BSB said:
Tbh, that is why SKS is going to need a decent majority. Some decisions are going to be unpopular with some parts of the party. Confident he will deliver just that. 80-100 seats would be my guess.
That would be reasonable. I don't want any party to have a 200 seat majority as it means they cannot be held to account of have more extreme legislation kept in check. A healthy majority is fine and SKS sounds like a centrist more and more. UK is generally centrist/mild conservative in values so probably 2 terms for Labour minimum. Mind you , expecting him to maintain any position for more than about 10 minutes is optimistic!
borcy said:
crankedup5 said:
SKS a announces his ambition to raise the defence budget to 2.5% and his unerring support for the nuclear deterrent. No surprise to read of the disdain from the corbynites (momentum) once again raising their voices getting very twitchy over their leaders ‘U’ turn’ since becoming the Labour leader. Thought they may have waited until Labour are in power, nope, not a bit of it, brother.
Who in the labour party is getting twitchy over potential defence spending?
crankedup5 said:
As I mentioned in my post, the corbynites or read momentum are already creating some noise. Remember just how committed corbyn is, and he has followers.
Corbyn isn’t even in the party anymore and as for Momentum? They had their chance and blew it. They’ve been put back in their box and are now relegated to shouting from the sidelines.valiant said:
crankedup5 said:
As I mentioned in my post, the corbynites or read momentum are already creating some noise. Remember just how committed corbyn is, and he has followers.
Corbyn isn’t even in the party anymore and as for Momentum? They had their chance and blew it. They’ve been put back in their box and are now relegated to shouting from the sidelines.Although I was looking forward to my free broadband…
crankedup5 said:
borcy said:
crankedup5 said:
SKS a announces his ambition to raise the defence budget to 2.5% and his unerring support for the nuclear deterrent. No surprise to read of the disdain from the corbynites (momentum) once again raising their voices getting very twitchy over their leaders ‘U’ turn’ since becoming the Labour leader. Thought they may have waited until Labour are in power, nope, not a bit of it, brother.
Who in the labour party is getting twitchy over potential defence spending?
valiant said:
crankedup5 said:
As I mentioned in my post, the corbynites or read momentum are already creating some noise. Remember just how committed corbyn is, and he has followers.
Corbyn isn’t even in the party anymore and as for Momentum? They had their chance and blew it. They’ve been put back in their box and are now relegated to shouting from the sidelines.borcy said:
crankedup5 said:
borcy said:
crankedup5 said:
SKS a announces his ambition to raise the defence budget to 2.5% and his unerring support for the nuclear deterrent. No surprise to read of the disdain from the corbynites (momentum) once again raising their voices getting very twitchy over their leaders ‘U’ turn’ since becoming the Labour leader. Thought they may have waited until Labour are in power, nope, not a bit of it, brother.
Who in the labour party is getting twitchy over potential defence spending?
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