I knew it would all end in tears
It ended in tears of joy.
Congratulations to Andy Burnham on becoming Prime Minister. Always keen to remind us how much he loves New Order these lyrics from ‘Round and Round’ come to mind.
The picture you see is of Dennis Healey
It’s too real to be shown to someone I don’t know
And it’s driving me wild
It makes me act like a child
What are people’s thoughts on Burnham’s annual property tax idea? Is it likely to happen? Why could it be a bad thing? I’d pay around 70% less a year, so it sounds good to me
Burnham also wants to get rid of the ban on drinking alcohol in view of the pitch for league football.
I’m conflicted. It is nice watching a non league game, supping on a pint.
I don’t think the current rules do anything to curb excessive drinking at games. On the contrary, it encourages fans to binge drink as much as they can in the hours prior to a game, and at half time.
It’s also really annoying when people are constantly getting up for drinks throughout the entirety of a half. I was getting up every 2 minutes to let people around me get another Michelob Ultra in Atlanta.
And that’s before we get into the prospect of some cretin throwing their beer around when we score a consolation goal on a wet, cold Tuesday evening.
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The cons you mention outweigh the pros for me. I’m also not sure of the optics of a new prime minister making this a priority in his first few days.
Wears black Loves The Smiths. Hates Thatcher.
My first year at university has become Prime Minister
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Depends whether you live in the south or the north and at what rate he sets it at. At 1% it will just be us southern bastards funding the poor disadvantaged northerners. But that suits him and his voters!
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Regarding Burham’s tax proposal, I would prefer a wealth tax but get why a property tax appeals to him & his supporters.
The unanswered question for now is where would the funds generated be spent?
An estimated £10m of it, will be used to cover his private jet flights from London to Manchester and back.
That way, he gets to work from home on Fridays. Nice work if you can get it.
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If only there were some kind of high speed train link between London and Manchester.
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“Daily Mail’s Relentless Vicious Sniping At [insert name of current Labour leader]”.
We went round for coffee with our Bollinger Bolshevik friends yesterday, the ones who live in a £1.5m Beaconsfield penthouse apartment in the block formerly occupied by Ryan Tafazolli.
I had imagined that they would be over the moon that Labour now has a popular new leader, who is making all the right noises about fixing everything.
But that wasn’t the case. They think he will be cosying up to Trump, and deviating from the manifesto that the party won a landslide election win on 2 years ago. I asked them who they would have preferred to take over from Starmer, and the answer was either Ed Miliband or Wes Streeting.
I didn’t have the heart to remind them that, as one Labour backbencher recently said, both of those are “f***ing useless”.
Ryan Tafazolli occupied a block?!
In terms of results, Wes Streeting wasn’t in office long enough for a definitive assessment to be made of his achievements but the reduction in NHS waiting times wasn’t insignificant.
Ed Milliband hasn’t had the opportunity to prove himself in office one way or the other but in the terrifying situation we find ourselves in meteorologically he seems to be virtually a lone wolf in recognising the lunacy of extending our dependency on fossil fuels and oil.
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The manifesto didn’t give Labour the shallow “landslide” win. The “f***ing” useless Tories over nearly three decades ensured that.
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A Venn diagram showing our views on net zero would be two circles about 50 miles apart.
Surely extracting and using our own oil is better than importing it? In the medium term we would never be able to produce enough alternative energy. However, obviously all effort should be directed at producing alternative energy in the meantime.
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Sadly, I think you’re right. That’s if I’m right in thinking that you’re suggesting that only half the population think efforts towards net zero are still a realistic proposition. I’ve never really got to grips with Venn diagrams, I’m afraid, but are you suggesting that we’re all doomed?
I have to say that to me it really does feel that way. I despair for those whose life expectancy is (or maybe isn’t) substantially longer than mine.
I think there are arguments involving time scales and other factors here both for and against reactivation/extension of North Sea drilling but they’re well beyond my comprehension.