Josh Constable 🌹🐝

Genuine question: What alternative(s) for clearing the courts backlog are being proposed?

By any org, party, MP etc.

I agree that politicians should always explain the rational for infrastructure to local residents, and the public.... but this is already done. This is done by council leaders, councillors, MPs and Ministers. You still get opposition. You still need to deliver the project(s).

On planning, sorry another politician giving the same answer he did would be called out for their duplicitousness.

Find me 1 piece of national infrastructure that the Greens support for use as a case study. The idea you can vibes through this stuff is nonsense, any councillor will tell you same.

Decoupling from US in defence is a political project in its own right; requiring tens of billions in investment on top of the DIP, which the Greens oppose. Not to mention a new increased nuclear capability which the Greens oppose.

Still astonished by the total lack of depth to his politics. I thought we'd have seen something develop by now.

Surprised he's getting such an easy ride tbh. The Greens are clearly contenders now. The comments on defence, planning and infrastructure are actually nonsesnse.

"Insufficient serious work was done to prepare for government... Mainstream offers a space for the exploratory thinking that the party has squeezed out."

Our National Coordinator Luke Hurst and Interim Council Member Sue Goss make the case for a new intellectual base for Labour.

Agree with the principle of your point re risk, but nothing to stop the commission having to report back in a year etc. I think its an important mechanism for building legitimacy and finding where concensuses may exist.

Im presuming Libs still back this? Any idea about Greens and Reform's preference.

Or the Nationalists pref for that matter.

(Though I sense Reform may be about to have a Damascene conversion to FPTP)

It's probably going to have to be AV, possibly STV.

What more proof do we need that hes a Russian intelligence asset?

Yeah I'm done trying to do the electoral maths. Its not being done out of pragmatism, its being done because they want it.

On the infinitesimal chance they do suddenly get reform voters back, it won't change that this would be the defining legacy of a Labour government. A stain on our party.

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Amazing news!

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Treasury is holding up the defense investment plan. Disappointed to see so little about this issue.

I reiterate: We need to spend more on sovereign capability. We need more ships as a priority. We need to raise taxes to pay for it. Capability first, cost second. This will be great for the econ.

Badenoch's latest ramblings on defence aren't surprising and actually shows how chronically online she is (again).

Right wing socials have suddenly latched onto low surface ship numbers in past 3 days.

It's something that should be addressed but these people aren't serious about it.

Just a further testament to how little the US/Isreal thought through this war. And how little their current administrations care for partners and allies.

Tbh with their leadership getting killed. I wouldn't be surprised if the current seemingly random strikes at anyone affiliated with the US in the region, are being decided on at the local level, ie by launch site commanders. Maybe even off an old plan for war with hypothetical US coalition.

Why aren't Reeves, Starmer and Miliband on the news talking up GBE as our insulation against energy price shocks rn?

Tell the public that long term it means lower inflation, and lower bills. We need the leadership to be so much more vocal and I don't mean soundbites; rather actual explinations.

Reform and the Greens are polling well you say?

This illustrates exactly why we shouldn’t be adjusting policy based on these forecasts. They aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

I misread this excellent post at first glance as:

#2 the Cromwell solution.

Labour must not bind Britain's fate to the failing electoral system - Politics.co.uk It’s fair to say that British democracy is in ill health. Labour has inherited rock bottom public trust in politics and a state wracked by austerity. We are working to show that government can deliver...

Good to see this excellent intervention from Labour MPs Becky Cooper and Tim Roca - rightly focusing on the immediate democratic risks created by FPTP, and highlighting the @appgfairelections.bsky.social's proposal for a National Commission as the way forward

Nothing to stop a European diplomatic push in concert with the Gulf States. Offering a viable path to de-escalation to whatever remains of the Iranian Government. And directly talking down Trump, something Starmer and the UK in particular, have shown capability in already.

This bases permission would go down a lot easier if a statment of the illegitimate nature of US/Isreali action in the first place...

We've been checked into this by the actions of a demented corrupt idiot. The prime minister should say so.

A Danish lesson for Labour on how to stop migrants and start winning Like the home secretary, I visited recently to learn how the centre-left is riding high and reclaiming the asylum debate from the populist right

Much stronger case for Scandi countries to learn from Britain on integration - if judge by educational outcomes for children of migrants, inclusion as a norm in professional & public life, longterm more contact & reduction in prejudice (despite 2020s polarisation)
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

We're yet to get any kind of 'mission statment' by Isreal and the US; increasingly concerning the aim is just to kill anyone with governing experience.

Power vacuums, like the one being created by the strikes, cause failed states.

But James, they're social Democrats. Google even confirms it.

I dont think Starmer and party leadership appreciate how deep the scars of Iraq still run in our voter base.

Not joining strikes and not allowing UK bases used, was the right thing to do. Leadership need to talk openly about why these decisions were taken. Not take it for granted people understand.

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They don't need to "move left" in the sense of adopting Green policies. They do need to stop insulting their own voters. Not the same thing.

We worked out with my in-law's dog it was the sound!