That Starmer fella...

Where and what are these positive stories?

This.

And if the deal was done The Times headline would have been “Starmer betrays British workers”

New bill for workers rights for example.

governing without meaning

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/keir-starmers-bafflingly-bad-start-as-the-uk-prime-minister

BREAKING: P&O Ferries owner's £1bn investment in UK will go ahead despite transport secretary calling for boycott of shipping firm

Well that is a surprise.

In his speech, Sir Keir will say he will “do everything in my power to galvanise growth including getting rid of regulation that needlessly holds back investment”.

Australian firm Macquarie, which has been blamed for saddling Thames Water with unsustainable debts when it was its biggest shareholder, is promising to invest £20bn in the UK over the next five years, including an electric car charging network.

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Tough audience...

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The grown ups clearly back in charge. Don't hold much hope for the pink haired moron in the next reshuffle. Big Ange signed off the boycott rant. The other ginger will be plotting as to how to get rid of her as we speak.

What's wrong with pink or ginger hair? If they both had brown skin would you use that as a key descriptor?

brown skin

That's quite a term to use in terms of racial identity. I certainly wouldn't use such a contentious term as a white man.

I may have used it clumsily, in that I wasn't intentionally linking it to racial identity however I understand how this may be easily projected.

You are comfortable using descriptions like:

pink haired moron
&
The other ginger

Neither of these carry the weight of history around racial prejudice that the use of skin colour has and does, but both of which are entirely separate personal characteristics to the political matters you're attempting to make comment on.

Would you fat shame politicians too?

Keir, you might be a sharply dressed man but standing there with a begging bowl is not a good look.
I would have thought that the British economy and society generally would benefit from more regulatory oversight. This would indicate an incipient break from the past 45 years. I dare to dream!

Cutting red tape worked really well globally until around 2008

Would you fat shame politicians too?

Oh yeah, they do that too. IGNORE

lads, he described two people by their hair colour c'mon.

bringing race into it is full on Mick Hucknall levels of nonsense

fwiw, am ginger, bullied relentlessly for 10+ years at school for it; this is fine. Have more of a problem with the word moron tbh, given it's ableist history but 🤷

Wes Streeting - clearly bored with hearing the same old 'we'll cut red tape to drive investment' shite from Starmer - coming in from left field with the exciting policy idea of giving weight loss drugs to dole scum in order to get their fat arses back to work. Absolute fucking genius.

"what if we inject them..." Last heard coming from Trump's pursed lips.

I knew Wes was dim, but I didn't realise he was that dim.

What about:

• a living wage that enables people to buy nutritious food
  
• working hours that leave time for people to exercise and prepare healthy food
  
• restrictions on the production, marketing and sale of ultra processed foods
  
  

I guess that doesn't work for the donors though.

I can only imagine he came up with that idea while watching reruns of Little Britain whilst on crystal meth

We hear a lot about the intolerable burden of regulation on employers/entrepreneurs/wealth creators.
We should hear more about the intolerable burden placed upon the toiling classes of subsidising capitalism.

i think a lot of people read wesleys earlier work on trans healthcare as a single issue based on sterile evidence, but trans people were consistent in saying this is actually an attack on informed consent healthcare. here we see what that looks like when applied more broardly. this paternalistic approach has generally poor outcomes for all involved, especially marginalised people.

as an aside labours support of the ongoing genocide is disgusting, both thornberry and lammy have had explicitly disgusting comments in recent days. starmer himself is beyond reporoach. no different from thatcher and the tory parties comments on the south african aparthied.

I can only conclude you haven't realised this person is an actual Tory?

don't see what relevance that has to anything I posted?

bullied relentlessly for 10+ years at school for it; this is fine.

This was not fine. Saying it was fine helps perpetuate it. Others who experience it may not come through it in as good a place.

bringing race into it

Skin colour =/= race.