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https://twitter.com/REWearmouth/status/1563101992767356930

Truss may be good for getting Labour in at the next election. Tories inability for vote for brown people could come back to bite them.

I think there's now an inevitability about a Labour win, partly because it's been 12 years and partly because of heating bills and the penny dropping about Brexit lies. Her noises about tax cuts and pressing the nuclear button aren't fooling anyone. The mood will be 'let sensible Starmer have a go, he's not a reckless loon like Corbyn, he won't fuck things up any worse than they already are'.

You'd think so but the Cons will get a new leader and pretend everything will get better, don't judge them by the old party etc then the morons will vote for them again.

But they can't find anyone who is (a) palatable to the members and (b) more electable than Starmer

Yes they can, literally anyone because if it's Starmer or someone else the media will just attack them constently in the run up to the next election. Corbyn had the whole of Glastonbury chanting his name, he had hugely influencial celebrities backing him but he still lost because of the right wing media attack.

Corbyn had the whole of Glastonbury chanting his name, he had hugely influencial celebrities backing him but he still lost because of the right wing media attack.

But, to retread very old and pointless ground, the problem with that was that the people who go to Glastonbury and who are influenced by the celebrities he had supporting him were never the ones that the party needed to win in order to beat FPTP in swing constituencies. They were going to vote Labour anyway.

One of Starmer's main strengths is that he's palatable enough to Tory types in those constituencies.

And a lot of those were actually chanting "Anyone got more ketamin?".

You could be right. I'm of the opinion that Corbyn had such an upswell of support from the under 25s that I wouldn't have been surprised if a lot constituencies got a shock when the 2 Labour voting students matched their Tory voting parents. Remember the vast majority of students don't vote but those that do, do it in their home constituency not at the university.

That was just Ed Balls

You'd think so but the Cons will get a new leader and pretend everything will get better, don't judge them by the old party etc then the morons will vote for them again.

This, the dream of the sunlit uplands that will never arrive will face off against Starmer the dream stealer with his truth and reality. People will vote for dreams and blatant false promises because once its been voted for it must happen, facts are just things negative people use to avoid getting the job done.

There's no comparison with Corbyn's GE performance. None at all. Everything is different. Using him as a baseline is laughable.

What? I'm using him as a baseline for how the right wing media attacks Labour on command of the Tories. See also: the bacon sandwich.

Back in local news a low life has been arrested and priti throws 500k at the problem She said the funds would "disrupt" organised crime in the region. 🤔

Seems like a tiny drop in the ocean compared to what the Torys pulled from youth initiatives, policing and local investment...

Insulting tbh.

hmmm

Heatwave in China is the most severe ever recorded in the world
A long spell of extreme hot and dry weather is affecting energy, water supplies and food production across China

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2334921-heatwave-in-china-is-the-most-severe-ever-recorded-in-the-world/

Maybe the Chinese state will engage seriously with measures to control/limit/undo climate change now? They might even force world change by being leaders in the field.

I thought Sunak and Truss said they wouldn't reveal their coat of living crisis policy until after the leadership election. How is that calculated?

Truss has said she'll reverse the NI increase and freeze the green levies, Sunak said he'd provide more relief using warm home discount and scrap VAT on energy

they wouldn't reveal their coat of living crisis policy

It's just 'wear your big coat indoors', innit?

And stop burning coal

https://twitter.com/IrnBrutime/status/1563490376220291074

Every week, the people who trade electricity in the UK get to quiz the managers of the national grid for an hour. The conference call, which anyone can monitor, offers an insight into what the men and women on the front line of the power market are worried about. Listening to them is getting scarier by the week — and suggests keeping the lights on this winter will be a lot more challenging than European governments are admitting.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-26/european-energy-crisis-listening-to-electricity-traders-is-very-very-scary

Avoid paywall edit: worth a read