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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly
who knows if the Sun report is true.? Doesn't matter if it's true or not, the public have seen it now. Still surprised people remember who Starmer is,..or his policies,...or that he leads a party called Labour. Nothing to see hear plenty of politicians and celebs blag freebie tickets for major sporting events. I don't like it but there will be probably be more Tories doing it than Labour simply because they are the government. The biggest blaggers of all are UEFA and their corporate chums. I expect there will be a few EU mandarins in there as well. A friend went into the original ballot and got tickets either for the final or the semi final. This was back in 2019 when they relaunched the competition he was told sorry due to social distancing you've lost your tickets which were near the Royal box. He knows roughly where he would have sat and every England game it's been packed with celebs and probably corporate blaggers. So he got bumped for the great and the good.
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Originally posted by Badger11
Nothing to see hear plenty of politicians and celebs blag freebie tickets for major sporting events. I don't like it but there will be probably be more Tories doing it than Labour simply because they are the government. The biggest blaggers of all are UEFA and their corporate chums. I expect there will be a few EU mandarins in there as well. A friend went into the original ballot and got tickets either for the final or the semi final. This was back in 2019 when they relaunched the competition he was told sorry due to social distancing you've lost your tickets which were near the Royal box. He knows roughly where he would have sat and every England game it's been packed with celebs and probably corporate blaggers. So he got bumped for the great and the good.
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Originally posted by croydon proud
Politics and sport have never been comfortable bed fellows, yet always seem to be hand in hand.
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Originally posted by Badger11
Nothing to see hear plenty of politicians and celebs blag freebie tickets for major sporting events. I don't like it but there will be probably be more Tories doing it than Labour simply because they are the government. The biggest blaggers of all are UEFA and their corporate chums. I expect there will be a few EU mandarins in there as well. A friend went into the original ballot and got tickets either for the final or the semi final. This was back in 2019 when they relaunched the competition he was told sorry due to social distancing you've lost your tickets which were near the Royal box. He knows roughly where he would have sat and every England game it's been packed with celebs and probably corporate blaggers. So he got bumped for the great and the good. I wasn't being specific enough about the point I was really getting at.
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Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly
I wasn't being specific enough about the point I was really getting at. Dead man walking. Literally nobody cares what he does. He should have an affair or something to raise his profile.
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Originally posted by Jacey
After recent by election,claimed Liebour were back,having narrowly scraped home by a few hundred votes.A huge liebour majority wiped out,given that vote took place days after wa#ker Hancock's indiscretions. George Galloway is challenging the result in court I believe.
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
Dead man walking. Literally nobody cares what he does. He should have an affair or something to raise his profile. While Corbyn never held back and was essentially always in activist mode (which was itself a problem) I feel like Starmer goes too far in the other direction for the most part, and too circumspect and a pretty much a political non entity. He may well be a decent guy, but that doesn't really cut it in modern politics. That said I'm not entirely sure who they could replace him. Andy Burnham perhaps at least does appear to have wider appeal.
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Originally posted by BlueJay
While Corbyn never held back and was essentially always in activist mode (which was itself a problem) I feel like Starmer goes too far in the other direction for the most part, and too circumspect and a pretty much a political non entity. He may well be a decent guy, but that doesn't really cut it in modern politics. That said I'm not entirely sure who they could replace him. Andy Burnham perhaps at least does appear to have wider appeal.
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Originally posted by croydon proud
I like Jonathon Ashworth, might have a small wager on him, always comes across as a decent chap. Ernie Bevin would do a better job even though he has been dead for 70 years.
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I don't doubt that Starmer is a cerebral chap but my word he as 'Wooden' as one of Bjorn Borg's old tennis rackets.
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Originally posted by georgenorman
Ernie Bevin would do a better job even though he has been dead for 70 years. If boris can do it, ANYONE can!
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Originally posted by croydon proud
If boris can do it, ANYONE can!
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Sir Keir is just playing a waiting game. Waiting for anything that resembles a policy.
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Originally posted by Jacey
After recent by election,claimed Liebour were back,having narrowly scraped home by a few hundred votes.A huge liebour majority wiped out,given that vote took place days after wa#ker Hancock's indiscretions. Liebour, ha ha, with the CONservative pm having been sacked twice for telling porkies, nice one!
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Originally posted by Matov
Starmer will be replaced by Rayner. She has the backing of the big Trade Unions, who hold the purse strings, and can appeal to the most Labour MP's. Burnham would be a better choice but he is not an MP and I suspect would not want to give up his current job unless an ULTRA safe Labour seat up north becomes available. But even then, I suspect he will bide his time until after the next general election which is, at least on paper, unwinnable for Labour as things stand at the moment. I think a path might open up for Burnham (one way or another) but as you say, is it the right time anyway? Rayner certainly has support in the right places (not as smutty as I intended that to sound!), but I'm not sure she'd ever stand much change of winning an election. Not as though that ever stopped them before!
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