UK Politics Thread

[STEED]

I care not about the opposition, where are these testing kits? Why is it Thailand doing a better job than here? Well Boris???

Watch today's update from Dr. John Campbell on Youtube.

[Jimbuna]

The UK government has defended using Zoom to hold cabinet video conferences.

Questions had been raised about potential security risks after the prime minister tweeted a picture in which a meeting ID was visible.

"In the current unprecedented circumstances, the need for effective channels of communication is vital," a government spokeswoman told BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52126534

[Jimbuna]

Sir Keir Starmer elected new Labour leader

Sir Keir Starmer won the contest in the first round. Here are the full results:

Sir Keir Starmer – 275,780 (56.2%)

Rebecca Long-Bailey – 135,218 (27.6%)

Lisa Nandy – 79,597 (16.2%)

[Jimbuna]

[STEED]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Sir Keir Starmer elected new Labour leader

Sir Keir Starmer won the contest in the first round. Here are the full results:

Sir Keir Starmer – 275,780 (56.2%)

Rebecca Long-Bailey – 135,218 (27.6%)

Lisa Nandy – 79,597 (16.2%)

Bet he's feeling the pressure not able to get his hair done at his hair salon.

Well all I can say glad RLB lost.

[Jimbuna]

Angela Rayner won the deputy leadership race but only in the third round.

Round 3
Rosena Allin-Khan 113,858 (26.1%)

Richard Burgon 92643 (21.3%)

Angela Rayner 228944 (52.6%)[ELECTED]

[mapuc]

A question to my English friends.

Does this new Leader of the Labour parti have what it takes to take the parti back to what it was once ?

Markus

[Moonlight]

No.

[Catfish]

Does any leader of the world deserve to be a leader, or got what it takes?
Guess not.

[Jimbuna]

Markus, the loony left ruined the party years ago and Corbyn was only the last straw.

I'm afraid we are stuck with the Tories for at least ten years but that imho is better than the current alternative on offer.

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Markus, the loony left ruined the party years ago and Corbyn was only the last straw.

I'm afraid we are stuck with the Tories for at least ten years but that imho is better than the current alternative on offer.

As the Labour is now out of the game, is there anyone else who could challenge Tories? What about LibDems? Do they have any chances ?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by kraznyi_oktjabr

As the Labour is now out of the game, is there anyone else who could challenge Tories? What about LibDems? Do they have any chances ?

I very much doubt it, our political situation is pretty much a two horse race.

[Jimbuna]

Key workers have been "overlooked and underpaid" and there will have to be a "reckoning" after the coronavirus crisis, the new Labour leader has said.

Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "They were last and now they've got to be first."

He said another decade of austerity would be a mistake, saying it was "inevitable" that the wealthy would have to pay more.

The 57-year-old won the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52169648

First day in the job and despite stating the obvious it is the right message.

[mapuc]

Thank you for your reply to my question.

You know a lot more about English politicians and their politicians than I ever will know and I know that you know a little more than our journalist/reporters/expert do when they appear in our news.

I have seen in both Sweden and Denmark, parties which was almost down to zero in support and then after a new leader had taken over the party, the party had 10 years later gain 15-25 % grow in support.

One of them-almost unknown when he toke over in Denmark.

He became Prime minister during the 80's(after 82-83) He was Denmark's correspondence to USA's Ronald Reagan.

Markus

[STEED]

Keir (hair salon) Starmer's comment about another decade of austerity I find hard to believe. This situation is like nothing else we have faced since the 1918 pandemic and the world has changed a lot since then. I don't think anyone truly knows the economic outcome here and the rest of the world.

I would hint at this, the government has written off the NHS debt. I would say one possible situation start from scratch write off the world's debt. It's going to be a long bumpy road until the first thing is found the cure to the virus.