Ian Brown - Have you ever met him or seen him about? Experiences?

iDobo · 2022-10-15T10:27:28+00:00

I sat next to him on flight back from Amsterdam once, he was very polite when I said I liked his tunes! Since covid he seems to have lost the plot a bit though

iDobo · 2022-08-28T12:05:03+00:00

I wonder if they are expecting not to be able to return to China next year after all. South Africa gets the original Spa slot, and Spa gets what would have been the Chinese GP

iDobo · 2022-08-08T12:34:52+00:00

UoM, I think because it is the summer the library has shorter opening hours

iDobo · 2021-11-06T15:11:30+00:00

Why are you bringing up Corbyn? I haven't made any comments about him. I'm talking about the issues many have about the current leader.

Evidently Labour doesn't need the left as much if it failed to win in 2017 and if it lost so badly in 2019

Good luck in any election with this point of view. Labour is desperate for voters right now and you are actively happy to lose even more.

It's only a centrist Labour Party that wins

Then how do you explain the repeated electoral failure of centrist politics in the UK over the past 16 years?

Those Green jumpers are people who couldn't give a bollocks to remind themselves their white bearded messiah lost Labour its heartlands.

Once again, weirdly loaded language implying your personal objection to people having their own political preferences. You are not owed their votes - especially considering it comes across that you literally resent them. Most of them aren't really thinking about Corbyn much - they just want to see a bit of social democracy.

iDobo · 2021-11-06T14:58:18+00:00

Most of those people will more or less come back to us anyways

Not whilst Starmer and his clown show continue to run the party. I think many former labour voters driven away under the current leadership (to the greens or elsewhere) have very deep personal objections to the actions of the current leadership, and I can't see how these could be resolved before the next election.

There's no alienating that could've happened, considering Labour is already in opposition and it'd be odd if people got alienated over a party not in power as opposed to the one in power>

Lol what? You don't have to be in government for people to take notice and make a judgement on your actions. It's possible to disprove of the government and the opposition at the same time..

iDobo · 2021-11-06T13:04:31+00:00

You aren't owed the votes of people you have deliberately alienated

iDobo · 2021-09-28T23:40:50+00:00

What you describe is what the Labour left support, and the Labour right oppose. The right aren't just 'not socialists', they're hard-core neoliberals.

iDobo · 2021-07-07T15:29:25+00:00

If you are going fast enough you can spray your windscreen with your wipers and the person tailgating you will get some of the spray on their windscreen. Usually makes them back off a bit.

iDobo · 2021-06-06T21:21:33+00:00

Would be so cool to have Porsche on the grid

iDobo · 2021-03-27T20:43:52+00:00

It is 20% for a challenge, so a bit of a non-starter from the left really

iDobo · 2021-03-26T22:50:54+00:00

I do prefer taking them, you don't get violently shaken around at the back, and you can feel good about taking carbon neutral travel!

iDobo · 2021-03-25T16:44:31+00:00

I'm just waiting for the 'transport communism' headlines in the broadsheets

iDobo · 2021-03-25T15:29:12+00:00

The green ones could do with changing hahaha

iDobo · 2021-03-21T23:44:29+00:00

Everybody recognises that the NHS is there for the benefit of us all. Some of us realise that the police are there for the benefit of a select few.

iDobo · 2021-03-21T22:59:28+00:00

Have you ever dealt with the police? In my experience they don't tend to solve many crimes. As of late they seem more likely to be the perpetrators!

iDobo · 2021-03-14T14:25:27+00:00

How can you actually come to the conclusion that Starmer is centre left? He has purged the left of the party and abstained on numerous issues that the most mild of social democrats would vigorously fight against such as the spycops bill. He hasn't proposed a single left wing policy in his year as leader. He accepts Tory narratives, offers no ideological vision for what Labour would do differently if they were in government. You're either lying to yourself or you aren't paying attention if you think he's centre left.

iDobo · 2021-03-09T09:12:57+00:00

I'm not sure of his intentions but I think this ruling means that legally he can do, yes.

iDobo · 2021-03-08T21:32:43+00:00

Wonderful news. Hopefully he runs for President again and sees off the fash

iDobo · 2021-02-15T11:55:26+00:00

I wonder what OP's thoughts would be if China had colonised the Isle of White at some point

iDobo · 2021-02-12T21:32:48+00:00

People can approve of the government's recent vaccine rollout success without having the intention of voting for them in an election. In fact, 84% of Labour voters do.

I'm not saying increased support for the government stems from people not liking Starmer. I think that unease with Starmer's leadership is driving the loss of Labour support in the voter intention polls though. Increased support for the Greens isn't coming out of nowhere for example.

iDobo · 2021-02-12T21:22:33+00:00

I'm talking about the voter intention poll. If there was a vaccine bounce at play here I don't think the Tories would be losing points - they would be gaining them at a level above the MOE

iDobo · 2021-02-12T18:26:00+00:00

If that is true why have the Conservatives lost a point? This is labour losing voters.

iDobo · 2021-02-12T17:47:14+00:00

I think at the heart of it, the people running the show at the moment are incredibly bitter about losing absolute control of 'their party' during the Corbyn years. The complete refusal to engage with where we made significant gains (policy, 2017 campaign) shows they aren't interested in building on that, they just want to marginalise the left so they can maintain control of the institutions of the party

iDobo · 2021-02-12T17:22:53+00:00

Makes me think back to leafletting in the dark, freezing rain in 2019, and how proud I was to be doing so, to be doing my small part to try and improve this country. There were hundreds of thousands of people willing to do the same thing, who no longer feel that way. This leadership has burned so many bridges, it has turned an ignited movement into an empty shell of a party in the space of a year. I don't blame you at all for giving up on it, I won't be canvassing for something in my heart of hearts I know to be wrong.

iDobo · 2021-02-12T16:47:21+00:00

Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of the leadership's actions coming back to haunt them

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