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It’s risky, but it could change everything: Labour is at last beginning to focus on the young
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/13/votes-to-16-year-olds-young-people-labour-uk-nigel-farage?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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@sjcooke66 @statsguy This thread seems to be at risk of becoming an I Hate #PollyToynbee More Than You show. Which would of course be a very welcome development 😈 😅 🤣
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@lionelb But as usual #PollyToynbee can't even be half-rIght on one simple point (that Starmer is crap at politics) without missing the point (that #Starmer was chosen by #McSweeney precisely because he is crap) and telling the whopper lie that Starmer is "a good and clever man". Starmer is a compulsive liar with a record which got increasingly ugly as his career progressed.
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"Here is the Starmer tragedy, a good and clever man not made for politics or leadership", writes #PollyToynbee in #TheGuardian.
https://archive.is/Xu2cL / https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/26/andy-burnham-labour-new-leader
This is a deranged denial of reality.
#Starmer is a serial liar who broke all his pledges made to win the #LabourParty leadership. He purged Jewish ppl as #antisemites, insisted that cutting water for Gaza was legal, & redefined anti-genocide protesters as "#terrorists".
He is the v opposite of a #goodMan
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CW: UKpol: even Polly Toynbee loses patience with Starmer
I like Polly Toynbee, even if I often disagree with her. She is consistent and has real, old-fashioned passion for a better society.
In the last year she kept pointing out the hidden good things in the disastrous Starmer/Reeves project. Sometimes she was at least partially right.
Her piece in today's Guardian is about the removal of the whip from a selection of the Labour MPs who voted against the horrible Welfare Bill. She's finally had enough of Starmer's cruelty and incompetence. Even Polly can't defend the man anymore. That means something.
Worth reading. Her contrasting Starmer with Blair is illuminating.
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#pollyToynbee very readable on the list of #tax #reforms which could have been implemented in the name of #fairness
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/farmers-protest-tax-labour-reform -
Rishi Sunak knows the end is nigh, but has no clue how to build a decent legacy. He should ask me
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/05/rishi-sunak-end-legacy-council-tax-social-care?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The Tories are running scared, but we should all fear what they may become
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/02/tories-right-centrists-conservative-party-conference?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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We have all felt powerless as poverty mounts in Tory Britain. Here is a practical way to hold back the tide
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/29/poverty-tory-britain-essential-bills-social-tariff-covid-universal-credit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The Tories have warped an already crooked electoral system, pushing millions of voters off the roll
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/26/tories-electoral-system-millions-of-voters?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Sunak’s anti-green stance exposes his reckless dishonesty. His fate is what matters, the planet can go hang
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/21/sunak-net-zero-reckless-dishonest?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The Lucy Letby case is the latest stick to beat NHS management with. Here’s what the critics overlook
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/05/lucy-letby-nhs-management-critics-hospital-austerity?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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When is a vandal not a vandal? When they’re attacking Ulez cameras, say desperate Tory MPs
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/31/vandal-ulez-camera-tory-mps-protest-criminal-damage-police?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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A letter has laid bare the scale of poverty in Britain – but will Rishi Sunak be moved?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/24/benefits-poverty-cost-of-living?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Poverty
#Austerity
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Labour is parading its true leftwing credentials in the byelection fight against the SNP
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/22/labour-leftwing-credentials-byelection-snp-rutherglen-hamilton-west-keir-starmer?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#Labour
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Faced with evil like Lucy Letby’s, we yearn for a rational explanation. Sometimes there is none
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/18/lucy-letby-rational-explanation-inquiry?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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After Brexit, desperate Tories needed a new crusade. They think dumping ‘human rights’ could be it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/10/european-convention-on-human-rights-brexit-tories-conservatives-election?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Here’s what we know about Sunak now: where the anti-green extremists lead, he will follow
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/08/rishi-sunak-anti-green-extremists?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Business is haunted by Brexit – and this safety mark fiasco is its latest nightmare
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/business-brexit-safety-mark-red-tape-?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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We can see what happens when political posturing replaces public health: people die prematurely
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/01/when-political-posturing-replaces-public-health-people-die-prematurely-westminster?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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The Tories have laid a ‘cut the green crap’ trap for Keir Starmer. He must not fall for it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/tories-cut-green-trap-keir-starmer-policies-bills-labour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Listen up, critics: first let Labour win power. Then scrutinise its real record
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/17/labour-critics-record-keir-starmer-election-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Sunak could have made peace with public servants a year ago – he just didn’t want to | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/13/rishi-sunak-public-servants-tories-britain-politics
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Keir Starmer has finally used the C-word: acknowledging the barriers of class that still divide us
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/06/keir-starmer-breaking-down-class-barriers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Tories, hear this: the public still believes in the NHS on its 75th birthday – and we know you don’t
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/04/tories-nhs-75th-birthday-underfunding-britain?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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#MeToo has got men quaking in the corridors of power. That’s something to celebrate
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/29/metoo-men-power-abusers-schoolchildren-culture-sexual-aggression?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Look at the effects of the Tories’ corrupt voter ID rules – and then tell me Britain is still a democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/27/tories-voter-id-rules-britain-labour?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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