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Originally Posted by Chris
1. Yes, I’m concerned for the apparent Parkinsonian symptoms Diane Abbot is exhibiting. I have no doubt she is also aware, and is likely taking medical advice. However, if she is happy to continue to pursue a political career while those symptoms are not debilitating, that’s up to her. Her hard left politics concern me, but TBH she is on the lunatic fringe of the Labour Party, whereas hard right politics is very much mainstream in the current Tory party and that is of far greater concern to me.
2. Angela Rayner has been investigated by the police and other authorities and is facing no further action. Not sure what your problem is?
3. The Senedd is a glorified county council and attracts politicians of that calibre. Its Labour membership, in particular, pretty much opted out of the New Labour project of the late 90s and early 2000s and as a result are prone to making lumbering, centralising, unreconstructed lefty errors with now very obvious consequences for the likes of the NHS in Wales. However, until voters in Wales lose their widespread compulsion to vote for anything in a red rosette regardless of their competence, they will continue to get the government they deserve.
4. Starmer is, I think, capable of quick thinking, but his instincts are to stop and chew things over rather than respond quickly. Watch back the infamous £2,000 claim in the ITV debate and you can visibly see Starmer thinking to himself, “Hang on, that’s not right, it’s so obviously not right there must be some reason I’ve not spotted for him to be even saying that … there could be a trap here, let me think it through.” As the debate unfolded over the subsequent 24 hours of course it became clear it was just a brazen lie designed to be so epic in scale that we all stop and assume it can’t be a lie, there must be some truth to it. If that’s how the Tories are going to conduct the next 4 weeks of campaigning, then Starmer is going to have to start trusting that he knows what he’s offering the electorate and act quickly to counteract misinformation about it.
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1. I empathise with Diane of course. But she is not her old self, and if Labour do win, a possibly progressive illness is not a useful asset.
2. The Greater Manchester Police said that “matters involving council tax and personal tax do not fall into the jurisdiction of policing" which implies a limited "investigation" on their part which is just as well for Angela given that the same police force sent innocent Andy Malkinson to the slammer for 17 years.
3. Agreed. If a cry baby FM, a knackered health service and a 20mph speed limit don't do it, nothing will.
4. Yep, he's quick alright. He pretended to be gormless and he fooled me.