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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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What % GDP increase would arise from "removing friction"?
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5%. Everything is a trade-off but the public are told by politicians and populist media that you can have your cake and eat it.
Not sure what other options we have. We can't be a low tax Singapore on Thames as we have a generous health and welfare state and we're not large enough to be as protectionist as China or India.
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13-02-2026, 19:38
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
a 5% increase you say Andrew 
I wonder which 'exceedingly accurate' economic expert you've been chasing on twitter?
actually no, I don't want to know which of your heroes guessed at 5% 
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13-02-2026, 21:18
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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a 5% increase you say Andrew
I wonder which 'exceedingly accurate' economic expert you've been chasing on twitter?
actually no, I don't want to know which of your heroes guessed at 5% |
Who wants economic growth, that went out of fashion years ago! 
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14-02-2026, 17:25
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
Starmer's speech to the Munich Security Conference was well received by the Europeans. You can see what he's up to - using the Russian threat as a paramount reason for greater alignment with the EU. He was that specific.
Zelensky's speech was brilliant. He said "Ukraine has the best army in Europe. Don't let Russia tell you who can have NATO membership; make it your decision".
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
Reform humiliates Keir Starmer as Labour U-turns on plans to delay 30 local elections
The Government has announced it will abandon efforts to delay local elections for millions of Britons this year.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...starmer-labour
Nigel Farage has secured a stunning legal victory against the Labour government, as he forced Keir Starmer into a humiliating u-turn over plans to delay local elections for millions of Britons. Ministers announced that Local Government Secretary Steve Reed had decided to withdraw his decision to postpone 30 council elections this May, "in the light of recent legal advice".
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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Reform humiliates Keir Starmer as Labour U-turns on plans to delay 30 local elections
The Government has announced it will abandon efforts to delay local elections for millions of Britons this year.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/polit...starmer-labour
Nigel Farage has secured a stunning legal victory against the Labour government, as he forced Keir Starmer into a humiliating u-turn over plans to delay local elections for millions of Britons. Ministers announced that Local Government Secretary Steve Reed had decided to withdraw his decision to postpone 30 council elections this May, "in the light of recent legal advice".
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He better start looking at removal companies now then. He's toast.
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Yesterday, 18:32
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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He better start looking at removal companies now then. He's toast.
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Burnt toast 
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
Anyone still keeping count of the U turns
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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Anyone still keeping count of the U turns |
I'm pretty good at maths but not that good
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
The U turn list is getting longer Mr Starmer
Here is a list of the 15 U-turns since 4 July 2024:
July 2024 - Change to fiscal rules Labour campaigned on;
September 2024 - Decided not to compensate Waspi women, despite campaigning in opposition;
October 2024 - Raised employers' national insurance despite election pledge;
April 2025 - Change in position on legal definition of a woman after Supreme Court ruling;
June 2025 - U-turn on the cut to the winter fuel allowance;
June 2025 - U-turn on planned cuts to disability benefits after backbench rebellion;
June 2025 - Announced national inquiry into grooming gangs after saying one wasn't needed;
November 2025 - Increased income tax, despite election pledge not to;
November 2025 - Scrapped the two-child benefit cap, having previously said there was not enough money to;
November 2025 - Changed qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal to six months, despite manifesto pledge of it being from day one;
December 2025 - U-turned on most of the changes to inheritance tax for farmers;
January 2026 - Announced business rates relief for pubs after budget changes led to huge tax increases;
January 2026 - U-turn on plans to make digital ID mandatory;
February 2026 - Labour backbenchers forced the government to hand sensitive Mandelson documents to a parliamentary committee;
February 2026 - U-turn on plans to delay 30 local elections set for May.
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
15 in 19 months, thats something like one every 5 weeks.
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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15 in 19 months, thats something like one every 5 weeks. |
At this rate he will be the U turn King of all time 
He is just like a lighthouse in the desert very bright but completely useless
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Yesterday, 21:32
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
I think Starmer would prefer people to focus on his latest u-turn rather than on this.
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Starmer orders investigation into claim Labour think tank paid for report on journalists
The Cabinet Office will investigate claims that think tank Labour Together hired a PR firm to investigate journalists, the prime minister announced this morning.
Speaking at an event in south-west London, Keir Starmer said there "will be a Cabinet Office investigation into the allegations" that Labour Together paid APCO Worldwide at least £30,000 in 2023 for a report detailing the background and beliefs of journalists working at the Sunday Times, after they ran several stories examining the thinktank's failure to declare where they got their funding from.
Starmer said he had no previous knowledge of Labour Together's report.
The prime minister has faced especially intense pressure due to the close links between Labour Together and the current Labour leadership. The think tank backed Starmer's bid to be Labour leader in 2020 and worked with several now Cabinet ministers when they were outside government.
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https://www.itv.com/news/2026-02-16/...on-journalists
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Anyone still keeping count of the U turns |
I've run out of fingers and toes!
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Yet more bad news for our glorious leader this morning. 
https://news.sky.com/story/unemploym...years-13508415
It's down to his policy's so it's his problem.
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Re: Starmer’s chronicles
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What did those fools expect with their attacks on employment? They sacrificed the economy on the idiotic promise of not raising consumer taxes.
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