Tefal Tapper
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Indeed, my old english teachers daughter is leader of the House, and she went to the Haç. #doublehouse
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I just want them to be competent. I’m fed up of idiots running the country. Less bothered about where people come from, especially as many of them have clearly become members of elites even if they weren’t born with a silver spoon ie they attended Oxbridge/Harvard etc. So the idea that it’s some sort of ‘working class government’ seems a little bit off. Anyway, let’s leave them to get on with it and judge them on results. And good luck to them all. We need them to deliver something effective and sensible.
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I wonder if he were in West Dorset if he would have voted for this guy. He managed nearly 300 votes
I just hope that people don’t get their hopes up too much. Modern cash-strapped and territory-restricted governments are limited in what they can realistically do. eg if you’re a freelancer on precarious contracts working for people you don’t know, and who you couldn’t even place on a map, the whole idea of employment protection or unions or pay rises seems pretty quaint. The global shift of data, employment, movement has changed everything in a way I still don’t see reflected in political debate. It’s the root of so much tension, stress and insecurity and is a major reason why politics has fragmented. I think left govts can certainly do a lot to improve society and public services but in the real economy, it feels like workers and entire town centres are now mere pawns on Amazon’s chessboard - so how do national governments approach that and all the other gig economy wheezes going on?
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I often trawl the international newspapers when something interesting happens, there was very little chatter about our little election, some European ones didn’t even mention it, I think we need to forget our misguided outlook we are a ‘global’ nation and just get on with getting the basics right, balance the books and decided where we are heading. Doubt that is going to happen but you know…
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Put Jeff Bezos in prison, nationalise Amazon, put Bob Mortimer in charge of the BBC and switch to a 4 day week
Everyones happy.
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The Information Age broke down national borders. We are only now seeing the full consequences come into play as you describe re employment.
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France telling the far right to fuck off 
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Very good news. However, I feel it may just be a temporary victory.
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I’ve been whiteying all week about this. What a relief.
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Hopefully its a shift. Don’t have to fight them with the same policies.
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So when the prime minister gets ousted in the UK, he just hops in a car and fucks off the same day? No three months of pardoning his mates, doing dodgy deals and attempting an insurrection? Seems almost adult.
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Ha! Nah they have 4 years to do all of that
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Any defeat for those fuckers is welcome. I’m just not that optimistic about this coalition’s prospects in power. I hope I’m wrong.
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So the most immediate benefit in my limited worldview was lifting the ban on windfarms but totally omitted by all BBC tv coverage I’ve seen thus far…
Not trying to be controversial but I can’t help feeling disgust at the amount of airtime the Kyiv children’s hospital has received but nothing in the UK mainstream media for weeks about Gaza.
F*cj the BBC.
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The news cycle is a curious thing.
that’s probably not only the BBC, here in Belgium it’s the same story
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If a serious news channel focuses on a particular conflict it isn’t usually because some editorial team has an ‘emotional’ bias towards a certain region. They will evaluate A. how big the news story is and B. prioritise it over everything else if it is particularly dramatic. In an ‘objective’ longer view, most people whether journalists, diplomats or public opinion would currently see Ukraine as the bigger strategic (if not emotional) story because so much more is at stake and the risk of global conflict is more real, whereas Israel/Middle East is ‘contained’ to a ‘local theatre’. IIRC there was more interest in Syria 10 years back when there was the real prospect of that escalating. Whether you want to call that cynicism or realism is up to you. But ultimately you’re not forced to watch the BBC. There are thousands of other channels to choose from if you want to watch 24hr Gaza.
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