I’ll hold my breath to see what the ‘transport’ pledges are. Should prioritise reinstating the rest of HS2!
PrestigiousGlove585 on
If in doubt, set fire to everything. The answer to the financial black hole, is raise taxes and spend more.
martzgregpaul on
Watch the Telegraph headline be “Starmer robs poor Tarquin and Felicity who attend prestigious public school to give cash to oiks-who are probably woke and/or migrants”
Disastrous_Fruit1525 on
Are these going to be like his ten pledges he made when he stood for Labour leader.
potpan0 on
Let’s see how this actually looks in practice. If it’s actual investment in state-owned infrastructure then this will be good. If it’s just another round of PFIs then it’ll just be loading up the future generations with more debt.
> “You’re going to get side winds all the time. If you’re not going to get knocked off course, you’ve got to know where we’re headed,” said Starmer.
> “The moment I allow myself to get too bogged down in the side winds is the point that other governments have gone wrong, in my view, because they’ve lost sight of what the real point of government is.”
To be fair Keir, people wouldn’t have focussed on the ‘side winds’ if you’d actually shown us what the ‘main wind’ was already. You can’t complain about people getting distracted when you chose to fuck off on holiday just after getting elected and insisted it would take 4 months to produce a budget.
> However, his plans for a flagship business summit next week were dealt a blow on Friday when the logistics giant DP World pulled out of the conference and withdrew a scheduled announcement of a £1bn investment in its London Gateway container port.
> The move came in response to an interview in which Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, criticised the company’s employment practices, calling the firm a rogue operator. In 2022 P&O Ferries, a subsidiary of DP World, provoked fury when it fired 800 crew without warning, replacing them with low-paid agency staff.
> In an apparent bid to get the summit back on track, a Downing Street source said the comments did not reflect the views of the government.
Louise Haigh is one of the few principled centre-left lot still in the leadership team, and has been one of the biggest proponents in both increasing investment in public transport and giving local authorities more control over it. I wonder if she’ll be gone soon?
CharringtonCross on
They haven’t got billions. They’ve got billions in black holes.
DrIvoPingasnik on
Where is that money going to come from?
Because I don’t believe he’ll tax the ultra rich and/or parasite megalandlords.
limaconnect77 on
Education-wise, it’s got to be incentivising educators remaining/returning. It’s all about pay – nobody (with a right mind and rent/bills to pay for) works their bollocks/lady bollocks off to get fucked by compensation not matching the existing commitments that are often not even included in his/her fkn contract.
This is why they’re going, in their masses, private/abroad/into other professions.
Schooling is fucked in this country because the salary is shit – no two ways about it. Starmer’s an attention-to-detail fella – surely he and his policy people can see that this is the case.
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I’ll hold my breath to see what the ‘transport’ pledges are. Should prioritise reinstating the rest of HS2!
If in doubt, set fire to everything. The answer to the financial black hole, is raise taxes and spend more.
Watch the Telegraph headline be “Starmer robs poor Tarquin and Felicity who attend prestigious public school to give cash to oiks-who are probably woke and/or migrants”
Are these going to be like his ten pledges he made when he stood for Labour leader.
Let’s see how this actually looks in practice. If it’s actual investment in state-owned infrastructure then this will be good. If it’s just another round of PFIs then it’ll just be loading up the future generations with more debt.
> “You’re going to get side winds all the time. If you’re not going to get knocked off course, you’ve got to know where we’re headed,” said Starmer.
> “The moment I allow myself to get too bogged down in the side winds is the point that other governments have gone wrong, in my view, because they’ve lost sight of what the real point of government is.”
To be fair Keir, people wouldn’t have focussed on the ‘side winds’ if you’d actually shown us what the ‘main wind’ was already. You can’t complain about people getting distracted when you chose to fuck off on holiday just after getting elected and insisted it would take 4 months to produce a budget.
> However, his plans for a flagship business summit next week were dealt a blow on Friday when the logistics giant DP World pulled out of the conference and withdrew a scheduled announcement of a £1bn investment in its London Gateway container port.
> The move came in response to an interview in which Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, criticised the company’s employment practices, calling the firm a rogue operator. In 2022 P&O Ferries, a subsidiary of DP World, provoked fury when it fired 800 crew without warning, replacing them with low-paid agency staff.
> In an apparent bid to get the summit back on track, a Downing Street source said the comments did not reflect the views of the government.
Louise Haigh is one of the few principled centre-left lot still in the leadership team, and has been one of the biggest proponents in both increasing investment in public transport and giving local authorities more control over it. I wonder if she’ll be gone soon?
They haven’t got billions. They’ve got billions in black holes.
Where is that money going to come from?
Because I don’t believe he’ll tax the ultra rich and/or parasite megalandlords.
Education-wise, it’s got to be incentivising educators remaining/returning. It’s all about pay – nobody (with a right mind and rent/bills to pay for) works their bollocks/lady bollocks off to get fucked by compensation not matching the existing commitments that are often not even included in his/her fkn contract.
This is why they’re going, in their masses, private/abroad/into other professions.
Schooling is fucked in this country because the salary is shit – no two ways about it. Starmer’s an attention-to-detail fella – surely he and his policy people can see that this is the case.