Yeah, but it gave us a killer computer game in the 90s
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âOh no!â
BOOM
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Wow, of all the hoops youâve jumped through to defend him this one must be the most painful
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Yep. I hate the Sun, and everything it stands for. I donât like the Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Express or the Times either. And even the Guardisn gets on my tits sometimes.
But a Labour Leader trying to be Prime administer simply canât decide to boycott a major newspaper. It would electoral suicide.
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There is, by the way, a total lack of any understanding of what a Labour Leader has to do and say to be Prime Minister. The realism of appealing to a wider base than the left.
I was chatting to a mate the other day who says he was really disappointed that Starmer said heâd use Trident. And I said what the fuck is he supposed to say? No I wouldnât?
Every Labour Leader gets asked this, and if any of them say they wouldnât, they get absolutely fucking slaughtered by the media.
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Perhaps Rupert Murdoch has another grandchild that another Labour leader could be a godfather too?
Blair isnât standing at this election. Starmer is. And as far as I know he isnât up for being a God Father to any of Murdochâs children.
How about maybe we donât put the boot into Starmer for something he hasnât even done?
Starmer is atheist anyway, so Iâm not sure how that would work.
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Starmer has to be pragmatic and do things he might not like, to try to appeal to as many as possible. His number one job is to win the election, by as wide a margin as possible, so then he can set about forming and leading government.
All the bitching, trying to trip him up, sounds to me from afar that people want Michael Foot to swoop back in!
Weâve known for a generation or more that Labour is unelectable if it veers too far to the left. It is what it is.
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Oh! yes please.
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What it is, is the deliberate dragging of the entire political landscape to the right over the last 45 years by our neoliberal overlords.
This needs to be reversed but, people being fuckwits, it wonât be.
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Homeless veterans, selfish entitled cunts.
Park benches are more comfortable than trenches
So basically are you suggesting that Starmer is just lying so he doesnât get a rough ride from the press?
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Starmer has to speak to the S*n or the tax exile tabloid owners wonât support him.
He has to move right on immigration because he thinks voters have.
A former human rights lawyer that condones human rights abuses in Gaza.
Integrity? Core beliefs?
And weâre supposed to have some hope that heâll change when he gets into power? Bullshit. Heâll do whatever the billionaires and mega-corps tell him to do
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This is another thing that I would love to see changedâŚthe blatant party propaganda of the press (yes I know itâs always been apparent at least in my lifetime)âŚbut fuck me itâs disgusting that we lecture the world on morality etc and yet the we allow this sort of shit in a free press .
And labour have their own news propaganda papers (most notably the mirror /guardian)
Wouldnât it be great to have an independent and neutral press that actually reported in truths and not serving party propaganda and scaremongering/âopinionâ pieces served as facts.
The whole thing needs resetting and it wonâtâŚand tbh it doesnât inspire confidence for the future
The Guardian were one of the worst outlets for attacking Corbyn and exaggerating/manufacturing the antisemitism claims
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I wish someone would actually explain what it involves. I.e. there is no little red button that they sit over, cackling like a demented maniac.
Iâd suggest that saying" Trident remains an element of the overall defence strategy, integrated alongside our NATO allies," would be a sensible answer.
Military willy waving is just beyond childishness.
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Wouldnât that be because Corbyn was not an âestablishmentâ man like Davos boy ?
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Well, he is a politician, and lying is what politicians do, so no big surprise there
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Heâll be no different from all the others.
Tell whatever lies are required to dupe people into voting for him, then spend the time in power rolling out more lies as to why his promises were broken
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The trouble is that, in order to get elected, they have to try to be all things to all men.
They should realise that this is impossible and just be honest. Fat chance.
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