Can we have “Old” Labour back please, we knew where we were then 
Minority rule
The idea of a minority ruling over the majority goes against our most basic ideas about democracy. But with First Past the Post, it’s the norm. For about 90% of the time since 1935 we’ve had single-party ‘majority’ governments, but not one of them had the support of a majority of voters.
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Come on, lets give old Labour a chance 
Just sounds like Gordon Brown.
This just one criminal example of why reform is needed. Do not understand why people are still voting for corruption.
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-polisci-052715-111917
#$@!%?
IMO, this post is in the wrong thread - surely it belongs here:
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I suspect that they will need to match the greatest election ad ever made:
That singer has a voice like a nail on a blackboard .
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That’s Alison McCallum, she never really made it as a star, I think she ended up as a session singer backing people like Billy Thorpe, but there is no doubt that the ad gave Gough Whitlam and Labor a big boost and there is also no doubt that he became one of Australia’s most influential PMs.
British politics desperately needs a Gough Whitlam, Paul Keating or a Bob Hawke, in fact anybody with a bit of nous, rather than the public school/Oxbridge no hopers that keep getting elected
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The whole bunch of them are rubbish.
And labour is no better is full of people who support weird woke issues in strange partnership with anti semites from the Islamic community who are the complete opposite .The traditional party of the workers is no more.
No one knows who to vote for we do need a leader.
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Labour are in a difficult position.They have to appeal to their traditional support but also try to convince the big end of town, who always vote Tory,that they are no threat to them.Which they never have been in the past…
You’ve obviously been reading the right wing press muddy
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I am by nature a socialist and it pains me to see the Labour Party as it is .
I read a lot of press including the Guardian on a daily basis .
What I read there makes my heart sink .
She set both of my hearing aids off on overload 
Hi
I know some posters will think this is off topic.
In my view Labour have some big problems to deal with.
The political system is broken after all the lies and broken promises, many voters do not trust any politician.
The cost of servicing the debt debt has shot up due, to a large extent because of the disaster that was Liz Truss.
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Sir Keir Starmer will pledge to “build a new Britain” with extra powers for housing and local mayors if Labour wins the next election.
Speaking at the party’s annual conference on Tuesday, the Labour leader will promise to accelerate building on unused urban land (1).
He will also say Labour would build the “next generation of New Towns” near English cities.
And he will say extra police will guarantee patrols in town centres.
Suggesting Labour is aiming for two terms in power, he will say a Labour victory would herald a “decade of national renewal” after 13 years of Conservative-led government.
“What is broken can be repaired, what is ruined can be rebuilt,” he will tell delegates.
Sir Keir’s speech in Liverpool could be his last before a general election, expected next year, and could be his final opportunity to make a speech to a conference audience setting out his pitch to be prime minister to the country.
In talking of a decade of renewal, he will seek to show his confidence and to evoke memories of post-Second World War PM Clement Attlee by emphasising the theme of rebuilding.
(1) As long as he keeps it urban … 
Maybe, but not by him and the liebore party. Or the Conservatives, both entrenched against change.
Liz Truss appointed Hunt Chancellor of the Exchequer. Totally the wrong man for any government post.
Imagine the scenario if Corbyn had been PM, with what happened at the week-end.
No difference between them, no ideas about governance, no mandate for real
democracy, only arrogant complacency that one or the other party will be voted back into power.