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So the functional detail of how sewage is being discharged into rivers is more important than the fact that water companies are illegally polluting our waterways? Bizarre. As is your attempt to deflect this onto Trans issues.
That bastion of left wing politics, the Evening Standard, yesterday reported sewage was discharged into London’s waterways for more than 12,000 hours over the last year. The mechanics of how that happened aren't too important. That it happened and continues to happen all over the country absolutely is. And, while this happens, multi million pound dividends are paid out to water company shareholders rather than invested in creating safe and clean water services.
Privatisation not immigration is to blame. Our water services must be brought back into public ownership.
What worries me about pensions in the future is that statutory pension contributions are not put into a pension fund as such but simply spent by the present Government. This puts the ability of future Governments to pay pensions at risk because of potentially decreasing tax receipts.
And the UK state pensions are not particularly high in comparison to other European countries. Nations like Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus and others all pay out substantially higher amounts.
I think Real Politik is turning a lot of people off. They're tired of it and want a far more genuine and principled approach to governing this country.
And do remember, Corbin came very close in 2017. It could be argued that if the Labour party even back then had supported him more, he'd have won.
I'll give you some of my, and I know many others, reasons for not trusting Starmer.
When he ran for the Labour leadership, Starmer pledged to bring public services - rail, mail, energy and water - back into public ownership but has since u-turned on all of that.
One of Starmer’s other leadership pledges was stopping the creeping involvement of the private sector in the U.K.’s publicly-funded National Health Service. He's u-turned on that as well.
Starmer pushed for a second referendum on Brexit before the 2019 election. When he ran for the top Labour job, he didn’t renew that but did vow to “defend free movement as we leave the EU.” But he's since ruled out accepting the return of freedom of movement for EU citizens.
Starmer pledged to abolish university tuition fees when he ran for leader. U-turned on that
The first nine words of Starmer’s list of 2020 leadership pledges couldn’t have been clearer: “Increase income tax for the top 5% of earners.” He's not going to do that now.
I could go on as there are quite a few other pledges and promises Starmer has reneged on I'm sure it's getting a bit tedious. But I have to just mention how his position on Gaza has disgusted many labour supporters, myself included.
So, in short, it's impossible to trust a leader whose promises he never keeps and whose principles are as weak as piss water.
BTW, I was brought up in NW10 and still love the area.
I feel very ambivalent about Hayden. Yes, he's a great player but we have two very good CDMs already and I think, if we're buying a CM, he should be an 8/box to box type. That and his possible wage expectation as other have said.
I have a particular beef with cyclists who ride on the pavement. They expect you to get out of the way which I do my best not to, without getting run into.
Okay, you're right. I don't think he should have called the referendum for the reason I gave before. He did so in a vain attempt to stop internal Tory wrangling. That was common knowledge at the time.
And it's the Bullingdon Club boys who actually do believe their select group should be running the country, not me.
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