Today’s headlines .........

[Lencoboy]

Like him or loathe him, Starmer is really getting a right hammering from the audience at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton right now (which my dad is currently watching on the TV), being constantly interrupted by slogan chants from certain audience members.

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if some of those punters might actually be 'undercover' Tories (or supporters of other parties) who might have infiltrated said conference in order to deliberately stir up trouble in pursuit of their fifteen minutes of fame?

Could be totally talking out of my backside though.

[spectrum123]

Starmer has enough enemies from within, other parties don't need to stir the pot, Labour are doing it to themselves.

[pulisa]

I think one of the chanters might have been "Carole from Big Brother"?

[dorabella]

Newspapers? Cigarettes? Water? TV sets? Phones? Cars? Power tools? Lawnmowers? Vacuum cleaners? Washing machines? Ironing boards? Toilet seats?

We've already had the toilet roll thing last year, in which there were plenty of stock on the shelves of LIDL in Burton yesterday. Ditto for soap, hand gel, etc.

The only thing in short supply and has been for quite a long time in this country, is a Sense of Proportion and Rational Thinking! People are just going nuts.

[MyNameIsTerry]

Starmer has enough enemies from within, other parties don't need to stir the pot, Labour are doing it to themselves.

Yes, they are no further forward. But it's a hardly a purge to sit so many close to him on the front benches. He seems unable to manage the bigger personalities underneath him.

Labour have spent Starmer's leadership fighting. If it's dismissed as Tory agitators I think the real problems being endlessly reported are being ignored.

Besides, Starmer was Jeremy's bestie on the front bench busy looking the other way, just as Corbyn did, at the cost of Jewish MPs and members.

[MyNameIsTerry]

Lencoboy… It’s as to be expected.

‘Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has said winning the next election is more important than party unity.’

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58718835

This can be read in the context of an earlier report on what US Democrat Bernie Sanders had to say on the matter:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58694749

The question troubling many Labour supporters’ minds is: what does Labour stand for? If it’s just about winning an election, then Mr Starmer might as well simply adopt Conservative policies, dress them up in centrist pseudo-socialist philosophy, and hope disaffected Conservative and Lib Dem voters see it as a new dawn (it's been done before). To left-wingers, Mr Starmer is on this tack at the expense of traditional Labour values.

Serious political pundits stress Britain always needs an effective government opposition to be fully functional, and they observe that we currently don’t have one – I agree with them.

Has Tony been having private meetings again?

There is also the massive divide between traditional Labour voters and the metro set. I can't see the two being reconciled easily if at all.

A lot of this comes from having members who are no longer aligned with voters. On one side the members, quite rightly, expect the pledges to be based on their beliefs and for them to be honoured. Starmer spun them a yarn. On the other hand you have voters who are suspicious of his mixed messages over things like immigration and post Brexit cosying up.

[Lencoboy]

The only thing in short supply and has been for quite a long time in this country, is a Sense of Proportion and Rational Thinking! People are just going nuts.

Correct.

[Lencoboy]

I've noticed that the BBC don't seem to have been making such a big deal over Covid during the past couple of weeks.

The BBC News channel have only mentioned it very briefly so far tonight, despite today's cases edging up a bit, though deaths and hospitalisations have both been trending downwards over the past week or two.

[pulisa]

So Katie Price is whisked off to the Priory for instant rehab...as a reward for being drunk and drugged behind the wheel and driving whilst disqualified.

Cue mega outpouring of sympathy and a resurgence of interest in her activities..Her poor children. At least Harvey has his placement now.

[Lencoboy]

So Katie Price is whisked off to the Priory for instant rehab...as a reward for being drunk and drugged behind the wheel and driving whilst disqualified.

Cue mega outpouring of sympathy and a resurgence of interest in her activities..Her poor children. At least Harvey has his placement now.

That loser is no longer deserving of media coverage as far as I'm concerned. She's had her poxy fifteen minutes of fame umpteen times now!

How about giving someone far more worthy and deserving some fame and recognition for once?