The Labour Party - It's a laugh a minute

Please let the Labour party continue to be run by these clowns for many decades to come.

You have to laugh at them though Hugo. It appears that they just have not learned the lessons of the last election, so therefore you have to laugh, you have to mock them, as only then they may change. Don't forget around a third of the voters voted for them but as a political party they are becoming irrelevant. 

If you made up a story about the inept way this opposition are run nobody would believe you. But, as it often is, fact is stranger than fiction. Whilst you can see the humour in it the reality is less funny for everybody esp the more vulnerable people. In the end you want the best government you can get. But with an opposition that is incompetent it means that the government is rarely held to account and they then gain a sense of entitlement, a feeling that they can “do what we want” and with the huge majority they have BJ and his London-elite believe exactly that.
So whilst I have no desire to see Corbin and his supporters anywhere near power I do hope we get an opposition who looks faintly competent and who can hold this lot to account because behind all the smiles and rhetoric of this government there are some very unpleasant politicians who I wouldn’t trust to tell me today is Wednesday. (It is btw!)

It is all rather confusing eh? One minute we are living longer so apparently we need migrants, and the next the life expectancy is shorter! Therefore, you must agree with the policies to reduce immigration now? After all, we don't need so many do we if everyone's dying younger. Your report also fits in with your dream of re-joining the EU. After all, didn't you claim that it was only due to the old folks that Brexit happened? Surely, if they pop their clogs quicker you can get on with the campaign to re-join with the younger folk backing you up?
Now, I don't know how they measure this life expectancy malarky, but I bet it is not measured on something like a 5 or 10 year cycle which makes your claim that it's 'all the fault of the Tories' just a tad hysterical don't you think?

Despite all this bad news after 10 years they still got elected and you’re correct oldie the strength of the opposition can be gauged at the ballot box and this opposition was woeful. Whoever wrote the report on life expectancy may be suspect as to their leanings but there’s a sense that we can all see what’s happened over the past 10 years and there are enormous regional variations and life for many people has not improved. The waiting times on the NHS, stagnation in wages for a large number of workers esp those in the middle and at the bottom, the supply of housing is way behind the demand and younger people do not have the opportunities that we had to get our own houses even if they have jobs and work hard. Life for some has improved but for a large minority it has got worse and the Labour Party have been awful over the past 13 years in not meeting the needs of this group.
I hope that the “bonhomie” that BJ is displaying is translated into meeting the promises he made and that lives of all people will improve. I hope the opposition becomes stronger over the next 10 years than it has been over the past 10 years. Any government needs to be challenged and questioned meaningfully, something lacking in the past.

Turning back to Labour, looks like Keir Starmer as leader and Angela Rayner as deputy.

Shame it has dragged out so long, we need a better opposition and quickly to keep the Government on its toes.

Oh well, here is someone else taking that report apart...

Life expectancy is not falling

If you say so. I have no idea of the qualifications of the author, or authors, of this blog that would allow a value judgement of what they say. People I speak to just laugh when that blog is mentioned.

As you are such an avid reader of their blogs, perhaps you could tell us?