Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Angela Rayner roasts Kemi Badenoch over leadership bid" video.

  1. Don't confuse a massively talented singer songwriter, whose classic "Fast Car is almost played on any English A & R radio station across the world almost every week, with a political entrepreneur like Badenoch. You need to expand your vocabulary of talented black women. Might be difficult though if all you can point to is an innocent Tracy Chapman. And one more thing, Tracy Chapman doesn't wear plaits.
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  2. Neither could Badenoch. She was slipping up too. So if it's a shame for Rayner, what more it must be a shame for an experienced former minister to trip over her words? Confirmation Bias again?
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  3. They're not cutting the Winter Fuel Allowance from all pensioners. Just those not on Pension Credit. Facts matter, especially the fact that the Tories left a £20bn hole on the books, which gave her no choice. And if you think that's bad, you'll probably find out between now and the Mini Budget day in October more fiscal dead bodies buried in No 11 Downing Street. The only problem with Reeve's decision is that she did not place as much emphasis on getting eligible pensioners to claim Pension Credit. Not all do. That will take sone of the sting away. But, if Cameron hadn't told so many seemingly credible lies about Labour's alledged fiscal incompetence, perhaps Reeves would have to play tough. Labour paid off the final debt after World War II, and if it wasn't 2008,which wasn't caused by Labour, or anyone in the UK, there record would have been as good as any One Nation Tory government. But then again, if the public knew the ins and out about how 2008 affected almost every country in the world, they might have been M more understanding. But we have a tradition of scapegoating first and asking questions later, and we are ill-served by it. The only things Labour got wrong were that New Labour did not critique globalisation, and they were happy to embrace neoliberal economics. They only tried to put a smiling face on the vampirisation of our economy. The truth is all the wealth was being transferred away from workers to capital, and Blair made sure he got his share. Brown? Only 1 questionable move, and 1 unforced error. Selling the UK's gold reserves, and talking into a live Mike. But, oupoliticaclazs as a whole is not inspiring confidence TBH. It's the realisation that the people that are supposed to be our betters, are sadly lacking the qualifications to back that up.
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  4. I think your bias is showing. If you examine all the split of the popular vote when the Tories were elected, they hardly ever won the popular vote. Time and time again, they won the majority of seats, but not votes. Context matters, and looking at the facts as they are reveals that really, under FPTP the popular vote is a side issue. Moreover, FPTP is a relic now. The franchise has expanded so much since FPTP was introduced, that we should be seriously considering going over to some form of PR. Under PR, the votes would count, in deciding who took the seat. But whilst we gave Germany PR after World War II, we thought we would never need to consider it. Well, the last 30 years have proved that assumption complacent.
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  5. Not really.
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  6. Where has the dignity and respect gone? Where was when all the Prime Ministers from Thatcher to May stopped putting money in the National Insurance Investment Fund? Do think Hunt cutting the National Insurance contributions was wise when the fund was in deficit? So, when it comes to get your state pension, you'll have to delay or live in heat and eat. Let's put it like this. Demographics matter, and our biases and prejudices are coming home to roost. And arguably, Starmer might decide it's too late to save the ship after seeing the empty husk that is the National accounts.
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