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John McDonnell has popped up to warn Starmer about letting in the far right by not being left wing enough.

Is this the same John McDonnell etc…?

Maybe it's me but I've never worked out the logic behind that thinking.

The Weeping Angel wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:17 pm Maybe it's me but I've never worked out the logic behind that thinking.

Probably because there isn't any.

Isn't it from the same idea that every time a leftist Labour party get battered at an election it's because they weren't left-wing enough?

Pete Willsman here with "woman gets job". I've never heard of Alice Genghis Khan, but fairplay, she's involved with a committee to do with the Labour Conference.

The Tory Businessman I think he's referring to used to be the Chair of Stonewall.

This goon isn't missed from Labour. What an absurd idea.

Labour considers non-dom tax plan that would raise £1bn less than initial pledge
Party may allow non-domiciles to live in Britain for four years before ending tax break, it is understood

This actually is fairly sensible, and something like what Ed Milliband proposed in 2015. It's in the country's financial interest to have people come from abroad to develop businesses. Given that the US, India, China and lots of other fast growing economies have lower tax rates than the UK, it's not exactly and incentive if they've got to pay UK tax on their worldwide income. They can also choose to live somewhere else lower tax and visit for 89 days (think this still applies) and be non-resident.

I don't know where they numbers come from. Well, they're from Labour, but I don't know where they get them from. Is the figure net of behaviour change?

The downside of course is that it's still treating people as special because they have money, which isn't a very nice principle. Even if it would be better than now and end the nonsense whereby people like Sunak's wife in effect move permanently but carry on paying less tax for as long as they like.

And of course Labour look stupid for what they said before.

I'm wary of this

"The most trusted crypto exchange." Aren't they all...until the cocaine and hookers stories float to the top?

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Thu Jan 18, 2024 9:10 pm "The most trusted crypto exchange." Aren't they all...until the cocaine and hookers stories float to the top?

That happens soon after you’re on the front cover of Forbes being hailed as the business genius of the decade.
By all means schmooze with as many business top knobs as you can find at Davos but photo ops with cryptocurrency bosses is as unnecessary as it is unwise.

I don’t think coke and hookers were involved, but the example of Michael Lewis setting out to write a book about crypto miracle worker and revolutionary thinker Sam Bankman-Fried until his subject turned out to be…not that…does rather spring to mind.

This is extremely sad.

Pity. Seems like a thoroughly good egg.

I hope the link works because this is a wonderful piece:

Neil Kinnock: “It’s not 1992. Rishi Sunak is no John Major”

https://archive.ph/cVA25#selection-34387.0-34391.152

A big man.

Yes, a fine piece of journalism.

Neil Kinnock: “It’s not 1992. Rishi Sunak is no John Major”

He’s not even as good as John Redwood.

It's interesting that he referred to Major as 'an opponent' and not an enemy.

We've lost that...

Neil might well have added "and Keir Starmer is no Neil Kinnock."

Absolutely zero chance of a re-run of that hubristic rally in Sheffield with Keir in charge.

I remember being very much caught up in the excitement that we were surely going to win that '92 election, and being quite keen to go to Sheffield for the rally. In the end, I couldn't be arsed, but in retrospect that rally was when we realised that we had actually lost.

I remember cringing at 'Aaaalright!'