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Perhaps it's just me but I think Theo Usherwood's been a very poor addition to the LBC reporting team. His analysis is invariably shallow and cheap and I feel takes every opportunity to paint Corbyn or Labour in a bad light (that's easy to do, but I sense with Usherwood that there's an agenda in his reporting). Perhaps it is partly his youth, but for me he just lacks the necessary gravitas for a Political editor role.
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Really? It wasn't implemented was it? As for thatcher, no she won on the bribes. From what I've heard she had a toried time as opposition leader for 4 or 5 years before.
Tories have messed up too, but the difference with them is that because they offer so many irresponsible bribes to the public they keep on getting voted back in and then they come through the other side of those messes, where Lab lose power because they don't bribe to the same extent. Tories having the biggest selling papers on their side as well as most media commentators also helps them a lot in getting elected. That's not a critisism but a statement of fact. |
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Absolutely magnificent speech by Hilary Benn. One of the best speeches I've ever seen in parliament
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Absolutely magnificent speech by Hilary Benn. One of the best speeches I've ever seen in parliament
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Absolutely magnificent speech by Hilary Benn. One of the best speeches I've ever seen in parliament
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Theo Usherwood. Dear, oh dear, oh dear.
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Theo Usherwood. Dear, oh dear, oh dear.
Sorry for the repetition |
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Theo Usherwood. Dear, oh dear, oh dear.
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Tom Swarbrick would do a better job.
Tom Swarbrick just reports, which is what a reporter should do. |
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Absolutely magnificent speech by Hilary Benn. One of the best speeches I've ever seen in parliament
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I disagree with it but, it was a very good speech. There were some great speech's today, from both sides of the debate.
This is bound to happen, with so many Blairite New Labour MPs still in place. It will be interesting to see how the party resolves this issue in the future. |
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Well our masters have voted to drop more bombs tonight with the assurance that this will make us all safer. Personally I don't feel any safer than I did last night
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Tonight is a very sad night!
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The style was good (and obviously well-rehearsed), but the substance was bankrupt. It was bombastic, empty rhetoric.
This is bound to happen, with so many Blairite New Labour MPs still in place. It will be interesting to see how the party resolves this issue in the future. |
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No doubt more fighting and MPs making nasty little digs at Corbyn!
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The media (including LBC) have blown this out of all proportion, because our contribution to airstrikes on Syria will be minimal. The ulterior motive is to champion and reinforce the potential break-up of the only viable opposition to the establishment - the Labour Party. The silly schoolboy Theo Usherwood is pushing this issue to the extreme.
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I can't listen to Theo Usherwood and Ian Collins anymore! I'm Off!
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The media (including LBC) have blown this out of all proportion, because our contribution to airstrikes on Syria will be minimal. The ulterior motive is to champion and reinforce the potential break-up of the only viable opposition to the establishment - the Labour Party. The silly schoolboy Theo Usherwood is pushing this issue to the extreme.
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I'm guessing Hilary Benn will be the next Labour leader, maybe within the next few months. I think Corbyn tried hard, but if he hasn't got the support of the PLP then he's pretty well crippled politically. I believe the Labour party vote was intended more as a ruse to cripple JC quickly rather than genuine appetite for a bombing campaign in Syria, which will have bad consequences 2 years along. Even Harriet Harman voted for the bombing which says a lot. This is once again going to cost us a huge amount of money, thousands of civilian lives and achieve little in stopping ISIS...not to mention exacerbate the refugee crisis.
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Diane James keeps trying to make out this is a good result!
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Diane James keeps trying to make out this is a good result!
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UKIP vote was up, it keeps Corbyn in his job, making Labour unelectable, it raised the real issues about how the postal voting system is being manipulated in an undemocratic manner, and the other parties didn't even get a sniff.
What's not to like? |
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UKIP vote was up, it keeps Corbyn in his job, making Labour unelectable, it raised the real issues about how the postal voting system is being manipulated in an undemocratic manner, and the other parties didn't even get a sniff.
What's not to like? |
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If UKIP cannot get close in an election when everything was in their favour with the much reported disarray in the Labour party they may as well give up on domestic politics and concentrate on being a single issue protest party. One ex Tory MP and control of zero local councils is fairly dismal.
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If UKIP cannot get close in an election when everything was in their favour with the much reported disarray in the Labour party they may as well give up on domestic politics and concentrate on being a single issue protest party. One ex Tory MP and control of zero local councils is fairly dismal.
Have you not seen the demographic there ? |
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