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Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • In your last message you appeared to be annoyed because you were a Labour member who has been “fucked over”, you can just be annoyed on their behalf, but I’m sure they can speak for themselves.

    This is why I asked you for one thing, I can have a rational discussion with you and offer counterpoints but not when you try and present 30 things at once… so again what is the one thing you believe is the most egregious example of betrayal/lying/or a broken promise that affects you personally.

    Also who do you see yourself voting for?

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • Or stealing enough to say, “we already did that!”whilst not changing anything for their donors, and giving them an excuse to cut taxes because of imaginary future savings.

    Imaging a government that works as hard for the 99% and the planet, as the Tories work for the 1%

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • So I am paying more attention than 99.9% of the electorate, and I’m still not sure where this hostility is coming from. I watch/read at least 4 hours of political content a day, I’m not sure I could do much more without it being a full time job.

    What is the single most egregious act he has performed against you and your beliefs as a Labour member?

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • More accurately it was “Starmer changes his pledges more than he changes his underwear” followed by:

    “That’s just not true”

    Followed by a lot of discussion pointing out that while he may have scaled back some aspects of his pledges, he has also gone to great lengths not to promise very much at all over the last 5 years because the Tories keep making it financially impossible to promise anything.

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • I’m a bit sensitive about this subject as I’m directly impacted by the policies of this morally corrupt government, to the point where a less sane person might begin to take it personally.

    People perpetuating the Tory lie that “Starmer can’t be trusted because of XYZ” just increases the likelihood that people won’t vote or will use their vote ineffectively and allow the Tories back in.

    No hard feelings as long as you remember to vote tactically.

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • At the moment we have two choices, the Tories or Labour. I know the Tories are corrupt criminals, given the choice I’m going for the ‘might not be a corrupt criminal’ guy.

    Maybe he did think to himself “I’m going to tell all these lies and once I’m party leader I’m going to roll back on the promises because fuck everyone who voted for me”

    Or maybe he had all these plans and then as the situation changed he had to make some compromises.

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • Far be it from me to refute such diligent investigative reporting but this is the paper you say “no you keep it” when handing a homeless person a pound, an online petition, the National paper of the SNP and a reddit thread.

    Even if Starmer did fundamentally change his beliefs on every policy listed, the fact that in 5 years since he became leader we are now in record debt, our NHS is all but crushed, our current government is so overtly corrupt there are billions being stolen every year and my local river is literally full of shit… I think any opposition leader can readjust their priorities a little.

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • A lot of it was a perception issue, certainly the Israeli government has done a lot of damage to the reputation of Israel.

    Corbyn was playing against a stacked deck as the UK media is Tory-aligned, but he failed to change the narrative.

  • Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters
  • That’s just not true… he took over the party when Corbyn became toxic due to failing to deal with antisemitism, and wanting to leave NATO the EU and remove our nuclear deterrent. He came in on the intention of continuing a lot of socialist policies but then the Tories destroyed the economy, the NHS and our social care system, and put us in the highest debt to GDP we have ever been in. He has had to get more realistic with his policies and taken great steps to not promise things he cannot deliver for the last 5 years.

  • [MacRumors] Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories
  • I Never really understood this argument as we primarily kill cows for food, then there is all this leather which if we use for clothing and wallets can last several lifetimes. (Ironically leather phone cases which change every 5 years is a bad example here)

    The alternative is to use a lot of energy and crude oil to make “PU leather” which is not very durable and might even be worse for the planet than cow farts and burps.

  • [MacRumors] Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories
  • Had a KNOMO leather folio case on my X since release day, coming up on its 7th birthday. It’s tatty but still in one piece with 3+ hours of screentime a day and the rest of the time in my pocket. Quality leather is the way to go if you keep your phone for a few years.

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  • OK that makes sense, English is very hard to write like a native speaker, especially when phrases in your first language don’t translate well.

    Not criticising, you write English better than I can write any other language, but that is why people think you are a bot. Some of the things you write just don’t flow correctly.

    We just can’t tell if your first language is Cantonese or binary.

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