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The mighty @Chickenhead introduced politics into this thread, aided and abetted (of course) by @Malone. So this fully paid up champagne socialist and member of the metropolitan liberal elite respectfully suggests any complaints are sent in that direction.

Personally I just hope all the farmers who brought traffic to a standstill in London with their tractors the other day get similarly lengthy jail terms to the Just Stop Oil protesters who did something vaguely similar.

Or am I hopelessly naïve (and/or a loony lefty)?

Mooneyman, I am getting seriously concerned as I keep finding myself agreeing with your posts!

Why don't you put all this crap on the "Not Football" category?

Yes.

Starmer is juggling a number of massive problems, ineptly in some cases but for me it is still early days.

Morally bankrupt Grifters Trump, Johnson and Farage lie as default and their gobshite heavy leadership is defined by disruption and chaos and refusal to debate or be challenged but their success is held up as what 'the people' wanted...

If you admire the fact someone lies to get power not to improve lives but simply to feather their own nests, that's another thing I suppose.

And yet THIRD term Mayor Sadiq Khan is the most hated man in London according to the right-wing...and a big Labour victory is seen as a sign people were misled?

But of course only the left wing are easily tricked by liars and incompetents who fail to deliver...

I'm not professing admiration for any of Johnson, Trump or Farage. I'm simply saying that all three of those reach parts of the electorate that other politicians cannot reach.

If the left, in the form of the Labour party, expect to hold on to power in 2029, they need to find a charismatic leader who engages with the hopes and fears of a substantial proportion of the voters. And that person is not Keir Starmer, nor is it Angela Rayner or Rachel Reeves.

Can you do the bold type please or I'm not interested

I'm not trying to defend the record of the previous Government, which became disastrous from around 2017 onwards under May, Johnson, Truss in particular, and Sunak.

I'm simply saying that so far under Labour, there appears to have been no improvement.

Whether you like it or not, the following facts are true:

Johnson said what the majority of the electorate wanted to hear, and won two terms as London Mayor, and a substantial majority in the 2019 election.

Trump did exactly the same, and won a second term in November 2024.

Farage now does the same again, and that's why he is favourite to be the next PM, although I suspect that could only happen if there is some kind of coalition or electoral pact between the Tories and Reform UK.

However, 2029 is a long way off, and who knows what could happen in the next four years.