Keir Starmer’s autumn of discontent - the Stephen Collins cartoon

Things can only get better – maybe, one day

The Guardian

"Needless to say, Lansley’s reward for this act of destruction was a seat in the Lords. Establishment politicians like him are only ever allowed to fail upwards. A more fitting punishment would have been to make him an unpaid car park attendant at St George’s hospital."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/12/keir-starmer-nhs-offering?CMP=share_btn_url

#NHS #Lansley #14YearsToryMisrule

Starmer’s NHS offering: no more gaslighting, but no more money either

Finally, a politician acknowledges the reality that the health service is on its knees, but also that there is no easy fix

The Guardian

"Either they maintain that they left the economy in fine shape and insist Labour are catastrophising, in which case they have to explain why everyone else has got the opposite impression, or they have to fess up and take their punishment beating. Not surprisingly, they tend to prefer the delusional cul-de-sac."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/sep/11/keir-starmer-milks-stock-answer-22bn-black-hole?CMP=share_btn_url

#14YearsToryMisrule #PMQs #£22bn #Starmer

Keir Starmer milks his stock answer for all it’s worth: ‘£22bn black hole’

The Labour leader may not have the charisma, or the punchlines, but he has a secret weapon – sincerity

The Guardian

"So when he claimed that he hadn’t deliberately lied about the state of the economy, I was inclined to believe him. Because to have done so would have been to assume that Jezza knew what he was doing. Which he didn’t."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/30/reeves-and-hunt-come-to-brink-of-fisticuffs-over-mysteriously-absent-22bn?CMP=share_btn_url

#14YearsToryMisrule #BlackHole

Reeves and Hunt come to brink of fisticuffs over mysteriously absent £22bn

The chancellor blames her predecessor for everything, including her reinvention as a Ministering Angel of Death

The Guardian