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Stephen Clayton
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Retired (hurrah!) lecturer in sociology of public health, mostly now photography, silliness and political despair.
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Sometimes it is very obvious. Poverty is a lack of sufficient income. Increase income.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Which particular "lie" is that?
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
But you plod on boosting what they are doing. The delusionists of Blue Labour clearly don't want a Labour Party that is remotely socialist or liberal, so that'll be the end of the party. I do hope you'll be happy with that.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@iandunt.bsky.social is sadly spot on in his analysis, and I despair that we've gone from Corbyn unable or unwilling to tackle anti-Semitism in the Party to Starmer ignoring the racist underpinnings of his Home Sec's policy statement.
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
And they are not "simply addressing public concerns" which, as Best for Britain have shown (assets.nationbuilder.com/b4b/pages/14...) is much more complex than the way the Home Sec's vile and immoral statement framed it....
assets.nationbuilder.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
OK, so out of those, which do you think they have led with? They've pretty much failed to make some of the good stuff here visible in favour of repeating the racist rhetoric of the right/Reform around asylum seekers/small boats/immigration.....
November 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
OK, can you name them? As far as I can see as an ordinary Labour voter with a reasonable level of interest in politics the govt are not pushing back against Reform but simply donning their racists rhetoric and policies.
November 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Here in Wigan, when my kids were secondary school age "to meet" someone meant to snog them, so maybe "may I meet you" is a request for a bit of a snog.
November 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Pretty much most of the welfare policies of New Labour. It's why they failed, and why the same reheated welfare policies have been failing for decades.
November 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
I'm not a politician who needs to pay more attention to this sort of thing than some random bloke on the internet. That said, I stand by my point that if he looked at this and didn't see anti-Semitism, he's politically naïve or just stupid.
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Oh, and possibly her ridiculous claims to this being the moral choice.
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Not even remotely. This was reheated or rebranded policies that have already failed. Despite my misgivings about Blair, it would be difficult to say that about him. The only similarity is that there is a rhetoric that blames some of the weakest parts of society for the failures of the strongest.
November 18, 2025 at 3:52 PM
That's somewhat disingenuous, I think. I don't really see how this is an anti-capitalist mural at all. It is very clearly anti-semitic. Corbyn must be pretty politically uninformed if you are right.
November 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM