Exactly. MPs doing their job by listening to voters; government doing its job by listening to MPs.

Okay, apologies for the repetition, but I feel this requires it:

This isn’t ‘Labour’. This is from the Blue Labour campaign group, membership: four MPs.

Actual Labour, the leadership and the government, is currently in the process of strengthening the Equalities Act!

McSweeney is very bad, but he’s not part of Blue Labour and this didn’t come from him! It came from the four (count 'em!) MPs who call themselves the Blue Labour Campaign Group.

Decided to blame immigrants for all the country’s problems.

You are absolutely right. There’s empirical evidence that these kinds of ‘accommodationist’ policies only increase support for the far right. These polls are further evidence that the Starmer strategy is counter-productive.

I’m still a member for now, but I’m not surprised people feel that way.

Ridiculous.

I’m glad the results at the locals have led to at least some MPs finding their voices. Haigh, Whittome and Trickett have all spoken out, but they’re sort of the usual suspects. This guy is at least a bit new!

Objectively, both things are true! But I tend to think Labour is the one with the power and so they’re the ones who should be changing, not the relatively powerless seven voters.

100%. Point is that if Labour had appealed to their left flank, they’d have held the seat!

I bet there were more than seven votes for the Greens and Lib Dems combined.

The BMA residents conference did pass the motion, but it won’t be official policy unless it passes at the annual meeting this year:

Resident doctors working in the NHS also condemned the supreme court’s ruling on gender as having “no basis in science or medicine”. Medics at the British Medical Association’s (BMA) resident doctors conference in London passed a motion stating that “attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine”. While the motion was passed at the conference it will not become BMA policy unless voted on at the union’s annual meeting later this year.

This is it. The temptation to slap on reciprocal tariffs is obvious but it’s generally self-defeating. Much better to do things this way and free up trade elsewhere.

Her instincts are the worst. Imagine being a conservative and not being able to exploit a ‘rally round the flag’ moment!

The Newer Forest.

Always makes me laugh that the ‘New’ Forest is getting on for a thousand years old.

Yes, everyone here trembles under my tyrannical rule. I try not to let it go to my head.

Gosh, how strange. I expected him to say, ‘He’s a total cunt and I’m only pretending to like him because it’s part of my job’.

Destroying healthcare by… increasing funding for the NHS and for social care, ending strikes by negotiating with the unions, and hitting their initial appointment targets years early?

Me. But I should add that a system of wages and salaries is not slavery, and that part of the reason I know this is that actual slaves really, really want instead to be paid a wage or a salary.

By far the most coherent response, thank you. I still think the contexts are sufficiently different that I find it odd that anyone would feel the need to paint his face on a wall thousands of miles away.