I can tell you that the way the Tories early release scheme worked was drastically different and did not put any extra pressure on the probation service, compared to Labour who have exhausted and disillusioned the service, and with (as predicted) no benefit to the prison population.
I think I'm just grumpy because I'm having to work the last weekend before Christmas while most others are packing up and partying this weekend . Roll on Monday.
I do share your cynicism about the level of state provision there will be at the point when I'm currently due to reach pension age (in 2050), particularly given the case that was being discussed a few months ago for the age to rise even further to 71. Despite that, though, I don't see this as simply a generational issue. Affordability of the system (or the perceived lack of it) has been used to justify both the lack of compensation for the WASPI women and the gradual increases in pension age. While I know the suggestion that of tens of billions of pounds being needed to resolve the WASPI issue has been questioned this week, the fact that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn was prepared to admit WASPI compensation could end up costing the thick end of £60 billion does indicate the scale of a problem that, after all, dates back nearly 30 years now.
Paper reviewers on 5live going on on about how the people feel the current Prime Minister will only last another year needed to be told it was just Daily Mail readers who had been polled on that... I am sure they probably didn't want Starmer in the first place so hardly going to be positive in any way about him or Labour!
This is often the issue with polls these days. There are so many of them conducted within echo chambers devised by the organisations who run the polls, they've just become utterly pointless and not worth taking any notice of!
Exactly this. I saw a projection that claimed Labour would lose 200 seats if there was an election now but still remain as the largest party in the House of Commons. Interesting, yes, but utterly pointless because there isn't going to be an election until 2028 or 2029. The Mail, and its latest nonsense, should not be treated as serious journalism.
It's the same as that "petition" that the right were crowing about because 2 million had signed it demanding another election. It was basically shared around the right wing element of twitter (which is now most of twitter) and it was obvious that a good chunk of these signatures would have been from the weird MAGA cult in America, even before it was proven a number of signatures were from overseas! It's the equivalent of running a poll about who the most successful football club is out of Real Madrid and Accrington Stanley but only sharing it on the Accrington Stanley twitter timeline and then claiming that it proves Accrington are bigger than Real Madrid when they win the poll
I think it is Andrew Tate. If I am right he is a former kickboxer who became famous online amongst teenage boys and was arrested in Romania last year for sex trafficking.
That's the guy. Another trouble causer who seems to be favoured by Elon Musk. Foreign interference in politics without any attempt to hide it.
It will just split the right vote even further. I would guess the younger male side of the right would be taken in by Tate and his whole "masculinity" bullshit, then you'd have those who stick with Reform and then the traditional conservative voting Tory. It would just ensure Labour stay in power for a long, long time. Is even allowed to stand to become UK PM though considering the fact he's been under house arrest for what seems like forever now?
Former Labour MP arrested during paedophile sting months after being suspended from the... - LBC Allegations denied and case is ongoing, but he was arrested. I am not comfortable as regards these "vigilante gangs", with their methods, but if so many paedophiles didn't go undetected/unpunished, they wouldn't exist. Starmer's reluctance to properly debate the grooming gangs issue, may well be coming back to bite him on the arse?
