James105

He didn't even look for alternatives. He immediately settled on the easiest option because he is a moron. Jailing people for posting mean words on facebook is wrong on every possible level, even more so when real criminals have to be released early as there isn't enough space. Anyone who has an IQ in double figures would recognise that.

1. He didn't need to lock up people who posted hurty word tweets on facebook. 2. He could have released early and deported foreign criminals. I think the real problem though is that his weakness as a leader and a as a man is now on full display to the public. Every day there is a new instance that demonstrates how much of a hypocrite he is, or how thoroughly out of depth he is. He was able to get away with his catalog of mistakes in the CPS (Jimmy Saville, Rochdale etc) as no-one really knew who he was, or as opposition leader where there were no consequences to his actions but now he is PM he is under the spotlight, and it is proving disastrous for him and his party as he cannot hide or blame someone else like 'the government'. I think if he is not already, he is going to be the most hated PM in modern history by all sides of politics.

His popularity is tanking so he needs a war, just like every other weak leader in history.

Here is a link for you: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13848473/Prisoner-charged-sexual-assault-ONE-HOUR-freed-jail-Labours-scheme.html He couldn't wait even 1 hour before sexually assaulting someone after his release from prison early. They are going to release thousands more in the next few weeks as well. What an amazing government we have. You must be so proud.

If you want your life controlled by an authoritarian, tyrannical government wouldn't you be better moving to a country that already offers such a thing? North Korea and China would offer the kind of lifestyle you would wish to impose on others. I have no problem with fatties being weighed and charged extra whenever they need to use a health service, just as I would have no problem with airlines charging those for 2 seats if they cannot fit into one, but taking away personal responsibility is ridiculous and healthy folks should not have to be treated like children just because some people cannot control what they put into their mouths.

And parents watch TV after 9pm when these adverts will still be shown making this intervention pointless. Are you ready to admit these clowns in government are completely out of their depth and have no idea what they are doing yet?

Oops. No wonder they are nervous about Twitter as it contains their posting history. I wonder when she will start to hold herself to her own standards?

He is also doing well with the criminals. All those that were released early will be lifelong Labour voters so I would expect to see legislation introduced that will allow serving prisoners to vote at some point in the next 5 years as he won't want to lose their vote when they are put back inside after they next get caught committing crimes.

The problem is that when a party does as badly as the current Labour party is doing the only thing the opposition needs to do is complain without offering any solutions. This is how Labour achieved their huge majority by whinging at everything the then government did and offered no solutions - they were not electable but got elected anyway on a lower vote count than Labour received in 2019. What is fundamentally clear is they had no concrete plans of what to do when they got into government and it is showing. Starmer is a weak man and is so far out of his depth he is drowning, and they don't have anyone else who is capable of taking over.

Musk won't step foot in the UK whilst this government is in charge as he is fully aware of white people being imprisoned for mean tweets and hurty words in the UK and it would be a needless risk to take. The UK government are a laughing stock around the world. Nobody, especially not Musk, will take their requests seriously.

So no extra funding then, which is causing ever more voter regret and meltdowns from the 1 in 5 who voted for Labour. So in just a few short months he has lost the working class, the pensioners, the middle class who send their kids to private schools and now the left who worship on the alter of the NHS and demand ever more taxpayer sacrifices. For what it is worth this is the first sensible thing he has said. There are tens of thousands of managers, middle managers, paper shufflers, regulators, diversity officers etc who work in the NHS and if all of them disappeared overnight nobody would notice and the NHS would (probably) have an extra £50bn to play with. I believe that they still to this day use fax machines which just highlights the level of incompetence of these people on much higher salaries than the PM who are in charge of actually running the NHS.

It's difficult to believe but this is not parody or satire: Its from a real article from a serious newspaper. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/sadiq-khan-prisoners-should-jump-queue-for-housing-jq3t7xv5x Whoever coined the term "crime doesn't pay" clearly did not envisage the clowns that run the UK today getting into power.

It's weird how they use the answer "£22bn black hole" as their tedious answer to every single question, yet when the financial times asked for some details about this they now don't want to talk about it. https://www.ft.com/content/7f686444-7036-4efc-82c5-971b0f3929fa "The UK Treasury is refusing to provide key details of the £22bn fiscal “black hole” that chancellor Rachel Reeves claims to have discovered, with officials insisting they need more time to ensure the figures are accurate."

Ah so you are saying it could be difficult, and the current government is too weak to attempt this. That is your argument for this?

Which half? Enlighten me as to why we cannot release foreign nationals early to deport them, but we can release UK nationals early to cause mayhem.

Deport foreign nationals who are in prison. Keep UK nationals in prison. 10,000 spaces freed up. It's so ridiculously simple. You are welcome.

Yet more Labour voter regret. Other than the tribalist loons everybody hates the nasty party now. Hopefully there is something left to rebuild in 5 years time so the recovery from this disaster can begin when these clowns leave the big top.

Its like scenes from a Batman movie where Joker has released all the prisoners from the Asylum to cause mayhem on the streets. Anyone with even a fraction of a working brain would first look at the 10,000 foreign nationals residing in prison and simply deport as many of them as possible back to their home countries rather than this.

I made a joke about corruption in Africa based on the utter nonsense/stupidity of the clowns in government sending £11.6bn of UK taxpayers money there expecting to get any kind of return on it so no I won't be supplying a link to what was a very obvious joke, although it is possible it was only obvious to those with a double digit IQ. I can however supply links on how many pensioners Labour expected to die if winter fuel allowance was removed though if you would like to see yet another one of those?

How about you provide a link that shows Africa is not corrupt and every single penny of that money will be spent on climate change.

They knew about it before they did the following: 1. Gave away £9bn to inflation busting public sector pay rises. This could have been £1.4bn less with zero impact 2. Gave yet another £3bn to Ukraine. This could have been £1.4bn less with zero impact 3. Pledged £11.6bn to climate change in Africa. This could have been £11.6bn less but would mean 11 less African billionaires but otherwise would have zero impact. Choices comrade, choices. They cannot complain about black holes when they give so much money taxpayers money away and they could have chosen not to kill thousands of pensioners this winter.

Yes they do have to complete a form to get pension credits. It's a 243 question form that is impossible for the poorest, oldest, most vulnerable are not able to complete. "The DWP estimates that around 880,000 households eligible for Pension Credit do not claim it." https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-10094/#:~:text=The DWP estimates that around,Credit do not claim it. If those 880,000 of the poorest, most vulnerable all claim pension credit then removing the fuel allowance would make no savings. It is a policy that relies on the most vulnerable to be too vulnerable to complete the complex form. It's a callous, nasty policy voted for by the nasty party, and is the reason that this nasty party will be responsible for thousands of premature deaths this winter if they do not backtrack on this. The tories are not responsible for Labour spaffing £9bn on inflation busting public sector pay rises. They are not responsible for Labour promising £3bn to Ukraine. The Tories are not responsible for Labours pledge to donate £11.6bn to Africa for 'climate change'. The only party responsible for every premature death that occurs this winter due to this policy is Labour.

Still holding the party line eh comrade, even though it is a policy that only saves money if the poorest and most vulnerable do not fill out the 243 question form to get the pension credits they are entitled to? There was a reason this was a universal benefit as it was understood that too many vulnerable old people cannot complete that lengthy application process, even though they would be entitled to it. So Labours figures which save a measly £1.3bn are based on the fact they know the most vulnerable will not be able to cope with applying for pension credits and are actually relying on the most vulnerable, poorest people not applying for it. They literally voted to kill old people before their time. Labour are a truly nasty party.

So the nasty party voted to take away the winter fuel allowance which according to their own review will kill 4000 pensioners before their time. Even your comrades at the guardian are aghast at this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/10/keir-starmer-rachel-reeves-britain-pensioners-winter-fuel-allowance There is a huge amount of voter regret from the 1 in 5 people who actually voted for Labour, so at least this nasty, hypocritical little clown show will be gone after a single term.

This is a flat out lie. They are policing based on how scared they are of being called racist or how scared they are of receiving the wrath of the cultural enrichers the UK has let into the country. It's easy to arrest that lady who made a hurty word facebook post, not so easy to arrest someone who is calling islamists who are calling for the genocide of jews or who wish to rape their daughters. If they policed these hate marches the same way they did the white people marches the level of violence towards the police would be off the scale.