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Graham Ward's avatar

What score out of ten would you give Starmer's government purely on optics and achievement, and why?

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Ania Lou's avatar

Do you think the grooming gang scandal and cover ups could sink the Labour Party?

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Matthew Brown's avatar

Are there any Labour MPs, either cabinet members or backbenchers, who could return the party to its roots or is it now forever lost to the working class it used to represent?

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Rebecca's avatar

Many conservative commentators put the beginning of our immigration/cultural problems today with the Blair government. Do you agree and why?

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Nathan Woodard's avatar

I have seen several New England based manufacturing operations shuttered and shipped to China in pursuit of incremental cost savings. Many other operations basically gave up due to punishing environmental regulations and transferred their assets to high polluting unregulated countries. We have all seen energy production shifted to hostile authoritarian and terror sponsoring regimes with competing interests and values. Why are conservatives failing to publicize the externalities and social costs of demoralizing half of all western populations while making the world a more polluted and dangerous place? Are conservative power brokers also benefitting from this destructive path??? Do they hate regular people with the same ferocity as do America's coastal elites and the UK's Westminster set? Are they terrified of capital and the finance industry?

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Stephen Davids's avatar

Do you see any fundamental incompatibility between morality and success in business or politics (or being leader of a trade union)? One that makes a mockery of the electoral process?

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Marko Arčabić's avatar

Why unions, why the left, Paul.

Does he know either ends up in anything other than failure, or he believes it doesn’t?

Has he “been” to a post “socialism hasn’t been tried yet” country?

Glad Laura finally got his leftie Ginger on, he seems like a solid bloke otherwise

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curious2plus2's avatar

Now that Keir has proven yet again that he will fold on his stance when the weight of public opinion is going against him (i.e illegal immigration, what a woman is and grooming gang inquiry to name a few). What do you predict will be the other things he backtracks or changes his public position on over the rest of his term?

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curious2plus2's avatar

Do we have any emerging figures that could bring back Tony Benn style labour politics?

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syinyi's avatar

Hello Paul, I’m curious of your thoughts on these industrial relations agreements signed on multi-billion £ infrastructure projects, eg Hinkley Point C and recently at Sizewell C. Is it how you’d like it to work? Why?

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leo_brack's avatar

Labour has very little relationship to the working class. Reform appears to be much more aligned with what the working class wants and needs. Will Paul vote or join Reform any time in the future?

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BuckEejitSociety's avatar

Is the rise of sectarian politics now inevitable ?

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Jamie Miller's avatar

Forty years ago, over 60% of Australians were union members. A decade later, that dropped to 20%. Today? Just 15%. The jobs that remain are in non-union sectors like Uber or in automated industries like mining—where there are more robots than strikes these days.

The UK likely saw the same pattern. And the reason’s simple: unions helped sink the industries they were meant to protect. Strikes, overreach, and driving up costs didn’t keep the lights on.

So now what? Can unions adapt, or are they headed for the same fate as the fax machine—fondly remembered, rarely used?

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Stephen Marshall's avatar

I think that the various recent U turns indicate that the Government has learned that their huge parliamentary majority is not a popular mandate. If polling indicates that they don’t stand a chance of getting elected in 2029 do we risk them implementing more radical policies as they give up the centre ground or will they continue to be less left wing?

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