@SunshineGirl Both Attlee and Blair were surrounded by competent people, ready to serve the Nation. Starmer has not been as fortunate, or he has not chosen well. Surely amongst his four hundred MPs there are people of talent. He just needs to locate them.

@peterlee The problems that Starmer faces - inflation, cost of living, stagnant growth, high demand for public services, instability in the USA - face most leaders across the western world. There are no simple answers other than to knuckle down and pursue long term objectives at the expense of short term popularity. I am reasonably satisfied that he is doing this. The trouble is every one expects instant results. He is a decent man, albeit a naive politician.

@ArishMell Be interesting to see where we are in eighteen months time.

A lot of our problems we have no say in, or are such small players on the world stage.

@peterlee It will, I agree.

We should stop talking ourselves down though. No country nowadays can be an island except geographically; and the UK actively belongs, or is a signatory, to around ninety international bodies and agreements.

@22Michelle But I would like Farage to have to take some responsibility at the polls rather than perpetually making political capital from others' perceived betrayal of Brexit.

@22Michelle Pardon?

What I wrote there was all fact: you did not bother to offer any others..

Being rude only demeans you.

@Vengabus I agree - I would say no-one should ever use nuclear weapons again. (I refuse that US slang "nuke").

Also, it was worse than the UK having to ask the US permision to use ours.

It was not reciprocal.

During the Cold War the USA used the British Isles and presumably other parts of Europe as a potential launch-pad, but the agreements excluded, or at least did not include, the hosts' permission to launch them.

@ArishMell they’re good at taking advantage and dominating (politically speaking, I’ve nothing against Americans themselves)

@Vengabus Indeed they are.... And President Trump has made no secret he believes in that, by his own statements and actions.

@SunshineGirl Yes, I read about his expensive food choices. All politicians are in it for themselves in some way.

@SunshineGirl I included Churchill as he was a brilliant leader at the time of war. Also for his early work in the visionary liberal governments before the First World War.

@GLITTER The extreme left are a minor issue that police and courts can deal with. The extreme right desperately want the extreme right to be made out to be a major issue, they're not

@22Michelle The UK needs to rejoin the EU ? Its not like doors are open

@FloorGenAdm Well there's your extreme right wing in action.

@FloorGenAdm Wonder if The Metropolitan Police monitor this? Their actions of bothering people from Internet posts saved me from having to go there again. I always tag them in Twitter when there’s disparaging remarks in there for policy/politics in England.

@Thatsright We have two litmus tests coming up.

The bi election on Thursday will probably be a red herring, with Burnham not able to stand.

The limited number of councils having elections in May might give us an indication of the mood of the country, though I doubt it.

In the meantime the country stagnates.

To think in the last General Election less than 60% bothered to vote. And over 100000 were disenfranchised for having no permanent place of residence.

@JoyfulSilence Starmer becomes Lord Protector?

@SunshineGirl

If he wears one of those helmets! 😁

@DogMan Difficult to close a border that is sea.

@Thinkingdeeper religion is just a distraction at this point no one respects the basics of what it is. Just another thing to con people out of their freedom

@Thinkingdeeper In the UK?? That doesn't seen credible. I'd also say the the "Christians" you're seeing are like the USA are seeing which are really not Christian, mostly extreme right wing and are looking to create a theocracy.

@22Michelle I’m talking about all religions

@peterlee There is but for some reason we seem unable or unwilling to encourage it, then wonder why it all goes to Japan or the USA while at the same time politicians of all parties go happily on about "inward investment" and "attracting overseas investments" without seeing through it.

@TexChik The "colonisation" statement was made by Sir Jim Radcliff, a businessman who is so principled on the issue of immigration that he has been living in Monaco since 2020 🇲🇨 🇬🇧. He also misrepresented the growth in population by six-fold. His errors were called out by the Prime Minister. Nigel Farage, while acknowledging that the remarks were factually incorrect, then proceeded to compound them with his own, including the inaccurate statement that all underground stations in the East End of London have bilingual signs (only two do).

@SunshineGirl lying and denying? 😂

@GLITTER Seize the day, create your own agenda . .

@SunshineGirl oh I do, I don’t fall for this rage bait