Labour Government 2024 - ? - Page 201

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?#98547

By The Weeping Angel - Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:22 pm

- Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:22 pm #98547

Stephen Bush, Starmer needs to get serious about governing.

When did Starmer get rid of the whips' office?

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?#98548

By Abernathy - Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:40 pm

- Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:40 pm #98548

I was not aware that he had “dismantled the whips’ office”. And presumably he attends the PLP meeting every Monday, or at any rate whenever his Prime Ministerial commitments allow.

Is Bush just making this stuff up?

"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?#98549

By Tubby Isaacs - Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:44 pm

- Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:44 pm #98549

There's a Government Whips Office. Is that the same thing as the Labour Whips Office?

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?#98552

By Abernathy - Sat Oct 25, 2025 6:19 pm

- Sat Oct 25, 2025 6:19 pm #98552

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat Oct 25, 2025 4:44 pm There's a Government Whips Office. Is that the same thing as the Labour Whips Office?

Well, yes. Labour forms the government. So it’s the same thing.

"The opportunity to serve our country: that is all we ask.” John Smith, May 11, 1994.

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?#98554

By The Weeping Angel - Sat Oct 25, 2025 7:26 pm

- Sat Oct 25, 2025 7:26 pm #98554

Re: Labour Government 2024 - ?#98556

By Tubby Isaacs - Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:23 pm

- Sat Oct 25, 2025 8:23 pm #98556

That's fair. The clean power target still seems too ambitious to me, but just keep it and get reasonably close to it. The Tories and Reform are full on anti-net zero. and there are elements in the support for the other parties that want to make net zero even more expensive. It's Labour's best area, and they do talk about it, but they get very little credit. I wonder how interested lots of "the left" actually are in it.