Should Labour revive “Things Can Only Get Better” as their anthem?
Sir Woke XR Re… 20 Oct 23 23:14
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I think they should positively and confidently max out the 90s vibe, bring back mandelson and prescott smirking and clapping along

just go full full 1997

it was a glorious time

Tellytubbies said "eh-oh" for the first time in March 1997. I was chatting to the lady who made the costumes. The baby in the sky is grown up now. Again again. 

No. 
 

 how about these instead

  1. “Love the Way You Lie”—Eminem featuring Rihanna
  2. “Little Lies”—Fleetwood Mac
  3. “Liar”—Queen
  4. “Bad Liar”—Selena Gomez
  5. “Don’t Ask Me No Questions”—Lynyrd Skynyrd
  6. “Lyin’ Eyes”—Eagles
  7. “Cry Me a River”—Justin Timberlake
  8. “Liar”—Camila Cabello

Err wot?!  We have fallen way back cf our Northern European neighbours in the last 10 years.  Compare our performance with the Netherlands for example...  In the run up to when Balls took over we were prospering/suffering more or less in parallel with them.

There’s no point in any Tory Brexit apologists still pushing these lies. Osborne and Cameron were shills for our enemies and took every big decision in a way guaranteed to benefit our enemies. Bodger and the other clowns have stolen everything else. 

presumably “exprosecutor” is proposing theme tunes 4 the tozzas

cos otherwise that means they support the tozzas and that makes them a total fooking moron

The note was a joke and there was, as is well known, plenty of money left. Jesus if people doubt the economic condition the country www in, look at it now after nearly 15yrs of tory rule fgs

Apart from Iraq and a mega recession 

 

From 2003 onwards it was pretty consistently shyte tbh . The vitriol aimed at Gordon Brown as PM was somewhat underserved though, he tried to make the best of a very bad hand he was dealt

 

Yes I know the Tories would have prevented neither and in fact their MPs were critical in getting the former over the line 

 

wot laz sed

the proof of the tozzas’ economic illiteracy and absolute lack of a sense of humour is that they took the note seriously

it defined their incompetence. a reputation they will not escape 4 decades now

The Tories didn't take the note seriously. They recognised that the idiotic public would and so made hay with it. And we swallowed it whole.
 

The Tories aren't incompetent. They've successfully passed measures which transfer wealth from the poor to the rich. The bit where they've failed is to keep the idiot public on side with the mantra "this medicine is good for you". 

Partly because their policies will eventually teach the public through their lived experience and partly because Tories are so corrupt that they just can't help getting themselves in to scandal after scandal.

If you support the Tories still, you're either rich, stupid or a sociopath or all three.

I should add that right now, Labour are no better. 
 

The leader has only a passing acquaintance with the truth. The lies that he's told are too many to list. And he's coming across as Mr Weathervane, saying whatever he thinks he needs to say in the moment. 

They've basically adopted Tory economic philosophy and what they're proposing looks more liked fiddling at the edges rather than the wholesale shift in thinking and spending that we need.

Sally for the nation he'll romp home and think this was his victory rather than a Tory loss. He'll drink his own koolaid and will be booted out after one or two terms and then rinse and repeat. 

The tories need to return to conservatism, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to Utopian bliss

to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to Utopian bliss

none of this has anything to do with the modern Tory party