31 minutes ago, zorglub said:

Može detaljnije kad nađeš vremena?

Employment Rights Act; ban zero-hour contracts, ending "fire and rehire" (to je ono kad ljudi koji su na dobrim platama dobiju otkaz, pa ih onda ponovo zaposle za manje pare i benefite), day-one right to sick pay...

Renters Rights Bill; abolished "no fault" evictions, Decent Homes Standard...

Expanded free childcare, free breakfast clubs in every primary school...

Immediate legislation to remove hereditary peers from House of Lords

Nacionalizacije zeljeznica, Water industry, Great British Energy project i tako dalje i tako blize.

Imas i ti google, pa pregledaj sta sam propustio. Ima tamo svasta, wild shit.

Robert Peston@Peston

My unscientific weekend poll of Labour MPs and government ministers is that Keir Starmer will be replaced as their leader and the country’s prime minister “by the end of the year”.

They also say that an immediate defenestration and snap leadership election should be avoided if possible, for two reasons.

First, the party needs to have a debate about its future direction and what could be a “big story of hope for Britain” they could coalesce around and sell to voters

Second, the leadership change should be orderly, respectful and likely to yield a stable outcome.

This means, they say, that the process needs to be long enough to allow Andy Burnham the opportunity to resign as mayor of Greater Manchester and contest a by-election.

Which is not to say they all want Burnham as Britain’s next prime minister. Some do. Some don’t.

What it means is they fear he and his supporters would never cease to lobby to be Labour leader, and therefore no new leader would be secure, unless Burnham was given the opportunity to win a leadership contest or crash and burn.

“If Andy feels he is blocked again, any new leader will be toast before the next election,” one senior MP said to me.

And to give Burnham the rope he wants, the leadership contest has to be delayed till the autumn, say his friends and foes.

I have two other pieces of intelligence, or perhaps more properly unintelligence.

No MP or and minister is able to explain to me how this “orderly” transition to a new leader would actually transpire, if the PM were to dig in and refuse to leave - which right now Starmer shows every sign of doing.

There is a chance that the cabinet would unite against him and collectively make him an offer, to go with dignity on a set timetable, that he could not refuse. Ministers are as we speak talking to each other about just such a scenario.

But that would be to believe they are capable of sublimating their individual personal ambitions and enjoyment of high office for what they will see as a nebulous greater good.

Most of us don’t need to consult an AI superbrain to attach the appropriate probability to ministerial turkeys voting for Christmas.

So tomorrow’s 49th relaunch speech by the PM is both profoundly important and trivially unimportant.

If it is an absolute car crash then the consensus of MPs and ministers that Starmer can stay a few more weeks and months will evaporate, and the accidental rebel Catherine West would secure her 81 nominations to be the stalking horse challenger.

Starmer would be fighting for his political life.

But I have been briefed to expect a speech that shows contrition, that Starmer “gets it”, but that it is too soon for him to come up with a bold and unifying new vision for the country, not least because he avowedly hates doing “the vision thing”.

In other words, the speech will probably be a bit of a “meh”, neither one thing or another, neither hastening his exit or cancelling it.

Which, possibly, for Starmer, in his current dire straits, would be a win.

4:13 PM · May 10, 2026

https://x.com/Peston/status/2053478593146012021

Edited May 10May 10 by vememah

https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2053504705515463081

Cela objava:

Our party has suffered a historic defeat.

Many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.

What we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change. This may be our last chance.

The Labour Party must now live up to our name: we must be the party of working people.

We’ve heard the same on the doorstep as we’ve seen in the polls - the cost of living is the top issue for voters of all parties. People have turned to populists and nationalists because we have not done enough to fix it.

Living standards are barely higher than they were a decade and a half ago. People feel hopeless - that the cost of living crisis will never end, and now they see oil and gas companies use global instability to post record profits.

Once again, ordinary people are paying the price for decisions they didn’t make. It’s no wonder that across the UK, working people feel the system is rigged against them.

Things can be so much better than this. Countries including Spain and Canada have shown that economies can grow and people can thrive when governments stay true to labour and social democratic values and put people first. We need to learn from that.

In London, we lost young people who fear they will never afford a home. In my patch and across the north, we lost working people whose wages are too low and costs too high. In Scotland and Wales, people do not currently see Labour as the answer.

We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.

The Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.

Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.

For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.

But we have the chance to fix this.

We need immediate action to cut costs for households and put money back into the everyday economy. This can be done within the current fiscal rules, by ensuring those who benefit from the crisis contribute more so that everyone can thrive.

Our Employment Rights Act was just the first step in our plan to Make Work Pay. Now is the time to take the next steps, starting with a Fair Pay Agreement in social care - but not ending there. A rising minimum wage must go alongside our programme to get young people into work.

The investment we secured in social and affordable housing should now unleash a building boom that benefits British business and workers. We must double down on renters’ reform and show leaseholders our action on tackling ground rents and charges was just a first step to ending freehold for good.

Our devolution revolution has begun, but is nowhere near done.

Giving mayors powers to transform planning and licensing can boost local business and good growth, in the interests of local people. They must go alongside economic powers and public services.

Boosting community ownership and stopping the sell-off of local assets from pubs to playgrounds will put power back in local hands, helping restore the pride they feel in the places they live.

We must go further on planning reforms, to build the schools, hospitals, roads and infrastructure the country needs to grow.

We should be unafraid to promote new forms of public, community and cooperative ownership across the board. Buses and trains being brought back into public hands can now operate for the public good, at prices passengers can afford.

Thames Water is an iconic failure of privatisation, which resonates for the same reasons. People are rightly sick of bonuses for bosses who deliver nothing but higher bills. We must face down demands that the public pay the price of private failure.

We must create good jobs that pay decent wages by ensuring defence investment includes a secure manufacturing base. Use our house building programme to boost construction, invest in the green economy, backing SMEs by reforming business rates and increasing support to revive our high streets and local economies, raise the minimum wage and get young people into work.

And then there is politics itself, putting power back into people’s hands so that they are shaping the decisions that impact them. We must tackle the inflow of dodgy money in our politics - something that Nigel Farage, who took 5 million pounds in a secret personal gift from an offshore crypto baron, will never do. We must make politics work for ordinary people.

We can only prove we mean it by putting the common interest ahead of factionalism.

This is bigger than personalities, but it is time to acknowledge that blocking Andy Burnham was a mistake. We must show we understand the scale of change the moment calls for - that means bringing our best players into Parliament - and embracing the type of agenda that has been successful at a local level, rather than reaching back to an agenda and politics that has failed people.

These are the fights we need to have, and the change in direction we need to see. Policy tweaks will not fix the fundamental challenges facing our country. This government needs, at pace, to put measures in place that make people's lives tangibly better, while fixing the foundations of a system rigged against them.

The Prime Minister must now meet the moment and set out the change our country needs.

Change our economic agenda to prioritise making people better off, change how we run our party so that all voices are listened to, and change how we do politics.

Labour exists to make working people better off. That is not happening fast enough, and it needs to change — now.

https://x.com/AngelaRayner/status/2053505490680709165

9 hours ago, Seabass said:

Immediate legislation to remove hereditary peers from House of Lords

Mislim da je ovo ipak najurgentniji problem. Hajde da se ne zajebavamo, ovih 92 što su pretekli i što ih nasledni biraju međusobno su, nesumnjivo bizarni, ali malo više nego jedan kuriozitet. Ako bismo već govorili o unikatnom doprinosu koji je New Labour dao gornjem domu to je da je on još pre 20 godina bio valjda brojniji nego ikada, pravljenjem life peerages bez ograničenja za svoje klijentelističke satrape. Tako se, farsično, završilo (to jest, nastavlja se) ono što je s Blerovim dolaskom na vlast slavodobitno najavljeno kao okršaj s tim anahronim telom koje, eto, ni Askvit i Lojd Džordž nisu uspeli da ukinu...

ERA + nacionalizacija zeleznica jesu znacajne stvari.

51 minutes ago, Budja said:

ERA + nacionalizacija zeleznica jesu znacajne stvari.

Ono što je značajno je recepcija vladine politike, od kojih je u zemlji kao što je UK svakako prvenstvena manifestacija izborni ishod. Pošto ne samo što ovih dana imamo prilike da vidimo kako laburisti stoje, i što smo svi znali da niko ne želi vlast koju bira kada je Starmer zamenio Sunaka, i nadasve to kakva će katastrofa za tu partiju biti na nacionalnom nivou...

Starmera će motkama da oteraju na kraju.

Labour leadership contest takes place.

https://x.com/KevinASchofield/status/2053753056848695532

Edited May 11May 11 by vememah

favourite Ed Miliband in a head to head: Details via @LabourList

https://labourlist.org/2026/02/keir-starmer-wes-streeting-leadership-survation-poll/

for control of the party.

https://x.com/lewis_goodall/status/2053801706849251747

Edited May 11May 11 by vememah

19 hours ago, Budja said:

ERA + nacionalizacija zeleznica jesu znacajne stvari.

Sa druge strane, ovo deluje kao horor:

1 hour ago, Budja said:

Sa druge strane, ovo deluje kao horor:

ozbiljan horor zbog kojeg su mnogi presekli s laburistima ba duzi rok. jer jebiga, tesko se to zabpravlja.

Keir Starmer under increasing pressure as more than 60 MPs call for his resignation

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/2026/05/11/keir-starmer-pledges-to-put-uk-at-heart-of-europe-as-he-fights-for-his-job/

Vec je preko 70. Treba 81 za leadership challenge, bice do ujutro. Onda ce vjerovatno Starmer da podnese ostavku ali ce ostati PM dok se ne izabere novi lider stranke. To bi bilo najbolje za sve.

Gotov je.

Brze nego sto sam mislio.

Da li neko od lojalista u ring? Lamy, Cooper, Mahmood?

4 hours ago, Budja said:

Gotov je.

Brze nego sto sam mislio.

Da li neko od lojalista u ring? Lamy, Cooper, Mahmood?

sto se tice kabineta, meni je jedino lamy kolko-tolko prihvatljiv. al ako je meni iole prihvatljiv to znaci da nema sanse kod stranackih vojnika.

ostali su bezidejne birokrate koje od neophodnih kvalifikacija imaju samo tu da znaju da se obuku da izgledaju 'poslovno'. to su ljudi koji smatraju da im je reform problem pa bi da ih pobede na njihovom terenu. cist primer je onaj plan za resavanje migrantskog problema koji je shabana iznela pre par meseci. plan je takav da kemi gorke suze roni sto ga ona nije smislila.

meni se cini da ce ovo dobiti streeting, nastaviti isto kao starmer i najverovatnije nekako preziveti do sledecih regularnih izbora koje ce opet dobiti konzervativci. i to je nazalost najbolja moguca opcija.

opcije koje bih ja zeleo su nemoguce, s tim sam se pomirio. mogu samo da gledam, trepcem i nadam se da nas splet okolnosti ne odvede jos dublje u ambis.