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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • Not really. However Labour is a broad church, always has been, and the reality is they have the most electoral success when they come towards that centre ground. Blair showed that, and on the flip side Corbyn showed that the British public don’t have the stomach for that lurch to the Left. It’s needs to be a slow shift, an election cycle/leader at a time which moves the party and brings the British people with them.



  • Who do you think stand a better chance? The Tories are currently imploding, there is no clear vision for the party and the different factions and backstabbing and wrestling for control. Sunak is weak, a caretaker PM with no authority or presence. They are tired, with nothing and nobody to rally around, and even the big corporations can see the writing on the wall.


  • Surely maintaining a well staffed, trained, disciplined, equipped and motivated military is something in the best interests of everyone? From a purely military point of view we are honouring our commitments to NATO and have the capacity to support our allies and project force if required (particularly against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, and any potential Taiwan shenanigans). Of the money spent on the military a decent chunk supports R&D, hardware but also tactics which can subsequently be exported internationally. The same goes for training, which is world class (whether that’s Sandhurst or Dartmouth, or us training Ukrainians). You take a cross-section of British citizens and teach them a variety of highly useful and transferrable skills, all valuable whilst they are in the Forces and probably still beneficial to the country after they leave and get ‘normal’ jobs. The money invested, and spent on staffing, stays mainly within the British economy providing further economic stimulus. Plus all of the soft power Hearts and Minds.


  • It surely will prompt fresh infighting, though Johnson was such a pyrrhic victory for the party that no single faction has the power to rule, all they can do is keep chipping away at each other. You have the One Nation lot, the ERG nutters, the Boris loyalists and the 2019 intake (distinct but overlapping groups), all headed up by the weakest Prime Minister we have seen for generations. So the squabbling will continue, leaking and counter-briefing, death by a thousand cuts as we trudge towards a General Election.