However you look at it, that _is_ big – to a common man and a Tory voter it definitely is.
A veteran pop-star a lot of pensioners/elderly would have grown up listening to, and remembering him from their youth, and life-long Tory supporter at the same time (just like them), publicly denouncing the political spectrum they stood behind themselves, for years if not decades, on a national news programme – and getting coverage in major press.
It’s currently the headline on Daily Mail, and, surprisingly enough, they’re not even deriding him for that.
If the DM has Tory-bashing headlines without using it as an opportunity to launch a scathing attack on whoever the criticiser is, you know that things are really bad for the Conservatives and things are likely to shift, politically, some time soon.
Is this the same Rod Stewart that moved out of the UK to avoid paying tax to the country that made him? The same Rod Stewart that celebrated Boris getting in power like a football team winning a local derby? The same Rod Stewart who is a lifelong Tory voter even though he barely spent a third of his time in the country with zero reality of how things have been here?
Headline should read “Tory cunt votes Tory and wonders why country has been fucked by Tories suddenly realises maybe being a Tory cunt is ruining peoples lives”
It’s interesting language to say “give labour a go”. It’s a very persuasive choice if words.
He’s not telling people they should change their political beliefs, or become a full time labour voter, just that they should give them a go to get it right.
We gave Labour a go last time and they shackled the NHS with a multi-generational PFI debt of £300bn in return for only £55bn of investment, the rest going on fees to their mates. Does that sound familiar. The Tories are amateurs compared to the corruption of the Blair and Brown regime. Also it’s a bit rich for Stewart to talk when he left the UK for 40 years specifically to avoid paying tax.
>Whitehall’s most senior civil servants formally protested over a spending spree by Labour ministers during Gordon Brown’s final months in power.
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>Departmental permanent secretaries took the “nuclear option” of asking outgoing ministers to put their decisions in writing by signing “letters of direction” officially authorising the expenditure.
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>The letters made it clear that the decisions – believed to have involved defence contracts, consultancies and procurement – were made not by civil servants, but by their political masters.
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>The unusual move was disclosed by the First Division Association union (FDA), which represents senior civil servants.
[Civil servants ‘objected’ to Labour’s final spending spree](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/civil-servants-objected-to-labour-s-final-spending-spree-1976431.html)
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>Gordon Brown’s government has become “utterly dysfunctional” and needs a major reorganisation to prevent looming spending cuts shackling any future administration, according to the man who represents the most senior civil servants in Whitehall. In a damning critique of the Brown years, Jonathan Baume, head of the FDA union, claimed there was gridlock at the heart of government, with mandarins meeting indecision in Downing Street, ministers who have “given up”, and a culture of “government by announcement”.
>PFI debt for the British taxpayer is more than £300bn for infrastructure projects, with a value of £54.7bn. To put it into perspective, the PFI debt is four times the size of the budget deficit used to justify austerity
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>Tony Blair and Gordon Brown saw Private Finance Initiatives as a way to deliver infrastructure projects without huge capital expenditure
[The great PFI heist: The real story of how Britain’s economy has been left high and dry by a doomed economic philosophy](https://archive.is/LfU1i)
You can easily find multiple stories throughout Labour’s tenure of unions complaining about NHS spending or pay offers as well. eg. from December 2008 (after 11.5 years of Labour):
>NHS staff are pressing ahead with plans to hold a day of action tomorrow in protest at the government’s “derisory” pay offer.
>
>Unite the union said its NHS members would hold a ‘work-to-rule’ day on Wednesday 3 December to protest against the 7.99% three-year NHS pay deal offered by the government. The Pay Review Body, which independently negotiates pay rises, recommended a 2.75% pay award for 2008-9 alone.
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“If you think I’m sexy, vote the Tories out!” -Rod Stewart in the shower, probably
At this point the inevitability of a labour victory by the public is just making people get used to a labour victory
Tax exile Rod Stewart moving back after 40 years so kids can have British education
http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/tax-exile-rod-stewart-moving-3882267
>Maggie, I wished I’d never seen your face
>I’ll get on back home one of these days
However you look at it, that _is_ big – to a common man and a Tory voter it definitely is.
A veteran pop-star a lot of pensioners/elderly would have grown up listening to, and remembering him from their youth, and life-long Tory supporter at the same time (just like them), publicly denouncing the political spectrum they stood behind themselves, for years if not decades, on a national news programme – and getting coverage in major press.
It’s currently the headline on Daily Mail, and, surprisingly enough, they’re not even deriding him for that.
If the DM has Tory-bashing headlines without using it as an opportunity to launch a scathing attack on whoever the criticiser is, you know that things are really bad for the Conservatives and things are likely to shift, politically, some time soon.
Is this the same Rod Stewart that moved out of the UK to avoid paying tax to the country that made him? The same Rod Stewart that celebrated Boris getting in power like a football team winning a local derby? The same Rod Stewart who is a lifelong Tory voter even though he barely spent a third of his time in the country with zero reality of how things have been here?
Headline should read “Tory cunt votes Tory and wonders why country has been fucked by Tories suddenly realises maybe being a Tory cunt is ruining peoples lives”
It’s interesting language to say “give labour a go”. It’s a very persuasive choice if words.
He’s not telling people they should change their political beliefs, or become a full time labour voter, just that they should give them a go to get it right.
We gave Labour a go last time and they shackled the NHS with a multi-generational PFI debt of £300bn in return for only £55bn of investment, the rest going on fees to their mates. Does that sound familiar. The Tories are amateurs compared to the corruption of the Blair and Brown regime. Also it’s a bit rich for Stewart to talk when he left the UK for 40 years specifically to avoid paying tax.
>Whitehall’s most senior civil servants formally protested over a spending spree by Labour ministers during Gordon Brown’s final months in power.
>
>Departmental permanent secretaries took the “nuclear option” of asking outgoing ministers to put their decisions in writing by signing “letters of direction” officially authorising the expenditure.
>
>The letters made it clear that the decisions – believed to have involved defence contracts, consultancies and procurement – were made not by civil servants, but by their political masters.
>
>The unusual move was disclosed by the First Division Association union (FDA), which represents senior civil servants.
[Civil servants ‘objected’ to Labour’s final spending spree](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/civil-servants-objected-to-labour-s-final-spending-spree-1976431.html)
>
>Gordon Brown’s government has become “utterly dysfunctional” and needs a major reorganisation to prevent looming spending cuts shackling any future administration, according to the man who represents the most senior civil servants in Whitehall. In a damning critique of the Brown years, Jonathan Baume, head of the FDA union, claimed there was gridlock at the heart of government, with mandarins meeting indecision in Downing Street, ministers who have “given up”, and a culture of “government by announcement”.
[Civil servants’ leader attacks ‘utterly dysfunctional’ government](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2010/jan/23/civil-servant-leader-attacks-labour)
>PFI debt for the British taxpayer is more than £300bn for infrastructure projects, with a value of £54.7bn. To put it into perspective, the PFI debt is four times the size of the budget deficit used to justify austerity
>
>Tony Blair and Gordon Brown saw Private Finance Initiatives as a way to deliver infrastructure projects without huge capital expenditure
[The great PFI heist: The real story of how Britain’s economy has been left high and dry by a doomed economic philosophy](https://archive.is/LfU1i)
You can easily find multiple stories throughout Labour’s tenure of unions complaining about NHS spending or pay offers as well. eg. from December 2008 (after 11.5 years of Labour):
>NHS staff are pressing ahead with plans to hold a day of action tomorrow in protest at the government’s “derisory” pay offer.
>
>Unite the union said its NHS members would hold a ‘work-to-rule’ day on Wednesday 3 December to protest against the 7.99% three-year NHS pay deal offered by the government. The Pay Review Body, which independently negotiates pay rises, recommended a 2.75% pay award for 2008-9 alone.
https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/nhs-unite-members-to-work-to-rule-in-pay-dispute/
How’s about we try and break this bs Con/Lab merry go round and give someone else a chance?
Before anyone starts, I know there is absolute bugger all chance of this happening.
Why Labour? In the next general elction vote green or any other party, give both labour and conservative a shock and a clear message.