Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
There’s no such thing as “independent”......who regulates the regulator?

To your point about rejoining the Eu etc.

I have long stated on here that I believe that any mainstream opposition party needs to be “all in” onus rejoining the Eu not that this is my personal wish.

The problem with this is that Labour haven’t the balls to do this because they alienate what they are as their traditional voter......this is a mistake in my view.

The Tory Party have stolen those clothes and have morphed into something I never thought I’d see.

Starmer needs to be brave enough to take Labour down the Eu positive route and then suffer the wrath of the unions and Momentum and accept them breaking away.

I still see a marriage of this new version of Labour and the Lib Dem’s coming together in a new party as the only viable opposition.

Starmer isn’t brave enough though, it’ll take a more impressive and much younger leader to pull this off as I see it as a minimum of a 10-15 year haul even if they start this now.
You could say 'who regulates the regulator' for almost everything, it works in huge financial systems with the odd anomaly. It just has to be robust.

Otherwise, I agree with most of your other points - Blimey, I am shocked as you!