https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/05/general-election-tories-politics-labour

A brief appetiser

There must have been that moment in the high command last night, amid the noise, to gasp in incredulity at what they had done: an echo of Shakespeare’s Henry V after Agincourt being handed the list of the dead, 29 English but 10,000 French and all their notables, as the roll call of Tory fallers emerged: Truss, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Penny Mordaunt, Michael Fabricant.

But no-one has died But people are Polly,

KYIV, Ukraine, July 5, 2024 (BSS/AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday congratulated Labour leader Keir Starmer on his party's "convincing" election win in Britain, and said the two countries would remain allies.

500,000 and counting...`



Today marks the final stake through the heart of Thatcherism, killed off by the consequences of rail, mail, water and energy privatisations. Here ends austerity ideology, after the bankers’ crash, Covid and the cost of living crisis left people needing more, not less, from the state. No Conservatives will be electable again until they understand a country whose instincts have turned social democratic.

Has Starmer promised anything truly different from the Tories, if he has, I have missed it. Perhaps Polly Toynbee is romancing?