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Starmer has reneged on virtually all of the policies he promised to uphold on being elected. Therefore in my view he is less to be trusted than many other politicians who have not done that. They may equally prove themselves to be untrustworthy, or may not. It remains to be seen.

It's too complicated and subtle for most normal English speakers. But I understand 'shall' after a first person subject (I or we) is the 'correct' form for the future tense which otherwise is 'will'. ('We shall be calling at x,y and z'). 'Shall' after a third person subject is prescriptive ('The...

Possibly. I don't know them all.

Difficult to say at present, of potential Labour senior politicians. We'll need to wait and see how they act. Of the Tories, very few: the few decent ones were defenestrated by Johnson post-Brexit.

Can you point to one phrase in Corbyn's manifesto which suggests this? You may well think (and I don't have the knowledge to agree or disagree) that JC would have been an inept or weak leader, but what is there in his stated policies to imply anything as deranged as Truss?

I don't trust Starmer at all. But many of his MPs and potential cabinet members may well think it wise to tiptoe gently up to the election and reveal their true colours later. I hope so anyway.

Sadly not. Since the media mafia conspired to do him down. Is anyone still suggesting that Corbyn's vision would lead to disaster, compared to the chaos we have suffered in the last 15 years? Or the lukewarm Tory tribute act led by Starmer?

I'm less than enthused by the present Labour Party, though I feel Angela Rayner is one of the better ones. But I can't go along with accusations of hypocrisy for purchasing a council house. It's rather like saying 'I don't agree with privatising the railways and so I am never going to use a...

As I remember it before, the entrance to the LU station was via escalators from the main concourse. Those escalators are in the same place: all that has happened is that a new opening has been made in the outside wall, and the opening from the concourse has been sealed off. I don't know if it's...

Why would it, if all were needed were the raising of one barrier and lowering of another?

Is that the case? I know the Tories have been captured by the pro-Brexit*, pro-metric martyr faction. But the vast majority of the world (*very little of which is in the EU or ever was) uses the metric system; the UK shares an island with a state that counts distances and speed limits in...

If it's close by could they not both be closed and one footbridge built midway between them?

That is a prime example of anglo-centric exceptionalism. Why should we, in the post imperial ages, expect that 'lesser nations' should grovel and be tongue-tied in the face of the 'superior' English language? Even more demeaning, for the monolingual English, is to take pride in our lack of...

Im not the person being asked this question, but as a socialist I despair at the current Labour Party and its leadership. Like many people I feel betrayed because I voted for Starmer as leader because I (naively, with hindsight) believed his promises, and felt that he was less likely to be...

Because not everyone has a bank card or wants to use it.