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- Mon 27 May, 2024 6:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
Where can the Tories go for their ultimate desperate Hail Mary to "turn things around" I wonder? Some people are suggesting the death penalty (or, maybe more likely, promising a referendum on its return) but too many Tory MPs are adamantly opposed for them to pull that off easily - it is s...
- Mon 27 May, 2024 4:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
I mean, would you seriously expect anything else? *Of course* a collective "line" will have been agreed on this.
Sometimes you do give off a slight vibe of looking for things to get outraged about, let's be honest here.
Sometimes you do give off a slight vibe of looking for things to get outraged about, let's be honest here.
- Mon 27 May, 2024 2:01 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
You still up as well?
Anyway, a PTO - its always good to see one.
Anyway, a PTO - its always good to see one.
- Mon 27 May, 2024 12:43 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
- Sun 26 May, 2024 8:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
Oh dear, how sad .. Shippers -- " MPs are furious that they have had little time to prepare for the end of their careers. “It’s all right for him,” one ex-minister said. “We all know he’s got a job lined up in California and he doesn’t need the money anyway. I wish he’d just resigned and let P...
- Sun 26 May, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
Its the old Bannon playbook again innit, just flood the airwaves with sewage. Not sure how they convince themselves it will actually win votes tho.
- Sat 25 May, 2024 11:23 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
They are still going to sack EtH though aren't they. Still, that would put him in fairly good company.
- Sat 25 May, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
- Replies: 79
- Views: 780
Re: Bank Holiday Weekend 25 to27 May 2024
Fucking hell, Waugh's dumb enough when he's describing policy. What's he gonna be like trying to make it? There's a decent chance he would have held the byelection for Labour, and either way his chances must be reasonable now. (many didn't notice in the general excitement about "Labour Gaza Ba...
- Fri 24 May, 2024 11:25 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 205
Re: Friday 24th May 2024
I would be......surprised. If only because we are likely to get a sizeable intake of MPs who understand social media (for good or ill) much better.
- Fri 24 May, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 24th May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 205
Re: Friday 24th May 2024
Except that if and when Labour are in power, they will find ways of doing things. I know that people are incredibly cynical at the moment, but as Chris Dillow has repeatedly pointed out (to little avail, it seem) their incentives in government will be markedly different to what they are in opposition.
- Thu 23 May, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 299
Re: Thursday 23rd May 2024
i suppose we shall find out how true that is on July 5th won't we.
But please, giving credibility to vox pops? Despite our differences, you *are* better than that.
- Thu 23 May, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 23rd May 2024
- Replies: 33
- Views: 299
- Wed 22 May, 2024 10:14 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 240
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Not really that much of a "surprise" is it though. Apparently it is to many Tory MPs whose reactions seem to range from bemused to furious. I really don't understand why he's done it. All that fuss and nonsense about the Rwanda flights and he's calling an election before they even get off...
- Wed 22 May, 2024 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
- Replies: 23
- Views: 240
Re: Wednesday 22nd May 2024
Not really that much of a "surprise" is it though.
- Tue 21 May, 2024 11:37 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 188
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Re that full English tweet, I like my sausages well done and it has black pudding - one of *the* essentials.
Beans are optional - as is tomato - and *definitely* no chips. Won't say no to a slice of fried bread tho.
Beans are optional - as is tomato - and *definitely* no chips. Won't say no to a slice of fried bread tho.
- Tue 21 May, 2024 11:06 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 188
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Let us assume that this statement is basically 100% true - isn't that, nonetheless, a good thing? Not least in that it shows that democracy can actually work??Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Tue 21 May, 2024 10:01 pm The cynic in me wonders if this isn't simply the Labour hierarchy shitting themselves after losing so many council seats over the issue.
- Tue 21 May, 2024 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 188
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
If you only had much of the right wing press coverage to go on, you genuinely wouldn't know that the ICC had indicted key Hamas figures as well.
- Tue 21 May, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 21 May 2024
- Replies: 24
- Views: 188
Re: Tuesday 21 May 2024
Certainly a corrective to some of the more starry-eyed takes about him.
- Mon 20 May, 2024 8:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 20th May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 146
Re: Monday 20th May 2024
Usual suspects losing their proverbial over this. And often deliberately eliding that it is individual being accused, not a country.
- Mon 20 May, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 20th May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 146
Re: Monday 20th May 2024
And its probably going to cost them more now than had they fessed earlier.
- Sun 19 May, 2024 4:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 22
- Views: 199
Re: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
As a certain football manager might have said "lads, its Streeting".
- Sat 18 May, 2024 11:38 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 22
- Views: 199
Re: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
I think a lot of the West *does* understand what is happening in Ukraine - but they also understand that Russia, unfortunately, has nuclear weapons.
- Sat 18 May, 2024 2:36 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 22
- Views: 199
Re: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
Now what happened in 2010??
Its a mystery innit.
Its a mystery innit.
- Sat 18 May, 2024 2:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
- Replies: 22
- Views: 199
Re: Weekend 18th and 19th May 2024
As someone who is neither Scottish or Green, I must say I was still suspicious of that framing. Very possibly rightly so, it appears.
- Fri 17 May, 2024 10:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 204
- Fri 17 May, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 204
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Yes I did, what makes you think a Starmer government won't do at least some of what she wants?
- Fri 17 May, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 204
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
Following Roger's link last Thursday should Nattie Elphicke be suspended from Labour for her Far-Left views on housing? I mean, dunk on Starmer all you like but that just isn't true is it? Housing is virtually certain to be one area where an incoming Labour government *is* going to be very differen...
- Fri 17 May, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 17th May 2024
- Replies: 26
- Views: 204
Re: Friday 17th May 2024
As I said, Labour politicians "meet" with all sorts of people. Some people read far too much into it.
- Thu 16 May, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 148
Re: Thursday 16th May 2024
He went on a long Twitter rant mid-September 2022 about how Starmer was so bad that he would genuinely rather see the Tories re-elected.
- Thu 16 May, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 16th May 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 148
Re: Thursday 16th May 2024
Is this the same Alex Niven who went full-on accelerationist just days before Truss and Kwarteng (hopefully) cratered the Tories for a generation?
- Wed 15 May, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 158
Re: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
Section 28 is back Well, yes and no. They aren't actually going to be in a position to introduce most of this before an election - ie its the usual vapid brain dead culture war rubbish. Yes, but it's laying out a marker. And considering that Labour are meeting with anti-trans organisations, I'm not...
- Wed 15 May, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 15th of May 2024
- Replies: 12
- Views: 158
- Tue 14 May, 2024 1:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 169
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
The likes of Seb "gizza seat" Payne are already rubbishing it, as expected.
- Tue 14 May, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 169
Re: Tuesday 14th of May 2024
The very existence of a "minister for common sense" is itself an act of total unseriousness. Even without the actual individual being who it is.
- Mon 13 May, 2024 11:19 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 132
Re: Monday the 13th of May 2024
It really was incoherent rubbish.
- Mon 13 May, 2024 12:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday the 13th of May 2024
- Replies: 9
- Views: 132
Re: Monday the 13th of May 2024
Have already said to someone I know who has left the Labour party under Starmer - "I hope you rejoin to stop Streeting winning when the time comes".
He promised that he would
He promised that he would
- Sun 12 May, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 347
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Some people getting rather excited that Israel won the UK audience vote, but doesn't this really just show FPTP in all its glory?
If you wanted Israel, you vote Israel. If you didn't, there were maybe a dozen reasonably credible choices (and of course lots more in total)
If you wanted Israel, you vote Israel. If you didn't, there were maybe a dozen reasonably credible choices (and of course lots more in total)
- Sat 11 May, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 347
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
So that's a "yes" then.
Meanwhile in the real world. not just Labour but *Tory* strategists actually think Starmer can win a majority next time on a lead of "only" six points or so.
Meanwhile in the real world. not just Labour but *Tory* strategists actually think Starmer can win a majority next time on a lead of "only" six points or so.
- Sat 11 May, 2024 5:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 347
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
Is it true that the LK article regurgitates the "Labour need a bigger swing than in 1997 for a single seat majority" nonsense?
- Sat 11 May, 2024 12:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
- Replies: 29
- Views: 347
Re: Weekend 11th and 12th of May 2024
In the interests of full disclosure, I have to admit I didn't come up with that one myself
- Fri 10 May, 2024 11:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday the 10th of May 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 122
Re: Friday the 10th of May 2024
Reported that Macron is "ready to intervene" after France's birth rate hit its lowest in living memory.
As some have noted, if you take that literally that might leave him a bit tired
As some have noted, if you take that literally that might leave him a bit tired
- Fri 10 May, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday the 10th of May 2024
- Replies: 7
- Views: 122
Re: Friday the 10th of May 2024
Blakeley isn't a Labour member any more IIRC, so maybe not quite the *same* side these days.
Sky's comment on how well GB went down in Stoke is noted, but it is equally true that her prospectus didn't do so great there at the last GE.
Sky's comment on how well GB went down in Stoke is noted, but it is equally true that her prospectus didn't do so great there at the last GE.
- Thu 09 May, 2024 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 289
Re: Thursday 9th May 2024
Again a good one liner, but its a shame someone didn't then ask Penny "was your reaction the same when Natalie backed you for leader two years ago?"
- Thu 09 May, 2024 2:29 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 9th May 2024
- Replies: 20
- Views: 289
- Wed 08 May, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 290
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
61 sure doesn't seem old from where I am now.
- Wed 08 May, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 290
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Kate Osamor also got the Labour whip (back) today.
- Wed 08 May, 2024 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 290
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
It is time for Binface to retire IMHO, nothing will ever top beating Britain First - they really were *so* butthurt about it!
- Wed 08 May, 2024 2:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 8th May 2024
- Replies: 14
- Views: 290
Re: Wednesday 8th May 2024
Well, how many Tory MPs have recently supported striking workers in their constituency?
She did (local P&O staff)
And as with Dan Poulter, she is standing down at the GE so this is a propaganda coup at relatively little cost.
She did (local P&O staff)
And as with Dan Poulter, she is standing down at the GE so this is a propaganda coup at relatively little cost.
- Tue 07 May, 2024 2:57 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 7th May 2024
- Replies: 16
- Views: 330
Re: Tuesday 7th May 2024
Tbh am surprised that the US haven't made more effort to force out Bibi.
I don't even mean the good old CIA or similar, just using the leverage they must still have on some prominent Israeli people.
I don't even mean the good old CIA or similar, just using the leverage they must still have on some prominent Israeli people.
- Mon 06 May, 2024 8:15 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: May Bank Holiday Weekend
- Replies: 60
- Views: 1215
Re: May Bank Holiday Weekend
Looks like at least one of the Leeds winners for the Greens referred to by Sky yesterday could be a potential embarrassment to them. I presume you're talking about Mothin Ali who won the Gipton and Harehills ward which is literally just over the road from me? Have you watched the video of the speec...