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Have to say my response was and is closest to the last one - "is that it?". A widespread impression is that he originally intended to say something "big" but for whatever reason got cold feet at the last minute. It was completely bizarre, I can't remember a Prime Minister standi...

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As for Twitter, fucking hell. I'm old enough to remember when all we had were unmoderated Usenet Newsgroups and how they always eventually descended into the depths of hell as a result of a minority of dickheads. It's why we all fled/flocked to moderated forums back in the day and Usenet went from b...

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So the one really notable thing this evening was how the audience reacted to Sayeeda Warsi. She's the first Tory politician to appear on QT for months who didn't face laughter, groans, or even worse tumbleweed. Despite all the sound and fury from racist dickheads on Twitter and elsewhere over the pa...

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Last question was on the war in Ukraine. Lammy blathered some delusional nonsense about him exerting pressure in Washington. Warsi said it would end in negotiation, while then confusingly pointing out Putin couldn't be trusted to abide by the terms of any negotiation. Stanley also went down the nego...

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Wow. On the subject of assisted dying Tim Stanley gives a well reasoned argument against it which takes the view that we'd be turning against the post WWII attitude towards the sanctity of life, while speaking out against the ideology of seeing people only for their economic worth. So whether he und...

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Hah. Caroline Lucas kicks David Lammy's arse on Labour's fear of taxing the rich and the audience love it.

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Tim Stanley thinks Lee Anderson is wrong and thick but manages to avoid calling him racist then comes out with some guff about the Tory Party being in some kind of existential intellectual crisis about the balance between calling out racism and the right to free speech. Sayeeda Warsi wonders if her ...

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Lot's of conspiracies on Twitter about why the QT live stream was pulled with 15 minutes notice.

To be honest I actually think they dropped a bollock last time when airing it before the by-election polls had closed. As far as I can remember they've observed purdah rules on every previous occasion.

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Oh ffs...there were two by-elections a couple of weeks ago on the same night and it didn't stop them airing QT earlier online. What's the difference this time? I'm not starting a review at 20 to midnight so a running commentary is probably the best that's going to happen if I'm not already too pisse...

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RIP Dave Myers - an absolutely brilliant ambassador for Barrow-in-Furness (a place frequently and unfairly maligned) as well as everything else. Absolutely, my Mum met them both and said they were lovely, I was genuinely saddened to hear he'd died and we won't be able to experience his good natured...

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This could be fun.

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I was reading the comments on a Toynbee article this morning and saw a few from people discussing the lack of English grammar teaching at state schools in the 70's and 80's. After a bit of googling it's absolutely true, between some time in the late 60's and 1988 (when the National Curriculum was br...

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Anyway on the more genteel front of the culture wars Jonathan Sumption is making an arse of himself again.

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As a counterpoint to the right wing journalists now facing shit from Islamophobic racists, it seems Corbyn supporters have taken it upon themselves today to have a go at James O'Brien for defending Dawn Butler (who as far as I'm aware was a Corbyn ally) against accusations of antisemitism from a Tor...

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Gave it a few hours and oh look, he's being attacked by a load of racists. Let's hope this opens the eyes of the 'decent' right wing commentariat who've been happy to dismiss or downplay Islamophobia on their side of politics for years. They scoffed at Sayeeda Warsi, called her a crank, and accused ...

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Don't often agree with him but fair play to Iain Dale here. Let's see if he gets the same racist pile on as the other right wing commentators who've had the gall to express a bit of human decency. He went on afterwards to explain that he's so disgusted he's questioning for the first time if he'll vo...

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This is what happens when racists are emboldened, those on the right who aren't prepared to be openly racist are denounced as traitors and apologists. We've seen it with Fraser Nelson and Konstantin Kisin already and I'm sure it's happening to others. The Tories are playing a very dangerous game, no...

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A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work - Nesrine Malik https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/26/faultine-keir-starmer-politics-gaza-labour Whatever motion Labour ended up ramming through, it came too late. The party...

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Good luck dude.

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Blimey.

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I genuinely think it made very little difference. At the end of the day his "actions" largely involved parliamentary procedures which will have been fairly incomprehensible to the vast majority. If you are making implications about MPs feeling insecure being blamed on Muslims, that's argu...

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The idea that the likes of Lee Anderson only decided to be Islamophobic after this week is a bit of a stretch tbh. Come on AK, we've known each other for years on this forum so I know you're better than wilfully misrepresenting what I said. Have Starmer's actions last week aided and emboldened thos...

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So the SNP and Tories doing a shabby deal to stitch up Starmer wasn't that? The past week certainly wasn't anyone's finest hour, but you maybe can't really blame Labour too much for fighting back. Nah sorry, not having that AK. The SNP's position has been clear and consistent throughout the 'confli...

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refitman wrote: ↑Sun 25 Feb, 2024 2:13 pm Ooh, that's some lovely landscape Sky.

Ta. There's a lot of it about up there.

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As for the Gaza amendments fiasco it's interesting to see those defending Starmer praising Labour for indulging in exactly the kind of shithousery we've been condemning the Tories for getting up to for years.

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Afternoon. Looks like it's been a quiet week in politics while I've been away. Here's the view from an Iron Age hill fort in the Ingram Valley with my Dad annoyingly wandering into shot. https://i.postimg.cc/gJMjMSwC/20240222-151322-2.jpg Northumberland coast with Lindisfarne castle in the distance....

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Anyway I'm off up North again for the week, my Dad's somehow contrived to develop two different types of arthritis in his wrists in the space of a few weeks according to the consultant he saw. Apparently he's had to have the neighbour round to chop his veg when he's been cooking it's been so painful...

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Most of them have genuinely vanished never to return - Berger is maybe the only one I can seriously see returning to parliament. Chuka Umunna would fit quite happily back into Starmer's Labour party but I see he's currently busy trying to fight the capitalist pig dogs at JP Morgan from the inside b...

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refitman wrote: ↑Sun 18 Feb, 2024 5:31 pm Something to raise the spirits a little

Heidi Allen stuffing her face there, not messing about with salad or chips, just a full plate of fried chicken. A woman after my own heart.

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If anyone fancies an 80s nostalgia hit I'd never heard of a pop ball, but what's this about yo-yos being 'weaponised' in Australian schools? What were they doing, grafting metal spikes to them or something? I can just see Mel Gibson, striding the post apocalyptic wasteland taking out mohawked bad g...

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I mean those Trump trainers are pretty awesome in a camp 70's Wonder Woman kinda way.

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Starmer allies gripped by fear of Labour complacency amid byelection triumphs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/18/starmer-allies-gripped-by-fear-of-labour-complacency-amid-byelection-triumphs Josh Simons, director of the Labour Together group, which conducted the analysis, said: “For y...

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refitman wrote: ↑Fri 16 Feb, 2024 8:21 pm Tbh, I wasn't really looking at the comment regarding the vote gain/loss, when I posted the tweet. More just the result itself.

Weird how you can read into things, isn't it?

I didn't mean you mate, it's been all over Twitter and in the Guardian comments all day.

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Indeed, because Labour lost 5000 votes. In others they barely clung on by their fingertips. Have a look at these two from 2018/19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Lewisham_East_by-election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Newport_West_by-election The Labour vote absolutely tanked. I understand ...

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I must say it's quite something to see Conservatives and the Corbynite left on Twitter clutching at exactly the same straws. Let's not forget under Corbyn the Labour party failed to overturn a single Tory majority at any by election, in fact they managed to lose one while trashing their vote in a nu...

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Getting pretty quiet round here is it not?

I don't mean now, just in general.

Anyway.

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Question Time came tonight from Lancaster. For the Tories we had Graham Stuart. If there's one thing Graham's good at it's dealing with humiliation with good humour and it's a talent which served him well this evening. To begin with he made a foolhardy attempt to take a holier than thou attitude to ...

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Looks pretty beige, although Graham Stuart is inadvertently comedic on occasion so you never know.

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Afternoon. For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished - Allister Heath https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/14/for-the-first-time-im-beginning-to-think-britain-is-finishe/ Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything i...

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Last post on this subject and it doesn't apply to Ralph's youth because this was 1990 but this is nuts... From Blondie to Lulu: The songs the BBC banned during the Gulf War https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/songs-bbc-banned-during-gulf-war/ Here's just a few. ABBA – ‘Waterloo’ Blondie – ‘Atomic’ The Boom...

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Well I'm learning a few things this evening. Did you know that until 1968 all theatre scripts had to be licenced by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, a department of the royal household, which had carte blanche to ban or censor as it pleased? This came to an end with the Theatres act. https://en.wikipe...

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Ha ha, brilliant. I've just learned that the BBC banned this from Swap Shop because they thought it was promoting homosexuality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo Because of the title Enola Gay was thought by some to be a gay anthem. This being the Eighties it was consequently banned from ...

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I could add Mary Whitehouse, the Sex Pistols being banned from performing, the hysteria over 'video nasties', I'm sure there's plenty more examples. On the other hand the Holiday Programme on the BBC was perfectly happy to show naked boobs just after teatime. Weird times. What would Ralph prefer, tr...

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Touche.

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Simon Danczuk is standing for Reform in Rochdale?

Regardless of what you might think about his 'political journey' surely Reform sending someone who was sacked for grooming a teenage girl to Rochdale is at best tasteless?

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Amen. The Tory right’s radicalisation should trouble us all One of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality. By Lewis Goodall https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/the-tory-rights-radicalisation-should-trouble-us-all The Conservatives, facing a potentiall...

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