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Bridget giving a speech declaring that people have voted for hope and Labour's vision of the future wherein the country's best days are ahead of it Have they fuck. Labour winning by default because everyone wantes to give the Tories a shoeing, more like. I wish politicians could just tell things like they are, futile as that wish is.

Voted on my end. Didn't spoil the ballot and went for the party I felt was most likely to beat the Tory. Suspect its futile but oh well.

Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale & Tweeddale for me. Tory seat. Imagine it'll remain one.

The flatness was actually really surprising. I had heard it was but actually going and seeing it was weird. So yeah not the most scenic but at least I'll not wake up every morning wanting to burn the country down.

Denmark, shifting over with my partner one way or another. Was just over there for 2 months. Country is clean, modern public transport, strong welfare support. Warm, welcoming and outward looking.

Thank fuck I'm emigrating from this shitshow next year...

Utter bollocks as I said repeatedly at the time. 79% of Labour voters were remain. Higher than any other party besides the Greens. And on Wes Streeting. Last time I mentioned this you told me he was playing to the Sun reading crowd with that. Now you think he's right. I don't need a response to this, I know you're going to say whatever suits supporting Starmer so it really is a pointless conversation.

He has not actually carefully balanced himself across this though, he is clearly on one side of it. You can hope that it's all a lie/illusion/whatever but honestly, I think Labour has decided they're running with it and it's dead.

It'll be in reference to this: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/12/wes-streeting-defends-labour-plan-private-sector-cut-nhs-backlog Wes Streeting has said he'll use private sector for NHS revival and that middle class lefties are the enemy.

So why has he then? Him saying that is him opening it up again. He's picked his side, it's that of the morons. Labour are never fixing Brexit.

It's the current headline in the Guardian. Apparently attempting to reassure fuckheads that he's not going to go for it in any theoretical second term either.

Starmer doing his best to ensure that I don't vote for him tomorrow by saying we'll never rejoin the EU in his lifetime. SNP it is.

I can't remember how it was in previous tournaments now but it seems obvious that Southgate has no system or playstyle other than a vague leaning towards safe possession. He is completely reliant on moments of individual brilliance from very good players, and that is hurting us. Players like Foden are used to working in a well drilled and well planned system to achieve things, he would normally know where he's meant to be at all times. With Southgate I don't think anyone knows where they're meant to be all over the pitch. We need an actual manager after this, someone with a style of play and a vision for implementing it. Who will pick players to suit that style of play. Last night has just about killed my interest in this now. I barely cared when we equalised, very similar view to Alex on it - wasn't deserved.

Welcome mate!

Keeping Isak is worth more than the c.6 points we'd be deducted for missing it anyway. I continue to believe its very unlikely the club don't have some sort of plan in place around this.

We're in trouble with this. This clamour for Democrats now to pick someone else... I mean it's not going to happen is it? There isn't time for them to get someone bedded into the public consciousness quick enough. How much longer do we have to put up with these selfish old people sacrificing the rest of us for their stupid egos. Biden is 80 ffs. It is ludicrous that they've allowed him to go this long.

Well said.

Only temporary though apparently. Guardian reporting his wife is heavily pregnant so it could just be that. I'm sure Southgate will find some way not to play Gordon whether Foden is here or not.

Southgate is a fucking bellend.

How did we end up getting caught out with this anyway?

It's not worth getting into indeed.

It's not even about whether it was obvious or not, it's about Britain following the processes it signed up for. I think even Corbyn knew it was Russia, he was just keen that we did things by the book. Which we should have, and in almost any other situation everyone on here would be crying out for. It's only different in this case because you all hate the guy. Corbyn being right about this one thing doesn't make him a good leader, it doesn't absolve him of everything else. I just find it incredible how selective people can be about things like this at times. How often were we blasting the Tories for throwing out due process and procedure in a number of other circumstances? It felt daily at one point.

Putin has sponsored most of what happened in the West the last few years, let alone loved it. But that doesn't change the fact that there was an established due process for how we should have handled that situation, Corbyn advocated that we engage with it, and everyone railed against him because Britain should apparently be able to flout international agreements and norms whenever it feels like it. It's an indefensible position for anyone who considers themselves to be an internationalist. This is what he said in Parliament: “I think obviously the government has access to information and intelligence on this matter which others don’t; however, also there’s a history in relation to WMD and intelligence which is problematic to put it mildly. “So I think the right approach is to seek the evidence; to follow international treaties, particularly in relation to prohibited chemical weapons, because this was a chemical weapons attack, carried out on British soil. There are procedures that need to be followed in relation to that.”

There are definitely apologists for Putin on the left, but as I recall from this issue, Corbyn's stance was that we should investigate the matter through the proper channels in line with our international commitments, rather than the Tory approach of eschewing international norms and operating unilaterally, which in the end diminished our ability to do anything in response. I remember arguing about it on here at the time and I still think Corbyn was right about this one. Mind you, that doesn't stop the guy being a Putin apologist more generally - he was.

Joke aside, what the fuck is going on in that video Seems like getting into the bookies is life or death for some people.