Alex

He played a great part (also very much of its time) in Shirley Valentine too. Also, he was superb as the Duke of Norfolk in Wolf Hall.

Was the person who thought it was a good idea to post that the same one who played ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ over the PA system?

He must be putting together another fictitious bid for them. At least I hope he is.

What she means is that’s it’s better for her prospects of becoming leader if he loses the next election. She doesn’t want want a contest now, because it would look bad (for her, which is all she cares about) if 1) she didn’t enter or 2) she won then oversaw the inevitable massive defeat.

I like a redemption story. I think he was obviously a good player but devoid of confidence. Although I think a lot of that was down to his game not being suited at all to the premier league, especially as a target man. I once saw him in Gateshead Tesco of all places and he’s a physically imposing bloke. Despite that he was quite easily bullied by PL centre backs

I read on there they’ve accumulated 17 home wins over the course of the last two league seasons (or 46 matches in other words). And they got in the playoffs last year Makes you think

The butler did it

Even if it were true, people would quite rightly blame him and his party for how utterly shite it’s been prior to this.

Aye, but some bell end Everton fan on Twitter who thinks people give a shite about their golf handicap thinks you’re wrong

Birmingham doon and Ipswich up. Quite pleased Plymouth stayed up by the skin of their teeth, as I have a bit of soft spot for them as they were my grandad’s team.

If Labour win in the West Midlands then there’s no way you can even begin to spin this beyond being a terrible set of results. London is an absolute done deal by the sounds of it.

It’s clear how much of an odious cunt she is.

Most of the threads on there are like random thoughts from the pub bore. Also, we better watch out next season if Ipswich’s luck continues. As it stands they’re 40 points ahead of a Sunderland team who are just as good as them

The months and months of polling data where they’ve been doing absolutely abysmally is more of an indication for his the GE will go than the local elections though. Although that’s not to say they are not indicative at all. But there’s a lot more voting on local issues etc. which has a greater influence by the wards having much smaller populations than parliamentary constituencies. Reform will do a lot better in the GE too imo. Not that I see them winning seats but they’ll damage the Tory vote as they’ll have candidates in every seat.

No, I meant he’s got more edge than a broken piss pot 👍🏻

Aye. It’s unlikely he’ll choose a struggling championship club with fuck all to spend

Tielemans? Or however the fuck you spell it

Aye, I checked. My memory must be playing tricks on me as I thought he was there when they won the league. And yeah, I can’t say I blame him either. Probably as well we didn’t pursue him too much though if that’s the case

I also get the impression he went to Spurs mainly for the lifestyle. He’s still young but he’s won the league and the cup. Spurs might win a trophy but they don’t look any closer to a serious chance of winning the league. I don’t really see Maddison as anything other than a squad player for England either, given the competition. So that’s unlikely to be much of a motivation going forward. I agree he’s talented but not in the sort of top drawer ‘game changer’ category. A bit of a luxury player really.

The much more accurate modelling by electoral calculus suggests a 290-odd seat majority. I don’t really mind these sorts of stories if it gets more Labour voters out (as opposed to apathy meaning it’s not quite as bad for the Tories at the GE). Although I don’t think for a second that is Sky’s motivation here

I was thinking both those should be a much bigger story than the Tees Valley result. With the former you’ve got quite a lot of the areas where the Tories gained Labour seats at the last GE. Tees Valley is a bit of an anomaly for a few reasons but even then there was a big swing to Labour

The dopey cunt answered his own question

Looks like we’ve got an expert on swinging

Too busy turning out for Brazil 👍🏻