Alex

Who the fucking hell is a Tory voter at this point?

Hilary Mantel I’ve only read the first of the Wolf Hall trilogy. The tv series based on the first two was brilliant as well imo

There used to be an occasionally funny dating page in Mixmag. One that springs to mind was along the lines of - Are you into political activism? Do you have strong views about the environment? Are you part of the anarchist-illegal rave scene? Then kindly fuck off. I want a thick as fuck blonde with massive tits.

The lass he married was in the year below me at school. I think they split up years ago but it was amicable. He used to always play at the Cluny around Xmas time iirc. Jah Wobble is fucking class btw. Made some of the funkiest baselines known to man

Oh, it’s fucking ferrying alright. I actually try not to think about it too much, mate. It’s too depressing

Do they arrive where they are now if there’s any great degree of competence or some master plan that’s being played out? There’s a series of disastrous events that have lead to where we are. This is not an exhaustive list by any means but Cameron has a referendum he arrogantly thinks he can win. He loses and fucks off. May, another remainer, takes over and thinks a hard Brexit is the best way forward (for her and her retaining power). She has a healthy majority but calls a snap election anyway, is a campaign disaster and wipes that majority out. She’s now a dead man walking. No working majority and safe in the knowledge her party won’t let her stand as leader at the next GE. Johnson comes in and can’t do a thing but plays on the fact the thick as fuck general public are desperate to get Brexit done. Swinson and Corbyn get sucked into his ploy and he wins an 80 seat majority. Then Covid masks virtually everything wrong with leaving the EU. Eventually this begins to unravel because the entire government and Parliamentary Tory party say Brexit is going well when they know it’s actually wrecking the economy but can’t admit it. Johnson’s shenanigans eventually turn the public against him so his MPs would rather role the dice than risk losing their seat. The membership then choose Truss, a power hungry moron, despite every demographic (including Tory voters) preferring Sunak. Truss then picks a cabinet of sycophants even she doesn’t find mentally intimidating. Their big idea is to come up with massive borrowing to fund the biggest tax cuts in decades but ones which overwhelmingly benefit the rich the most, at a time when almost everyone is significantly worse off than they were 5 years ago. They’re just a pub drunk at closing time, staggering to the next lamppost, thinking it’ll save them until they accidentally stott their heed off it.

Me granny used to say that. Enjoy!

I’ve thought this too re: expecting to lose but I’ve cone to the conclusion they haven’t got a clue what they’re doing. The problem with the notion it’s deliberate is they can’t take the rest of the party with them because it means loads of them losing their seat at the next election.

Aye, when he’s 75

Good to see she’s thinking about doing something which will no doubt lead to unnecessary deaths in the back of advice from Michael Fabricunt. The stupid thing is that most people won’t give a fuck so it’s not even a vote winner

CT agrees with you 👍🏻

Well I suppose some of the Tory party are opposed to it

Reminds me of this fella:

BBC News once again showing its impartiality by having the CEO of Cuadrilla on to tell us what a good idea it is to end the ban on fracking 👍🏻

End of the week or wide of the mark?

What’s Brett Emerton up to these days?

Confusion on Wearside

Had a look and it was 165! Happy days

Iirc Blair claimed he was open to the idea and Gordon Brown was always against it.

If they get PR, they’ve won. Not just in the short term but pretty much for the foreseeable. They’d probably gain votes they currently lose by not having a chance in a particular constituency. More importantly though the Lib Dems would have something in the order of 10-15% of the seats in the HoC. Or 65-100-ish. Not just a marked improvement on now but also a meaningful place in any future government

An electoral pact, based on PR, would see the Tories absolutely annihilated. So it won’t happen of course. It would be a good option to combat the ‘destruction of our democracy’ narrative though

Aye, they’ve really shown him who’s boss there like.

Collated polls for August as per electoral calculus point to a small Labour majority (about 15). There’s obviously a margin of error but it’s been ages since any polls have suggested anything other than Labour being the single largest party. The Tories seem to be a mile away from actually winning again.

I like Howe’s plan of bringing him on slowly / not starting him but you’d have thought he’d have been a better option off the bench for the last 20-odd minutes than anything else we had available (except maybe Wood - in a different role obviously).

That’s like me and my kids. I.e. when they know they’ve already won