Dr Gloom

They're on to their third PM of the term since the Brexit deal was agreed, so we weren't that far off. Brexit destroyed the tories, possibly forever

Yeah, nice one strawb 👍🏼

sigh was life in the uk better or worse under blair and brown than it has been for the past 14 years under the tories? they were also "soft right" flag shaggers

i'm moderate left and i'm voting labour. let's see if they make life better or worse after the next election. i will be amazed if they govern from the soft right, as you put it.

you're talking about Brown losing in 2010? that one was cyclical. people were ready for change and the tories successfully weaponised the global financial crisis. i can't blame brown too much for that. he got his chance at the top job too late in the end and he was always a bit too dour and a bit too scotish, despite doing some really good things as chancellor and pm (notably leading the world out of global financial meltdown) miliband fucked it in 2015, i agree. there was space then to oppose austerity and he bottled it. so much of it did hinge on his failure to eat a bacon sandwich and his apparent lack of a personality though - such a shame because he has shown he is a funny likeable bloke in the years since. it's sad so many politicians are scared to show their personality when they have one. the truth is though that elections are won in the centre. it's once you win power that you can move to the left and actually change the country for the better. i get why he isn't saying anything right now but i'll quick to judge him if he is chicken shit once he's in downing street too. the labour party has always been a broad church and i wouldn't say you're not welcome. but owen jones and the rest, who are only happy when throwing grenades at the leadership when we're finally on the brink of victory, can see themselves out. if they'd rather try to derail things than try to positively influence future policy then just fuck off.

exactly. owen jones and co are welcome to piss off and form their own meaningless reform-style party for the hard left where they can all sit in a circle and talk to each other about their principles. they had their go running the labour party and they fucked it. let the grown ups win power and start the slow process of rebuilding the mess the tories created in the last 15 years.

some people call it flag shagging. to others, it's called winning

that’s the precisely the shit that he needs to do that Corbyn couldn’t bring himself to participate in, because he was so “principled”/unelectable . The culture wars are all the Tories have left. Would you rather he didn’t shag flags and we gave the Tories an open goal? In the scheme of things, who gives a shit whether he plays the game so floating voters think he’s patriotic?

Biden had a good four years and improved the state of the country. The Dems need another four years to embed a lot of the green transformation he introduced through the IRA. He showed how you win elections from the centre without over promising when you’re up against a divisive and unlikable opponent. Unfortunately his ego to be a two term president has fucked them. He’s too old and doddery for it and voters don’t want him. He should stand aside for a younger candidate to run in his place and they’d win but I fear you’re right about trump.

And if that isn’t enough, he’s thinking of car boot sales, t-shirts and maybe a benefit concert

they haven’t really said anything tbh. And the strategy of winning by default is working, why change it? Don’t give them any attack lines while they implode. This strategy worked for Biden and he was able to roll out his transformative inflation reduction act. It’s just a shame that American voters are too dumb to join up the dots.

Win power first, improve lives later. Enough with being principled in opposition. Do what you need to do to win power and then restore public services and invest

not while I roll with the punches it isn’t

That’s the yeast of your concerns

i'm no expert either. just a supporter who is annoyed that we're losing him for the best part of two seasons, when it could have been just one if they had operated straight away, and looking for someone to blame

we're now looking at being without our best defender for the best part of two seasons instead of just one. tough call to make, of course, but an ACL rupture isn't the career-ending injury it once was. surgery is quite advanced and often players come back looking like they've never been away after 9-12 months.

American Fiction. Really clever comedy/drama about modern white guilt and black identity. 8/10

Botman must be bloody annoyed with how the medical staff handled the injury from the start