Ugh. Aside from the shit take, imagine being proud to be featured in the Sun!

This is the Telegraph, so the headline may or may not bear any relation to what Vince said. I certainly don't trust him *not* to have those views though.

[Just a blank space - he has no interest in finding anything out about anything ever]

Because the current consensus of 'cut everything and give the savings to the rich uncle (who also hates you)' is really going well?

Don't laugh at Tim Stanley. He's Jacob Rees Mogg with elbow patches.

To be fair to him he's obviously trying to avoid the landed aristocracy stereotype - based on that photo alone I'd assume he's never seen a welly. Or the sunlight.

They'll get candidates for a GE, but they'll be crap. There's plenty who'll be attracted by a 100k job in an institution they think is a doss. Those willing to put the work in will be not-so-closet nazis. And they don't have the party organisation to run a national ground campaign.

The thing missing from this article is that there *is* an ideological project, whether driven by Starmer or merely allowed by him, and that that ideological project is alienating Labour's base. Backbenchers who are projected to lose their seats are dangerous to any PM let alone a weak one.

As an electoral force, yes. As an influence on voters and on other parties, sadly no. Look at Labour and the Tories rushing to the right - Farage is wielding power already.

Farage would hate being PM and he knows it. Far better to cash in from the sidelines while other parties implement his policies for him. He'll enjoy his time in the limelight and quit before there's any danger of actual work. By design, there's no successor with any charisma. So they'll wither away.

Fair point. I trust Sadiq to celebrate an inclusive multicultural Englishness or Britishness and I think it's worth celebrating. I would love for there to be a simple recognisable symbol of that that anti-fascist Brits can use, but yes it would need to come from minority folks first.

We're in desperate need of a symbol of English patriotism which specifically signals wokeness. Wonder if you can get a St George cross with a progress pride flag replacing one of the white sections?

Nah, Binface is sound. You'd never catch him with these fuckers. Reminds me of the Black Knight - I reckon he could do with 'just a scratch'.

I was at school with a guy known as Womble who was rumoured to be 72nd in line to the throne. I reckon we bump him up a bit.

I mostly read this as the media being a bit desperate to find an attack angle on the Greens. Renewables at the expense of everything else can't be the answer. We need a proper grown up conversation & strategy for energy and land use which is not helped by sensationalist headlines saying Green=Nimby.

Penblwydd hapus! One of the joys of living in Wales is having a choice of parties I can vote for without holding my nose.

It's only snickers if it comes from the Snickerdoodle region of Arkansas, otherwise it's just a sparkling Marathon.

No it's not healthy. We live in an extreme world. An unhealthy world. A world of outrages. A dying world. And you think it's normal and we can just tinker our way through it. Anyone who's not an extremist by the standards of the current far right Overton window is deluded at best.

I'm glad we agree on something! The problem is that this government does half a dozen abhorrent things before breakfast. You want to give credit for the few decent things they manage amongst the horrors but I can't forgive them.

We already live in a fascist country under Labour. BNP immigration policy, mass arrests of anti-genocide protestors, the most anti-LGBT government of my lifetime (and I grew up under Thatcher) etc etc etc. The Reform boogieman doesn't wash.

Oh and the Labour party you're defending isn't far far worse than insulting?! People are dying from their policies and you don't like me swearing. Well fuck off further you fucking useless apologist cunt.

Oh no I'm angry!!! Why the fuck aren't you???

You keep ignoring the reality of people at the sharp end. Says it all.

Oh do fuck off you smug twat

Proposing draconian cuts and then watering them down is not progress. Doing that *after* 14 years of Tory austerity is unforgivable.

Doing better than the Tories is a terrifyingly low bar. And not making meaningful change (remember the "Change" they campaigned on?) is exactly what's driving people to Green and Reform. As to Green not doing economics, ask Keynes or any mainstream centre left European party.

This sort of thing? www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/400000-... And I'm not sure what you think the point of a governmemt is if it can't help mitigate the impact of global events on its citizens, especially the poorest.

Drop, meet ocean. I mean, good, baby steps and all that, but there'll be no students left to take part after all the universities go bust.

I don't think we can give Labour credit for being forced to scrap the cap after fighting tooth and nail to keep it. The others are nice but sticking plasters. Hammering the disabled, freezing tax thresholds and failing to tackle housing/energy/food costs are all much more impactful on real poverty.

As an accountant I found the economicsy bits of my training to be 50% 'Grumbly-Spank's table of codifying the bleeding obvious' and 50% shit philosophy.