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Absolutely. Have you never seen how delighted Johnny Foreigner is when the Englishman Abroad speaks very slowly, in a very loud voice with inadequate gestures and says "Do you have SHEPHERD'S PIE? SHEPHERD'S PIE???"

I strongly suspect quite a few Labour MPs are no better than Tories in that they see Parliament as an entry level career move, rather than a commitment to making the country work better.

I’m bored of how the media would rather push a story with no relevance to ordinary people’s problems to the top of the agenda, because they are obsessed with Labour bashing. I’m also bored with how they seem to have forgotten that Johnson was far worse, and cost us far more in grift.

“Quick! Two of them have sneaked up from their rightful place at the back! They must be feminists, or something! We’ll have to hide the ketchup again, when he sees the photo!”

Worth remembering that at the time people remarked on how idealised it all was, and on its ability to confront real issues. If a network ran it now, they’d be threatened with having their licence revoked. Or bought by a Trump-adjacent oligarch, and the drama department fired.

From the VP down, his administration is studded with people who critics him as everything from “Hitler” down, or been subject to vile abuse from him. The ring is kissed, personal advancement restored. And how Carlson is being tipped to run for the Big Job. “The Great American Experiment?” Pffffft.

But from over here, it seems that in America this IS how it works. You already knew what Carlson thought of Trump -since 1999 he has been using the most vituperative language, culminating in his email at Fox in 2021 -he hated him passionately. And he is not alone.

He had already declared his much he hated Trump while still at Fox. It’s clear that he used Trumpism as a convenient bandwagon to plump up his own profile. And actually, it’s worked - more evidence that there’s something toxic in US political discourse.

“Ther is no newe gyse that it nas old.”

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I’m assuming they have done it to price hard copy letters out of existence.

Yes, but Louise Haigh’s phone!!! Angela Rayner!!!

I'm just relieved nobody is talking about how I said I bought a house in Clacton, then admitted it was in the name of my girlfriend, Laure Ferrari, even though she couldn't afford £885,000, which conveniently meant I avoided £44,000 in tax.
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I surprise myself sometimes

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I’m starting to find Chris Mason’s lazy dumbing down -“what you’re about see is a civil servant going ‘Whaaat???” (It wasn’t) and sir Ollie said”hang on a minute!” (He didn’t). This infantilisation goes past treating the audience like children watching Jackanory and over the line into misleading.

If the Queen had lived, who would she have got a telegram from?

Oh you mean to begin with? Well, it’s automatic. Once you’re a cabinet minister you’re in the club. (I can’t help thinking that they sit around in a tower and the Hand of the King, and plot treachery and mayhem.) I’m going to stick with “why do you still have a Privy Council?”

Sure. I’d agree with you, and so would the Cabinet Office, who confirmed he’d be removed from the list on 9 February.

He had been a Cabinet minister. And once you start questioning whether people should booted off the list we’ll be in for an orgy of whataboutery and tit for tat. Better maybe to question whether the whole idea of the PC has a role to play in the modern world?

Whether it’s the lucrative speaking circuit, finance from Russian or Chinese companies, think tanks or just access to a world of high rollers, it’s more attractive to news organisations than the difficult issues.

Isn’t the question underlying this is why we have an eco-system in which the likes of Mandelson -or Johnson, or Truss - can exist at all? These people shrug off personal disgrace,and pursue a lifestyle far removed from any real sense of bettering the state of the nation.

Where did I say that Labour had a progressive agenda?

And you DON’T think the country needs a progressive agenda? I’d do the ROFL emoji too, but then I’m not a quarterwit.

Maybe Democrats should add it to the (long) list of things that will be investigated after the mid-terms….

I didn’t say Labour had one. But then who has? Instructive that thd two people thrown were Sultana snd 30p Lee.

I would like to think that in the UK, such an occurrence would lead to resignation. And that this sort of family enrichment belonged in what Trump would call a "shithole country." But then America IS a shithole country.

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My fourth sort where you're thinking of word rather than letters to fit a space. If you see what i mean...

No, just a snarky cunt.

Yes, it feels very much as though there are more people who would get satisfaction from toppling Starmer, than from achieving a progressive agenda that would solve the country’s problems.

Why are the ethical lapses, and extremist rhetoric of their council candidates not subject to only the most minimal of questioning? And why does Leila Cunningham practically have her own show on the BBC?