Oh I did the eggs and marmite thing yesterday and it was great, thanks for that one 😃

By definition we're talking about high earners with young kids, so a lot of them will just decide they want to spend time with them

By cans I meant canned food rather than beer but on reflection I think drinking a lot of cans might be a good idea

Is there anything I, a normal person, can do about this apart from stock up on cans?

A job? A succulent diplomatic job?

Sorry 😔

This is turning into a great example of how soft soap interviews can sometimes be more revealing than hard hitting ones because people relax and say more than they mean to.

Call me a humourless scold but I don't find it funny that the Home Secretary wants to taser or deport political opponents, that's actually quite scary

Yes I agree with this - who was watching the video, saving it and leaking it months later... But if you asked that question at the time people acted like you were defending Hancock ( 🤢 )

They've already done that (Olney)

It must be like 5% of the bottle you just cannot get to!

KETCHUP

I think this whole insane scandal has broken my brain because this tweet made me giggle uncontrollably for a full minute

Oh my goodness how big does this go

"Will Ed Miliband survive as PM until the 2029 election?" If you'd heard that in 2014 you're imagining a VERY different decade 🤣

Oh my God that sounds amazing I'm having it for lunch tomorrow

(Not sure who these weirdos who eat only 200 eggs a year are)

Big Wet Wipe knows how to make wet wipes that can be removed one at a time but refuses to do so because they make so much money when you pull them out in clumps

Is there an argument for keeping Reeves if Miliband wins? The markets seem to like her and would find it reassuringly unchaotic

Is this a parody?

Similarly the only argument to keep him now is if he was willing to accept his fate and spend a year passing horribly unpopular but necessary things and then be replaced with a clean skin. But he's not willing to do that so best off getting it over with

Isn't this a classic 'the thing that gets you isn't the worst thing you did' thing?

Men will run the straight of Hormuz in a cruise liner rather than go to therapy

I think we'd be better off trying to win idk Reading West and Mid Berkshire by building up a local govt base and trying to win from 3rd or 4th, because people in those seats are closer to us than in say Rutland and Stamford but I don't think that's what we're doing

I strongly agree with this but I'm not sure this is where we're aiming at currently, I think they're looking further down the numerical target list to seats we can't win without proper Tories

The next group of people just aren't Liberal Democrats and aren't really open to us, and because of that the party just doesn't get them and doesn't get how to appeal to them. Hence some of the slightly odd vibe to some of the approach.

We were able to appeal to Tory remainers in Surrey because we understood those people and they agree with us on a lot. Maybe at the rightish end of the party but still within it. And that's why once they moved to us we've basically kept them.

The problem is that the next tranche of seats are just a lot more Tory, and you can't win them without winning the people that are still telling pollsters they're voting Tory but who don't like Reform. And the problem with THAT is that these people just aren't Lib Dems.

This is interesting and there's a lot to say about it, but I think this bit specifically is almost right, but actually wrong. It's not about retaining the centre-right remainers who got the LDs 72 seats - those people aren't going anywhere. It's about trying to win the next tranche of seats

Something I say a lot is that our objective as defined in the first line of our constitution isn't to win seats, it's to build and safeguard a free, fair and open society. Winning seats is a tool to do that - but also not very useful unless we're using them to deliver that ultimate goal.

It seems to be massively dependent on individuals. Around me a lot of them, even some incumbents, have given up but the ones that are fighting are proving quite resilient.