Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Yeah I honestly don’t know - like eg if (god forbid) someone was paid to draw a swastika on a synagogue I’d expect them to face hate crime charges not just low a level graffiti penalty.

I mean it still -is- a hate crime whether you knew it was going to be or not?

I think in this situation it’d be a case of doing it on the promise of being paid - no idea whether blindly doing arson-for-hire gets you a better or worse sentence than if you were motivated by self considered “righteous” hatred though

Regret

No idea what you’re talking about - scamming rich people is like the third oldest profession there is

I have heard tell this is the one use case for owning an air fryer - that doesn’t justify owning an air fryer in my case cos chop shop veggie options are so poor. But apparently that’s what air fryers are for.

Anyway a deep frustration with those kind of openly anti-democratic factional shenanigans were why I left the Labour Party and joined Your Party lmfao

How Labour ‘Rigged’ an Election to Block a Leftwinger From Leading a Council Labour used the accessibility provisions for a disabled councillor and single mum as a factional weapon in order to ‘rig’ an election. Polly Smythe reports.

Love 2 live in the “People’s Republic of South London” lol novaramedia.com/2025/07/17/h...

You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.

I mean the one blessing is that if the Americans hadn’t fucked everything up Mscsweeney and Streeting would be jointly writing Starmer’s resignation speech for the day after the elections right about now

Look, it's actually pretty simple, it's important to show that Starmer wasn't to blame for the Mandelson appointment because he is going to be to blame for the May elections.

I wonder who’s going to be sacked for sacking Robbins?

I’ve done, with @davehillonlondon.bsky.social , a detailed guide to each of the London boroughs with lots of context and ward-level analysis londondecides.lowickhedry.com

In other circumstances he’d probably have appreciated a three week holiday

Frustratingly, this was the one line of questioning where answers would have been particularly interesting. Certainly looks like there could be even more problems with Starmer's judgement if it turns out he's unfairly dismissed "the most senior civil servant in the foreign office""

Is there an outcome where it’s found that Starmer unfairly dismissed Robbins and if so what are the consequences of that?

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

Maybe it's cos my father is Dundonian, but when any of the SNP MPs are ragging on Starmer, it cuts me to the core of my very soul

I mean usually half of the questions are meant to be softball questions from your own side that make you look good. That is uh not the case today.

They weren't exactly spring chickens at the time, but man Big John and Diane have got old

Popular Lib Dem given stern dressing down after crossing the floor for a stroke Jennie the Guide Dog was summoned by Lib Dem chief whip Wendy Chamberlain after she brazenly crossed the Commons floor to be petted by gleeful Labour MPs

She got in trouble with the Lib Dem whips for crossing the aisle last year haha www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Liberal Democrat Steve Darling's guide dog Jennie

lmfao Emily Thornberry's running

Jesus Christ Kemi, leave him alone, he's already dead

Now isn’t a good time for a leadership contest but tomorrow is worse and the day after even worse still

Almost made the thermodynamics and organic synthesis worth it

I did chemistry so the only optional lectures I went to were about recreational drugs or explosives

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

It’s not a special British corruption, is it. It’s the same as everywhere else.