Finally. PMs can be made to resign but it is massively unlikely unless the party makes them.

When is the Labour party going to sack its leader who is also PM? It very, very rarely deposes a leader outside a GE defeat

I don't understand the comparison. I might be missing something, it is not out of the question. But what organisation is getting benefit from this exchange?

That video will do that to a man

He is not his wife's chattel, to paraphrase

Lol respect for audiences and the art of storytelling... see all those folk that paid to watch this movie before, they will pay to see it again. Genius!

Percy, this is a very difficult situation. Someone's for the chop. You or me, in fact.
Let's face facts Perc, it's you.

I think it is also that once you have been through enough cycles of this shite it becomes quite tiresome. Old age, basically ;)

Robbins. It's Robbinses all the way down.

And they should also state whether he should resign as Prime Minister, because (eg) he has Prime Ministered so badly that he must resign, or whether he should resign as Labour leader, because (eg) he is losing the confidence of his party and the electorate.

Cartoonist: Daniel Medina

Most of his actual mistakes are around comms, though. There are policy area I disagree with but that's politics. You really do have to fuck up very badly, or do something illegal to end up in resignation waters as PM. As opposed to resigning as party leader, which is another matter.

Yes, he has dropped a bollock in a very public way. How that ends up as a resigning matter for a PM is beyond me.

He will escape because this is a mistake, a dropped bollock, an embarrassing gamble that failed. It is not "resignation of a PM" material.

Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today

We are well into the diminished returns era of LLMs, would make absolute sense.

Going to tell the grandchildren this was The Mandalorian and Grogu.

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

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I refuse to believe this happened without a bloody good thought through reason. I await the reasoning.

Portillo gurning

Good grief. Is there no end to the racism on TV? Just turned on BBC2, Tortilla has gone to Japan and now is pulling "japanese" faces at some school kids.

The only way to understand this is as a statement that biological racism is true and good

It's senseless to parse any evidence or rationality; you might as well debate a dodo

Somali and Haitian Americans are harmed by such talk

The racists *also* are being coy by referring only to migrants...

The grid upgrades are essential to balancing the load/supply across the country. I dont think they mean the upgrades are unnecessary, I suspect they mean that it might not be necessary to pass the costs on to electricity bills.

Letter in today's Financial Times co-signed by CEOs of Octopus, E-ON and EDF:

"...ministers need to move levies away from electricity bills and shield households from any unnecessary grid upgrade costs"

Worth watching Ed Miliband's speech tomorrow to see if any more detail on this

Ah, I get it now. Unctious.

We sure are. But they are related to the Middle East, the USA and Ukraine, along with energy transition and public finances.

Which of those would be helped by choosing an alternative leader from the ranks?

All those foreign governments that paid these tariffs will be delighted