Unironically, in the US system where losing the house by 1 seat or 100 makes very little difference, I think both sides would be sensible to just do this

If they get a deal where they toll the strait, Iran surely wants those mines gone as much as anyone?

If we assume Wilson and Olney know him personally bc they get the same train home, of the 72 Lib Dem MPs, a total of 7 don’t have a reason to be personally sentimentally attached to Ed Davey

I agree he should probably go bc his project is complete but he literally got 85% of the MPs elected and they didn’t coup *Clegg*

Tbf if my job I was terrible at ended with them having to give me six years pay to get rid of me, I’d probably think I was chosen by god

(…see why people reacted how they did to the coalition now?)

My dad was talking about if he regrets voting for Starmer last night. He voted Lib Dem. If I said he didn’t vote for Starmer, he’d tell me to stop being pedantic

Suburban west London does honestly give you a different perspective on the party system, the *average* voter you meet views red, yellow and green as entirely interchangeable and just wants to be told which one is assigned to their area

So having doorknocked Chelsea at the election (and grown up in Richmond) - people absolutely perceive the Lib Dems are just what Labour are called round there, and this manifests to the Tories cost (truly terrifying tactical voting levels) and benefit

Tbh part of it is there are bits of London as far from the centre and suburban as Sutton Coldfield or Halesowen but they’re in London and in Birmingham they refuse to be considered as the suburbs they are

On tbe subject, mainland Europeans almost without exception describe salaries in terms of pay per month, not per year

I find it odd that he wants to be CX but is that reluctant to be PM tbh. Not like chancellor is a job where you have lots of free time or your wife gets to not see the media again

Both od these are bad (if the recent allegation is true, case on going) but it’s nowhere near as bad as the kind of infiltration that happened during the Cold War

Has it? The specific concern you seem to be raising, that Russian or Chinese agents become cabinet ministers, just hasn’t happened as far as we know. The wife of an alleged spy is a backbench MP and a cabinet minister passed commercially but militarily sensitive information to his friends

Also I’m not an expert on the FCDO org chart but I don’t think the *deputy* director of comms is one sacking away from Robbins’ job

I like how it starts out only fairly mad then she decides he has to be GRU for unclear reasons

Under the US system losing the house by 1 seat or 100 are effectively the same thing, draw that California map where every single district is D+4 and be legends

Wow that would be VERY young, Rayner is two years older than Blair in 97!

It’s an odd diss given the way she’s unforgivably unfit for public office and has damaged the country probably irreparably is she ignored the accounts during the election campaign

So this completely insane thing where they close the train like for hours before and after games - genuinely is that FIFA being divas or NJ being incompetent?

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Welsh Labour are not Scottish labour and plaid are not the snp, they’ve been in coalition or c+s with each other on and off for decades, letting a reform government in is simply not going to happen imo

I don’t think the employ him or have anything to do with this tbf, they just got tipped off by someone in the live audience before the podcast comes out

Except Frankie Boyle humour was very much premised on Blaircore optimism and the assumption that bigotry was basically behind us so may as well pretend to be bigoted bc no one is really anymore and that is NOT Mahmood’s worldview at all

“And now Mark Rowley will play kettle, detain or Menezes with these celebrities”

Yes obviously she’s joking and I’m sure Forde brought it up not her but I think the Home Secretary should be better at refusing to engage in fuck marry kill jokes about deporting her political opponents than Zendaya is at confirming or denying whether or not she’s married

Matt Forde’s podcast lol

…what?

Villeneuve not being a native English speaker and having said he “hates dialogue” and basically doesn’t understand why people care about things other than visuals and tone are strongly related both to each other and to this I think

Yeah I have to say I think that if I became very anti immigration, the fact of my grandparents were born is fair game, just as my degree would be if I started saying fewer people should go to university