I wasn't sure if it's as good as Bait but definitely close

Dunno mate

No 10 discounting the views of MPs on "the Corbynite left" is taken here to implicitly mean everyone else can discount them too, which is a bit of a leap of logic.

Also for that campaign to have a through line to subsequent things it needs not to have been a pack of lies imo. Scamming people bad and eventually catches up

Mainly just that making KS a front person for an effective internal Labour contest is much easier than making him a front person for government I think.

All the options were terrible unfortunately if McDonnell wasn't going to run

Yes exactly. Things improved in the narrow sense there wasn't a fight over who was the PMs main adviser but why would Politico centre this rather than "did things improve politically" (no!)

They do seem a bit mad judging by the tone/quantity of the reactions!

It's funny because if you've been paying attention you know the last 18 months of fiasco has largely been because Starmer kept uncritically taking McS's shit advice, this indeed is totally in keeping with the overall thesis of the article, but they won't say it because muuuh muuuh contacts

"McSweeney actually really good and successful but [details redacted]... sadly had to resign 18 months later" funny precis

"For a time, things improved [citation needed]"

If it was running to deliver a doordash burrito they'd be all over it

It's definitely rooted in the anti-tech bro position but because it's not very well worked through it ends up just being an anti-tech position, see all the replies going "well a car can do this as well, why do we need this"

"Why do we need this when we have cars" seems to be the median response!

Funny social network that has an odd, somewhat contradictory, set of consensus views that get haphazardly extended to a range of semi-related issues, creating a downward spiral of incoherence. You know bluesky will hate the idea of a running robot but you will sound insane if you try to explain why.

V funny how mad bluesky is about this

Just for a few months after graduating in the Philip Collins era, I doubt my name got to the record on anything!

I did some pension research for the SMF as a young intern 20 years ago and unfortunately I found it very boring and still do. No doubt put paid to my think tank career but oh well.

Tbh I am still just bitter about the forestalk hivemind wanting Enzo sacked after the form dipped late in the 23-24 season (but they still won the league with 97 points!). Thought that was quite symptomatic of various things which has made me ever more apathetic since.

I think he is basically doing that tbh. Probably player sentiment as well, but obviously you can't trust them either. There is definitely no sense of serious managerial recruitment planning, but the fans should have clocked this by now.

The fanbase has a bit of responsibility imo. They keep demanding the manager gets sacked every 3 months, eventually the owner succumbs, he has no plan in place for a replacement, form gets worse. Cifuentes is not a world beater but would clearly have seen them to 16th or whatever.

Me to my civil service colleagues: i will notte be seen Deade with Mandelson now the vetting hath done a Numbre on him

me when Sir Keir asks me if the Mandelson appointment will be finalised soon: Most certinly Sir. Vetting gets bettre every Week Sir

I assume because for civil service appointments (as this was) they don't want to have a ministerial intercession because that might compromise the integrity of the process.

After Peter Mandelson’s appointment was announced on 20 December 2024, the FCDO started the ambassadorial appointment process, including National Security Vetting. The vetting process was undertaken by UK Security Vetting on behalf of the FCDO and concluded with DV clearance being granted by the FCDO in advance of Lord Mandelson taking up post in February.

This is, with more context, such a great paragraph. committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Think that falls into the "not even wrong" category. Literally only interested in occupying the office of PM and nothing else whatsoever about the role

This is less dignified than that BBC reporter who just stands on the beach in Dover every day counting how many small boats land

Today v much ‘Al Capone Tax Evasion’ day for the Sir Beer Korma truthers amongst us

Also coinciding with the 2024 Labour MP intake, the most "ah! nevertheless," people of all time

Mandelson surely the most "ah! nevertheless," story of all time. A rolling series of "ah! nevertheless," events, each one superseding the last, until everyone involved is dead.