When diagnosing labour brain, you need to pay attention to the patient's overall warp level, the faction is irrelevant at this stage.

I don't dislike Zach Polanksi for what he stands for per se, I just think we shouldn't allow people who've been to drama school to be MPs

Tbh I think the pre-existing condition here was being super FBPE

Baffling Nick Clegg stan > FBPE activist > Greens FBPE activist > Vaguely socialist now > SWPesque Crank. Its been quite a decade for Zach

Absolutely mental level of warping polarisation going on so that 10 years ago during the owen smith leadership challenge Zach Polanski heckled Corbyn with "where were you when we needed you?" and now he's defending the absolute worst blemishes on his record lol

Case of a decision being made in 2013/14 which removes most political control of a policy area, yet politicians still act as if they are in control of it, and refuse to actually use the levers they do have left or to re-impose full control.

The median UK student is still seen by most politicians as doing a BA in woke studies at SOAS, but they are actually at a london satellite campus of a former polytechnic being taught accounting and marketing 101 by a private company.

Excellent write up. Still shocking to me just how little understood the below cause and effect is understood by the UK's political class.

“I can’t risk my life for a sandwich”: A day watching shoplifters at Greggs "No pastries?" said one thief as she cleared the shelves and asked staff for further supplies.

open.substack.com/pub/londonce... quite grim imo

That's no way to talk about Alan Carr!... oh he's already made that joke 20 times

The guy on interior design masters who introduces himself as a royalist... @lobstereo.bsky.social in disguise?

Whoever is next PM needs to do operation 'why not' and just blast through unpopular/expensive stuff that will pay dividends in 3 years time.

Rebase council tax
Devolve more taxes to metro mayors
Railway electrification
Big old car scrappage scheme for money off new electric cars

Deeply humanitarian behaviour to cut down on petrol and gas use and resist govt policies backing energy subsidies.

No ♥️

Time to post an incredible Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-1...

Going to bring back the cringe millennial american thing of putting fucking as people's middle name but just for this scandal. Olly Fucking Robbins, Ed Fucking Miliband, Emily Fucking Thornberry, Kemi Fucking Badenoch.

Much much easier to understand the 2015 and 2016 lab leadership contests in light of this month's events! The arrogance, the vapidity, the obsession with Peter fucking Mandelson.

Since the Burnham pills didn't work, I'm dropping some E (ed miliband)

Actually hysterically laughing at this. You get the feeling he's about to turn to Ed balls and said "I always did say he was a bit of a cunt, didn't I?"

I remember using it a decade ago and thinking it was brilliant, especially the live view of how many docks were free! Now compared to any of its competitors its awful. Presumably its just never been given money for an update.

Hey remember when Reeves bottled it on raising taxes because it would make the government unpopular?

Do think if keith were geniunely a person of honour, who put the best interests of his country and his party before his own political career, he'd resign!

Wow he can cross examine people well, he will obviously be unstoppably great as the leader of a P5 nuclear power with a stalling economy. This is what politics is missing!

Reflecting on how one of Keir's strengths as LOTO was his prosecutorial command of PMQs which he used to trap Boris in several lies... and now seeing several other MPs use that same skill against him (Emily Thornberry, Ed Davey, and yes, even Kemi), its unclear why we thought that was so important?

Disraeli famously didn't use a lectern, preferring to use an autocue whenever he needed to do a televised statement outside No.10.

Can't decide if this is problematic or latently woke

Feels so achingly 2021 in style and spirit

peter mandelson failed his vetting? wow. i didn’t know that - you’re telling me now for the very first time.

what can you say? the permanent secretary did a terrible job. a terrible man doing a terrible job. i’m actually absolutely furious to hear that. i am furious.

Yes, if anything the correct framing to criticize these things is that politicians keep believing there will be a technological solution to political crisis when they barely understand the tech

MIB and DVLA's databases are linked for this exact purpose. If you don't insure a vehicle, you get a joint warning letter from the DVLA and the MIB.

The enforcement of existing rules isn't as good as it could be but the problem isn't a lack of actionable data. www.mib.org.uk/reducing-uni...