It's easy to laugh at the Tories' downfall, but part of the reason the far-right is in ascendancy is their utter collapse as a prominent centre-right party, in part because their leader is MIA and because her self-appointed stand-in has a frighteningly unhinged, far-right chameleonic ideology.

And this under a *Labour* government, in part because it repeatedly gives legitimacy to far-right views. Starmer should hang his head in absolute fucking shame.

When it comes to “echo chambers”, the left will *never* have anything on these cunts.

The vacuum at highest levels in talking about this dark turn in British life over the last few months HAS to end.

Thank you for the reminder of the time Jason Manford issued a notes apology because his tribute to Brucie being under the Palladium unintentionally sounded like he is in Hell.

It can never be stressed enough how different the practical rules of politics are for the right and the left. People used to say that this was just bias sensitivity, or cherrypicking, but nobody does any more, cause you just can’t ignore it.

Yes, I know books like this are designed to annoy people like me, that's Morgan's whole M.O. (not to annoy me specifically), but really. Imagine actually wading through this. The stench, the tedium, the utter desolation.

Fuck OFF.

Still recalling the person on here, a Labour activist, who works in a politically adjacent field, and who seriously suggested Starmer’s government deserved to be seen as being the most radical since Attlee’s. How’s that going?

The sort of compelling policy platform and assured performance under the spotlight that saw him lose elections against Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn.

"In the North, gravy is a biscuit"

Anyone who tries to make a point by reference to some form of coffee being “posh” is a nailed-on twat.

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

These comments were completely extraordinary at the time and should still be now.

The opening few paragraphs of this are unintentionally very funny.

I'm calling this Your Party Faction 8 and I love it so much.

I agree: he’d be far more of a disaster as leader than most people are caring to think. And the process whereby he could get himself into a position even to stand - quitting as mayor, being parachuted into a safe seat - would all be so blatant as to make him look mildly ridiculous.

Burnham saying openly that MPs have been asking him to launch a leadership challenge is a really idiotic move and pretty much kills off any chance he may have had of doing something stone-dead. Makes him look like a disloyal fantasist.

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

Kind of amazing how UK news media still remains obsessed with the structurally limited impact in economic terms of small boats even as this potentially terminal havoc works its way through key UK industrial supply chains on.ft.com/3Ihb8YF

This ought not to surprise, really, given how Labour as an opposition for the whole of 2010-24 was, let’s face it, pretty crap.

The thing about Farage that goes under-stated is how pathetically thick and easily led he is. He wouldn’t have a single opinion on the safety of paracetamol if the people in the States he’s desperate to suck up to weren’t banging on about it.

ITV News leading with “foreign criminals bring deported” and Farage’s views that paracetamol in pregnancy science isn’t settled. The news agenda in this country is an absolute constant trash fire

Boris Johnson tells The Sun that Reform are a threat to national security because "they are on record as saying that NATO provoked Putin's aggression" against Ukraine. Very true. In other news, here's how Boris Johnson responded when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2016

What's really odd about the government is it feels like they are still the opposition. Powerless. Get the BBC in and put a rocket up their arse. When Farage talks about immigration, do something on the economy. Make a lot of bloody noise. Use the power you have. It's all just a bit....meek.

I don’t love the “feud” framing, as much as I do appreciate the mayor standing up to Trump. Sadiq Khan is not feuding with anyone. He was the target of a vicious, racist attack and is standing up for himself and others.

I've been to a wedding this past weekend, and bar one couple, every single English person who was married to a foreign national does not live in Britain because the Home Office made it impossible for them WHAT IS THE YOUR TAKEAWAY FROM THIS? "OPEN BORDERS"? "MASS IMMIGRATION"?

This is not “a Labour argument” in any way, shape or form. It’s also based on the right-wing lie that our borders are uncontrolled.l, and will therefore do fuck-all to combat Farage. Great work, lads.

These people absolutely exist and they’re nuts, and I can even understand doing a story on them, but it’s really quite pathetic to frame it as “Wow, just like 2020!” when it’s a bunch of random people online and not, like, *the candidate themselves and the overwhelming majority of elected officials*

Now deleted, it doesn't change that someone thought it was suitable to publish in the first place.

Everyone who works for Politico should hang their heads in fucking shame over this.

The whites wank in Eton ... No lies detected

There’s a simpler way to describe anti-anti-fascism.

Archer! Mansell! Goldsmith! Eddington!

Autism is not a regrettable condition. It is not a disease. Bigotry and ignorance, on the other hand, are.

Returning Jesus Christ Downed By U.S. Missile Defense 30,000 Feet Before Making Landfall

Imagine the pained reaction in the immediate aftermath of the massive smack in the chops and laugh your fucking head off.

The BBC, really, should have the luxury of not having to pander to populist tastes and still being able to make things like this.

See, Starmer: it’s really easy to articulate these positions.

There should be a real movement within Labour to go down this road. It should be bound up with a leadership contest.

“Oh but Farage does this anyway” Yes but Trump is broadly unpopular in UK. So make Farage endorse Trump. Then make him a traitor. Use his language against him. A traitor trumper

Now get Nigel Farage to endorse Trumps comments. Ask Farage to provide facts supporting it. Get Farage to call London a disgrace.

I’m left thinking McSweeney is a political equivalent of that player a club signed years ago who turned out not to be a footballer.

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I can't disagree with Dan here...

thatcher's grave

It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

you couldn’t make Father Ted these days because Arthur Mathews won’t return your calls

Over the last 24 hours Reform, with just a single policy announcement, have put fear where previously there was none into the hearts of millions of UK residents. No 10 and the Chancellor have said nothing about the ethics of this. I have no words left for them.