One of my recurring bits is that Labour has Coalition-era LDs vibes and you know what, we won a lot of council by-elections in that period. Told ourselves it showed that when people really voted it was fine so the polls must be wrong. The polls were not wrong. It was not fine.

I don't think this is actually that hard to explain and I've circled the explanation

Just thinking again how the clever clever tactical Cleverly backers must be feeling

Ok this is obviously ridiculous, we would never do this, it's absurd. Unless... Hmmm... Now you mention it...

For Khamenei, not the few.

(citation needed)

Hey guys good news, the childcare cliffedge is going to be fixed this parliament 🙄

And never let Labour or Sir Keir Starmer forget that they helped encourage this with their tantrum on Friday, that they *still* haven't apologised for

Starting to think repelling the armada was a mistake

I TOLD Ed Davey not to wish on a monkeys paw to be LOTO but did he listen? He did not!

This is a great turnout, but my goodness we have a long way to go on diversity

From the BBC piece on Josh Simons. This all seems fine and normal 😬

Well that’s my new voicemail greeting sorted

As a longstanding opponent of the Labour party I'd normally be delighted at this but I really don't want Farage to be PM 😫

I totally thought he'd find someone to blame and chuck Shabana Mahmood under the bus. I guess at least he's pinning it on a man for a change?

Labour really hate George Galloway and it's not that they're wrong to do so, but they need to stop letting that be the lens through which they see everything. The Galloway endorsement is not why the Greens won!

Ok just finished Irish traitors, anyone else?

I have questions

Can we make Lisa Nandy's mum the Culture Secretary instead please?

This is good, but it does highlight the risks with the approach to tax that Rachel Reeves chose to pursue at the budget

This is clearly an exaggeration, he is forgetting the strict regulations set out in the Sex With Wife Enjoyment (Maurice Glasman) Act 2006

Hey girl, so I've been reading about the unregulated sexual economy and... honestly I can't complete the joke it's too bleak

Oh my god we need to yeet this into the sun. Absolute clown car nonsense

My second act when I become world king (after letterbox reform) is the Vegan Cheese Act, where if you provide a menu item with vegan cheese you MUST allow people to easily substitute it for actual cheese. Penalty for first offense: a year in jail eating only vegan cheese.

Flashbacks to going round Tivvy Hons knocking on nice doors and saying "but don't you think you deserve better?"

Chat when you're in the final week of a tight by-election is it helpful or not helpful to start being sneery about people's homes?

Kind of nuts how many problems in London seem to be caused by Literally This One Guy

Entirely the wrong approach, explains a lot. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

This doesn't apply to me because I'm always funny 💁

Ok this is super interesting BUT my follow up question would be: is it a broader London economy thing that makes London different. Or is it that the London figures are skewed by v high salaries in a few industries?

Consistency like a national ban? Good!

There's no way this guy would still be a job if he wasn't an early Starmer loyalist. If he resigns now rather than waiting to be sacked maybe he can resurrect his career one day so I was him I'd do that. But one way or another he has to go.

How much of this is rising minimum wages meaning non-grads are paid more? Presumably some but not all?

1. It's not clear from her answer if it was the candidate or a random activist. If it's the candidate, fair enough. If it's an activist, that's a bit harsh but life's not fair. 2. Laughing at her and putting it on the internet for people to mock is probably not a good way to win her over

I just wish Virginia Giuffre was here to see this happen

One of the incredible things about that speech is that he's not charismatic and the speech isn't particularly soaring or inspiring - but instead it was clear and people responded to that.

I think this is missing the point that the massive discrepancy in tax rates based on age is unfair and also limits scope for broad based tax rises which would fund public services properly

100% agree with the below, Nigel Farage is obviously good at politics (derogatory) HOWEVER whether he can convert from small-party insurgent to potential PM is a big and important unknown.

And yet when I did this in Freshers week to find college rowers apparently I was 'weird' and 'no fun' and needed to 'chill out and have a drink' 🤔

If children were more politically active they would be quite pissed to be told that their screen time is “the most urgent public health issue” while the largest measles outbreak since the vaccine sweeps their schools because of conspiracies that the adults in their life believed from social media.

things someone who just got yelled at by a bunch of aliens would say:

First choice is another man because of course it is

This is why the govts failure to use their bully pulpit to constantly paint Reform as unpatriotic, pro-Trump, anti-Ukraine, weird misogynistic racists is such a catastrophic failure. These people are very open to being convinced!

(This is a perfectly normal albeit declining in popularity campaign technique and you all need to get less weird about it)

Did a squirrel write this?

I keep seeing people saying "well of course Starmer's not personally sexist, but..." and I'm starting to feel like at some point Occam's razor says that maybe he is

This story is insane and awful

You guys I really don't think the problem was McSweeny

Do they go to another school?