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Faiza Shaheen was a decent candidate though.

I'm less fussed about whether a leftist candidate gets to stand as candidate for Labour. If they failed to organise themselves properly and take control when they had the chance, then that's on them. And maybe it's best for all involved that everyone knows where they stand (or not). What is more of ...

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Wed May 29, 2024 3:00 pm
Can you imagine how incompetent you have to be to take over 12 months to investigate a 250 word letter?

That's not incompetence. Take it from someone who knows; that's masterful.

And you have to deduct all the Fridays from those 12 months too, as nobody will have read their emails.

Even I feel that Labour have been mean to her here. Abbott may be a doddery old race-baiting, identity-driven politician, but her perspective is more understandable given her experiences. God knows, she's been the target of vile racist and sexist abuse over the decades. Lesser men and women would ha...

LOL. Starmer's just trolling the Novara Media lot now.

I can confirm that the anarchists and various leftist groups that occupy the Omonoia neighbourhood of Athens are fully kitted out in the keffiyeh. There are Palestinian flags flying from the lampposts. I'm showing my solidarity by gazing down upon the great unwashed from a rooftop cocktail bar, and ...

Former European Research Group chairman and current Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker has decided to campaign from Greece as he doesn’t want to cancel his holiday Guess he’s given up as well but is too arrogant to relinquish his seat https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/politics/ni-minister-st...

This national service policy announcement; We've just witnessed the Dead Cat strategy in action, haven't we?

If national service is brought in, I just hope I'm just above the maximum age limit.

Out if the top seven candidates from the first round of the 2019 Tory leadership contest, only one - Jeremy Hunt - is now standing to be a Tory MP.

At this rate it wouldn't surprise me if Sunak also declared that he was standing down.

Confirmed: Jezza expelled from the Labour Party. Once he stood as an independent against a Labour candidate he knew this would happen.

In the past 14 years, he has been one of, if not the, most effective ministers at getting legislation through Parliament. All that snorting had an effect afterall.

I make this about right.

Morgan Spurlock, who made that documentary about only eating McDonald's for a month, has died aged 53 from cancer.

Thanks. I put extra effort into that bit.

Er, given the toxicity of the whole Brexit debate and the mess Labour got itself into on that issue in 2019 (for which Starmer is also to blame - LOL), convincing any of those Tory Leave voters for them is a success.

Those same Leave voters are now less likely to vote Tory, and to vote Labour (and Reform UK) instead. T Nah mate. You can't add (and Reform) in brackets when the Tory Leave voters are piling into there rather than Labour by 2:1. I'm not trying anything here. Tory Leave voters are clearly going to b...

What was that business at the Phoenix cinema in East Finchley last night? I've read that protestors were trying to pressure the cinema into not showing a film about the massacre at the Nova music festival on 7 October. Is that right? I know that they don't like anything about Israeli victims being d...

Labour relying on the unemployed and students shock! The thing with this though, is that the unemployed and students just do not tend to vote, regardless of how they respond to polls. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOV5bGUWQAApqPV?format=jpg&name=large I'm assuming the 10,928 is not spread equally...

The Tories just managing to hold on to half of homeowners who do not have a mortgage. Which, to be fair, is substantial proportion and will be well represented at the polls on the day. But all others are turning their backs on them. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOV5e2-WwAAS-AT?format=jpg&name=la...

Labour relying on the unemployed and students shock! The thing with this though, is that the unemployed and students just do not tend to vote, regardless of how they respond to polls. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOV5bGUWQAApqPV?format=jpg&name=large Are “Not working” as opposed to “unemployed” ...

Whatever else anyone may think about Starmer and Labour, their careful navigation of the Brexit issue looks to be working. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOV5XFxWIAACk1v?format=jpg&name=large I don't understand the conclusion you've drawn from this? Labour position on Brexit in 2019 clearly spooke...

Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2024 2:19 pm Students don't vote? Weren't they responsible for turfing Clegg out?

That was a targeted campaign though, wasn't it? I mean that generally, younger people (who will make up the bulk of that student demographic) are relatively absent at elections.

The Tories just managing to hold on to half of homeowners who do not have a mortgage. Which, to be fair, is substantial proportion and will be well represented at the polls on the day. But all others are turning their backs on them. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GOV5e2-WwAAS-AT?format=jpg&name=lar...

Labour relying on the unemployed and students shock! The thing with this though, is that the unemployed and students just do not tend to vote, regardless of how they respond to polls.