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They laughed at the People's Front of Judea, but where is the Roman Empire now?

A good point, Comrade.

This calls for immediate discussion.

That is unacceptable comrade. Immediate discussion is an imperialist tool to suppress considered and reflective opinions. If you proceed to immediate discussion it will leave many of us with little alternative but to form our own safe reflective discussion elsewhere.

They laughed at the People's Front of Judea, but where is the Roman Empire now?

A good point, Comrade.

This calls for immediate discussion.

Clearly Zara's move is unhelpful and will dominate the reports in the media. That said, I've been watching most of the conference online (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-755kRtHWdw) and it's overwhelmingly polite and friendly - Lee's Harpin's description of "chaos" is just silly.

It's dead at birth, Nick. Swallow your pride, and stick with your Blairite chums, or go join the Greens.

They laughed at the People's Front of Judea, but where is the Roman Empire now?

It’s a shitshow. The Greens are eating their lunch

Have Your Party done a single thing right since their "launch"?

Yes, they've given me a lot of material for PB headers, for that I am very grateful.

One of the causes of Britain's poor economic performance since the great financial crash has been suggested to be that the economy is carrying large numbers of inefficient unproductive businesses that were subsidised to survive the financial crash, Brexit and Covid, but are poorly-run zombie companies that will never grow.

If an increase in business rates has the effect of forcing a few inefficient businesses to close, freeing up premises and market opportunities for new companies with new ideas about how to make a profit where these struggling businesses could not, then that's going to be a good thing.

Not every business will succeed. If a business isn't profitable enough to pay a reasonable level of taxes then what good is it?

Australian PM Albanese marries his second wife

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce865kpdzz8o

Personally I find one sufficient, but good luck to him.

Only this Labour government (I think feckless is the word of the morning) could manage to make a bad news story out of the OBR producing a better fiscal forecast than expected. That takes a special talent.

For all their lack of political skills, this also highlights they have no champions in the press. Three quarters of the press are actively hostile and the other quarter meh about them. That is a first in my lifetime, and would challenge even skilled political communicators, let alone numpty ones.