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I'm thinking of a MAGA acceptable Diana Ross penalty taker

Is Ted Nugent still alive?

Saw him at Birmingham Odeon once, so loud half the crowd broke ribs

Yes Nugent is still going, but surely, not so much of a Kid anymore Rock has to be the penalty taker, unless Trump brings the Tate Boys back. Russell Brand on the other hand might be otherwise engaged visa wise. Remember this is MAGA so no female penalty takers.

I was reading about a load of artists who have pulled out of some concert that was supposed to be about US 250 but morphed into a Trump fest. There was some crap groups and some of them said they didn’t even know they were supposed to be playing. Anyway one of the groups was Milli Vanilli which just showed how rubbish the concert would be considering one of them is dead and they couldn’t sing anyway.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle is still performing...

...he stands in front of the mike and his lips move...

I'm thinking of a MAGA acceptable Diana Ross penalty taker

Is Ted Nugent still alive?

Saw him at Birmingham Odeon once, so loud half the crowd broke ribs

Yes Nugent is still going, but surely, not so much of a Kid anymore Rock has to be the penalty taker, unless Trump brings the Tate Boys back. Russell Brand on the other hand might be otherwise engaged visa wise. Remember this is MAGA so no female penalty takers.

I was reading about a load of artists who have pulled out of some concert that was supposed to be about US 250 but morphed into a Trump fest. There was some crap groups and some of them said they didn’t even know they were supposed to be playing. Anyway one of the groups was Milli Vanilli which just showed how rubbish the concert would be considering one of them is dead and they couldn’t sing anyway.

Robert Matthew Van Winkle is still performing

I guess back in the 70s for all the talk of decline, Britain is finished, there was still a belief that things could be turned around. I just don't see it happening now.

Its complete bollocks of course. Britain is neither finished nor in serious decline.

In almost all respects Britain is a far better country than it was in the 70's.

In some respects we may have reversed decline. But we were helped by north sea oil and a long credit boom. It's hard to see how we get out of our current stupor. We're hopelessly divided politically and there is no uniting purpose anymore.

Blair did make two very good points in his essay. The first that rejoining the EU wasn't going to fix everything and secondly that saving the country from Reform wasn't a serious governing strategy.

What's the odds on both Starmer and Burnham losing

Indeed it is not beyond possibility Starmer could survive as PM

Labour are in a mess

Why do you bother to write this bullshit? Or if if you feel compelled at least put forward an argument

I think you are rhe expert on writing 'b......t' and not engaging

I raise an uncomfortable question and in typical fashion of the left you go off on one

Read Bloomberg I posted earlier, look at the polls, and expect the unexpected

Your filly is currently 500-1. If you are confident of Labour being 'in a mess' I can only think you are suggesting it's between Restore and Reform.

One at 11-1 the other 4-1.

As Labour are so clearly out of it which of 'Restore' or 'Reform' are you recommending we go for?

Or are you thinking Kemi could still pull it off?

Filly sums you up

I have no idea about the result but the conservatives, lib dems, and greens are unlikely to gain 10% between them

There is some reason to doubt Burnham will win but I hope he does as he has to beat Farage

It is undeniable labour are in a mess

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I wasn't really aware of More in Common's polling segments.
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segments/

"Established Liberals" seems a slightly misleading name for a group only one in five of whom vote LibDem.
But it clearly captures something:

This doesn't surprise me, while Labour's vote is down across 6 of our 7 segments, Established Liberals - the most comfortable, optimistic, internationalist group - are an exception. Among ELs Labour's vote hasn't dropped at all and they likely dominate audiences places like Hay
https://x.com/LukeTryl/status/2060414799675003116

The most interesting fact from that is the Conservatives now tie Labour for the lead with Established Liberals with the LDs third and Reform only 4th amongst this elite group.

https://x.com/LukeTryl/status/2060414799675003116?s=20

In a segment the Conservatives won overwhelmingly in 2019, and narrowly in 2024.

Established Liberals are the only group the Tories now lead with, albeit tied with Starmer Labour, of the other groups they won in 2024, Rooted Patriots now have a big Reform lead and Traditional Conservatives now narrowly prefer Reform over the Tories too.

Boris won Dissenting Disruptors in 2019 but that group narrowly went Labour in 2024 and is now majority Reform. Sceptical Scrollers also went for Boris in 2019, strongly for Labour in 2024 and now Reform has a clear lead with that group as well.

Of the 2 traditionally left leaning groups Corbyn won in 2019 and Starmer in 2024, Labour still lead clearly with the Incrementalist Left but Labour only narrowly lead the Greens with Progressive Activists

https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segments/

How can they be "traditionally left", when all of these categories are recent inventions of the pollster ?

...This report introduces More in Common’s new segmentation of the British public. Based on extended research into Britons’ core beliefs, their values and behaviours, and how they divide along these new fault lines, this segmentation allows us to look upstream not just at what different groups think, but why they think it...
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/seven-segments/

I'm a progressive activist.
The latter, presumably, because I post about political matters on a daily basis.
Which makes me interested rather than active, since I do bugger all else political.

I went through the questions and it said I was a dissenting disruptor. So I went back and changed my answers to two questions, and now I'm a progressive activist. But I am neither, so I threw the test out of the window and got on with the day. Bad test, bad

Reading the detailed descriptions, I decided I don't fit in any of the categories.
I'd like to see their geographic distribution according to the pollster.

I'm thinking of a MAGA acceptable Diana Ross penalty taker

Is Ted Nugent still alive?

Saw him at Birmingham Odeon once, so loud half the crowd broke ribs

Yes Nugent is still going, but surely, not so much of a Kid anymore Rock has to be the penalty taker, unless Trump brings the Tate Boys back. Russell Brand on the other hand might be otherwise engaged visa wise. Remember this is MAGA so no female penalty takers.

I was reading about a load of artists who have pulled out of some concert that was supposed to be about US 250 but morphed into a Trump fest. There was some crap groups and some of them said they didn’t even know they were supposed to be playing. Anyway one of the groups was Milli Vanilli which just showed how rubbish the concert would be considering one of them is dead and they couldn’t sing anyway.

Trump has said the US has a drug that can bring people back from the dead.

What is there to be said?

Can we get it to JFK?

Do you want to invade Cuba, then?

Did he invade Cuba?

You would have thought he would have replaced Castro with Teddy Kennedy if he did

JFK literally ordered the invasion of Cuba. Bay of Pigs.

JFK and RFL were hard core Cold Warriors. Not Peace Liberals as some have fantasised.

When JFK died, the plan was for 10,000 Minutemen III missiles. And so on. The reason they put McNamara into the DoD wasn’t to cut - but to standardise on fewer weapon systems and produce them in epic numbers.