Stephen Fry trying to change another institution:Self-hatred.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/30/stephen-fry-says-mcc-stinks-of-privilege-and-classism/
Fry, 66, also skewered his fellow MCC members, saying of the club: “It has a public face that is deeply disturbing, sort of beetroot-coloured gentleman in yellow-and-orange blazers sitting in this space in front of the Long Room and looking as if they’d come out of an Edwardian cartoon.”
Sorry, even then it would be extremely funny.Only way that likely happens is Reform second on voteshare so beware what you wish forFive weeks, two hours and 40 minutes until the exit poll.It's just going to be awesome. Just imagine the Tories in third place on 40-50 seats and behind the LDs. They go to interview Oliver Dowden or whoever two minutes later ... I would be literally pissing myself.
And Ms Abbott from a dangerous revolutionary into the PBTory mascot.It's going that well for the Conservatives that right wingers in here are breathlessly quoting Owen Jones and momentumNot only that. They also seem to think SKS has morphed from a dull, ineffectual lawyer into Stalin in the space of a week or so.
It feels a bit like a footie team losing 5-0 at home and the fans "¡olé!"-ing when they win a throw-in
Every single Labour leader gets called "Stalin" eventually. It's a weird reflex Tories have. I foolishly thought it mightn't happen this time, but I was wrong.It's going that well for the Conservatives that right wingers in here are breathlessly quoting Owen Jones and momentumNot only that. They also seem to think SKS has morphed from a dull, ineffectual lawyer into Stalin in the space of a week or so.
It feels a bit like a footie team losing 5-0 at home and the fans "¡olé!"-ing when they win a throw-in
That should be one sentence with the two phrases separated by a semi-colon, just saying.No it doesn't.Point of order: 99.999999999999999% of the world’s population leaves less than one person. You are literally saying he is the person on the planet with the greatest life ahead of him. And I think that is incorrect.Just catching up with the defection of Mark Logan. I hope he’s already cleared out his office as I suspect his former colleagues will probably want to lynch him if they bump into him.I don’t think it will affect him too much - it’s not his one thing in life, it’s not the whole summation of his success or failure. When this goes tits up he’s still been Chancellor of the Exchequer, PM by mid forties, made millions in a career he was obviously successful at, married a billionairess, an amazing educational experience in different places and seems to have a happy marriage and lovely children. He has an incredible life ahead of him, more so than 99.999999999999999% of the world’s population and I think his tiggerish persona and desire to achieve will put it all in perspective.
I suspect that this campaign is going to age Rishi by about 25 years. He might not be the most capable politician but he doesn’t exactly deserve this.
If he was a politician whose existence had been Uni, Spad, MP, shadow Cabinet, government and then it fell apart on their watch and was all they knew then bitterness would follow but I think Rishi will be ok.
You do know the "p" in "pb" stands for "pedant", right?
It stands for 'pedantic.'
As opposed to Easthampton, North Suffolk, West Eaffolk, North Southam, Mid Midsex, Long Borough, Longboro, Outer Inbridge, Broadmouth and Westleigh, and the Wrekin.My constituencies voted in are - Southampton Test, South Norfolk, Witham, South Norfolk, Mid Norfolk, Broadland, Norwich South (x3 incl this one)@GIN1138 - Were the Tories thinking what you were thinking in 2005?They were starting to get there... but no. I actually voted Lib-Dem in 2005 as I liked Charlie and thought they should be rewarded over their principled stance over Iraq.
My voting record is:
1997 - Lab
2001 - Didn't Vote
2005 - Lib
2010 - Con
2015 - Con
2017 - Con (but only because Labour was being led by Jezza. Theresa was H.O.R.R.I.B.L.E. in that campaign)
2019 - Con
And now 2024.... LAB