Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I claimed Hitler was a vegetarian, and lost the argument. There’s not a clear picture on it. 🥕
Hitler was anti-smoking, which, I am assured, was one reason that the UK was slow to move against tobacco.
He liked dogs too (well ignoring the bit where he killed his)
If he's right, we really are stuffed. Either we get screwed as we enter NAFTA, or we get screwed trying to get back into EU. Or we get even more screwed going it alone.
Sigh.
How utterly depressing. Leaving the EU has got to be one of the worst decisions the UK has ever made. So stupid.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
Which group do you reckon Leon is a member of? Or is he just a Gammon?
Acorn-fed jamón Ibérico with Falangist tendencies if you don’t mind.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
I’m stunned by that figure. Given how much Tommy is demonised by all media constantly - i would honestly have expected lower single digits. 5% or something. 10% at absolute most
But a quarter of the country?
Wow. Shows how the UK has shifted hard to the right. Encouraging news
It’s from the YouGov fame tracker which isn’t a proper poll.
Standard polls have his approval ratings in the 6 to 12% range.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
The “duck-billed” platypus evolved earlier than ducks did. We should really call ducks “platypus-billed ducks”.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
I’m stunned by that figure. Given how much Tommy is demonised by all media constantly - i would honestly have expected lower single digits. 5% or something. 10% at absolute most
But a quarter of the country?
Wow. Shows how the UK has shifted hard to the right. Encouraging news
It’s from the YouGov fame tracker which isn’t a proper poll.
Standard polls have his approval ratings in the 6 to 12% range.
Still, 12% is pretty good. It’s time to look on the bright side and stop all the negativity on PB
Labour conceivably gains a point or two when net migration falls to almost zero. Probably a decent chance then of a Labour lead in one poll, anyone willing to bet
Net migration won't matter to Reform voters if you still 35k asylum queue-bargers coming over the Channel.
I don’t believe zero net migration will particularly help Labour because
1. That could still mean native Brits leaving in their 100,000s and somalians (or whatever) replacing them at scale and
2. Half the problem is the people already here. The STARMERwave. Brits want a lot of them GONE
FTFY. Boris got all the big calls right!
I'd rather 100,000 tall dusky Somali ladies replace the same number of Tiny Tom fanbois any day of the week.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
But are these Protestant Haggis or Catholic Haggis?
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
I’ve seen drop bears in the wild. In fact I’ve seen them drop. Tree dwelling kangaroos
I’ve also seen koalas, wombats, enormous salties, cassowaries, dingos, multiple platypi and the Ruffous Bettong
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
The “duck-billed” platypus evolved earlier than ducks did. We should really call ducks “platypus-billed ducks”.
I was listening to a Zoom the other day, a talk on time, where the first 'questioner' asked how could the speaker talk about things happening 10,000 years ago when the world was only created 6000 years ago!
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
But are these Protestant Haggis or Catholic Haggis?
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
I’m stunned by that figure. Given how much Tommy is demonised by all media constantly - i would honestly have expected lower single digits. 5% or something. 10% at absolute most
But a quarter of the country?
Wow. Shows how the UK has shifted hard to the right. Encouraging news
It’s from the YouGov fame tracker which isn’t a proper poll.
Standard polls have his approval ratings in the 6 to 12% range.
Still, 12% is pretty good. It’s time to look on the bright side and stop all the negativity on PB
Why would anyone have negative thoughts about a persistent, violent criminal? Who organises racism and uses that to make money on a considerable scale? While keeping on committing crimes - including attempting to interfere in the workings of the courts?
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
But are these Protestant Haggis or Catholic Haggis?
I think you can tell by which leg is the longer one, hence whether they go clockwise or anti-clockwise.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
But are these Protestant Haggis or Catholic Haggis?
I think you can tell by which leg is the longer one, hence whether they go clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Ok - tell me, are Protestant haggis clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Thought - what if a Protestant Haggis is one a roundabout, at the top of a mountain?
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
But are these Protestant Haggis or Catholic Haggis?
I think you can tell by which leg is the longer one, hence whether they go clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Ok - tell me, are Protestant haggis clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Thought - what if a Protestant Haggis is one a roundabout, at the top of a mountain?
Thinking about it - Haggis are traditionally left leg short. Which suggests their dominant foot is the right foot. So Haggis are generally Protestant. And would run round the mountain anti-clockwise.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
I’m stunned by that figure. Given how much Tommy is demonised by all media constantly - i would honestly have expected lower single digits. 5% or something. 10% at absolute most
But a quarter of the country?
Wow. Shows how the UK has shifted hard to the right. Encouraging news
It’s from the YouGov fame tracker which isn’t a proper poll.
Standard polls have his approval ratings in the 6 to 12% range.
Still, 12% is pretty good. It’s time to look on the bright side and stop all the negativity on PB
Why would anyone have negative thoughts about a persistent, violent criminal? Who organises racism and uses that to make money on a considerable scale? While keeping on committing crimes - including attempting to interfere in the workings of the courts?
For the same reason a disturbingly large number of people form their opinions: he annoys people I don't like.
If he's right, we really are stuffed. Either we get screwed as we enter NAFTA, or we get screwed trying to get back into EU. Or we get even more screwed going it alone.
Sigh.
It's always amazing how many supposedly well-informed people still don't seem to realise that we have a very comprehensive FTA with the EU which is not under any threat.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
The “duck-billed” platypus evolved earlier than ducks did. We should really call ducks “platypus-billed ducks”.
I was listening to a Zoom the other day, a talk on time, where the first 'questioner' asked how could the speaker talk about things happening 10,000 years ago when the world was only created 6000 years ago!
There are some talks and speakers where it is known I will ask such stupid questions for the laughs. Usually as a last question rather than the first one though
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
I would need an affidavit from the publication that printed that Yougov poll. I know we have an ill informed electorate in this country but that sounds miles out
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
Only the bit about Haggis having legs of different lengths so they can run around the side of hills.
But are these Protestant Haggis or Catholic Haggis?
I think you can tell by which leg is the longer one, hence whether they go clockwise or anti-clockwise.
Ok - tell me, are Protestant haggis clockwise or anti-clockwise?
Thought - what if a Protestant Haggis is one a roundabout, at the top of a mountain?
Catholic Haggis is OK, I think, it is the Protestant one that gets run over.
Of course that isn't fixed. In Dunedin the handedness is reversed.
If he's right, we really are stuffed. Either we get screwed as we enter NAFTA, or we get screwed trying to get back into EU. Or we get even more screwed going it alone.
Sigh.
It's always amazing how many supposedly well-informed people still don't seem to realise that we have a very comprehensive FTA with the EU which is not under any threat.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
One thing that was calamitous for the EU in the UK was the British approach to rules that others are breaking.
If the Italians were playing games with steel subsidies, do the same back.
Good old Brian! The US probably isn't much more unsafe than normal, but nice to see he's given those 'yookay' MAGA twits a taste of their own medicine.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
I would need an affidavit from the publication that printed that Yougov poll. I know we have an ill informed electorate in this country but that sounds miles out
If he's right, we really are stuffed. Either we get screwed as we enter NAFTA, or we get screwed trying to get back into EU. Or we get even more screwed going it alone.
Sigh.
It's always amazing how many supposedly well-informed people still don't seem to realise that we have a very comprehensive FTA with the EU which is not under any threat.
It's always amazing how many supposedly well-informed people take the always-wrong, always-cllickbaity Peter Zeihan seriously.
If he's right, we really are stuffed. Either we get screwed as we enter NAFTA, or we get screwed trying to get back into EU. Or we get even more screwed going it alone.
Sigh.
It's always amazing how many supposedly well-informed people still don't seem to realise that we have a very comprehensive FTA with the EU which is not under any threat.
It's always amazing how many supposedly well-informed people take the always-wrong, always-cllickbaity Peter Zeihan seriously.
Youtubers PB posters bring up unironically is a pet category of mine.
I'm sure I'm just as bad, but I don't post them!
Youtube is so oddly siloed - everyone thinks a popular youtuber they follow is a household name, meanwhile no one's heard of them.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
One thing that was calamitous for the EU in the UK was the British approach to rules that others are breaking.
If the Italians were playing games with steel subsidies, do the same back.
Totally agree. We have had endless examples of the French (say) ignoring rules that don't suit them while goody two shoes Britain obeys every last whim and requirement. Our own worst enemy, really.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I claimed Hitler was a vegetarian, and lost the argument. There’s not a clear picture on it. 🥕
Omega 3, mostly found in fish, has a big impact on our ability to control our emotions.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
The “duck-billed” platypus evolved earlier than ducks did. We should really call ducks “platypus-billed ducks”.
I was listening to a Zoom the other day, a talk on time, where the first 'questioner' asked how could the speaker talk about things happening 10,000 years ago when the world was only created 6000 years ago!
There are some talks and speakers where it is known I will ask such stupid questions for the laughs. Usually as a last question rather than the first one though
Point noted. Trouble was, everyone apart from her, the chair and the speaker, was muted. She also wanted to know why the speaker was giving credit to the 'heathen Babylonians'. There are another couple of talks in the series but I don't think I'll bother.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
One thing that was calamitous for the EU in the UK was the British approach to rules that others are breaking.
If the Italians were playing games with steel subsidies, do the same back.
Totally agree. We have had endless examples of the French (say) ignoring rules that don't suit them while goody two shoes Britain obeys every last whim and requirement. Our own worst enemy, really.
I remember an issue with Spain and airline subsidies - IIRC it was Kinnock Junior who said that it would be impossible to penalise the Spanish over it. It was their national carrier.
The sensible approach is reciprocity combined with "when you stop, we will".
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Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
If your costs for enploying a nanny and a plumber amd a gardener were being kept nice and low, you voted to remain. If your wages for working in childcare or construction were being kept low you voted leave. It wasn't much more than that.
Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the House? +22 Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the Senate? +3 Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election? 70 Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election? 37 UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage (British Polling Council registered pollsters only)? Ref +14 Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC? 20 Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026? 10 The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026? Keir Starmer Will Andy Burnham will be an MP on 31st December 2026? No UK borrowing in the financial year to November 2026 (£132.3bn to November 2025)? 135 UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025)? 1.3 Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup? Brazil?
Let's see if I can do better than =12 next time...
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There's clearly a lot of really dull, Centrist Dads about in the world, @Leon
I keep forgetting what a centrist is, or a centrist dad. Are they different, and what are their political thoughts. I am sure I am a centrist and that the great majority of UK voters are. Their preferred politics are competent, sensible and boring and allows a wide range of polities so long as they are kind, make for opportunity and are reasonably prosperity inducing, and they find it hard at the moment to find a party that is competent and sensible, though the boring bit is well supplied. Am I missing something?
One can be 'horrified' at the Holocaust and 'critical' of the IDF actions in Gaza at the same time. And indeed of Israeli settlers actions in the West Bank. And Hamas actions on Oct 7th.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
I had expected Brexit to lose until late March. Then I did my first day of canvassing for Local Elections in Garsdale of all places. I had the candidate briefed not to mention the referendum, he was standing for District not Europe. Well, every farm we landed at, they came out to talk to us and they told us at great length how they were voting Leave. At the end of the day a sub-agent asked me how we had got along with the new candidate. I remember saying he was very able, wouldn't be elected, he wasn't and that the UK would be voting to leave the EU. Disbelief !
There was a lot to learn from that experience. The Lib Dems who supposedly canvas every hour never cottoned on that Westmorland and Lonsdale was going to vote leave. Yet it was obvious. Now I know farmers are endlessly polite so perhaps they didn't tell the LDs what they were going to do. Yet, I made a point of NOT saying anything about Brexit - to the point that one of my best school friends thought I would be voting remain.
The only lasting consequence Farron almost lost the 2017 GE. Yet he has recovered.
If bizarrely someone decided to have another referendum on the same project then the vote would be much more decisively leave now than it was ten years ago.
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There's clearly a lot of really dull, Centrist Dads about in the world, @Leon
I keep forgetting what a centrist is, or a centrist dad. Are they different, and what are their political thoughts. I am sure I am a centrist and that the great majority of UK voters are. Their preferred politics are competent, sensible and boring and allows a wide range of polities so long as they are kind, make for opportunity and are reasonably prosperity inducing, and they find it hard at the moment to find a party that is competent and sensible, though the boring bit is well supplied. Am I missing something?
It just means not enamoured of Farage or Polanski.
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There's clearly a lot of really dull, Centrist Dads about in the world, @Leon
I keep forgetting what a centrist is, or a centrist dad. Are they different, and what are their political thoughts. I am sure I am a centrist and that the great majority of UK voters are. Their preferred politics are competent, sensible and boring and allows a wide range of polities so long as they are kind, make for opportunity and are reasonably prosperity inducing, and they find it hard at the moment to find a party that is competent and sensible, though the boring bit is well supplied. Am I missing something?
Yeah, the desire of bored lonely nihilists to "own the libs".
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
I’ve seen drop bears in the wild. In fact I’ve seen them drop. Tree dwelling kangaroos
I’ve also seen koalas, wombats, enormous salties, cassowaries, dingos, multiple platypi and the Ruffous Bettong
"Have you ever fired your gun in the air and gone 'Argh!'?"
One can be 'horrified' at the Holocaust and 'critical' of the IDF actions in Gaza at the same time. And indeed of Israeli settlers actions in the West Bank. And Hamas actions on Oct 7th.
If only the Arabs had accepted the Two-State Solution back in 1948!
I read this morning that since the mood in the US has shifted against Israel particularly amongst MAGA who see them using the US as their financiers they are now campaigning to boycott all candidates who are personally getting funnding from AIPAC. If the sentiment shifts to the UK and Labour'friends of israel' get fingered that's Streeting out of the piicture
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Or that UFOs are real and AIs are conscious?
Of all days to make these remarks. Jeez you’re a dumb f*ck
Are you saying that Starmer is an AI robot or an alien?
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Those are slackers.
Real Men (TM) disbelieve in the tough stuff - the Australia Fake Continent conspiracy, for example.
So who keeps hammering us at Cricket?
It's a very well organised conspiracy.
But really - are you going to believe in a continent where dumping criminals results in an affluent social democracy? With a national animal that is a mammal that lays eggs, has a duck bill and poisonous thumbs? Black swans??
Who made this shit up?
Presumably the Koalas. It seems to be all that they are good at.
You believe what Drop Bears tell you?
I’ve seen drop bears in the wild. In fact I’ve seen them drop. Tree dwelling kangaroos
I’ve also seen koalas, wombats, enormous salties, cassowaries, dingos, multiple platypi and the Ruffous Bettong
"Have you ever fired your gun in the air and gone 'Argh!'?"
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Or that UFOs are real and AIs are conscious?
Of all days to make these remarks. Jeez you’re a dumb f*ck
Are you saying that Starmer is an AI robot or an alien?
Is this the Trans Gay Illegal Immigrant Alien AIs, again?
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Or that UFOs are real and AIs are conscious?
Of all days to make these remarks. Jeez you’re a dumb f*ck
Are you saying that Starmer is an AI robot or an alien?
I think he would be more interesting if he were either!
I find it amusing that some people on X believe that a LLM is actually sentient. #mechanicalturk for our times.
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Or that UFOs are real and AIs are conscious?
Of all days to make these remarks. Jeez you’re a dumb f*ck
Are you saying that Starmer is an AI robot or an alien?...
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Or that UFOs are real and AIs are conscious?
Of all days to make these remarks. Jeez you’re a dumb f*ck
Are you saying that Starmer is an AI robot or an alien?...
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
One has to agree with EasyJet on this, for the simple reason that most planes don't have enough room for everyone to bring a small suitcase into the cabin.
An EU plan to make airlines offer passengers free cabin bags is a "lunatic idea", according to easyJet's chief executive. Kenton Jarvis warned the policy could cause fares to rise and spark flight delays. The bloc's parliament voted last week to give all passengers the right to carry on a small case, as well as the free under-seat bags that are currently allowed. The proposal will now be sent to the European Council. "There just isn't the space in the cabin, so that's another lunatic idea," Jarvis was quoted as saying by The Guardian."
YouGov has 24% of the British public with favourable views of Tommy Robinson. I think it is reasonable to suppose that those 24% are more likely to vote Reform UK than other parties.
Yes, and how many of the 24% believe the earth is flat and we never landed on the moon?
Or that UFOs are real and AIs are conscious?
Of all days to make these remarks. Jeez you’re a dumb f*ck
Are you saying that Starmer is an AI robot or an alien?...
...and if not, why not?
Automatonophobes are everywhere....
The Dr Who serial "The Robots Of Death" used the word "Robophobia". Have a guess what's it about.
One has to agree with EasyJet on this, for the simple reason that most planes don't have enough room for everyone to bring a small suitcase into the cabin.
An EU plan to make airlines offer passengers free cabin bags is a "lunatic idea", according to easyJet's chief executive. Kenton Jarvis warned the policy could cause fares to rise and spark flight delays. The bloc's parliament voted last week to give all passengers the right to carry on a small case, as well as the free under-seat bags that are currently allowed. The proposal will now be sent to the European Council. "There just isn't the space in the cabin, so that's another lunatic idea," Jarvis was quoted as saying by The Guardian."
If we were still in the EU, our MEPs could have voted against it.
Meanwhile, in "some endorsements you probably don't want" news,
Far-right activist Tommy Robinson has endorsed Reform UK’s by-election candidate, after Labour warned he represents “extreme” politics.
Matt Goodwin - GB News presenter and former university academic - was unveiled as Reform UK’s candidate for the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election earlier this week...
I don't see that at all. Hitler hasn't been the kiss of death for vegetarianism. People need to grow up and vote based on their own thought process, not sloppily follow 'vibes'.
I don't know - I always think there is something odd about vegetarians - maybe the link with Hitler is why...
More seriously, too often people on PB (notoriously centrist, mostly anti-Brexit, mostly very much anti Reform) have no concept of the great unwashed. My neighbour, a classic salt of the Earth carpet layer, came out with "Farage is right*" totally unprompted one weekend. A lot of people will vote for Reform and many of them will also think Tommeh Two Names has a point about that thing that cannot be discussed on PB.**
*Paraphrase - cannot recall the exact discussion.
** No, not voting reform
My neighbour is a retired market trader.
He's stood (at council elections) for the Tories, Reform, UKIP and the English Democrats and was actually on the council for a number of years. He has ... views. And the odd flag.
But then, I live in Donny, not Harrogate or Surrey. Brexit was not a surprise.
Brexit surprised a lot of people who only knew Remainers, like a lot of my Uni colleagues.
I knew none and I did ask. Later I did find one or two and I did ask. One was a reasonably popular model who had just asked if she could stay at my place in France. I asked her what she was thinking about and after a few minutes playing the dumb blond (she's brunette) she explained.
I knew lots. My work base is Port Talbot which was Brexit Central. So what were the justifications? EU ripping us off, the French, Eastern Europeans taking our jobs, Eastern Europeans in the GP queue, Eastern European children not having English as their first language ( in Wales?) Italians flouting government subsidies to steel producer rules and WW2. And racism and racism.
I had expected Brexit to lose until late March. Then I did my first day of canvassing for Local Elections in Garsdale of all places. I had the candidate briefed not to mention the referendum, he was standing for District not Europe. Well, every farm we landed at, they came out to talk to us and they told us at great length how they were voting Leave. At the end of the day a sub-agent asked me how we had got along with the new candidate. I remember saying he was very able, wouldn't be elected, he wasn't and that the UK would be voting to leave the EU. Disbelief !
There was a lot to learn from that experience. The Lib Dems who supposedly canvas every hour never cottoned on that Westmorland and Lonsdale was going to vote leave. Yet it was obvious. Now I know farmers are endlessly polite so perhaps they didn't tell the LDs what they were going to do. Yet, I made a point of NOT saying anything about Brexit - to the point that one of my best school friends thought I would be voting remain.
The only lasting consequence Farron almost lost the 2017 GE. Yet he has recovered.
If bizarrely someone decided to have another referendum on the same project then the vote would be much more decisively leave now than it was ten years ago.
I remember a Cumbrian farmer saying things have been absolutely terrible since Brexit and at the end of the interview Adam asked him how he voted and he said 'I voted for Brexit. We all did"
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There's clearly a lot of really dull, Centrist Dads about in the world, @Leon
Literally no one uses Bluesky apart from a tiny tiny hardcore of wanker weirdos, now
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Standard polls have his approval ratings in the 6 to 12% range.
I'd rather 100,000 tall dusky Somali ladies replace the same number of Tiny Tom fanbois any day of the week.
I’ve also seen koalas, wombats, enormous salties, cassowaries, dingos, multiple platypi and the Ruffous Bettong
Thought - what if a Protestant Haggis is one a roundabout, at the top of a mountain?
Queen say the U.S. is too dangerous to tour in for now.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/30/brian-may-says-us-is-currently-too-dangerous-for-queen-to-tour-there
Of course that isn't fixed. In Dunedin the handedness is reversed.
If the Italians were playing games with steel subsidies, do the same back.
But, who wants to live forever?
I'm sure I'm just as bad, but I don't post them!
Youtube is so oddly siloed - everyone thinks a popular youtuber they follow is a household name, meanwhile no one's heard of them.
#justsaying
There are another couple of talks in the series but I don't think I'll bother.
The sensible approach is reciprocity combined with "when you stop, we will".
https://x.com/alexmassie/status/2017255703878983768?s=20
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There's clearly a lot of really dull, Centrist Dads about in the world, @Leon
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-green-party-candidates-holocaust-smear-against-angela-rayner/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ7wE3XOwFU (17mins)
Gaza was a genicide...
Worth adding that yesterday Israel agreed that Hamas's figures of 72,000 dead was correct (80% of them Gaza civilians)
Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the House? +22
Number of net gains (or losses -ve) for the Dems in the Senate? +3
Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election? 70
Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election? 37
UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage (British Polling Council registered pollsters only)? Ref +14
Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC? 20
Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026? 10
The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026? Keir Starmer
Will Andy Burnham will be an MP on 31st December 2026? No
UK borrowing in the financial year to November 2026 (£132.3bn to November 2025)? 135
UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025)? 1.3
Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup? Brazil?
Let's see if I can do better than =12 next time...
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/revealed-green-party-candidates-holocaust-smear-against-angela-rayner/
https://x.com/TalkTV/status/2017153486253666590
Apparently they have ~30 employees. At some point BlueSky is going to need to work out how to earn enough to pay them and their hosting costs.
The Maoist bicycle treatment incoming.
One can be 'horrified' at the Holocaust and 'critical' of the IDF actions in Gaza at the same time. And indeed of Israeli settlers actions in the West Bank. And Hamas actions on Oct 7th.
There was a lot to learn from that experience. The Lib Dems who supposedly canvas every hour never cottoned on that Westmorland and Lonsdale was going to vote leave. Yet it was obvious. Now I know farmers are endlessly polite so perhaps they didn't tell the LDs what they were going to do. Yet, I made a point of NOT saying anything about Brexit - to the point that one of my best school friends thought I would be voting remain.
The only lasting consequence Farron almost lost the 2017 GE. Yet he has recovered.
If bizarrely someone decided to have another referendum on the same project then the vote would be much more decisively leave now than it was ten years ago.
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HASSETT: We have a list of the groundbreakings. It's really quite striking
FABER: Manufacturing job numbers are actually down
HASSETT: That's in part because people haven't turned the machines on yet
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mdnmpwsuti2q
I find it amusing that some people on X believe that a LLM is actually sentient. #mechanicalturk for our times.
https://vote-2012.proboards.com/post/1707330/thread
Well said. A vote winner most places I'd have thought
https://news.sky.com/story/money-live-personal-finance-consumer-sky-news-latest-13040934
"EasyJet hits out at EU's free cabin bag plan
An EU plan to make airlines offer passengers free cabin bags is a "lunatic idea", according to easyJet's chief executive. Kenton Jarvis warned the policy could cause fares to rise and spark flight delays. The bloc's parliament voted last week to give all passengers the right to carry on a small case, as well as the free under-seat bags that are currently allowed. The proposal will now be sent to the European Council. "There just isn't the space in the cabin, so that's another lunatic idea," Jarvis was quoted as saying by The Guardian."
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As it’s a Friday I think they’ve started early.
Some lefties recently stormed off X coz of some Grok horror. It was very noticeable how they didn’t say “I’m going to Bluesky” - indeed several explicitly said “I won’t be on Bluesky, either, it’s dead”. Which it is