pb brains trust: Anyone know Munich? Anyone ha e any views what area of the city I might be best advised to stay in with the family, balancing niceness/cost/proximity to things to see?
My daughter lived there for a year recently. They were due north of the old town, just outside the inner ring road. Walking distance to englischer garten. Nice area, just lively enough and lots of good bars and places to eat as close to university. Are you arriving into Munich airport and then picking up a car ?
Thanks - yes, that's the plan. We're going to spend a week in Austria but then a couple of days in Munich at the end (probably will return the car and do Munich by public transport).
Don’t bother with Dachau. Total letdown. No gas chambers, not even a torture cell
Just a pathetic rip off of Auschwitz, basically. Like one of those Winter Wonderlands with a plastic Santa and 3 mangy reindeer
We took our family to Dachau when they were relatively young and it left an indeliable mark on them
No concentration camp can be described as a let down
They are not tourist attractions
Ignore him, Big G. He’s just being an edgelord.
Incorrect. He is trying to be an edgelord
Actually, he is Biff.
He's certainly a (U)Kipper.
There's one for the parents of primary school children.
Its shit or get off the pot time for the US vis a vis Iran. They have had sufficient in-theatre resources on top of strategic capacity since Saturday to launch a sustained offensive for many days, but have continued to put resourcing in, both defensive and offensive. Rumour has it the Pentagon believes that this isnt going to be a one day job to meet the CiC's objectives and have decided to do what the USA does well, stack a lot of power
There has been a lot of chatter about at least one Iranian government flight heading out to Moscow today but whether that is an indication of a sinking ship or just hiding out for a bit, no one knows. The problem Iran has is needs to look West, South and now also North for incoming and they just dont have the capability to close the gates in one direction never mind three.
The position of Israel is unclear if they will get involved offensively. Certainly the US resources have dual purpose, both to sustain there own actions but also potentially to fill in gaps in Israel's resources to maintain a high tempo effort for longer.
The US cannot leave so much metal there for long without doing something or just packing up and going home. The latter isnt really Trump's thing. Remember his motivation, he wants to get a proper big result and if he doesnt think he is going to get it he wont do it.
One problem the Pentagon faces I mentioned a week or so ago. Targeting. The US have been asking around for a bit now if anyone can help identify target locations, human targets. The Europeans have been asked, the Israelis have too. Its a gap for US intelligence.
We basically somehow ended up with David Icke as prime minister for two months didn't we? How the hell did we manage that?
We were in mourning for the Queen for one chunk of it, and then there was the conference recess for another chunk of it.
Elizabeth T took over on September 6 Elizabeth R died on September 8 The funeral was on September 19 Kwarteng's mini budget was on September 23 The party conference recess was from September 23 to October 11 Kwateng was sacked on October 14 Hunt's antibudget was on October 17 Truss announced her resgination on October 20 Sunak took over on October 24
In terms of actual Westminster time, that's about three weeks?
I would like to formally ask that "Kwarteng appeared to be off his t*ts at the funeral on September 19" be added to the list.
"I took a closer look at the UK government's new 'AI Skills Hub', and it is insane. It includes 'courses' that are simply links to info pages about PhD programs; 'courses' that are literally just software developer documentation; and 'courses' that don't exist at all."
That's not a Skills Hub for AI. That's a Skills Hub made by AI.
Who did this and how much did they charge?
Its been reported at "only" £4 million. I I was a journalist I might do so digging to see if that was the extent of it and who actually did the work and who signed it off.
Capita (or similar) will have got the main contract for it. They will then have sub-contracted to Cognizant (or similar) to do the main bit of the work. But they will likely have also sub-contracted to a number of smaller consultancy firms you've never heard of to get the people to do the work. A lot of people will have sat around getting paid while they waited for various stages of onboarding to happen, before being able to do any work, and the work done will have concentrated on building the framework for the website, but not the content - the idea being to deliver something to the department that the department could keep updated, because something like this is always going to need to be updated.
However, the department likely won't have thought about who was going to populate it and maintain it on an ongoing basis - that's opex and not capex - and the department likely doesn't have the knowledge to update a Skills Hub for AI anyway. So when they had the site delivered to them, populated by a bunch of placeholder "courses" to show that the site worked, I guess they simply published it, because who was going to have the domain knowledge to put useful stuff into it?
The minister asked for a Skills Hub for AI, and the department delivered a Skills Hub for AI, but the civil service is such a diminished organisation - not allowed to pay the salaries to employ people who know what they're doing, demoralised from the abuse they receive from every quarter, encouraged to outsource at every turn, rather than build institutional knowledge and capability - that what was delivered was a potemkin skills hub for AI, and I guess that this will kick off another round of abuse towards the civil service, reducing the prospect of a similar outcome being avoided in the future.
I note that the Civil Service have managed to inflict Capita on themselves, by getting them to run their pensions. You've got respect that kind of selfless solidarity with the general public - in fact if all contracts were piloted on a group of senior civil servants first I'd suggest the country would be run much better.
pb brains trust: Anyone know Munich? Anyone ha e any views what area of the city I might be best advised to stay in with the family, balancing niceness/cost/proximity to things to see?
My daughter lived there for a year recently. They were due north of the old town, just outside the inner ring road. Walking distance to englischer garten. Nice area, just lively enough and lots of good bars and places to eat as close to university. Are you arriving into Munich airport and then picking up a car ?
Thanks - yes, that's the plan. We're going to spend a week in Austria but then a couple of days in Munich at the end (probably will return the car and do Munich by public transport).
Don’t bother with Dachau. Total letdown. No gas chambers, not even a torture cell
Just a pathetic rip off of Auschwitz, basically. Like one of those Winter Wonderlands with a plastic Santa and 3 mangy reindeer
Which one's your favourite, m9* ? I like Sachsenhausen, the OG. When I say "like", I mean I went on a bitterly cold grey day in December with the wind sweeping in all the way from the Steppes, and it was the bleakest thing I have ever done and it left a stronger impression on me than any film or book, or any of the museums.
*m9 is like m8 but one better.
Haven’t been to Sachsenhausen - I’ll give it a go! Thanks for the tip. Does it have actual proper gas chambers?
Treblinka’s not bad. Not much left but you do get some sense of abysmal horror and they’ve got death pits 👌
When I’m in Cambodia I can’t ever decide between Tuol Sleng and Cheong Ek. Both are great but in different ways. Tuol Sleng has this kind of dreadful creeping claustrophobia which makes you want to kill yourself 👍. But Cheong Ek has the stupas full of skulls and you can still find teeth in the dirt
Hard to beat that. Actual human teeth. Think it came top of TripAdvisor Death Camps 2025, and fair play. They put in a lot of effort
pb brains trust: Anyone know Munich? Anyone have any views what area of the city I might be best advised to stay in with the family, balancing niceness/cost/proximity to things to see?
We basically somehow ended up with David Icke as prime minister for two months didn't we? How the hell did we manage that?
We were in mourning for the Queen for one chunk of it, and then there was the conference recess for another chunk of it.
Elizabeth T took over on September 6 Elizabeth R died on September 8 The funeral was on September 19 Kwarteng's mini budget was on September 23 The party conference recess was from September 23 to October 11 Kwateng was sacked on October 14 Hunt's antibudget was on October 17 Truss announced her resgination on October 20 Sunak took over on October 24
In terms of actual Westminster time, that's about three weeks?
I would like to formally ask that "Kwarteng appeared to be off his t*ts at the funeral on September 19" be added to the list.
Let us not forget. 🙏
Also: was having affair with Truss either before or during the Trussterreich
Perhaps the craziest 4 weeks in British politics ever
*strives to suppress personal knowledge of Finland rumour*
pb brains trust: Anyone know Munich? Anyone ha e any views what area of the city I might be best advised to stay in with the family, balancing niceness/cost/proximity to things to see?
My daughter lived there for a year recently. They were due north of the old town, just outside the inner ring road. Walking distance to englischer garten. Nice area, just lively enough and lots of good bars and places to eat as close to university. Are you arriving into Munich airport and then picking up a car ?
Thanks - yes, that's the plan. We're going to spend a week in Austria but then a couple of days in Munich at the end (probably will return the car and do Munich by public transport).
Don’t bother with Dachau. Total letdown. No gas chambers, not even a torture cell
Just a pathetic rip off of Auschwitz, basically. Like one of those Winter Wonderlands with a plastic Santa and 3 mangy reindeer
Which one's your favourite, m9* ? I like Sachsenhausen, the OG. When I say "like", I mean I went on a bitterly cold grey day in December with the wind sweeping in all the way from the Steppes, and it was the bleakest thing I have ever done and it left a stronger impression on me than any film or book, or any of the museums.
*m9 is like m8 but one better.
Haven’t been to Sachsenhausen - I’ll give it a go! Thanks for the tip. Does it have actual proper gas chambers?
Treblinka’s not bad. Not much left but you do get some sense of abysmal horror and they’ve got death pits 👌
When I’m in Cambodia I can’t ever decide between Tuol Sleng and Cheong Ek. Both are great but in different ways. Tuol Sleng has this kind of dreadful creeping claustrophobia which makes you want to kill yourself 👍. But Cheong Ek has the stupas full of skulls and you can still find teeth in the dirt
Hard to beat that. Actual human teeth. Think it came top of TripAdvisor Death Camps 2025, and fair play. They put in a lot of effort
Cheong Ek had no emotional impact on me at all when I was wandering around it. And I think this is the first time I've even thought about it since I visited Cambodia. Same with Auschwitz. Maybe it's too real for my brain to compute - I find reading about these things much more harrowing.
pb brains trust: Anyone know Munich? Anyone ha e any views what area of the city I might be best advised to stay in with the family, balancing niceness/cost/proximity to things to see?
My daughter lived there for a year recently. They were due north of the old town, just outside the inner ring road. Walking distance to englischer garten. Nice area, just lively enough and lots of good bars and places to eat as close to university. Are you arriving into Munich airport and then picking up a car ?
Thanks - yes, that's the plan. We're going to spend a week in Austria but then a couple of days in Munich at the end (probably will return the car and do Munich by public transport).
Don’t bother with Dachau. Total letdown. No gas chambers, not even a torture cell
Just a pathetic rip off of Auschwitz, basically. Like one of those Winter Wonderlands with a plastic Santa and 3 mangy reindeer
Which one's your favourite, m9* ? I like Sachsenhausen, the OG. When I say "like", I mean I went on a bitterly cold grey day in December with the wind sweeping in all the way from the Steppes, and it was the bleakest thing I have ever done and it left a stronger impression on me than any film or book, or any of the museums.
*m9 is like m8 but one better.
Haven’t been to Sachsenhausen - I’ll give it a go! Thanks for the tip. Does it have actual proper gas chambers?
Treblinka’s not bad. Not much left but you do get some sense of abysmal horror and they’ve got death pits 👌
When I’m in Cambodia I can’t ever decide between Tuol Sleng and Cheong Ek. Both are great but in different ways. Tuol Sleng has this kind of dreadful creeping claustrophobia which makes you want to kill yourself 👍. But Cheong Ek has the stupas full of skulls and you can still find teeth in the dirt
Hard to beat that. Actual human teeth. Think it came top of TripAdvisor Death Camps 2025, and fair play. They put in a lot of effort
Cheong Ek had no emotional impact on me at all when I was wandering around it. And I think this is the first time I've even thought about it since I visited Cambodia. Same with Auschwitz. Maybe it's too real for my brain to compute - I find reading about these things much more harrowing.
Bro, they’ve got human teeth in the dust, everywhere. Just molars lying around. And the infamous baby bashing tree where they literally bashed babies to death. What more do you f*cking want?
It’s moaning minnies like you that are putting death camps out of business. Dozens close every year. I hear even Birkenau is in trouble because of whining reviews like this. Moan moan moan
pb brains trust: Anyone know Munich? Anyone ha e any views what area of the city I might be best advised to stay in with the family, balancing niceness/cost/proximity to things to see?
My daughter lived there for a year recently. They were due north of the old town, just outside the inner ring road. Walking distance to englischer garten. Nice area, just lively enough and lots of good bars and places to eat as close to university. Are you arriving into Munich airport and then picking up a car ?
Thanks - yes, that's the plan. We're going to spend a week in Austria but then a couple of days in Munich at the end (probably will return the car and do Munich by public transport).
Don’t bother with Dachau. Total letdown. No gas chambers, not even a torture cell
Just a pathetic rip off of Auschwitz, basically. Like one of those Winter Wonderlands with a plastic Santa and 3 mangy reindeer
Which one's your favourite, m9* ? I like Sachsenhausen, the OG. When I say "like", I mean I went on a bitterly cold grey day in December with the wind sweeping in all the way from the Steppes, and it was the bleakest thing I have ever done and it left a stronger impression on me than any film or book, or any of the museums.
*m9 is like m8 but one better.
Haven’t been to Sachsenhausen - I’ll give it a go! Thanks for the tip. Does it have actual proper gas chambers?
Treblinka’s not bad. Not much left but you do get some sense of abysmal horror and they’ve got death pits 👌
When I’m in Cambodia I can’t ever decide between Tuol Sleng and Cheong Ek. Both are great but in different ways. Tuol Sleng has this kind of dreadful creeping claustrophobia which makes you want to kill yourself 👍. But Cheong Ek has the stupas full of skulls and you can still find teeth in the dirt
Hard to beat that. Actual human teeth. Think it came top of TripAdvisor Death Camps 2025, and fair play. They put in a lot of effort
I was reminded of Sachsenhausen when watching Zone of Interest. The camp commandant has to go there, to the central offices of the camp inspectorate. I could swear the streets he walked down looked familiar but apparently the whole film was shot in Poland.
We basically somehow ended up with David Icke as prime minister for two months didn't we? How the hell did we manage that?
We were in mourning for the Queen for one chunk of it, and then there was the conference recess for another chunk of it.
Elizabeth T took over on September 6 Elizabeth R died on September 8 The funeral was on September 19 Kwarteng's mini budget was on September 23 The party conference recess was from September 23 to October 11 Kwateng was sacked on October 14 Hunt's antibudget was on October 17 Truss announced her resgination on October 20 Sunak took over on October 24
In terms of actual Westminster time, that's about three weeks?
I would like to formally ask that "Kwarteng appeared to be off his t*ts at the funeral on September 19" be added to the list.
Let us not forget. 🙏
Cheeky wee read of Viz at the QE2 funeral. If you look closely Braverman has a swatch at one point
Online interviews, off site essay writing....they do know at that second rate institution that AI can ace these kind of tests.
What a stupid decision. The opposite of what they needed to do.
My understanding is lots of universities are still doing online exams (never stopped after COVID). Total mockery of standards.
To me the whole point of a university education is that you do most of it on-site, in person.
Arh you see you are missing the point of modern university education...the student gets the service they believe they deserve after paying £10k / year and the university don't want people failing / dropping out as it looks terrible on their rankings.
Not interested in party politics at the moment. More needs to be shaken out.
Big News! At yesterday's earnings call Tesla announced their plans to stop building cars. Model S and X and Cybertruck are all dead with their production lines repurposed for robots and taxis. No further cars will be built which you can drive. So once the Model 3 and Y get old, that's the end.
Madness standing on the shoulders of madness on stilts. Oh, the Robototron production line is to build 1m units next year. As there is no global market for these, expect them to be bought by the US government and used for herd culling of the population.
Is that a true-truth? I'm not a big fan of Elon (I know: surprise!) but even by his standard this is f*****g stupid. Tesla is a hundred-billion dollar company. Are the board so in thrall to Elon that they are willing to destroy the company for one man's stupidity?
1. Model S and X production ends shortly. Sales are down to a trickle anyway. Production space at the Fremont factory to be repurposed to build Optimus 2. Cybertruck production line to be repurposed to build autonomous vehicles. No timeline given or what those are but it won't be the truck that nobody buys 3. Roadster announced with a reveal in April. Its been announced as launching this year every year since 2020 4. Elon said that with the exception of the roadster, Tesla will not bring to the market any vehicles which are not fully autonomous 5. They further project that the bulk of all future sales will be the cybercab
He/they are mad. Sales are in Year on Year on Year decline. Accelerating hard. Sales of tax credits down nearly 50% YonY. They need profitable sales (vehicles are 75% of revenue to pay for capex and research. Capex this year more than doubles to $20bn. Hasn't said what they're spending it on. Won't be cars.
So no new models ever again. Its done.
Still, if the roadster ever does happen ima gettit. Performance that breaks either the laws of physics or the laws of the UK sounds good to me. 0-60 in one second is something I require.
You, TSE and Dura round Silverstone. I hope Betfair offer odds!
We could do it in iRacing. I will back myself at any odds.
I can do a 1:59 around it in a 992 GT3 R. It's a front end grip track so I can probably get another 1s with better setup and then maybe another 1s with practice.
Only interested in an IRL competition. Appreciate Silverstone might be somewhat unrealistic budget (or maybe not if go to trackday on time trial and all bring our own cars and swap?). Karts are out due to weight disadvantage but will consider any full sized cars.
Open to suggestions. I accept I'm highly unlikely to win but the main point is to humiliate TSE. Perhaps others can join. I missed the roundabout stuff but I understand someone said something daft? IDK.
Trackdays are fucking expensive and don't allow "racing". So it would have do be some sort of time attack but then it's almost impossible to balance the performance of the cars. Even if we swap cars (if somebody stacked my Clubsport I would smile but there would be a lot of teeth showing) that wouldn't work because you're always going to be way slower in an unfamiliar car.
President Donald J. Trump announces that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be decertifying Bombardier Global Expresses, and all other aircraft made in Canada, until Canada certifies the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Business Jets produced in the United States. Additionally, Trump states that if the issue is not immediately corrected, he will impose a 50% on all Canadian aircraft sold in the United States.
Trackdays are fucking expensive and don't allow "racing". So it would have do be some sort of time attack but then it's almost impossible to balance the performance of the cars. Even if we swap cars (if somebody stacked my Clubsport I would smile but there would be a lot of teeth showing) that wouldn't work because you're always going to be way slower in an unfamiliar car.
Trackdays are fucking expensive and don't allow "racing". So it would have do be some sort of time attack but then it's almost impossible to balance the performance of the cars. Even if we swap cars (if somebody stacked my Clubsport I would smile but there would be a lot of teeth showing) that wouldn't work because you're always going to be way slower in an unfamiliar car.
The solution is simple.
Everyone will be using the same unfamiliar car.
We (by which I mean @rcs1000 ) could even buy one as a future PB runabout.
President Donald J. Trump announces that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be decertifying Bombardier Global Expresses, and all other aircraft made in Canada, until Canada certifies the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Business Jets produced in the United States. Additionally, Trump states that if the issue is not immediately corrected, he will impose a 50% on all Canadian aircraft sold in the United States.
Number of net gains for the Dems in the House? 30 Number of net gains for the Dems in the Senate? 4 Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election? 58 Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election? 30 UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage (British Polling Council registered pollsters only)? Reform 14% Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC? 15% Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026? 9 The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026? Sir 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)? £125bn UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025)? 1.5% Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup? Argentina
We basically somehow ended up with David Icke as prime minister for two months didn't we? How the hell did we manage that?
She wasn’t always this crazy, was she? It’s like she has been captured by a brain washing cult.
Maybe it’s those social media algorithms - everyone says they are dangerous. Or, being booted out of politics altogether, so fast, is hard to come to terms with?
Let’s hope Liz is still switched on enough to be making lots of money from having been Prime Minister. Boris, Blair and Dave are raking it in.
We basically somehow ended up with David Icke as prime minister for two months didn't we? How the hell did we manage that?
She wasn’t always this crazy, was she? It’s like she has been captured by a brain washing cult.
Maybe it’s those social media algorithms - everyone says they are dangerous. Or, being booted out of politics altogether, so fast, is hard to come to terms with?
Let’s hope Liz is still switched on enough to be making lots of money from having been Prime Minister. Boris, Blair and Dave are raking it in.
Comes from a weird culty family. Her CND father disowned her for even standing as a Tory in 2005. Maybe the weirdness was baked in.
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There has been a lot of chatter about at least one Iranian government flight heading out to Moscow today but whether that is an indication of a sinking ship or just hiding out for a bit, no one knows. The problem Iran has is needs to look West, South and now also North for incoming and they just dont have the capability to close the gates in one direction never mind three.
The position of Israel is unclear if they will get involved offensively. Certainly the US resources have dual purpose, both to sustain there own actions but also potentially to fill in gaps in Israel's resources to maintain a high tempo effort for longer.
The US cannot leave so much metal there for long without doing something or just packing up and going home. The latter isnt really Trump's thing. Remember his motivation, he wants to get a proper big result and if he doesnt think he is going to get it he wont do it.
One problem the Pentagon faces I mentioned a week or so ago. Targeting. The US have been asking around for a bit now if anyone can help identify target locations, human targets. The Europeans have been asked, the Israelis have too. Its a gap for US intelligence.
Let us not forget. 🙏
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9jkdx1gp8o
Treblinka’s not bad. Not much left but you do get some sense of abysmal horror and they’ve got death pits 👌
When I’m in Cambodia I can’t ever decide between Tuol
Sleng and Cheong Ek. Both are great but in different ways. Tuol Sleng has this kind of dreadful creeping claustrophobia which makes you want to kill yourself 👍. But Cheong Ek has the stupas full of skulls and you can still find teeth in the dirt
Hard to beat that. Actual human teeth. Think it came top of TripAdvisor Death Camps 2025, and fair play. They put in a lot of effort
Perhaps the craziest 4 weeks in British politics ever
*strives to suppress personal knowledge of Finland rumour*
It’s moaning minnies like you that are putting death camps out of business. Dozens close every year. I hear even Birkenau is in trouble because of whining reviews like this. Moan moan moan
I was reminded of Sachsenhausen when watching Zone of Interest. The camp commandant has to go there, to the central offices of the camp inspectorate. I could swear the streets he walked down looked familiar but apparently the whole film was shot in Poland.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/29/oxford-ditches-entry-exams-for-classics/
Online interviews, off site essay writing....they do know at that second rate institution that AI can ace these kind of tests.
Even Oxford. Incredible
Open to suggestions. I accept I'm highly unlikely to win but the main point is to humiliate TSE. Perhaps others can join. I missed the roundabout stuff but I understand someone said something daft? IDK.
Bearsden South (East Dunbartonshire) by-election first preferences:
Lib Dem: 1744 (38.1%, +14.9)
SNP: 789 (17.2%, -6.2)
Reform UK: 709 (15.5%, new)
Labour: 650 (14.2%, -1.9)
Green: 371 (8.1%, +0.9)
Conservative: 283 (6.2%, -17)
Family: 35 (0.8%, new)
Lib Dem elected stage 5.
It's held by the SNP at Holyrood, with the Lib Dems some way behind them
Trackdays are fucking expensive and don't allow "racing". So it would have do be some sort of time attack but then it's almost impossible to balance the performance of the cars. Even if we swap cars (if somebody stacked my Clubsport I would smile but there would be a lot of teeth showing) that wouldn't work because you're always going to be way slower in an unfamiliar car.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathkelvin_and_Bearsden_(Scottish_Parliament_constituency)
The previous ward councillor Andrew Polson was elected a Tory then resigned having been jailed for fraud - worth a read
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg7nl7nrn5po
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/2017026011968188581
President Donald J. Trump announces that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will be decertifying Bombardier Global Expresses, and all other aircraft made in Canada, until Canada certifies the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Business Jets produced in the United States. Additionally, Trump states that if the issue is not immediately corrected, he will impose a 50% on all Canadian aircraft sold in the United States.
Everyone will be using the same unfamiliar car.
@Benpointer
Number of net gains for the Dems in the House? 30
Number of net gains for the Dems in the Senate? 4
Number of MSPs won by the SNP at the Holyrood election? 58
Number of AMs won by Plaid Cymru at the Senedd election? 30
UK Party recording the largest poll lead during 2026 and by what percentage (British Polling Council registered pollsters only)? Reform 14%
Labour’s Projected National Share of the vote based on the 2026 local elections according to the BBC? 15%
Number of Reform MPs on the 31st December 2026? 9
The name of the UK Prime Minister on 31st December 2026? Sir 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)? £125bn
UK GDP growth in the 12 months to October 2026 (1.1% to October 2025)? 1.5%
Winners of the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup? Argentina
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Maybe it’s those social media algorithms - everyone says they are dangerous. Or, being booted out of politics altogether, so fast, is hard to come to terms with?
Let’s hope Liz is still switched on enough to be making lots of money from having been Prime Minister. Boris, Blair and Dave are raking it in.