Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
FPT: Sure, Scotland should get to see an NFL game. After all, the Seahawks coach is Mike Macdonald, and the Seahawks quarterback San Darnold has red hair -- and a red beard.
And, tolerant fellow that I am, I think London should have a minor league baseball team.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Starmer might gain a few points if he could fire Sarwar .
A public humiliation and calling him out for being a back stabbing Judas . Unfortunately he can’t fire him which would have at least provided some more entertainment!
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
I actually hadn't realised but Labour got fewer votes (9.7m) in 2024 than they did in 2019 (10.3m), it's pretty shocking how poorly they did in the end, a weak and divided opponent meant they waltzed in without actually winning a real mandate. It's the true source of all their indecision and inaction, no one actually voted for them. I mean more actual people voted for Jez in 2019 let alone getting anywhere near the 12.9m Jez got in 2017 or the 14m that voted for Boris in 2019.
A much under appreciated point. Horse, once of this parish, used to bang on about how brilliant McSweeny's campaign had been. I don't see it myself. A steaming pile of horse shit would have beaten the Tories in 2014. That lack of a resounding win, coupled to the lack of any ideas of how to make Britain better, other than by not being Tories, is why we are where we are.
Absolutely. McSweeney's "brilliant" campaign during the election period itself managed to reduce Labour from polling 45% at the dissolution to 34.7% on election day, essentially by avoiding saying anything of substance. That despite being up against the most enfeebled PM since at least 1997. The shortcoming in the polling itself accounts for only a small part of that difference.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
He’s having a tough day. This Labour govt are proving just as useless and scheming as the one it replaced. It’s must be hard to cope no matter the spinning and attacking Badenoch and Patel. 😂😂
Here’s the times of the totally un co-ordinated statements of support from cabinet colleagues.
Starmer might gain a few points if he could fire Sarwar .
A public humiliation and calling him out for being a back stabbing Judas . Unfortunately he can’t fire him which would have at least provided some more entertainment!
He could abolish the Scottish Labour Party and say it's time to come together as One Britain.
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Yes it’s possible both to have a serious dislike for the media, and also a serious dislike for the politicians they cover.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Well, no shit Sherlock, right? Any sensible minister would probably like to keep a low profile rather than nail their trousers to the mast. So they have to be instructed to come out in support - forced to make a decision.
The fact that Starmer can still command this is telling though.
ETA: I mean, largely, that he had the confidence to demand it. Obviously if he asked and they refused then he's toast.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Labour, your core vote strategy was coming. Rayner will be an awful leader. She will make Starmer seem a political titan. She was ready, but a little early according to Pippa.
‘ EXCL: An website claiming to launch Angela Rayner’s Labour leadership campaign was published temporarily last month, prompting further speculation the former deputy PM is gearing up for contest to replace Keir Starmer.’
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Starmer might gain a few points if he could fire Sarwar .
A public humiliation and calling him out for being a back stabbing Judas . Unfortunately he can’t fire him which would have at least provided some more entertainment!
He could abolish the Scottish Labour Party and say it's time to come together as One Britain.
I believe the Scottish Labour Party will do that for him.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Which you'd expect. Chalk one up for number 10. Haven't said that too often in recent times.
What's next? 1. Labour are fucked in Scotland. Had Sarwar led the movement to oust Starmer he would have been in a fantastic position going into the election. Instead, he's fucked and the party's fucked. How on earth can any senior people come up and campaign alongside him? The jibe about branch office starts to ring true - he's in opposition to his own government kinda.
2. Starmer will get banged into the room by the PLP tonight who will judge that even if they want him gone there is no mechanism to do so with the cabinet corralled into alignment. He's either safe until after May, or something totally abhorrent will surface. In which case he goes but anyone looking to take over from him is similarly tainted now. No "we didn't know" because you did
3. Like the cabinet assembled by Donitz, they will back him and he will have no power to actually deliver policy. The Flensburg government actually put forward plans for the reconstruction of a post-Hitler Nazi Germany, until one sunny morning a knock at the door and they were all arrested.
Starmer is Donitz.
Sarwar is a donut.
Doughnut.
Scottish Labor want to bring NFL to Scotland and believe we should be using Trump's Scottish connections to strengthen our relationship with him. They're donut people all the way.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
He’s having a tough day. This Labour govt are proving just as useless and scheming as the one it replaced. It’s must be hard to cope no matter the spinning and attacking Badenoch and Patel. 😂😂
Here’s the times of the totally un co-ordinated statements of support from cabinet colleagues.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Which you'd expect. Chalk one up for number 10. Haven't said that too often in recent times.
New comms team already done more in a few hours than old one in months
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
He’s having a tough day. This Labour govt are proving just as useless and scheming as the one it replaced. It’s must be hard to cope no matter the spinning and attacking Badenoch and Patel. 😂😂
Here’s the times of the totally un co-ordinated statements of support from cabinet colleagues.
When the going get tough The tough get going We keep right on to the end of the road
Most people here are fine, chat politics, no side to them. There’s something quite creepy about you and your continual making of personal references. I don’t know anyone else who’d stalk peoples posts to throw stuff at them and you’ve not been here a week.
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
If I was scripting this twisty drama I'd throw Labour unexpectedly holding G&D into the mix.
Whats the latest betting ?
GRN 1.8 REF 2.8 LAB 10
Can you turn that to percentages as I do not bet
It's been ages since I could do this in my head @Big_G_NorthWales , but here goes (apologies if wrong). If we assume the quoted odds are decimal odds, then the calculation is:
GRN = 1.8 decimal odds -> 1/(1.8) = 0.556 probability = 55.6% percentage probability
If we do the same calculation for REF and LAB we get
GRN = 55.6% percentage probability
REF = 35.7%
LAB = 10%
See https://www.aceodds.com/bet-calculator/odds-converter.html for an online converter. Also note that betting odds when added up always exceed 100%. This is known as the "overround" ("vigorish" if you're the Mafia) and enables bookes to earn money.
Starmer might gain a few points if he could fire Sarwar .
A public humiliation and calling him out for being a back stabbing Judas . Unfortunately he can’t fire him which would have at least provided some more entertainment!
He could abolish the Scottish Labour Party and say it's time to come together as One Britain.
There isn’t a Scottish Labour Party. HYUFD is right (wash your mouth out Fairliered). They are only a branch office. There is no Scottish Labour Party registered as a political party.
What's next? 1. Labour are fucked in Scotland. Had Sarwar led the movement to oust Starmer he would have been in a fantastic position going into the election. Instead, he's fucked and the party's fucked. How on earth can any senior people come up and campaign alongside him? The jibe about branch office starts to ring true - he's in opposition to his own government kinda.
2. Starmer will get banged into the room by the PLP tonight who will judge that even if they want him gone there is no mechanism to do so with the cabinet corralled into alignment. He's either safe until after May, or something totally abhorrent will surface. In which case he goes but anyone looking to take over from him is similarly tainted now. No "we didn't know" because you did
3. Like the cabinet assembled by Donitz, they will back him and he will have no power to actually deliver policy. The Flensburg government actually put forward plans for the reconstruction of a post-Hitler Nazi Germany, until one sunny morning a knock at the door and they were all arrested.
Starmer is Donitz.
Sarwar is a donut.
Doughnut.
Scottish Labor want to bring NFL to Scotland and believe we should be using Trump's Scottish connections to strengthen our relationship with him. They're donut people all the way.
Oh no, not tens of thousands of high-spending inbound tourists coming to watch a sporting event.
Starmer is a severe disappointment as PM, and quite possibly a (politically) dead man walking, but I hesitate to ridicule the loyalists. It's not wildly different from HYUFD in full flow, and I still feel twinges of remorse for the times we all ganged up on him.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
He’s having a tough day. This Labour govt are proving just as useless and scheming as the one it replaced. It’s must be hard to cope no matter the spinning and attacking Badenoch and Patel. 😂😂
Here’s the times of the totally un co-ordinated statements of support from cabinet colleagues.
When the going get tough The tough get going We keep right on to the end of the road
Most people here are fine, chat politics, no side to them. There’s something quite creepy about you and your continual making of personal references. I don’t know anyone else who’d stalk peoples posts to throw stuff at them and you’ve not been here a week.
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Oh well suck it up
Fight the Tory media and prove them wrong.
We'll start with parasites like Dan Hodges
Cry harder.
I don't cry
I fight back
I’m sure Dan Hodges is shitting himself.
He's full of it
I try to avoid picking on individual journalists. As I said they’ve got to feed the machine and earn their living. So inevitably you get hyperbole, going early and overstatement of sources. That’s fine. But I do tend to think Hodges is often at the more extreme end of that scale. Mind these things go up and down - Peston, Kuensberg and various others have all occupied that position at times.
Can’t help but think Journalism by twitter and 24 hour news has not improved the insight provided by the fourth estate.
Been here before; first wholesale row that I recall was Suez in 1956, which ended with the PM's defenestration; not however the Government's, which (sadly for me) went on to increase it's majority three years later.
I really think too many people here have severely twisted knickers, and that in a week or two (at most) most if not all of this will be over. Yes, there will be casualties, and in some cases they'll deserve it; Mandelson is the most obvious example. Morgan McSweeny will have quietly found another means of earning a living and Parliament will have moved on to something else.
If anything should come out of this it should be that wealthy and/or privileged people should find it very much more difficult to traffic attractive young females around the globe. But since that's being going on since time immemorial I doubt we'll make many improvements there.
‘ Keir, you’re a good man. A decent man. An Arsenal fan (always a good test of a man). When you did Life Stories, I found your remarkable journey to the top of British politics very inspiring. But this can’t go on. For the good of the country, resign. @Keir_Starmer’
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Which you'd expect. Chalk one up for number 10. Haven't said that too often in recent times.
New comms team already done more in a few hours than old one in months
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
He’s having a tough day. This Labour govt are proving just as useless and scheming as the one it replaced. It’s must be hard to cope no matter the spinning and attacking Badenoch and Patel. 😂😂
Here’s the times of the totally un co-ordinated statements of support from cabinet colleagues.
When the going get tough The tough get going We keep right on to the end of the road
Most people here are fine, chat politics, no side to them. There’s something quite creepy about you and your continual making of personal references. I don’t know anyone else who’d stalk peoples posts to throw stuff at them and you’ve not been here a week.
Bizarre...
Can't handle banter
Me smells a viler
I don’t like creepy fuckers who trawls my posts to throw stuff at me. Banter with people I have a rapport with is fine. Why would I want to have banter with you 🥱
‘ Keir, you’re a good man. A decent man. An Arsenal fan (always a good test of a man). When you did Life Stories, I found your remarkable journey to the top of British politics very inspiring. But this can’t go on. For the good of the country, resign. @Keir_Starmer’
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
When it was working against your opponents your party and your sort loved it. Putting the boot in.
You helped create the monster.
Labour expected a sycophantic press when they came in, they got scrutiny instead. They have been pitiful so far. Continuity Sunak.
So as for the media and how it treats politicians. Suck it up sunshine.
Oh well suck it up
Fight the Tory media and prove them wrong.
We'll start with parasites like Dan Hodges
Cry harder.
I don't cry
I fight back
I’m sure Dan Hodges is shitting himself.
He's full of it
I try to avoid picking on individual journalists. As I said they’ve got to feed the machine and earn their living. So inevitably you get hyperbole, going early and overstatement of sources. That’s fine. But I do tend to think Hodges is often at the more extreme end of that scale. Mind these things go up and down - Peston, Kuensberg and various others have all occupied that position at times.
Can’t help but think Journalism by twitter and 24 hour news has not improved the insight provided by the fourth estate.
At least HYUFD is courteous. There isn’t an unpleasant undertone to how he posts. He seems a nice guy,
I do not mean to insult you. I don't believe I have insulted you.
For those who haven't got a sciobybdoo what you are talking about, you seem offended that I support the same football team as you and make reference to it.
You a few days ago referred to one game, I replied now you accuse me of some sort of stalking.
That to me is utterly bizarre
I will in future ignore everything you say and not respond
Thats fair enough
There should be room for more than one in the village.
‘ Keir, you’re a good man. A decent man. An Arsenal fan (always a good test of a man). When you did Life Stories, I found your remarkable journey to the top of British politics very inspiring. But this can’t go on. For the good of the country, resign. @Keir_Starmer’
There has to be a very uneasy feeling, when just like with Boris, Truss, Rishi and now Starmer a view that in the 24 hour media age, media drives the narrative not the elected politicians
It didn't used to be like this.
Will we ever see another 5 year term for any Party Leader as PM again.
Like sports journalists bating for a goal, a wicket, a knock out, an eagle a try, they seek to make to force the agenda not report it.
It is very frightening and getting worse.
It will blight all party's and all politicians unless it is curbed.
There is a fine line between free speech and anarchy
It's not a game.
Er, you’re new here, so we will forgive you
But be in no doubt, we LIVE for days like this, on PB. Days like this are what make the boring days bearable, the days when we get up and the biggest news is a narrow Lib Dem council by election loss in Ebbw Vale (south)
Every so often we get a UK general election, a US prez election, or a UK leader putsch. And in that order those are the things that turn us on, here in the snug at Ye Olde PB Arms
Personally I find the boring days delightfully bearable. The days when we argue about which county had the best flag or lament the declining quality of supermarket tannoy announcements or get stuck yet again in the (Trains U Sex) bit of the Venn diagram. Vignettes on architecture, urban planning, cricket. Incredibly precise points of detail on the English language.
ISTR my first foray BTL was on the subject of cheese.
OTOH, until this afternoon I was unaware of that quote from Macbeth. I've been to Birnam Wood. Once you got away from the railway line it felt like something from fantasy; deer frolicking away from you, birds of prey circling. I had no idea it was in Shakespeare but it seems apt.
The old Birnam wood is mostly gone with only a few trees remaining. There's a big oak by the river but I don't think it is quite old enough (despite the usual stories). The forests there now are mostly recent, with the larches being some of the earliest non-native plantations in the UK (they were seeded from below with a cannon!).
Dunsinane is a nice volcanic hill in the Sidlaws about 10 miles away with what appears to be an iron age fort on top. I've climbed up it a few times myself. I'm not sure if the date is right for Macbeth but there was definitely something there once.
Unfortunately Perth and Kinross council seem to have given themselves permission to quarry half of it away.
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
‘ Keir, you’re a good man. A decent man. An Arsenal fan (always a good test of a man). When you did Life Stories, I found your remarkable journey to the top of British politics very inspiring. But this can’t go on. For the good of the country, resign. @Keir_Starmer’
What's next? 1. Labour are fucked in Scotland. Had Sarwar led the movement to oust Starmer he would have been in a fantastic position going into the election. Instead, he's fucked and the party's fucked. How on earth can any senior people come up and campaign alongside him? The jibe about branch office starts to ring true - he's in opposition to his own government kinda.
2. Starmer will get banged into the room by the PLP tonight who will judge that even if they want him gone there is no mechanism to do so with the cabinet corralled into alignment. He's either safe until after May, or something totally abhorrent will surface. In which case he goes but anyone looking to take over from him is similarly tainted now. No "we didn't know" because you did
3. Like the cabinet assembled by Donitz, they will back him and he will have no power to actually deliver policy. The Flensburg government actually put forward plans for the reconstruction of a post-Hitler Nazi Germany, until one sunny morning a knock at the door and they were all arrested.
Starmer is Donitz.
Sarwar is a donut.
Doughnut.
Scottish Labor want to bring NFL to Scotland and believe we should be using Trump's Scottish connections to strengthen our relationship with him. They're donut people all the way.
Oh no, not tens of thousands of high-spending inbound tourists coming to watch a sporting event.
To steal from Father Ted, "I hear you're a SLab supporter now, Sandpit!" These are strange times indeed.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
{checks the level on the barrel of cask strength turnip juice}
‘ Keir, you’re a good man. A decent man. An Arsenal fan (always a good test of a man). When you did Life Stories, I found your remarkable journey to the top of British politics very inspiring. But this can’t go on. For the good of the country, resign. @Keir_Starmer’
Starmer is a severe disappointment as PM, and quite possibly a (politically) dead man walking, but I hesitate to ridicule the loyalists. It's not wildly different from HYUFD in full flow, and I still feel twinges of remorse for the times we all ganged up on him.
One more thing.
@bigjohnowls now has someone real to address with his next "Keir Starmer fans please explain" post.
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
"lifting kids out of poverty." = giving taxpayers' money to feckless parents to spend on booze & fags.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
A bit early on a Monday for hard liquor isn't it?
{checks the level on the barrel of cask strength turnip juice}
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
For the moment, it is in Rayner's interests to play for time and hope HMRC get a move on. She doesn't have a lot to gain from going early.
However, the dam won't be able to hold after the forthcoming catastrophe in May.
It wasn't a coup, I don't think. It was Sarwar flying solo. Objective: gain distance from an unpopular PM to try and improve Holyrood election prospects.
At least HYUFD is courteous. There isn’t an unpleasant undertone to how he posts. He seems a nice guy,
I do not mean to insult you. I don't believe I have insulted you.
For those who haven't got a sciobybdoo what you are talking about, you seem offended that I support the same football team as you and make reference to it.
You a few days ago referred to one game, I replied now you accuse me of some sort of stalking.
That to me is utterly bizarre
I will in future ignore everything you say and not respond
Thats fair enough
There should be room for more than one in the village.
I’ve never engaged with you on it. You’ve never once mentioned you are a fan. Yet you start mentioning it to me. I asked why twice and you didn’t reply. There was no attempt to banter either. Excuse me for being curious as to why. Especially when I mentioned home brew and you replied about Winson Green 🤷♂️ a reference to where I used to live out of the blue. Again I don’t understand that. I never said you has insulted but I find posting personal stuff back at me odd, especially when no other attempt to engage. I have also worked with morons who think crap can be brushed off as ‘banter’.
Yes I lived in Birmingham. Gisela Stuart was my MP and a very good one she was too.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
"lifting kids out of poverty." = giving taxpayers' money to feckless parents to spend on booze & fags.
Starmer is a severe disappointment as PM, and quite possibly a (politically) dead man walking, but I hesitate to ridicule the loyalists. It's not wildly different from HYUFD in full flow, and I still feel twinges of remorse for the times we all ganged up on him.
So, after another day of hyperbolic, febrile comment here and elsewhere, the PM soldiers on, much to the disgruntlement of most of the press and PB pack. He emerges from today marginally strengthened, I reckon, as the unanimous support from his Cabinet (and Ange) couldn't realistically be rolled back until at least after the May elections.
Signs of improved organisation, too, as whoever coordinated the Cabinet messages of support did so quickly and effectively. None of them had to tweet: they could have said no. Sarwar must be feeling a bit johnny-no-mates right now.
If I was scripting this twisty drama I'd throw Labour unexpectedly holding G&D into the mix.
Whats the latest betting ?
GRN 1.8 REF 2.8 LAB 10
Can you turn that to percentages as I do not bet
It's been ages since I could do this in my head @Big_G_NorthWales , but here goes (apologies if wrong). If we assume the quoted odds are decimal odds, then the calculation is:
GRN = 1.8 decimal odds -> 1/(1.8) = 0.556 probability = 55.6% percentage probability
If we do the same calculation for REF and LAB we get
GRN = 55.6% percentage probability
REF = 35.7%
LAB = 10%
See https://www.aceodds.com/bet-calculator/odds-converter.html for an online converter. Also note that betting odds when added up always exceed 100%. This is known as the "overround" ("vigorish" if you're the Mafia) and enables bookes to earn money.
Normally, not always, occasionally short term arbs can arise.
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
"lifting kids out of poverty." = giving taxpayers' money to feckless parents to spend on booze & fags.
So, after another day of hyperbolic, febrile comment here and elsewhere, the PM soldiers on, much to the disgruntlement of most of the press and PB pack. He emerges from today marginally strengthened, I reckon, as the unanimous support from his Cabinet (and Ange) couldn't realistically be rolled back until at least after the May elections.
Signs of improved organisation, too, as whoever coordinated the Cabinet messages of support did so quickly and effectively. None of them had to tweet: they could have said no. Sarwar must be feeling a bit johnny-no-mates right now.
Surely Sarwar wouldn’t have gone over the top if he had known he was on his Tod.
It wasn't a coup, I don't think. It was Sarwar flying solo. Objective: gain distance from an unpopular PM to try and improve Holyrood election prospects.
Yes, it looks like that. But I don't see how it works with a Labour government - it would only make sense if Labour were in opposition in Westminster. Do we have any Scottish resident Labour members to give us a view from north of the border?
Starmer is a severe disappointment as PM, and quite possibly a (politically) dead man walking, but I hesitate to ridicule the loyalists. It's not wildly different from HYUFD in full flow, and I still feel twinges of remorse for the times we all ganged up on him.
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
"lifting kids out of poverty." = giving taxpayers' money to feckless parents to spend on booze & fags.
Are you Nigel Farage in disguise?
He was supportive of lifting the two child cap.
Er, no. The actual Reform policy is hedged with qualifications which would mean a 90% plus of the cap stays in place.
Minister briefs off record to Hodges that theyve all been instructed to tweet support Nooooooo, surely not
I mean that's the game isn't it?
Once the first shot is fired, you either need to keep shooting until the king is dead. Or you need to put your gun away and retreat back to the barracks.
I think we need a new event to prompt any new attempt. And I don't think a by-election loss or local elections losses will be sufficient.
Feck off Dan Hodges
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
Sam Coates at Sky has just said no 10 co-ordinated the rapid response from cabinet members in response to Sarwar
Which you'd expect. Chalk one up for number 10. Haven't said that too often in recent times.
New comms team already done more in a few hours than old one in months
Indeed - they've even set up an astroturfing account on PB.
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
"lifting kids out of poverty." = giving taxpayers' money to feckless parents to spend on booze & fags.
Are you Nigel Farage in disguise?
Nigel Farage also spends taxpayers' money on booze and fags.
Wonder what Kemi is going to say at PMQ? Make reference to the turmoil, only for it to be pointed out that Labour haven't lost any MPs to Reform? It's going to be interesting to see how both sides approach this.
Well it's not happening today if he has public statements of support from every cabinet member.
This one from Rayner. The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them. But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty. I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
"lifting kids out of poverty." = giving taxpayers' money to feckless parents to spend on booze & fags.
Are you Nigel Farage in disguise?
He was supportive of lifting the two child cap.
He didn't go into the wrong lobby, did he.
Must confess, I'm quite capable of thinking the worst of him; sometimes, perhaps unjustifiably.
So, after another day of hyperbolic, febrile comment here and elsewhere, the PM soldiers on, much to the disgruntlement of most of the press and PB pack. He emerges from today marginally strengthened, I reckon, as the unanimous support from his Cabinet (and Ange) couldn't realistically be rolled back until at least after the May elections.
Signs of improved organisation, too, as whoever coordinated the Cabinet messages of support did so quickly and effectively. None of them had to tweet: they could have said no. Sarwar must be feeling a bit johnny-no-mates right now.
Surely Sarwar wouldn’t have gone over the top if he had known he was on his Tod.
That's obvious to anyone with the intellectual calibre of Winnie the Pooh.
Can anybody our Scottish experts confirm- does Anas Sarwar possess the intellectual calibre of Winnie the Pooh?
Comments
Let's call you out
Liar.
Proven over and over again.
Your mother will be turning in her grave.
This is the Daily Mail after all
I ask any sensible person
If youre a Labour Minister who would be the last person you'd brief.
Come on fat boy
Name your source
Libel yourself
And, tolerant fellow that I am, I think London should have a minor league baseball team.
Fight the Tory media and prove them wrong.
We'll start with parasites like Dan Hodges
@timoconnorbl.bsky.social
Sarwar putting in a solid effort to make Gregor Townsend not the most isolated Scottish managerial figure this week.
A public humiliation and calling him out for being a back stabbing Judas . Unfortunately he can’t fire him which would have at least provided some more entertainment!
The opportunity for any of them to say NO
If two or three say No he's utter toast
Why did no one jump
Perfect opportunity
Back me or sack me
They undoubtedly for now back him.
Here’s the times of the totally un co-ordinated statements of support from cabinet colleagues.
https://x.com/guidofawkes/status/2020882607202820163?s=61
The rat pack
Most of them vermin
They'll be going hungry for a while yet
Sarwar gave the Cabinet and others a chance to strike.
No one has
No one
I want just one of these pricks to name their source.
They can't
Here’s Sky News getting a well-earned community note for their coverage of the Japanese election yesterday.
https://x.com/skynews/status/2020457157578133939
REF 2.8
LAB 10
I fight back
The fact that Starmer can still command this is telling though.
ETA: I mean, largely, that he had the confidence to demand it. Obviously if he asked and they refused then he's toast.
Lots of gears yet
Labour, your core vote strategy was coming. Rayner will be an awful leader. She will make Starmer seem a political titan. She was ready, but a little early according to Pippa.
‘ EXCL: An website claiming to launch Angela Rayner’s Labour leadership campaign was published temporarily last month, prompting further speculation the former deputy PM is gearing up for contest to replace Keir Starmer.’
https://x.com/pippacrerar/status/2020883603958198394?s=61
There may be a Vonc in Sarwar before Starmar(sic)
So for Labour 1/10 = 0.1 = 10%. For Reform 1/2.8 = 0.357 = 35.7% etc.
The tough get going
We keep right on to the end of the road
Starmer really would be finished if No10 couldn't coordinate a display of ministerial support.
I don't understand why reporting it would be a gotcha, unless the effort failed.
Paul Hutcheon
@paulhutcheon
Tonight's meeting with Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs at Downing Street will be outstanding.
https://x.com/paulhutcheon/status/2020886550976860287?s=20
- GRN = 1.8 decimal odds -> 1/(1.8) = 0.556 probability = 55.6% percentage probability
If we do the same calculation for REF and LAB we get- GRN = 55.6% percentage probability
- REF = 35.7%
- LAB = 10%
See https://www.aceodds.com/bet-calculator/odds-converter.html for an online converter. Also note that betting odds when added up always exceed 100%. This is known as the "overround" ("vigorish" if you're the Mafia) and enables bookes to earn money.Vote of No Confidence
That will shut curry boy Hodges up
Starmer is a severe disappointment as PM, and quite possibly a (politically) dead man walking, but I hesitate to ridicule the loyalists.
It's not wildly different from HYUFD in full flow, and I still feel twinges of remorse for the times we all ganged up on him.
Can't handle banter
Me smells a viler
Can’t help but think Journalism by twitter and 24 hour news has not improved the insight provided by the fourth estate.
I really think too many people here have severely twisted knickers, and that in a week or two (at most) most if not all of this will be over. Yes, there will be casualties, and in some cases they'll deserve it; Mandelson is the most obvious example. Morgan McSweeny will have quietly found another means of earning a living and Parliament will have moved on to something else.
If anything should come out of this it should be that wealthy and/or privileged people should find it very much more difficult to traffic attractive young females around the globe.
But since that's being going on since time immemorial I doubt we'll make many improvements there.
‘ Keir, you’re a good man.
A decent man.
An Arsenal fan (always a good test of a man).
When you did Life Stories, I found your remarkable journey to the top of British politics very inspiring.
But this can’t go on.
For the good of the country, resign. @Keir_Starmer’
https://x.com/piersmorgan/status/2020777153156022581?s=61
Not for the first time with Labour.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-14215417/DAN-HODGES-Ruthless-cynical-cunning-Mandy-perfect-choice-ambassador.html
For those who haven't got a sciobybdoo what you are talking about, you seem offended that I support the same football team as you and make reference to it.
You a few days ago referred to one game, I replied now you accuse me of some sort of stalking.
That to me is utterly bizarre
I will in future ignore everything you say and not respond
Thats fair enough
There should be room for more than one in the village.
Dunsinane is a nice volcanic hill in the Sidlaws about 10 miles away with what appears to be an iron age fort on top. I've climbed up it a few times myself. I'm not sure if the date is right for Macbeth but there was definitely something there once.
Unfortunately Perth and Kinross council seem to have given themselves permission to quarry half of it away.
[ https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@56.4700014,-3.2773376,622m ]
This one from Rayner.
The recent scandal around Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein was shocking - and demands that both this government and our party learn the lessons, and act on them.
But the worst possible response would be to play party politics or factional games. Labour is only getting started on changing things for the better - our Employment Rights Act, renters’ rights, leasehold reform, free school meals and lifting kids out of poverty.
I urge all my colleagues to come together, remember our values and put them into practice as a team. The Prime Minister has my full support in leading us to that end..
Nope, he hasn’t got to @malcolmg ’s stuff.
@bigjohnowls now has someone real to address with his next "Keir Starmer fans please explain" post.
However, the dam won't be able to hold after the forthcoming catastrophe in May.
If he walks out with no bleeding he's done well.
A black eye passable
US president not challenged over false claims climate change is ‘hoax’ and parts of London have sharia law
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/09/ofcom-investigate-gb-news-trump-interview
Yes I lived in Birmingham. Gisela Stuart was my MP and a very good one she was too.
Anyway this is all at a tangent so it’s done.
When Farmer Tupac was defending Gordon Brown 24/7
@Brixian59 is pale shadow of @tim, though.
Signs of improved organisation, too, as whoever coordinated the Cabinet messages of support did so quickly and effectively. None of them had to tweet: they could have said no. Sarwar must be feeling a bit johnny-no-mates right now.
What will Mandleson do when he starts on his revenge. He knows where the bodies are buried.
Blair still silent.
Do we have any Scottish resident Labour members to give us a view from north of the border?
Poor guy has only just arrived.
The actual Reform policy is hedged with qualifications which would mean a 90% plus of the cap stays in place.
Must confess, I'm quite capable of thinking the worst of him; sometimes, perhaps unjustifiably.
Police assessing claims about Andrew sharing confidential trade details
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3wl6vdgqw2o
Can anybody our Scottish experts confirm- does Anas Sarwar possess the intellectual calibre of Winnie the Pooh?