IanB2
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Remember, a Conservative vote is a wasted vote! ;)
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Your exam question today in your MA world affairs and political history course is: The world would be a much better, calmer place if all men were born with a dick of exactly the same size; discuss.
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I don’t have much time for Leon myself, but nevertheless would struggle to see how this fiasco is all his fault?
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The only advantage of AV is that it could be introduced without a boundary review, preserves the single member constituency link (which was only ever worth anything in marginal seats, since your safe seat MP never gave a XXXX about you and your problems), and ensures that each MP is elected with at least majority support…
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So much for Chat GPT
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Chat GPT says Plaid is going to win the 1510 at Kempton
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Palestinians are Semitic, you numpty.
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I visited my terminally ill suicidal friend in hospital on Friday. Sitting up in bed chatting to people (but watched by hospital staff sitting by her bed 24/7), you wouldn’t think she’d fallen three and a half storeys onto a paved patio, just a week before. Another friend pointed out to me that, had she succeeded one day…
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Freedman (senior) 's conslusion on Trump and Iran: Trump has not changed his tune. When asked about the situation on arrival in Florida, he stated: ‘They are being decimated. We are talking now, they want to make a deal.’ He adds: ‘Very simply our military is the greatest in the world by far.’ Success in war, though, is…
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A second MP so he had someone to lead? In a local council you’re only a leader ‘if there are at least two of you.
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Every month they will give us a little treat?
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You should get out more
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Luckily my principled position, which I would hold regardless of where I lived, would direct me to vote Green before considering Reform, in my own current constituency. Thus I won’t ever be held responsible for future PM Farage. Unlike this site’s numpty in residence Leon, who will likely get it wrong for the fourth time…
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How can the season that never ends have any sort of “beginning”?
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Meanwhile, kudos to the car driver who has endeavoured to recreate the closing scene from the Italian Job using their car in Shanklin this afternoon….
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I’d sign up to that. Tory and Labour are complicit in the two-party stitch up that has paralysed our politics for two generations and ensured that every GE vote I have ever cast has been directed straight to the WPB. I’d vote for any party on offer as an alternative to the Tories, and any party other than the Tories on…
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Yeah. I had a lay on Starmer not being replaced this year - the same bet that paid off nicely with respect to 2025 - but I cashed out once things started to look very dicky for him in the spring. I agree with the lead that things now look more favourable (less unfavourable would be nearer the mark) for him now, but…
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Looks like a chunk of the anti-Tory vote in the Vale went from LD to Reform.
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It's sunny 11C now; that was a strange flurry of snowflakes, back there
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It's snowing!
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The Tories reduced the allowable margin (range) such that constituencies had to be more uniform than in all previous reviews. That is partly why there are so many peculiar seeming seats, as the wriggle room to make them more sensible was significantly removed.
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Down 25% in real terms from the peak, on average.
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Not really. The left generally sees itself as part of the opposition to the establishment whereas Tory voters, at least pre-Johnson, were the carpet slipper vote happy if everything stayed just as it is. However repelled you are by Trump’s ignorance, crudeness and stupidity, there’s no doubt he’s put two fingers up to the…
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Usually that’s because we Brits don’t fancy the catch from our own shores, that’s mostly exported to Scandinavia, the Med, or Arab countries, and the fish we fancy is caught in more distant seas, frozen, and imported.
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The enduring mystery with Leon is how he manages to cling so successfully to his rock of lumpen ignorance despite being gifted opportunities to broaden his mind beyond the dreams of most ordinary folks.
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For some balance: you’ve admitted your youth spent as a communist supporter. In any sensible world, that should have disbarred you from any career in mainstream British politics, just as it would for some right-wing youth who spent their time on National Front marches and later fancied a career in the Tory party. But,…
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More simply, the operation was planned unaware that the Germans had parked one of its crack panzer divisions there for some R&R, and by the time aerial reconnaissance identified the tanks parked along the planned route, too much had been invested in the operation for anyone senior enough to be able recognise the risks and…
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Anyone familiar with your long posting history on PB knows that already ;)
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The magic money tree only exists during times of war.
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Presumably the leavers are predominantly the types who would vote for Rayner/Burnham? So Streeting just has to sit and wait