I am struggling to understand why the government should not “respond” to Reform’s success in the locals. Has Mexicanpete heard of this thing called politics. (View Post)

Read the thread. As an aside, it’s absurd this 46-storey tower was ever delayed. It’s in the Canary Wharf cluster so can’t possibly be objected to on massing grounds. (View Post)

I myself took gross exception to “citizens of nowhere”, as it was uttered in the heat of an intense rise of xenophobia post-Brexit. May’s intent was to criticise an ideology of rootless capitalism - … (View Post)

“Island of strangers” is about the only evocative phrase that Starmer has uttered in his life, and accurately describes a legitimate anxiety in response to mass immigration. Again, the backlash is la… (View Post)

As noted on here, numbers are due to fall, so results are already baked in. Also, nobody actually likes Starmer. (View Post)