That probably makes it worse. Nobody enjoys admitting that they themselves stuffed up, and are largely the authors of their own downfall. So it's human to contort reality so that isn't so. … (View Post)

Talking of which, the Gorgeous Dylan Difford chart of moving votes. https://bsky.app/profile/dylandifford.bsky.social/post/3lcsdqpnuy22k So there's some real hacked-offness, but probably also so… (View Post)

Is there anything written down that says he can't do that? (View Post)

Presumably the argument is that if only the government weren't letting all these horrid foreigners in, we wouldn't need those houses. (We would, but that's another story.) The catch is… (View Post)

Probably. But I suspect that it one of those knots in human nature that politicians just have to work with/around. Which kinda gets to the heart of what Starmer and Reeves need someone to do for them… (View Post)