He said something about ordinary people who were "alarm clock Britain" getting up in the dark iirc. t'interweb seems to say dated 2011. (View Post)

Robert Peston @Peston Here is the scale of the government’s humiliation tonight. A week ago Downing St was warning any Labour MP who was thinking of not voting for the welfare reform that they would … (View Post)

It's deeply sad in a way. An era is passing. There is an increasing sense of a long withdrawing melancholy. Social democracy is ending at least for a good long time as, it also seems, is softish one … (View Post)

Massive, if true. Ailbhe Rea @PronouncedAlva · 7m It was Angela Rayner who pushed for today's major U-turn to be made, when it became clear the govt was going to lose the vote. Extraordinary that a g… (View Post)

One of the lessons of today is that campaigning on the vacuous term 'change' might win an election when the existing government is exhausted and shite but it leads to problems if no one inside the te… (View Post)