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Who knows where we’ll be 5 or 10 years from now?

England will be begging for consensual stability and Ed Davey becomes PM. A shitty remake of Borgen so dull Scandinavians fall asleep.

Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 1:57 pm Standard right wing, light governance, low tax, freeze peach, soldier rimmers.

I accidentally disliked this.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 3:11 pm I accidentally disliked this.

I think if you click on your accidental dislike again it'll remove it

Done, cheers.

Yes George Keir going on about Preston would have been a proven vote winner for Labour.

I read a few local government types on Twitter and never seen anybody mention Preston.

Did the council want to know the bus station down? I know Ed Vaizey, a Tory in the right job, listed it, fairly controversially.

Extensive local government expertise from the Brains Trust BTL, I see.

Given that Labour held a lot of these council seats anyway, wouldn't there be a rather obvious question to "vote for us, we'll make you great like Preston"

Admittedly, this bloke is a Lib Dem, but he's a councillor (in Stockport). So I'll give him more credence than people saying he didn't mention it because it would give credence to Corbyn.

Nice timing Keir.

Oh fuck.

In which Starmer earns a "YOU FUCKING TWAT" from me.

FFS, what did she do to deserve that, and why now?

Reshuffle on the way? Wouldn't she just have moved if that was the case?

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 7:42 pm Reshuffle on the way? Wouldn't she just have moved if that was the case?

Whatever, it'll be seen as a start of a purge of the Left, by the Left.

Does Labour have Interchangeable Emmas?

More genius here.

From the Beeb at https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-57037839

Leader Sir Keir Starmer is expected to reshuffle his frontbench team in the next few days. Ms Rayner will remain deputy leader of the party as it is a position directly elected by the party members.

But Labour's former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the decision to sack Ms Rayner was a "cowardly avoidance of responsibility" and accused Sir Keir of "scapegoating everyone apart from himself".

This seems like a bad decision, unless there’s some other reason we don’t know about.

Unsurprisingly...

Twitter is alight.

Seems she’s getting another senior shadow cabinet role. Shadow Chancellor?

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Sat May 08, 2021 7:50 pm This seems like a bad decision, unless there’s some other reason we don’t know about.

The award for "a post that is an example of litotes" goes to Crabs unless, as Crabs sez, there's something we don't know about.

Looking at the post that's just appeared, there was talk a day or two ago about replacing Anneliese Dodds?

Oh well, let's sit back, crack open a refreshing beverage of our choice and see what happens in the next 24 hours...