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Ejected on a 17.7% swing.

2 times not very much is still not very much. And in that time 10,000 prisoners have been released early. Oh, an it's not double. It's about 50% increase. I wonder if he's read that and thinks it's double.

Remarkable. Tory ex-MP tells the truth...

Bit below the belt as Truss doesn’t say anything different to whatever Tufton Street sock puppet is sitting in an almost permanent chair on BBC current affairs discussion shows.

I thought it was on point, no matter what other people have said/are saying.

This is what we're missing from Parliament. Is she angling for a job with Douglas Carswell in Mississippi?

Pro-life though.

Meaningless graph with fuck-all on the X axis. Borrowing from the Lib Dems, perhaps ?

If the deaths rate stayed broadly the same throughout the period then it shows that "draconian lockdowns" worked, doesn't it. You stupid cow.

WW2 bullet holes in planes, anybody?

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 16, 2024 6:49 pm Meaningless graph with fuck-all on the X axis. Borrowing from the Lib Dems, perhaps ?

The x-axis are years. It's a shit graph though, because the pandemic didn't all happen in one year but across 2, and the lockdowns reduced other deaths, so excess deaths didn't look two bad. if you look at months in the years you can very clearly see the shit we were in.

From the increasingly absurd Neil O'Brien, formerly a fairly thoughtful politician.

Yeah, Sir Keir. Sort out that decades old problem (which seems to be men aggressively harrassing women at night in town centres). Politicians have failed, says plucky outsider Neil, who's been in politics since he left university 24 years ago. You've had 2 weeks, Sir Keir! This is happening on your watch!

George Osborne here with a rather strained comparison between JD Vance and Sir Keir. Something about serving in Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet.

“Rather strained” is putting it mildly. Fucking ridiculous is the phrase you should be looking at.

The notion that JD Vance has a long term plan to transform the GOP into a progressive centre-left party of government is risible.

Why is it so hard to say Trump and Vance offer nothing but fear and sound bites?

Because he’s a spineless, creepy, little shit.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:34 pm “Rather strained” is putting it mildly. Fucking ridiculous is the phrase you should be looking at.

The notion that JD Vance has a long term plan to transform the GOP into a progressive centre-left party of government is risible.

Osborne using ‘Maybe’ to do a lot of heavy lifting. Maybe anyone who accepts a Veep role from Trump is a dangerous crypto fascist or shameless Faustian opportunist.

Interesting. Farmers Union leader tells Tory MPs to stop talking rubbish about solar farms.

I wonder if this Tory nimbyism could backfire. How many of Nick Timothy's constituents are actually near where the solar farm will go anyway? It's a fairly large constituency.

Mainly on the border with Cambs, the new LD MP for the area (who a prominent councillor who knows her claimed she has trouble telling the time) is opposing the scheme. But supports solar developments that go to a different school.
Labour is now the only Yimby party while those opposing the scheme is split between four parties.

Nick Timothy thinks he's got a huge Gotcha, that Milliband hasn't visited the site. I thought the last government said that it was in line with their current policy.

Anyway, Nick. Welcome to test match cricket. Or, as we might call it, opposition.

Man discovers that being an MP is reality and not writing made-up stuff for gullible people

I wonder if they think they've identified Milliband as a weak link. That might not be a great tactic. I would think the green/Green voters who didn't vote Labour like him, and woulld be more likely to show up next time for Labour if he was more high profile.