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"Blair fucked up the constitution" is a bit of a UK right meme too. By which they seem to mean that he set up the Supreme Court.

In th meantime, here's Rachel Reeves with some bollocks.

Dan Neidle sounds somewhat dramatic about how British ISAs will be a disaster distorting stock markets. Passed evidence shows patriotic marketing is a damp squib and just a niche like green investment but less successful.
How many flag shaggers with spare money to invest would take a financial hit to express their patriotism?

Lying liars telling lies. And what's it got to do with tax anyway? Are they trying to imply Starmer doesn't pay any on his pension?

Nailed it:

The Scottish National party candidate competing to hold Lothian East, a seat the party won from Labour in 2019, has suddenly stepped down without any clear explanation.

Iain Whyte, who has spent his career inside the SNP, including in government, deleted all his social media accounts over the weekend and has been very quickly replaced by Lyn Jardine, a local councillor, the Record reported.

Maybe something to this, maybe not.

Even though I'm sceptical of the projections for Labour in Scotland, this is one seat that they ought to gain. Alba, Greens and SNP are all standing, and nearly 64% voted for unionist parties last time.

Looks like the Lib Dem’s are not only running a paper candidate against Sunak but designing Labour’s leaflets

Can't be a LD leaflet. The columns are roughly in proportion.

‘Got a pic at my mate’s wedding, I could crop it and send it over.’

He’ll be vying with Reform for fourth place behind the Greens.

Won't he come third on the back of the Cambridge congestion charge thing?

What is it with Labour people all being asked whether they'd call themselves socialist?

Starmer said yes, he would, Reeves said that she is a Social Democrat, and Jonathan Reynolds said he was a "Christian Democrat".

What are they playing at? Labour is a party with socialists in it. I sense they're trying to catch us out, but I don't really understand how.

Providing ammunition for The Mail and The Telegraph. That's all.

"Socialist" has become something of a go-to playground insult among the American Right, who, of course, have absolutely no idea what it means.

As the British Right, both in politics and in the press, are kissing the Yanks' arses and copying everything tbey do...

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 6:28 pm Won't he come third on the back of the Cambridge congestion charge thing?

Yes, a Cambridge Labour councillor also made that very point when I suggested fourth.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 6:56 pm What is it with Labour people all being asked whether they'd call themselves socialist?

Starmer said yes, he would, Reeves said that she is a Social Democrat, and Jonathan Reynolds said he was a "Christian Democrat".

What are they playing at? Labour is a party with socialists in it. I sense they're trying to catch us out, but I don't really understand how.

Tiresome R4Today wouldn’t leave this one alone this morning.

There’s another which is only 12 points, but that’s one of those which predicts a lot of don’t knows going back to the Tories.

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 8:14 pm There’s another which is only 12 points, but that’s one of those which predicts a lot of don’t knows going back to the Tories.

This one?

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 8:00 pm

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 6:56 pm What is it with Labour people all being asked whether they'd call themselves socialist?

Starmer said yes, he would, Reeves said that she is a Social Democrat, and Jonathan Reynolds said he was a "Christian Democrat".

What are they playing at? Labour is a party with socialists in it. I sense they're trying to catch us out, but I don't really understand how.

Tiresome R4Today wouldn’t leave this one alone this morning.

That was the old Telegraph staffer, Emma Barnett, right?

She seemed firm in her belief that she had reached a Pulitzer-winning peak with "dogs or cats, Pepsi or Coke? Why do you hate dogs and Pepsi?"

Find Barnett an engaging combative broadcaster and doesn’t need to overreach with this sort of piffle. Expect no better from Justin Webb.

Spoonman wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 8:25 pm

Tubby Isaacs wrote: ↑Tue May 28, 2024 8:14 pm There’s another which is only 12 points, but that’s one of those which predicts a lot of don’t knows going back to the Tories.

This one?

Yep.

It's about the same as the Opinium poll the other day, which used similar methods. So no progress at all.