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I’ve always backed the BBC. But having the Ferdinand and Jenas double act has made me sign up to the Defund the BBC campaigns

2.15am? They will be there by 10am in a town hardly known for its sights

Would disqualify the original guys behind UFS 😂

Really happy with that cabinet. Direct experience to roles. Timpson’s appointment in particular feels really correct

Disagree. Reform votes would have largely gone to the Tories. There was however a split in the 'left vote' there - 7k Lib Dems, 12k Labour with Cons winning on 18k (Reform 10k) which might have made a difference. There was real vitriol developing between Lab and LD in this area because they were both using the tactical vote line. A pure observation to is that South Leics is really diverse in terms of how its boundary extend. Those of us towards Fosse Park with Narborough et al feel probably as much of the city as the county, Lutterworth lives on its on own, whilst when I driving over towards Harborough (the boundary extends right out to about five miles before Mkt Harborough after the recent changes) there was a lot of Lib Dem support

I've seen more stuff about FPTP today than I did in 2011. There is validity to the claim to replace it but I fear we end up with the type of governments and coalitions as displayed across Europe. Which frankly don't function

In terms of tactics both LibDems and Labour played it well, target the seats not the votes. Use the system well. LibDems success down south can be attributed to the growing pattern of younger people moving away from cities and into towns/county regions. Basically the Millennial getting grown up and from a background of a Labour childhood Some fascinating trends developing.

If they were transparent, it would make a huge difference. Lots of foreign leagues run a license system and some of them run full transparency of that process

I am aware they are a couple of folk at the trust extremely anti gambling sponsors.

**** me - they don’t half pick them

It’s the crippling part of politics. Short term reactive policy with no after thought to long term implications. A lot of the problems are tied together. It’s likely a leaking roof - you fix one hole, it pours stronger through another. Just fix it properly

Just making the point it suggests Reform’s ‘success’ is less about a surging turn to the right like Europe but more of the same, Reform taking votes from Tories.

Exactly why certain people in my industry weren’t losing their marbles. The concerns on Labour centred on personal wealth rather than company growth

Tories plus one of Reform/Brexit/UKIP 2010: 39% 2015: 49% 2017: 44% 2019: 46% 2024: 38% (I think) Interesting

I don’t think ardent Labour supporters will think that. St Albans summed it up superbly a few pages back - it’s a government what looks less secure than a 80 seat Tory majority There’s a huge amount of division as evidence by the most widespread, different voting patterns seen in my lifetime.

It’s a bit of mindblower some of those results. This morning though people will have hope. If you were a disabled persons who had their benefit turned down and told they must work in pain, think of how they feel this morning

It will be a continuing trend for the next ten to fifteen years. Bit like how Tories have been trashed in the South as graduates move away from cities due to housing prices.

Nadine gone

When the dust settles, maybe the penny might drop with Tories. They concentrate too much on the Reform part. When the polls and surveys really get stuck into it, they’ll see it was the Truss economy flip and how it affected people’s mortgages what really hurt them. You’ll find the areas what go strong on Reform won’t have high mortgage/house ownership I suspect

Channel 4 are going to have to remove Dorries at this rate. She’s absolutely losing it to the point it’s now getting cringe

Leadsom just asked what’s woke stuff? She didn’t have an actual answer

That’s got me bad

It just means Labour cleared the bad rubbish and quite rightly. Same with Webbe as well. Regardless of party, we shouldn’t be having wrong un’s represent the public. The amount of sexual assault offenders within the House of Parliament and House of Lords is horrid for example

That’s the uptick to it. There’s long a theory that having such parties in the Parliament is better than not as now they get the scrutiny they would otherwise

He’s no longer a Labour MP