urban.spaceman

The Tories have deleted their Twitter account resulting in this.

Good read: https://www.thetimes.com/article/b082962e-69ef-4c9a-8f43-ec3703839820?shareToken=3dd14b33c19259bf25aac6e0736b27f9

That's still the aim but they have far too much damage to repair that they've had to push it back to a possible second term. There are also 100 more Tory Lords than Labour at the minute, which might make things harder to push through the Lords. So it makes sense to increase the number of Labour peers, especially with experienced lawmakers such as Smith.

Novara are having a normal one

Sleeping Dogs on Prime. Really, really enjoyed it.

Yes please but only if he does a shit on Brendan's desk before he leaves. We could have a whipround to make sure this happens.

Swap the Kop and the family stand.

Like the ****ing note.

Have the Premier League thought through a single permutation of their own rules? https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jul/04/premier-league-set-to-scrutinise-unofficial-deadline-day-transfers

“What position does he play?” ”Yes.”

Created from Charles Kennedy’s old seat. How wonderfully apt.

That’s already an improvement.

Isn't that the waiter Vichai signed a few years ago?

K.

This is the meme I've been waiting for.

****

Is it too late for that Thai energy company instead?

Sorry, no. There's no evidence of that - vote share and numbers doesn't really mean anything in this system, especially with millions of people voting tactically this year (stopthetories.vote had almost 2 million uses, and that's just one of many sites); the surge of Reform, who only got 600k votes in 2019 as the Brexit Party, and other parties & independents gave the electorate far more choice than before. Also, turnout was much lower, either due to voter apathy or reports of consistent polls showing Labour miles ahead giving the impression people didn't need to vote. Labour have been in the lead of the national polling for 2 and a half years, maintaining a 20pt lead for at least 2 years. They ended the campaign polling better on every single subject vs the Tories, having lead most of them for 2 years. Since 2020 Labour have won back hundreds of councillors, dozens of councils, hundreds of police and crime commissioners too. They also have the highest number of mayoralties - 20 out of 25. Pretty much every single one of those was down under the previous leadership. Obviously the Tory's corruption and meltdown helped, but there has been a clear strategy and change at Labour especially since they lost Hartepool in 2021.

Disappointing.