The Doctor

potter would be decent, ogs is a hard no. if we're insistent on an ex man utd striker from the fergie era then I'd sooner find out what Diego Forlan was up to than that cretin

ah, luxury automated space communism. unfortunately it's posadism or nothing, if your politics doesn't have psychic space dolphins then what's it even for

wild that Christopher Hitchens can have been dead for a decade and still have more interesting thoughts than this berk

good chance we won't be bottom on the opening day even with the points deduction then

Yea, I'm not expressing an opinion on any individual member of those generations, they're not all headbanging tories, but the simple fact remains that there is a not insignficant sentiment of "kids these days have it too easy" within those generations and that is presicely what the tories are banking on with the national service policy.

You've touched on exactly why they're bringing it up - they're utterly despised by the younger generations, so are gambling on the leaded fuel generations turning out in huge numbers to **** the kids over.

labour were very much in a no win position with brexit mind, that summer they made pretty huge losses in European elections to explicitly pro remain parties like the lib Dems. the second referendum destroyed them in leave voting constituencies because, as you say, the perceived message was "you plebs got it wrong, here's a chance to change your mind" but a "honour the will of the people" policy would also have been a death knell in younger, more metropolitan areas. a referendum on the type of brexit, styled as "the tories can't stop fighting each other over how they want to leave, we'll let the people decide" might have worked but in reality the policy would probably have been immediately undermined by those who wanted the second referendum, pushing to get remain on that ballot and then we're back in the same position

no, the other 10% was "this mad commie will turn the UK into the Soviet Union"

brilliant new example of understanding stats has dropped: the US president on average commits 0.7 felonies

I mean, like 90% of the tories campaign was "get brexit done". it's by far the closest to a single issue election we've ever had, and that single issue was brexit

pretty much entirely this. the "you get more conservative as you get older" trend is ultimately to do with acquiring a lot of assets and wealth you want to protect. people under 50 are not seeing that asset and wealth acquisition happening and so have no desire to then drift to the right. it's why people talk of late stage capitalism, we've gotten into a position as a species where the younger generations are being priced out of life and it's obviously not sustainable

im about 60% sure that he didn't want to cancel his holiday so is just claiming the holiday is a campaign.

final game for my current Sunday league club this evening (charity game at West Yorkshire FA). coaches and half the team are massive leeds fans. is it shithousery to turn up wearing a joy division T-shirt for the warm up?

I mean given he maintains that the US were the good guys in Vietnam, that's still down there on the list of his ridiculous opinions.

the historical tweet in question was a video of a Jon Stewart sketch about how you can't say anything about Israel/Palestine without having the entirety of social media get pissed off at you... pretty obvious it's a pretext to get rid of left wing mps, particularly given they're suddenly suspending Russell-Moyle for a vexatious complaint from years ago (wonder whether they've stopped filtering complaints about Rosie Duffield into a folder to be deleted yet?)

we talking about the same Luke Akehurst? because I'm thinking it's the one who talked about using nukes as a warning shot

hmm, I wonder if there's a deranged cherry tomato on the NEC who hates her guts and wants a safe seat... tweet unrelated.

I'm a fan of this low budget wickerman, where we sacrifice a billionaire to Cthulhu to ensure a long summer.

the Atlantic Ocean has the opportunity to do the funniest thing imaginable

sorry, should have been clearer, he offers nothing in a political sense, on account of how he keeps ditching and watering down every pledge and policy suggested. the whole "working class kid done well for themself" stuff is no more something he offers than something Thatcher offered and if it's the biggest selling point for someone to be PM we might as well go back to 2021 and have Marcus Rashford as prime minister again. while the lefts favourite hobby might be infighting, it's not exactly relevant here because starmer isn't left wing? the positions he's taken in office thus far is that of a small c conservative, the sort that would have been welcomed in the coalition era when Cameron was doing the whole liberaliser, "big society" schtick. it's that the tories have, over the past 5 years, gone full throttle down the far-right pipeline that positions him as separate from the tories.

then you'll be very sad to hear that labour are taking money from climate sceptic groups and dropped their green investment pledge: https://news.sky.com/story/rachel-reeves-accepted-donation-from-lord-donoughue-linked-to-climate-sceptic-group-gwpf-13072147 I mean with Brooks going off injured yesterday, Southampton are in need of a new right winger, and he'll be out of contract just as preseason starts. works for everyone, get it done Russell

what does he offer then? he's abandoned every single one of his pledges made thus far and he's less than a week into the campaign and already pissed off the unions:

anyone suggested giving it Walshy til the end of the season yet?

this is the problem with voting intention polls - how much of that support for labour is "they're the only option to get the tories out" vs actual support for labour? like my experience as a 30 year old - I don't know a single person who actually likes starmer, which is reflected by his abysmal approval ratings (being in opposition while the government commits drawn out ritual suicide should be pretty damn easy). "I'm not rishi sunak" will work for this election sure, but eventually you have to say who you are, and starmer has nothing going for him.

they won't, it'll be the "always voted Tory but can't stand Sunak" types that flock to a Tory party under whatever ghoul survives this next election, the youth will go green/lib dem depending on who replaces Davey and that's the issue that starmer will face and why he'll be a one term PM - there's no long lasting appeal in "at least im not him" and that's literally all that Keir Hardly is standing on