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Devastating for Reform? They over doubled their vote share and are now polling nearly 30% in one of the safest left-wing seats in the country. The fact that people were even talking about them potentially winning the seat shows how far they've come. The idea of them winning would have been laughed out of town just a few years ago. Project this performance nationally and they are well on course to win the next GE. If you want devastating, look at Labour who lost the seat for the first time in nearly a 100 years and the Conservatives who had their worst by-election of all time. The Greens are of course full of it today but it was the block Pakistani muslim vote that won it for them. They are increasingly becoming a fluffier version of George Galloway's Workers Party. But the increasingly sectarian nature of a lot of the voting in some of our major cities should be of increasing concern to everyone. The Greens though, like Labour before them, won't mind though as it's winning them seats. However, eventually we end up with Tower Hamlets. Dark times ahead.

The Greens are going to win it with a decent margin I reckon. They've been odds on to win it for a while now. The strange alliance between the left-wing student and muslim vote will deliver it for them. Electoral Calculus have the Greens winning the seat in a General Election also. Losing these 2 demographics would be an absolute catastrophe for Labour though. If this pattern was repeated nationwide, it means losing the vast majority of London, Birmingham, Manchester and even parts of Liverpool to the Greens. Effectively Labours only real "safe" seats. I expect Reform to do better than the 14% of the vote they got in 2024 but everything would need to go right to win a seat that has pulled strongly left for nearly a century. If Labour do lose, can Starmer hang on to the local elections in May?

Hamilton being the only one to get a penalty is absolutely astonishing. It’s actually impressive how farcical that is. A major shot at his first podium with Ferrari destroyed. Arguably by his own teammate.

Yes, at the moment he's absolutely sailing in to Downing Street. Poll of Polls: Reform - 31% Labour - 20% Conservatives - 17% Liberal Democrats - 14% Greens - 9% Based on electoral calculus that would give Reform 394 seats and a majority of 138. Labour reduced to 97 MPs and Conservatives 28. Effectively both facing extension level events. BTW that is before Corbyn's new far-left party starts to eat in to the Labour vote even further. This Labour governments approval rating is the lowest on record. Maurice Glasman said in July that Labour has 6 months to turn the ship around. It's gotten worse since then. If Labour can't get a grip and continue to circle the economy around the drain come new year I predict one of a few things. Moves will be made to replace Starmer/they'll start talking about bringing in PR to try and stop Farage/rumours of deeper collaboration between Lab-Lib-Cons/They'll throw in the towel and call an election late 2026/early 2027. Or of course they could just limp on delaying the inevitable.

I mean, maybe direct your anger to Rayner and her rank stupidity and incompetence but go on.

I mean, have you actually seen how bad Sainz has been this year? He currently sits 17th out of 19 full time drivers in the standings. 48 points behind his teammate who sits in 8th. Same number of DNF's too. Sure Hamilton is currently 42 points behind Leclerc but at least he's directly behind him in the standings. Maybe it isn't so easy to switch teams after being somewhere for a long time after all. For what it's worth though, I also believe he should retire at the end of this season. You look at the grid now and he's looking like yesterdays man. Verstappen, Leclerc, Norris, Piastri and Russell are at their primes or approaching it. Even if he had a car that could challenge, he's lost the few tenths needed to make the difference, especially in qualifying. His career from karting through to F1 has been unprecedented. Time to call it a career IMO.

I find it fascinating a number of our players have seemingly turned against the fans. Remarkable considering the KP has been a happy-clapping hotbed of toxic 'support the lads' positivity for the past few years. Regardless of the absolute shit they and the club have served up for the past few years. Something too think about maybe?

The hardest interview of his career. Hamilton saying he's useless, the car is good and Ferrari "probably need to change driver". Turning in to a very sad end. I think he's now done mentally.

100%. This is arguably his favourite track so to put it in 13th here while his teammate (who hates this track) puts it on pole is completely unacceptable. Even if he gets a car to his liking, at 40+ years old he isn't beating a Leclerc in the prime of his career. Call it a career Lewis, it's been a great one

I always said I never thought this was an actual thing. Just a little bone to throw to the fans. It's never looked or felt like a genuine proposal to me. All the extra bits just seemed thrown in to try and delay/eventually cancel the project. The sad reality is that the club had a GENERATIONAL opportunity to turn us in to one of the countries elite clubs and possibly one of the biggest hipster clubs in the world because of our story. That opportunity has been completely pissed up the wall and we are going back to exactly where we started. The only hope we have is King Power putting us up for sale while the memory of our glory is relatively fresh. Hopefully that will attract a big fish who can right Top's wrongs.

I think you might be the biased one here buddy. At least based on your posting history in this thread Yes Verstappen lost to Ricciardo in his rookie year. He was also losing to him again the following year until Ricciardo announced his departure to Renault which resulted in his results in the Red Bull strangely falling off a cliff. BTW Ricciardo is still the only semi-decent teammate Verstappen has ever had. Compare that with Hamilton's rookie year. He finished 2nd in the world championship and fell short by 1 point. If it wasn't for a gearbox failure in the final race he would have won it. Sorry but that also counts as a win against Alonso as Hamilton won more races, an unbelievable achievement against a man who had just won 2 world championships and was being heralded as the next Schumacher by some. I also don't get what you mean by losing to his rivals in his prime years? If you mean teammates he beat Button 2-1 and Rosberg 3-1? Two former WC'S? His only really sloppy season I can remember was in 2011 but Hamilton got him back the next year. In 2016 he lost to Rosberg but won more races and suffered more mechanical DNF's. If his engine didn't blow up in Malaysia when he was running in 1st he would have won another WC. The only outright defeat was a 2-1 loss to Russell but that is Hamilton touching 40 and Russell has been heralded by many as a future WC so no shame at all there. BTW I do consider Verstappen to be an unbelievable talent and is the best driver on the grid right now. I also agree with you that Alonso should have won more WC's with the natural talent has has/had. But the lack of respect Hamilton gets from some is almost unbelievable, former European and World Karting Champion, GP3 Champion, GP2 Champion, 7 time F1 Champion and could have been NINE if it wasn't for late season mechanical failures and TEN if Michael Masi and the FIA actually did their job. But yea Hamilton is just the GOAT at politics However back to the present day it was another sad qualifying performance from him, the decline in his one lap qualifying pace is genuinely hurting him now and is putting him way out of position for the Sunday. If he can't turn this around I genuinely think and hope he should call it a day after this season. His race pace is still stellar but I personally don't want to see another Schumacher 2.0 which is what it was turning in to last season and looks as if it's continuing this season.

Hamilton is miles clear of Vettel, the only man to beat 3 world champions in the same car. Plus won everything at junior level. Verstappen benefits from immense recency bias but would have lost to a 36 year old Hamilton in an inferior car (Newey confirmed the Red Bull was the faster car in 21) if the FIA hadn't come to his rescue. Verstappen also lost to Ricciardo. Hamilton is 100% in the greatest conversation as he is literally the most decorated driver in the sport's history. Should Schumacher be discounted from the greatest conversation because he clearly benefited from the rocket ship Ferrari and having undisputed number 1 driver status written in his contract? Or because he was well beaten by Rosberg 3 years on the bounce at Mercedes? Of course not. The best drivers on the grid get the best cars on the grid in the prime of their careers. That's the way it's always been.

I think there's a significant positive to be had with all this, regardless if this run goes on until the end of the season. This is the bottom. This is literally as bad as we'll ever be (regardless of what league we are playing in). It's insane to think of the extreme highs and lows we've experienced over the past few years. Football as a whole has become dogshit over the past decade but it's not been boring for us!

Yea as much of a fan I am of Hamilton it's becoming increasingly clear he's way past his prime. He's still capable of brilliance on occasion but those moments are becoming increasingly rare. At 40 years old he's beginning to look like yesterday's man around the paddock (same with Alonso). Most F1 drivers are out of the sport in their early to mid 30's I mean he was replaced at Mercedes by a guy who was 1 when Hamilton debuted in F1. We all know he's still there because of what happened in '21 but I think he's been a bit slow to realise that no contending team is going to make him their number 1 driver at his age. Mercedes rightfully favoured Russell last year, especially once Hamilton announced he was leaving before the season and Leclerc is Ferrari's man for the long term. Even if Ferrari turn up with a championship winning car next year, a 41 year old Hamilton isn't beating a prime Leclerc, no chance.

Also seen that Liberty have absolutely done Hamilton dirty with the team radios making it sound like Hamilton was ignoring team orders to let Leclerc past when it was actually Hamilton who recommended swapping in the first place! I’m sure that wasn’t for internet drama at all