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*wipes tears away after watching speech in Downing Street* I thought this Starmer fella was supposed to be boring

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Today is National Mummy Didn't Make My Labour Party The Way I Wanted It Day. Just vote, you can have pudding in heaven.

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John Penny 's avatar John Penny @johncpenny.bsky.social
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Is the plural of lord chancellor really lords chancellor?

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As I understand it, he hasn't promised not to end it, he's just not promising to end it, which is a different thing. My guess is it'll go pretty quick if/when Labour win.

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Could he be doing it on purpose, like a Brewster's Majority sort of thing?

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Another good piece on the wrong-headedness of FFB campaign against book festivals - the publishing industry equivalent of throwing paint on a Van Gogh (has no impact whatsoever on the fossil fuel industries, serves only to damage something other people enjoyed)
www.theguardian.com/business/nil...

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Stephen Bush's avatar Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social
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Becoming more and more irritable about the private school VAT thing. I pay VAT on my glasses, which I literally need to see (but equally, I concede, I did not need to spend a three figure sum on some Oliver Peoples' frames). Is that class war?

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why is their child being held up by doddery old people?

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The text is great as always, but that picture ... magnificent!

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Ian Dunt's avatar Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social
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Lots of hardline rhetoric from Starmer this morning about small boats. But read it closely and you can see the clear outline of a rational policy: Ending Rwanda. Processing the claims iandunt.substack.com/p/labour-is-...

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It's good, but the Welsh one has a dragon on it So they probably win ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ

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Rafael Behr's avatar Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social
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Almost as if Brexit was a fraudulent prospectus that, once enacted, was bound to disappoint the people who voted for it and reinforce the resentment of people who didn't. Remarkable.

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Surely "Make Britain Better" is the implied pledge of every party's election manifesto in this country? That is a patriotic aspiration - and a good one! I agree if it is associated with nostalgia for an imagined pre-immigration idyll, that can be racist, but it doesn't have to be.

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Our flag isn't right wing or the exclusive property of racists, it's everyone's. If you're standing to run the country, it makes total sense to have the flag on your literature. "We want to run Britain, but we'd rather not be linked to its flag" would be a stupid position for any party to take.

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David Quantick's avatar David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social
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Remember, the political parties are not the same. If you think Labour are the same as the Conservatives you are the wanker here.

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I think it won't need to be enforced beyond about 30, or 40 at the most; existing smokers will be dying out, new ones won't be coming through, so the market will stop being viable. Shops will just stop selling cigs.

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They couldn't take their clothes off?

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Can't remember which team it was, but for the full expression of the fatalistic resignation of non glory hunting football fandom, you can't beat: We lose every week We lose every we-e-eek You're nothing special We lose every week (to the tune of Sloop John B)

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Reminds me of the old gag (which no longer applies) about the best way to make a small fortune out of football being to start with a big one. Trump's managed to do that without recourse to the beautiful game.

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Irish names' spellings are my pet piamh.

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Stu Fleming's avatar Stu Fleming @stuflemingnz.bsky.social
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The King of England lies dying and one of his sons has been exiled. A princess has vanished. Plague stalks the land and the Treasury has been plundered. NOW is the time for strange women lying in ponds to distribute swords to form the basis of government.

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In these days of streaming music, *everyone* has *all* the Ramones albums.

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Bit unfair on Tim Dowling; I've always liked his writing, and the band he's in is pretty good, too. Mind you, I enjoyed my bowl of porridge this morning as well.

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It's the sort of thing up with which we should not put.

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Well, both are against the law, so there is that.

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That siecle hitting the fin gag is awesome! ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

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I've got a 2004 campaign badge saying "Lick Bush", but that was an obvious double (or, arguably, single) entendre.

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Semi colons are, as someone funnier than me said, a bit half-arsed.

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You have no idea how pleased I was to see this quote; yesterday, my wife was describing the show to me and I said it sounded like a cross between a parlour game and the Stamford Prison Experiment. Glad to know it's not just me with the elderly psychology references!

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John Penny 's avatar John Penny @johncpenny.bsky.social
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It's the ones that can't use apostrophes appropriately that you've got to worry about.

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