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It’s going well, isn’t it?
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Katie Hamilton
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It’s going well, isn’t it?
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or should that be PopCon?
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Laurels?
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is there anything stopping private sector from doing this ?
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I wonder what the effect of all that polling was?
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False premise - not all Reform voters were ex-Tory voters
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it worked - the voters took the hint
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I hope this isn’t a left version of the tories’ culture war?! it’s unknowable and everyone is tired of culture wars. Maybe the polls led people to stay home because they were fine with a big Labour win
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Katie Hamilton
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and their electoral system
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Tory
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Especially Michael Gove
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compared to whom…Boris Johnson?
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I heard you can walk from Brighton to Scotland without entering a Tory electorate
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Katie Hamilton
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And isn’t that lovely!
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who?
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Tom Crewe’s LRB article is also very good
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Katie Hamilton
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In Wales today
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Hopefully it will end up in the waterways too
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she really is a one trick pony
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To a woman with a hammer, every problem is a nail
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I am still fond of an Irish pod called Words to that Effect (discontinued) which ranged very widely
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there’s always Farage
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It’s a bit like howling at the moon
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Dunno, seem very similar! I’m guessing you mean PH’s One Nation, rather than One Nation Tories in UK.
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By my count, that’s in effect 3 Reform candidates who’ve defected. The chap selected for Gavin Williamson’s constituency decided not to nominate, infuriating Richard Tice
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www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Great podcast in general
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They won’t have anyone in power to put them in the lords if there’s a change of govt. Ex-MPs are not all employable, esp if their side lost govt
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How is Richard Holden getting on in Basildon and Billaricay?
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Definitely - sign of desperation, I’d say
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Yes, but her offspring still not recognised as Jewish - Starmer explained it in a long print interview
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I don’t think they are recognised as Jewish (as Mrs Starmer’s mother was not Jewish, only her father)
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circus tent?
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www.theguardian.com/education/ar...
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Why? Because the Sun knows Starmer is going to win. Nothing new there
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Good description of the problem, but I wonder why noone identifies the Tory media pack as a major part of it? they don’t allow sensible discussion
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It’s about time for ‘would the last Tory to leave please turn out the light’
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Grasping at straws
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he’d know about Armageddon then?
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and “enemies of the people”
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The Masque of the Red Death?
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amp.theguardian.com/books/2020/d...
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Not according to Helen Fielding
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Seems to be a big issue in UK politics - not so much here
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hardly
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The numbers of would-be irregular boat arrivals is relatively low
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yes (Nauru) - where do you think you got the idea from? Not very many attempting small boat trips at this stage though
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Hoping to ‘make it so’?
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In our system, needs to be a community-based movement in each target seat, aiming to get an independent elected. Those 6 new independents helped turf out the tory govt
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Election due in a year (3 yr terms), in the skirmishing phase! I’m amazed by the number of polls in UK this time
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