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Definitely some Tories who will recognise this, but I think it's wishful thinking to expect it to happen within the near future. Their voting coalition is currently held together by spite and fear more than anything, and the "sensibles" were cleared out in 2019 by Johnson's purge. Take even the...

Nah he never could have. (Well, SNP maybe in a less polarised Scotland, but not Tory. They tend to go Lib Dem.) But there's two different things here: Figuring out how to win an election is what every single politician does. Just because we might not agree with or accept the tactics doesn't...

Can't believe we have to put up with another right-winger, this is all Keith's fault 😤😤😤

I know you think this is still excuse-making, but I promise you that this is coming from a place of sincere concern about substance versus bullshit in politics. It's not a tribal position - this impacts the right just as much, even if the specific terminology isn't always the same...

Jesus fucking christ. Look, hate Corbyn all you want, but can people stop with this complete nonsense? "Electability" means nothing. It's a word invented by people in power to discredit people they don't want to have power. It's purely a political attack, there is no such thing as an inherent...

No secret at all that since promotion Fosun have wanted to find someone willing to take a minority stake in the club (and to pump money in). But everything about what's happening does suggest that we're back again to the holding pattern you'd expect before a full sale. The strange, inconsistent...

Late to the party here but I have to point out that Chas & Dave weren't cockneys, they were from Edmonton and Enfield and... My NE London in-laws get very shirty when those bastards in down the Central line try to claim them (although I've also learned not to try and point out C&D didn't exactly...

I think it's overblown (for now). Vast, vast majority of people who have it as a deciding issue wouldn't vote Labour even in the current situation, and for those who are swing voters it's more a reflection of the specifics of London. Small but passionate anti-LTN movement has globbed onto ULEZ...

The big splurge on NHS spending in particular didn't really start until after the 2001 election too.

No idea myself, I've mostly seen references on social media to "he" but that could just as easily be people speaking generically.

All looks pretty clearly like classic British tabloid behaviour, trying to out a closeted celeb for doing something that nobody bats an eyelid at when it's a straight person doing it. By all accounts the "young person" involved was in their 20s and is estranged from their parents, who are...

Would be terrible, but I can see why it might happen. Free transfer, wages probably not that high, no doubts about him settling in at the club or the area, represented by Mendes...

:cool: (Nah but seriously, I know someone who was close with Brooke Magnanti/Belle de Jour back in the day.)

Never looked like coke to me. My theory was he'd accidentally done a bump of k or mkat. Fwiw Osborne's antics have long been legendary among London's sex work community. If he wasn't a Tory they'd have probably ended up having a collection for a plaque in Soho when he dies. Saved a lot of young...

The tl;dr is it's a long list of various (alleged) affairs George has been having behind his bride-to-be's back (and she's had a couple behind his, too). Some pretty "meh, so what", others involving other politicians/public figures, and a couple that are more... well, potentially legally...

Posting this here because I suppose this is now the de facto general purpose Tory thread as well... Anyone been sent a copy of this Osborne email going around? Only heard some of it secondhand, and WHEW. EDIT: OK been forwarded a copy. Mamma mia.

Worth pointing out that right to buy was actually a Labour idea that Thatcher borrowed and tweaked. The key difference is the Tory version banned councils from spending any money raised from sales on building replacement units, even if they wanted to. Deliberately designed as a mass...

Weird thing to focus on out of all those other interesting findings. Turns out people tend to blame other people and not themselves? Is that a surprise?

Surprised to see so many suggestions that RAN is in the same bucket of limited value players as Raul, Jonny, Hwang, Podence, etc. He's still perceived outside Wolves as an exciting young player with a lot of potential to develop further, and has had suitors in the past. Collins might be about to...

Yeah, lots of nostalgia all over the place. One of the more interesting things I remember from just after Leave won the referendum was during a discussion about how British voters had gone against the the trend of the last half century and voted for radical change over the status quo - one...