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I see Truss is launching another new Tory faction, Popular Conservatism. Let that sink in.... THE most unpopular Prime Minister EVER (some feat in itself given the length of her tenure) is launching a new Tory infighting machine with popular in the title Bring it on, more of this sort of thing

Isn’t it just a stupid word for frying pan?

At the start of Covid it was almost impossible to source laptops

Yep, we've been watching this. Very British humour IMO

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I don't have a car with lane control so it doesn't really matter what I do. Its about adapting to the car. I've noticed another increasing trend, people overtaking on dual carriageways / motorways, then indicating to pull back into an inside lane which is not required, I also put this down to the car having lane control

Is this because you didn't indicate to overtake?

Obviously can't say over the long term and the plugging it in etc but I do get to drive a broad range of cars inc electric in the course of a week and to me, the biggest difference is between manual / automatic in the drive experience and not the type of car. Obviously engine noise is noticeably different but you get used to the quietness and the slightly different start up experience pretty quickly

If it was @sidcow it would have been Storm Isha wrecks Beach Hut Complex in the West Midlands

The only big difference IMO is if you're used to a manual gearbox. If you've already had hybrids then the experience is pretty similar drivewise

Lets hope this future Star Bucks the trend of hit and miss Serbians in the claret and blue

actually, no it doesn't, the whole thing is about her trying to appeal to Far RW Leave voting groups to be in the audience, EDL et al, which is precisely my point, appealing to the fringes of Leave to appear in a very limited number audience IS exactly what I describe, rigged audiences It's not even really known if she herself voted Leave or Remain, there is an idea that she voted remain after previously being soft leave and changed her mind after hearing Cameron on a QT. (like I said, the Open Democracy piece out there on her is actually a very fair minded piece) She is literally in charge of it The FOI refusal is damning in that it shows the lack of transparency at the time. A public broadcaster should always be transparent in such matters. Its actually damning that a FOI request was even needed let alone refused

Thanks for the response, I kinda suspected that would be the case with the major parties. It's utterly wrong. The idea that the audience is representative of the area / constituency of the show is utterly false when the audience is made up, almost entirely of party activists. An audience drawn from party activists is never ever going to be representative of an area

I wonder what the ENCAP rating of that will be? Does ENCAP do negative numbers?

There's a whole twitter thing about that Ryanair flight

Who asked you, the BBC?

try Mooneying "Alison Fuller Pedley Reprimanded" (for social media posts retweeting far right activists dribblings), there was a show, a "Brexit Special" where Pedley actively sought to invite local EDL members for a show broadcast from sleepy Brexit Boston in Lincolnshire. There isn't an audience big enough on QT to warrant the inclusion of EDL members as being representative Like I said, as a result of the whole debacle, the BBC first refused an FOI request to reveal the audience selection process but they have as a result now made that more transparent. IIRC correctly there's a fairly balanced opinion piece on Open Democracy that looks at the issue with a degree of balance (on the suggestion that AFP is a fascist - conclusion, she isn't) We aren't talking about panel members, it isn't relevant to anything I was saying There are also quite a few people who appear to have quite out there on the fringes of the right that have appeared in the audience multiple times. There's one particular former UKIP council candidate known as Orange Jacket man (IIRC his name is Billy Fuller, which I only remember because its the same name as one of Beak> the band) who has been spotted in the audience at least 4 times

Even that isn't correct. The question is usually phrased "if there was another referendum...." Around 1 in 5 would vote rejoin but there is still another element of don't know.

I didn't say that and neither did the polling (1) there is an element of don't know (2) gone as expected is a COMPLETELY different question

I was wrong about the polling not being done very often and you'll see the problem in these figures 12–15 Jan 2024 Deltapoll N/A 2,136 46% 38% 15% 8% 11–12 Jan 2024 Omnisis N/A 1,161 50% 33% 17% 17% 4–5 Jan 2024 Omnisis N/A 1,226 48% 32% 20% 16% 2–3 Jan 2024 YouGov N/A 2,016 51% 36% 13% 15% 28–30 Dec 2023 Omnisis N/A 1,181 49% 33% 18% 16% 22–29 Dec 2023 Deltapoll Daily Mirror 1,642 47% 39% 14% 8% 20–22 Dec 2023 Omnisis N/A 1,177 48% 34% 18% 14% 14–15 Dec 2023 Omnisis N/A 1,065 46% 34% 20% 12% 10–11 Dec 2023 Redfield & Wilton Strategies UK in a Changing Europe 2,000 52% 40% 8% 12% 8–11 Dec 2023 Deltapoll N/A 1,005 44% 41% 15% 3% 7–8 Dec 2023 Omnisis N/A 1,201 46% 34% 20% 12% 1–4 Dec 2023 Deltapoll N/A 1,000 45% 40% 15% 5% 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2023 Omnisis N/A 1,123 46% 31% 23% 15% Wiki has a page dedicated to it End columns are Sample Size / Rejoin / Stay Out / Don't Know

maybe disputed is the wrong word. 52 / 48 is close. If that moves to say 70 / 30 that isn't close and what polling you can find (it isn't polled that often these days) suggests we are heading in that direction. One in Five Leave voters have apparently changed their minds and twice as many want to be in rather than out but there is still way too big an undecided element in any of the polling Much like with the decline of the Tory Party, demographics will eventually sort this out

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