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It’s a TV channel from a dystopian work of fiction. It unfortunately escaped to reality

Nah, those region things are for number crunchers and bean counters to the man on the street they are meaningless. I wouldn’t recommend telling a man from Stoke he lived in the West Midlands, he might spontaneously combust in rage

The chai latte is the greater crime

He only voted for them because he has an affinity with their titular shortened form

That quoted bit is utter bollocks Stoke… in the West Midlands …Herefordshire… Shropshire… utter nonsense!

Led by Donkeys, appear to have stepped up a gear

Found £50 note down the back of the sofa obviously

I'm waiting for the interpretive dancer slot to open up again

It doesn't really work as an analogy though because Corbyn was never the opposion leader to the Nazi Party

Some people just want to Czech it out I guess

Or you could go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum Gloucester and Tebay Services

gets ready with a D Notice

Historical context in the US I guess. Radio was traditionally more local broadcasting one live feed from one station TV would have multiple channels broadcasring from one TV station Just that I think

meh Wordle 644 5/6

Nyorai - Harukaze John Haughey - Flowline Ian Boddy - As Far Away As Possible Three ambient / downtempo electronic albums on CD from my new monthly subscription the Werra Foxma Club. I really can't get enough of this type of stuff, just great background music

Might as well have done this week, they reduced the licence fees by about 25% due to the surplus cash they've generated (and they were already cheap compared to other councils) Taking on more staff as a result too.

The Thatcher quote Starmer mentioned British Political Speeches She was attacking Labour in her first Speech as Party Leader, Tory Party conference in 1975 What she was attacking (Clay Cross Council and the Shrewsbury Six amongst others), she was very wrong in what she was saying but Starmer was quoting the emboldened bit above out of context, to throw Thatchers words back at the Tories. In isolation, it's hard not to agree with that selective quote. It's easy to disagree with the overall content of that speech but that bit that Starmer used should be a universal truth. The headlines about Starmer's speech are a bit wonky, "Starmer Praises Thatcher", he was doing nothing of the sort, he just said one thing she said was right We've got a Tory Government who ignore the rule of law. Thatcher wasn't wrong with the quoted line and so to use Thatchers words against the Tories seems rather apposite and also hard for them to disagree It's easy to see the headines "Starmer quotes Thatcher" and see why he did it. It will resonate with Tories, it will also upset the Left but the headlines will do their job as most people won't actually listen to the actual quote, just read the headlines There is absolutely nothing wrong with that line from her speech though (The rest of the speech was utter bollex)

Face always looks like it’s just been punched

Introduced by her predecessor

I looked at it, because it is exactly what happened in Liverpool with the mayoral candidates. Then a few Labour councillors resigned the whip and became Independents, then the Labour Party suspended 6 more (for stating they would vote against the budget) This appears to be pretty much the same situation - infighting and an attempt to get rid of the elected mayor position.

We have enough of those of our own, not adding to the dung heap is a good thing

It appears we banned him from entering the country

Had Field not resigned the Labour Whip, he would have been deselected by his local party. Quite rightly too, he was a Tory in the wrong party as his voting history after resigning the whip clearly showed.

No they haven't this is not true, many of them are still standing. Just not for Labour This appears to be about wanting to abolish the directly elected mayoral position. Similar happened in Liverpool when the short list of candidates for the Labour Ticket all wanted to abolish the position. Starmer appears to want to keep directly elected Mayors. This is about policy

Graham Lineham - instant alarm bell with the emphasis on bell