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Exactly right. Its a talent they currently have, making bad decisions, they are champions at it. Every binary choice they seem to make, is the wrong one

I agree that a major shift in public opinion has occurred but I think it happened some time ago, partygate did it and I thought then that it was a position that it was always going to be hard to recover from, the switch it collective minds had been flicked. What Truss has done is send public opinion into a cataclysmic nose-dive. Sunak really can't turn that around, the only question is when will the Tories lose a General Election rather if they'll lose. Sunak is already making major mistakes with the appointment of Braverman and it's becoming rather untenable and rather quickly. He told us it was a minor breach that she reported herself. That appears to be, from multiple sources, a complete crock of shit. Imagine if he's forced to get rid of her so soon into his premiership, it can only reflect badly on his decision making ability and yet again opens up the lying to parliament question, which he'll brush aside with "it was true to the best of my knowledge" but in the minds of the people, that won't wash any more William Hague was partly right about the death spiral, where he was wrong was the assumption that Sunak (or someone other than Johnson) could fix it, they can't

Not really, that's only on the Kherson front. The Eastern Luhansk front may be a different proposition altogether. Totally different terrain. One of the problems in Kherson is that its a huge agricultural region, flat open land with a lot of irrigation channels and these irrigation channels are being used by Russia as trench systems, so forward movement will be slow as it has been much easier for Russia to dig in here. In the east around Svatove etc, the terrain is more rugged, There were signs yesterday that the P66 highway contact line had been breached and once that is done and the Russians moved Eatwards, the line of contact becomes Ukraine on high ground overlooking the towns built into the lee-side of the range of hills (these towns will not be easy to defend from western attacks), colder wetter weather may not affect Ukraines better equipped military moving forward to much over here.

Shakhtarsk is about 30 miles east of Donetsk (the city). Given the operation range of around 45 miles for HIMARS then they must have been fired from fairly close to the known line of contact

That works, even the colour scheme fits

They are clearly a family that follows my rules

Imagine a football club nearing bankruptcy, they only have enough signed players to just about fill the bench, the dressing room is toxic with divided camps of players and they can't afford a manager so they keep appointing player managers with little success. Oh and there's a huge problem of racism and bigotry in the fanbase Is that a script for a sporting disaster movie or an allegorical tale for the Tory Party

No, prime example, Edward Heath calling a General Election in February 1974 because he wanted a mandate to deal with the Miners Strike and the economic situation the country was in (3 day week etc). He didn't need to call an election because he had a majority and could have carried on for another 15 months or so. He did it because he wanted a mandate from the people. It was a gamble and one he lost as the country then had a Labour minority Government. Thorpes Liberals were the real winners though as the two major parties both decreased their share of the vote and the Liberals gained But anyway, he definitely put the country first and party second.

4 massive rollies smoked at the same time obviously extends your life too

It'll be on all the main news programmes I imagine plus reported in the papers tomorrow. I also think it'll be a repeated quite a bit over the coming weeks

I thought Starmer's shot across the bows of Party before Country was rather well delivered and will resonate a lot with the public. I doubt it'll be the last time he uses it.

Sundrenched Californian psyche. The Allah Las album Lahs from 2019 on orange vinyl

Yep I think the price for this winter is already baked in but its more positive moving forward after that I think

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I think Herbert Chapman is credited with starting it with his WM formation, Two half backs in front of three defenders after that sod knows. Why Pivots, no clue either Get your own back by calling it a paired fulcrum

I'd have them both pegged in that dungeon of bad taste that stretches between Maroon 5 and the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I believe the Americans call it Alternative Rock, when the reality is they aren't alternative and they don't really rock either But as ever with music, each to their own, some people like The Beatles and Queen, go figure

Yeah but the How much bigger questions were especially stupid. is it tons bigger, f***tons bigger or megaf***tons bigger

I particularly liked the New York to Tokyo question about the last state you fly over, that neglects to mention by the shortest route. You can go any sodding way you want to as long as you have the fuel to do it

So there was no change in Chancellor but the "mini-Budget" has been pushed back to Nov 17th

You clearly haven't met my missus. Last count we had three vacuum cleaners in the house because she's bought new ones and I refuse to throw the perfectly good old ones out

Are we calling it the @mottalooTax?

There were various polls released by the polling companies, most of which indicated that Sunak was the Tories best bet at a General Election but that his chances of winning were still very small

Yep and very usually in a timeframe where you've had absolutely no chance to use the product and form an opinion. If I was ever arsed to do it, I'd review then as one out of whatever and blame the fishing for early compliments as my reason. But I really can't be bothered

Gravy then?

Fishing for Kenneths tut tut @Seat68