bickster

I don't listen to stations with Ads

Most people from my experience

Big cities laughing, rural population believing in Russia's case

He's from the Isle of Wight, it's kinda been inbred into him

Seriously not an issue here

So, I've driven a lot of different cars this week, I've been moving cars between our sites and stuff Every single car I've been in (10+) has the radio on FM not DAB but more illogically on a station on FM that is on DAB Why would you do that? Why would lots of people do that? DO they not realise that the sound quality is that much better on DAB?

Is that some sort of position in the Royal Household, a tribute to the Queen of Hearts maybe?

I think and I might be wrong that they started removing the actual names because that would count towards each candidates election expenses whereas without the names they became part of the parties national election expenses and economies of scale obviously play a part there too. (even though they all get them printed by friendly printers who do it at non-profit prices) But yes, it's definitely your nuclear weapons theory, which is why certain candidates in certain seats from certain parties might get jack shit from the national party at the next GE as certain parties might not actively try to win that seat

Indeed, he's her Edwina Currie

Yes, in my opinion EDIT: I should qualify that. I expect Ukraine to have retaken, everything they've lost this year in that timeframe and possibly more like Donbas but probably not Crimea, which will come but later. I expect that push to start happening in the next few weeks

That’s a thought that @Dodgykneeshas taken to bed (there’s a song in here somewhere )

Putin needs to be stamped on and Ukraine will do that, probably by the end of the year. Whatever the UK's input from hereon in it won't make much difference

I know why, Maggie was in Drag and May was an extra from Blade Runner

That was Badenoch For Truss it's actually worse, she has the Traditional MPs Oxbridge Degree, Philosophy Politics and Economics. It's like she learned absolutely nothing

Apparently 2000 Tory members have already signed a petition demanding he be put on the ballot paper

Not for the Tory members it isn’t. It’s a choice between Maggie reincarnated and that brown chap whose good with numbers

Yes and yes

There was under the FTPA the dates for elections were semi-set in stone unless a super majority of MPs overturned that in Parliament. So if an election was 5th May the next election would have been whatever the Thursday closest to 5th May was 5 years hence.

No, since this government repealed the FTPA we have reverted to the previous rules. When to call an election is at the whim of the govt. They have 5 years from the date of the last general election to call it and it must be within 25 days of that date

It will be much less than four years, the very last date a General Election can be called is 17th December 2024, the election must be within 25 days of that date. It will not go past the autumn as no party is insane enough to hold a General Election campaign over Xmas The latest it will be is October 2024 and that in itself is a sign of how bad the Tories are doing. So pretty much 2 years Max

How the F did Sunak get 19 and Mordaunt 13 of Badenoch's votes? That's 32 of 59 MPs that weren't voting along policy lines or didn't understand the policy lines they were voting for. You'd really expect better consistency on policy from elected representatives. That really is quite shocking

Little Alan?

Yeah but what happened to the water when you'd finished?

What happened to the water when you'd finished?

Yes it’s happening. Some are being trained in UK right now.Lots of NATO countries are doing the same. The expected push back is approaching. Now that Ukraine has HIMARS etc they are currently focusing and succeeding to a high degree in degrading Russia’s supply lines. What they’ve done so far means that Russia is now storing ammunition much further away from the from and that requires at least twice as many trucks, guess what? They don’t have nearly enough. One the supply chains have been sufficiently degraded, the push back is to be expected. I’ve seen comments from Ukraines top general that he currently expects mid August to be a game changing period