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LibDem manifesto bounce

Prison for throwing a paper cup? The prisons are full by the way, the police were told to stop arresting people

Well in the respect he was talking about, it absolutely was, totally uncosted. The point he's making is Labour got pummelled for such a manifesto last time so off you go, do the same to them now

Getting pensioners sat on the top deck absolutely battered by tree branches the other day

Not many from real people he sacked them all

Well this is novel as an approach, or desperate, or stupid or all of them. Also apart from the obvious, they appear to be really shit at political maths. Even if the SNP win all their seats (they won't) 43, the Northern Ireland Seats 18, Green seats 2 (projected), Plaid Seats 4 (projected), the Speaker 1 there is still a shortfall of 55 seats in that projection, who won them?

Coalition opposition is an interesting concept

Very true but they'd have to stay there for 5 years or until circumstances changed at a by-election Its a very risky strategy for the member involved and indeed the party that accepts the member into their ranks

Yep I get all of that but think about it. As much as there is a convention that if the last speaker stands they are re-elected, it could be that they aren't (as a number of Tories have threatened in recent years) If no opposition is in place before the speaker is elected and this situation arises you have a clusterf... sorry constitutional crisis because it could then be down to the speaker getting elected on that basis of which party the prospective speaker will choose but it doesn't stop there... even a coalition will have been sorted by this stage so... there will always be one party or parties that command a majority, the Government. the government would then be free to vote for the speaker that they think will choose the opposition that they want. Hence me thinking it is insane

Is it? That's insane. Technically there isn't a speaker before parliament sits, they have to be elected or re-elected after every general election. I have my doubts that this answer would be correct. I do very much think its an unknown, I just can't see how that works EDIT: I should clarify, I think the answer is correct but I can't see how someone that doesn't exist and would need to be elected by the house can decide who the leader of the opposition is. It's the practicalities of the matter I'm on about

It is another Titanic moment though. I know lets think of some words that people associate with motor racing. Car Crash must be pretty high up the list. It really is being run by 12 year olds

Its a legal requirement of the Education Reform Act 1988 that schools have DAILY Collective Worship

All natural causes means is that it wasn't murder / suicide / manslaughter / accident. They had an illness or had a heart attack of something. Not sure why you'd need to know the exact details unless you were a relative and then it'll be on the death certificate.

Sue Ellen can’t help herself, like I said, more of this shite will be going on All over the papers with this yesterday. If Sunak actually had any testicles he'd expel her from the Tory Party,

I’m kinda warming to this Ed Davey campaign I did think the stunts were bloody stupid to start off with but when you compare it to the lies of Sunak, the utter robotics of Labour, the obvious grift of Farage it’s actually quite refreshing and he deserves some kudos for actually getting through that interview. At least he comes across as human.

At least he knows the syrup looks ridiculous

Oh I dunno, the BBC visiting a cafe in Stoke at 10am seems particularly unbiased

Vox Pops can get in the sea. Journalism for toddlers

It was heading to a close run thing on the last few results iirc but the boundary commission changes really didn’t help Mogg either. It’s also one of those interesting seats because he’s up against another (albeit short time served) sitting MP for Labour so they will both get the name recognition bounce a sitting MP is supposed to get, though in Mogg's case, he’s enough to drive a lot of people to vote against him

I don’t think it’s that. The story that seems most credible is that he was advised by Issac Levido not to do it but was advised by his mate (and general arse) James Forsyth to do it and he chose to do it. The Why question is because he’d been told the letters were in by Graham Brady. He went to the country to spite the backstabbers

Remember the candidates that Reform did drop before the election? Well not quite…