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2026-05-17 20:32:42 CEST

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The NHS part might be referring to private contractors?

2026-04-20 00:14:46 CEST

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Shouldn't be too long before we get the usual headline...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens

2026-02-02 14:44:18 CET

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All very fair.
I'm really trying to defend against, to pull a wildly unrealistic extreme out of the air, a painfully thin-skinned control freak become not only party leader but also Prime Minister accidentally getting a huge majority of seats not befitting the tiny, smallest-proportion-of-any-winner-since-WWII vote share they received in a GE, using this legislation to kick any MP out that doesn't agree with them and replace them with someone more submissive.
Better would probably be for scheduled votes to come around more often and it wouldn't really matter, although any way I can see that as workable runs into this same jump/pushed edge case.
(The other big thing that sticks out to me is I don't recall there being this much noise about the matter when it was anti-Brexit MPs defecting from May's Conservatives to the Lib Dems...)

2026-02-01 23:16:12 CET

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My view is:
* If you leave the party, yes
* If you are kicked out of the party, no

2026-01-08 10:50:17 CET

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I was going to say something similar, albeit less gently: the problem pubs have is that people have finally realised that they're the most boring places on earth and have moved on to something else.

2025-11-29 22:43:39 CET

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It does interest me that people in right-wing parties can be at one another's throats at all times and it's just the natural order of things and a sign of a healthy, open party- but if two people on the left have the most minor divergence of opinion with one another, it's immediately "factionalism".

2025-08-11 10:44:07 CEST

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Little bit rich for the observer to be saying this now after running a front page story about how amazing ID Cards are going to be in stopping immigration specifically.

2025-06-19 11:08:51 CEST

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"compromise" being "bosses getting what they want", then.

2025-06-12 11:01:35 CEST

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I've thought this, particularly around WFA.
Stamer and Reeves have been very consistent around claiming the matter being due to the state of the economy: WFA had to be cut to save the economy, and they could put it back because the economy was healthier (and not because they got a drubbing in the locals), meaning surely WFA is going to be first on the chopping block when the economy next takes a knock, which isn't going to be reassuring to people worried about losing it in the first place.
To a certain extent also, I'd argue that it's Government's job to *protect* us from the economy- like how Social Security is there for when work isn't, how Furlough and all sorts of business reliefs were there at the start of the pandemic and so on- and here they are, fairly explicitly saying that isn't what they're going to do.

2025-03-11 02:16:20 CET

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I've got a feeling being the ex-BoE governor might count against him.
When the right are constantly banging on about an 'Elite', fielding not only someone who was the head of a central bank- that of *another nation*, mind- feels a lot like doing their campaigning for them.

2025-03-07 14:26:51 CET

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"...well, not that shocked."

2025-03-07 10:29:51 CET

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It's almost as if they never had any intention to actually do anything with GB Energy in the first place, or something.

2025-02-26 10:38:11 CET

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..so, DOGE-level wrecking for wrecking's sake?
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/114/069/515/999/518/362/original/e6ef1c952427162a.jpg

2025-02-25 23:22:38 CET

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He does have a plan, it's full privatization. (Note which group of people the advisor makes reference to- it's not doctors, and it's not patients) We can't have an independent voice suggesting that his plan might not be the best idea, now, can we?

2025-02-20 19:22:55 CET

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"Bond, we've dispatched your equipment ahead of time, remember to pick it up before confronting the target"
"Okay, where can I expect to find it?"
"In a large yellow locker outside the petrol station on the south side of the volcano he build his base in. Good luck, 007."

2025-02-10 10:34:28 CET

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You could see it that way, but on the other hand, had those MPs not said what they said, the Mail wouldn't have had anything to report...

2025-01-23 19:21:12 CET

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Another 'chance' given to Labour, and subsequently blown.