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Whatever your political views, have a watch of this. No disrespect to Starmer or Rayner, but along with Wes Streeting, Darren Jones and Andy Burnham, this is where the talent in the Labour Party is

Don’t know about that, but the previous government’s dickhead move to try and appeal to Reform UK/ex-BNP voters by restricting overseas student visas just cost £15bn in guaranteed tax revenue according to an article by the FT posted by former Conservative minister Jo Johnson, who along with Rachel is the one in the family whom the brains were dished out to. Which would have made this budget a darn sight easier. How’s the kebab tasting now?

Last night watching the England ODI I enjoyed Hokum Stomp by Deya in Cheltenham. They are best known for their pale ales and IPAs such as Steady Rolling Man which has won loads of awards but this was a stout. Stronger at 5.6% but very tasty, coffee, bright red berries and dark chocolate finish. Tonight it’s a beer I bought at the Malvern Autumn Show today, by Copper Beech called Common Ground, a New England style pale ale. Hazy as unfiltered, strongly tropical fruity nose, I can detect mango, mellow grapefruit, pine lingering with a spicy finish. The Show had quite a few local ciders and perries on offer (Worcestershire is famous for its pears and nearby Herefordshire for apples and ciders).

On Talk TV. Circa 300 viewers where the risk of being challenged is very low. Tim Shipman won’t have been one of those other journalists.

Quite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Oakeshott Richard Tice’s partner https://dorseteye.com/for-those-who-care-about-morality-and-the-law-lets-look-closely-at-richard-tice-and-isabel-oakeshott/ and employee of Lord Ashcroft and his non dom money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ashcroft Worth reminding people of the gotcha the Ashcroft clan thought they had on Rayner

I think the clothing was the gotcha, and quite a substantial one at that. There seems to be the creation of lots of smoke around Jenny Chapman but Tim Shipman could warn Oakeshott off that. The idea she’d ever stop on behalf of the party and non doms who pay her wages is risible - ask Matt Hancock.

If that turns out to be the case then time for a re-think. Pity previous governments didn’t do this when deciding on the poll tax and privatising water, utilities and railway when the advice was that it would not create the efficiencies their ideologies drove them to believe.

I think we probably both agree and disagree with this one. I agree that the analogy seems odd in respect of Ukraine and USSR/Russia but Ukraine was subjugated as the Soviet bread basket during the Cold War and at in different points in that region’s history. It’s quite clunky as a comparison, and it jars slightly, but it’s not without some truth as well. Lammy won’t be at the top table of Foreign Secs - Cook, Hague, Hurd - but I can’t accept that he could ever be a bigger embarrassment than Raab or worst of all, Boris. If you want the inside track on how much of a 🤡 Boris was in that role, read Alan Duncan’s book who had to share the FCO with him 🤦‍♂️ That Twitter poster is also saying NATO should back off and let 🇺🇦 go back to 2014. That’s never going to happen with Putin or Russia, it’ll be a negotiated settlement next year with Russia getting Donbas (which they’ve smashed to pieces) and Crimea. But with Ukraine in NATO as deterrent. Russia can’t/wont pay reparations so there has to be a price and a deterrent.

Could have been mock exams perhaps then? The clothing stuff with him and Rayner pisses me right off, and not appropriate rules met or not, but the stuff about the donor flat is the tabloids trying a bit too hard now.

The away end is terrible at Goodison, although the three tier main stand from 1971 still impresses even today. At least you were in the lower tier, the upper tier was really tired out when I last went.

They’ve both got quite thick fingers. Charles ought to get his looked at though, could be a blood circulation issue.

They’ve fully deserved all of the criticism for the clothing gifts, not acceptable, but the stuff today about Starmer staying at the donor’s flat during the campaign for a short spell is now getting childish now. That’s quite reasonable that his kids have a decent revision environment without dozens of paps outside.

Eastenders fanatic from the 1990s?

I first watched that film on a night flight back from NYC and was trying desperately not to laugh out loud….

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The mood music 🎵 seems to be that Simon Case is the aggrieved party re Sue Gray salary and leaking - put up or shut up I suspect. Boris appointment so could be the most politically expedient to depart if it comes to it.

Check out this sinkhole at AFC Wimbledon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ce81v7yel4no

Unbelievable https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6ez6p567do

He could have been empathetic on Bates’s correspondence, will say that, and challenged Vennells more, but Swinson and Paul Scully should have done more as there was more evidence coming to light from PO and Fujitsu failings by the mid-10s. At lot of the reveals were also down to good determined journalism by the likes of Nick Wallis.

If Trump wins in November, bully boy will be back. Only poster on ignore so hopefully next time he starts a Tommy Robinson appreciation thread or makes threats against another poster, people won’t quote him in their responses. I don’t know if blocking mentions covers that off?

If they get the NHS waiting lists down, GP access better, trains running consistently, and economy visibly stable/debt under control then this is chicken feed. I think Starmer has to get rid of the leakers and whiners on Gray though, they’re running straight to Chris Mason et al and the public don’t reward parties who are constantly fighting having had a decade of it.

Only really the Lib Dem’s are relatively clean at the moment - Labour not helping their cause with the freebies, Tory candidates saying weird things about working in McDs equating to being working class and English identity whilst the lead runner is mired in huge corruption, and Farage doesn’t turn up to half of the Parliamentary votes and incredibly still doesn’t have a constituency office set up. I’m sure the Lib Dem’s are capable of self-destructing too. And people wonder why there’s apathy. Starmer needs the sack the staff whining and leaking about the Sue Graham salary. The country had years of that with what came before them, so far they’ve not been too bad with getting on with governing but critical early tests coming up now.

Good manager but WBA have a good chance of going up this year and he could win automatic promotion with his own squad.

Inclined to agree. That country (USA) has gone so far down the rabbit hole though that it’s hard to see it getting back some equilibrium for the foreseeable.

Sad news, a key part of the matchday experience early 1980s onwards for me and our family. Remember Bob’s articles well.