Gloucester Saint

The Thanet debacle is the hope I have that now they are under the microscope and have to deliver as a collection of individualists and oddballs, that they fall apart https://news.sky.com/story/ukip-to-lose-the-only-council-they-control-as-thanet-leader-resigns-11258103 Farage will say that was UKIP, and Reform UK is different, more professional. But Thanet was only 2015-18. Already tensions between Jenkyns and Farage over neurodiversity (I’m staggered she said something I strongly agree with, but Farage’s comments were vile).

With a better aim this time

They don’t care as it doesn’t suit a white supremacist narrative, as you say they were quite happy to delete inconvenient narratives about black military bravery and accomplishments https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pentagon-restores-some-webpages-honoring-minority-service-members-but-defends-dei-purge

Took a picture of this at Bletchley Park. The quote is from Dwight Eisenhower. Trump is just symptomatic of how sick I’ve become of thick and ignorant people who misrepresent our histories and identities. Look of how many in this country last night voted for MAGA UK, whose leader kisses Trump’s arse.

Country’s become ungovernable since Brexit. Both UK but especially England. Boris’s 2019 electoral coalition wasn’t any more secure than Labour’s last year.

John Curtice is making this point a lot.

I think voters who are really appalled by Trump and MAGA have really got to be organised to see the populists off here. Reform/UKIP/BNP have done well in local and European elections (when we had them) before, but not quite to this extent. Long way to go but hard to see Labour getting to 326 seats next GE, as Hypo says knife edge on being too left/right wing. Lib Dem growth is encouraging and not just because I vote for them. Probably the best is Lab largest party with Lib Dem and Greens, who are starting to translate local results into national, vote by vote. Reform would do grave economic harm and the last thing we need is to swing back towards Brexit when public opinion clearly shows support for closer links with the EU. Economically it’s crucial. Would welcome a revival of One Nation Conservatism as the grown ups in their party but can’t see from where.

Wood had Spurs and Arsenal after him a couple of years back so he has the raw materials - height, pace, decent on the ball. He is genuinely quick for a CB. The worry is concentration, Stephens-level ball watching and then some. Is that something that can be fixed for the PL in the future?

Who is behind the retail hacks? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crkx3vy54nzo Seems to be multinational and young, including British teenagers https://www.standard.co.uk/news/tech/who-scattered-spider-marks-spencer-hackers-b1225699.html Another ‘gift’ of generative AI.

OBS/Glasgow/Heisenberg/Barry Sanchez and dread to think how many other eg Love and Light when Victor played for us.

That would be seriously screwed up though, like a split personality. And would take a shedload of time.

Farage is copying the Trump playbook closely by attacking EDI. Will please the boomers who turned out for them yesterday but it won’t help Reform at national elections where ethnic minorities, the physically disabled and neurodiverse and more women tend to vote than local elections. Sciences, especially climate science, and R&D in general in all sectors will be next in the populist sights. Even tactically, if you voted Reform, the fact is that you voted Trump policy-wise.

Fair enough. You’d think it would encourage the Tories back to the centre ground but you just know it won’t after Boris’s purge of the One Nation group. Supporting Reform is still supporting Trump’s agenda though, let’s be clear about that. Despite the farmers (you’d think they had learned from Brexit wouldn’t you?) GCC very much yellow. No formal majority but with the Greens it will be. Used to be blue as a blue arsed fly here https://glostext.gloucestershire.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=14&RPID=182116020

Serves the Tories right for their membership for a quid swizz, they’ve got infiltrated and unlike Momentum and Labour, still not cleared the stables out with the ERG crazy gang still leading them. Won’t win another election taking Reform on and RIP if they have a pact.

I wouldn’t be so sure, kites flown in the DT and Mail yesterday hinting Ed Miliband was on his bike in the near future.

I don’t vote Labour but he’s had a pretty full plate on foreign affairs - Ukraine, which has escalated since the GE, Trump, Vance et al and NATO, trying to sort out the pathetic mess left behind by Johnson and Frost on our relationship with the EU leaving a 6% hole in our economy. Trump’s tariff tantrums impact by another 0.8% GDP but the hard Brexit is the priority to fix with the new German Chancellor and others. Working more closely with France as adults will also help with curbing illegal migration, which the ERG were unable to do. Reeves is a clusterfuck but I don’t think Starmer has done that badly and if you’re being objective, there’s some good early performances there eg Streeting sorting out another horrific mess from Lansley. Jeremy Hunt agrees with what he’s doing.

Organ probably a better bat too. Let’s hope he can recapture that purple patch he had with his spin bowling later today.

Yes, IIRC, summer 2023. Tino had done back towards the end of the season after his ACL injury sustained at Brighton.

Ambient or lightly chilled. Fully chilled murders the flavour. Although in the case of Carling, that is probably a good thing.

I think RVN would have to walk with their PSR severe issues though. He’s probably wealthy enough but footballers don’t tend to walk away from guaranteed money very often….

Although not quite the crop circles of Fabrice Fernandes

IIRC they pretty much made a strategy out of that transfer which fed into the SR takeover - Semmens may even have referred to it in the press release - and you can see a direct correlation as you say to the summer 2022 window.

Probably someone economically a smidgen left of centre but disliking the Labour left approach and probably less of a collectivist e.g. big trade unions. Pro business overall but not believing public or private sectors can do everything. Pro-European and a more pragmatic approach to immigration.

Me and my wife. Parents tend to plus some family members who were Conservatives pre-Brexit.

True, although it didn’t stop the local Reform candidate for Gloucestershire making all kinds of lavish claims and how they’d slash spending. Behaviourally it might be interesting. Jenkyns in her Mayor role in Lincs will have to work with Tory councils in the districts - which could be interesting after the acceptance she just gave!