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Maybe they all missed it as they were focussed on the election, but they are not the PM and it is not their job to announce government decisions. I am not blaming him for EVERYTHING. I am blaming him for not announcing something that might well have caused him some problems electorally. It didn’t have to be a major announcement, but government briefings are sent out all the time. You seem to be morphing into Weston.

The Fourth Reich Nigel and the Blackshirts Unfortunately the most appropriate one has already been used - The Flying C**ts of Chaos

Meanwhile… https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cl4y1pjk2dzo.amp

Perhaps they will now start to campaign for another EU referendum? 🤔

I was reading elsewhere about how, when Brits move abroad, they are not immigrants but Ex-Pats.

Why not? 21 of the 28 countries in Western Europe employ some kind of PR system. Do we know better than the likes of Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden & Switzerland? I recall Dr David Owen saying many years ago that if you have a particularly good Chancellor but they are a member of an opposition party, why would you not want to use their knowledge? Starmer has already said that he doesn’t care where the good ideas come from, he isn’t going to partisan when it comes to rebuilding Britain. We lurch from one ideology to another. Surely it is better to do what is right for the country at the time and the future rather than to plough on with political dogma, which is often out of date or at odds with what the particular issue needs at that time. If the will of the people is spread across three or four main parties, why shouldn’t those voices be heard properly rather than bulldozed over? You can still have a ruling party that calls the shots on final decisions, but wouldn’t it have been so much better for the UK if the Tory government had more accountability when Liz Truss did her best to bankrupt the country? Would we have gone to war in Iraq under a PR system? A more in depth look at PR systems - https://fairvote.org/archives/proportional-representation-voting-systems/

A bit different to the government making an announcement though.

It all depends on your definition of Socialism.

I thought it was more about “Getting Brexit Done?”

Did he announce it then? I must have missed that.

Good old Rupert! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgr5qvpy2djo.amp

There is nothing depressing about keeping the far right out of power, unless you think that fascism is all fine and dandy.

I guess we will find out just how dangerous socialism is won’t we hypo. As for solving issues like migration, remind us again about the Tory record over the last 14 years please.

Sunak kept that one quiet. https://amp.theguardian.com/law/article/2024/jul/08/labour-expected-to-drop-challenge-to-icc-over-netanyahu-arrest-warrant

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/06/tory-party-leadership-race

I might have spoken too soon again. The Turks seem to have found some more steam.

I might have spoken too soon. Turkey seem to have run out of steam and the Dutch are looking useful.

I’m hoping the Dutch can win this at the moment. Turkey’s attacking energy will see us playing deep for 90 minutes plus again.

We could well fluke our way to the final! Despite so many people saying that Southgate needed to change things up, he stuck to the same formula. He will argue that it has gotten us this far but luck rather than skill and good tactical decisions is responsible for that. Expect more of the same in the semi!

Looking at his demeanour I don’t think that missing ever entered his head!

Toney’s penalty was insane. He was staring at the keeper when he kicked the ball.

The Swiss must be gutted but fair play, those penalty takers were awesome. Southgate’s master plan worked 🤣

We stepped up a gear for the equaliser but have been pedestrian again since. 😏

You are on a roll. Not as good as your Swiss gag though!

I’ll make an exception this time.