Really? I love raw oysters.

But I also eat everything on that list, so I'm not exactly representative I guess.

When did that ever happen? It was one of Sunaks three word pledges, Labour key conference promise was digital ID to stop them?

It's been all boats all the time for years.

"This might work within the M25* but not with the rest of the country"

Sorry, I've got bad news about who has all the money.

*presumably she means all big cities here.

"Unfortunately it's not in our strategic interests to say the racist part out loud" is quite the advice.

They think it's important because the government is acting like it's important. Sunak had "Stop the boats" as a slogan, Stamner is introducing ID cards to make it harder.

Maybe if they shut the fuck up about this problem they refuse to solve by just opening safe routes KS will do better than RS?

Fucking idiot

Just fucking hilarious that the Tories had "Stop the boats" as a slogan, refused to do the policy to actually stop them, but yeah I'm sure Labor should keep raising the salience of an issue that only helps reform

It's part of why Prime Minister Sunsk got re-elected last year.

Actually, just reducing the salience of an issue Labour can't win on would presumably count as ignoring the boats. So really he wants Labour to keep punching itself in the face.

By "Deal with the boats" he presumably means everything appart from that, and building an even more hostile environment, whilst failing to stop them just last the last three tory PM's did.

But obviously the people who say "I don't like seeing brown faces on TV" will obviously be happy if we get net migration to 100k again. So those additional burdens on business will definitely be worth it.

And famously, the NHS from 1997 was a huge success, and definitely not an albatross arround their neck at the next election.

I do like the idea that he didn't know, and they saw the "Are we the baddies sketch"...

Why? They're about to be correct for the first time since spring.

Rhe British government has been pretty good for pensioners?

The triple lock being the biggest but not only example.

See, this is why you don't invite the Czechs to Munich...

"China's CCP isn't completely communist." Is true, but only in the same way that in 2025 the Titanic isn't completely waterproof.

You almost had me...

"Labour allowing the the small boats to continue" is bleakly hilarious, as it implies there's a "Stop the boats" button they just don't want to push.

The Politics Live relaunch had a similar feeling. Lads, we live in a world of TikTok, Netflix etc. etc. Nobody except a political nerd is voluntarily choosing to watch a programme called Politics Live on a weekday lunchtime. Why are you determined to make the show suck for that person?

Also relevant for British politics.

If someone is reading any political coverage more granular than the news headlines on commercial radio, they have by definition opted in! You don't need to talk down to them! It just makes it look like *you* find it boring, in which case, fuck off, there's no shortage of people who'd have your job

one of them literally led to an independence referendum which was existential to the existence of the UK what the fuck are you talking about BBC

Idk, I'm very confident that Keir Starmer knows how to read. Less sure about a lot of his defenders on here.