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Sois toi, sois fier de toi parce que tu peux être fais ce qu'on veut faire.
Somebody from Lancashire could say youse without sounding off.
December 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Somebody from Lancashire could say youse without sounding off.
This could have been avoided with a Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Now to read the Scotland Act 1998 to see what it says about set election dates
December 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
This could have been avoided with a Fixed-term Parliaments Act. Now to read the Scotland Act 1998 to see what it says about set election dates
The opportunity to serve our country, that sounds like a big job.
December 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The opportunity to serve our country, that sounds like a big job.
That may depend on how far Godiva rode.
December 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
That may depend on how far Godiva rode.
Please let nobody introduce them to Hebrew, Arabic and other abjads.
December 10, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Please let nobody introduce them to Hebrew, Arabic and other abjads.
Same goes for scrapping supplementary vote for mayors without a referendum or as an explicit manifesto pledge vs discourse on PR for Westminster elections.
December 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Same goes for scrapping supplementary vote for mayors without a referendum or as an explicit manifesto pledge vs discourse on PR for Westminster elections.
Member governments get a veto and Orbán (Fico etc. if he loses next year) might not be very eager to have the UK back in, especially with a Labour government.
December 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Member governments get a veto and Orbán (Fico etc. if he loses next year) might not be very eager to have the UK back in, especially with a Labour government.
Especially if Schengen and euro membership would be mandatory conditions (might be able to get a majority in favour, but maybe not a large or particularly eager majority).
December 9, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Especially if Schengen and euro membership would be mandatory conditions (might be able to get a majority in favour, but maybe not a large or particularly eager majority).
I think it's because it's assuming much lower turnout for young voters.
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I think it's because it's assuming much lower turnout for young voters.
At least Aontú seem to be speaking to an electorate which exists.
December 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
At least Aontú seem to be speaking to an electorate which exists.
I'd ask if Köln had anywhere a new station for UK services could fit, but I suspect anywhere vaguely affordable would be far away enough from the city centre that you might as well serve Horrem or the airport without starting from scratch.
December 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'd ask if Köln had anywhere a new station for UK services could fit, but I suspect anywhere vaguely affordable would be far away enough from the city centre that you might as well serve Horrem or the airport without starting from scratch.
There are areas of London with a less frequent service in parts to St. Pancras than what Köln Hbf has to Horrem; run to there, and run to there reliably.
December 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
There are areas of London with a less frequent service in parts to St. Pancras than what Köln Hbf has to Horrem; run to there, and run to there reliably.
He's 61 and not known for abstaining from drinking and smoking, although hoping he'd be too ill or insufficiently alive to lead Reform doesn't seem like a reliable strategy, especially when there's at least four general elections before he'll be as old as Trump will be in 2028.
December 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
He's 61 and not known for abstaining from drinking and smoking, although hoping he'd be too ill or insufficiently alive to lead Reform doesn't seem like a reliable strategy, especially when there's at least four general elections before he'll be as old as Trump will be in 2028.
The main surprise to me there, without taking away from how depressing that is, is that the number didn't increase in 2020 (due to strains on medical resources, supply chains and finances even with relatively few children being severely affected by Covid infection).
December 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The main surprise to me there, without taking away from how depressing that is, is that the number didn't increase in 2020 (due to strains on medical resources, supply chains and finances even with relatively few children being severely affected by Covid infection).
As a similar example, I think Truss was recorded as having not voted on her own definitely-not-a-confidence-vote-regardless-of-who-the-whips-are fracking vote due to having not swiped her card.
December 9, 2025 at 6:58 PM
As a similar example, I think Truss was recorded as having not voted on her own definitely-not-a-confidence-vote-regardless-of-who-the-whips-are fracking vote due to having not swiped her card.
Interesting that some Labour MPs backed it despite Starmer / whips having shown themselves willing to suspend rebels; decided they're losing their seats without big changes before 2029 anyway?
December 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Interesting that some Labour MPs backed it despite Starmer / whips having shown themselves willing to suspend rebels; decided they're losing their seats without big changes before 2029 anyway?
74th, after Sorcha Eastwood?
December 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
74th, after Sorcha Eastwood?
Who were the Labour MPs who voted in favour? (Assuming all LD, SNP, Plaid, SDLP, Alliance MPs did and no Con, Ref, NI Unionist did)
December 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Who were the Labour MPs who voted in favour? (Assuming all LD, SNP, Plaid, SDLP, Alliance MPs did and no Con, Ref, NI Unionist did)
Given she only won by 400 votes in 2019, would Your Party have been formed at all if she'd had lost then? I can't see her having been selected for the first time under Starmer, if she would've wanted to stand for Labour without Corbyn as leader.
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Given she only won by 400 votes in 2019, would Your Party have been formed at all if she'd had lost then? I can't see her having been selected for the first time under Starmer, if she would've wanted to stand for Labour without Corbyn as leader.
Maybe partly because up until ~1981 they rarely faced other parties apart from Conservatives and in large parts still didn't until the mid-2000s or later?
December 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Maybe partly because up until ~1981 they rarely faced other parties apart from Conservatives and in large parts still didn't until the mid-2000s or later?
"The Prime Minister is not under a desk, but the next-but-one will be"
December 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"The Prime Minister is not under a desk, but the next-but-one will be"
Iceland's strategy is mostly pointing to all of the threats which could face the UK, Norway and northernmost Atlantic without it being protected by a friendly nation.
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Iceland's strategy is mostly pointing to all of the threats which could face the UK, Norway and northernmost Atlantic without it being protected by a friendly nation.