Mike Young

I guess we move straight from takes about English teams being too good to them not being good enough, right?

He could have done that straight after the election, suggests he doesn't want to do it

I'm going to vote Labour again because they will be the best available option. True whether they hate me or not

None of the Labour options will be anywhere near as bad as Truss

This is such a weak look

Down 15% means still very expensive. 30% would be better, as would 50%

I believe chasing the right on immigration is an international phenomenon? Must be a common explanation.

Could argue that all our political problems stem from the failures in how media cover it

"After a four year pause" ffs

Planet of the Snails The Chancellor and her war on gastropods

There are no snails on the site, according to this substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Thatcher is the original sin but Howard is the last one not to actively make things worse

Fair point. Think your qu is incredibly important, those were my best offers but would love to see better explanations

Yeah it's not hard and should be expected of MPs that they know, as part of the job, but I fear at least some of them are pretty ignorant, right to the top

Possibly many of them don’t know (i), also possible many of them have much more right wing views than they care to admit to

See also match of the day punditry

No excuse for serious media giving this guy any further publicity after this

I'd never heard of this guy until a few months ago, now he's (a) saying stuff like this and (b) ubiquitous. How our media works

They have managed to lose half of the tiny number of Reform voters who liked Starmer, great job guys

This seems obvious, so, genuine question, why is it being suggested? Where is this coming from?

Even if this is right, which it may well be, it still makes no sense

On the one hand, yes, amazing. On the other hand not as he is just behaving exactly the same way as he has for many years. Can’t keep being amazed by the same thing

Sidelining the OBR worked great for Truss

"Corruption disqualifies you from public office" seems to me almost self-evident, far from being a hard call. Democracy has to be protected, and that needs actions. 5 years is way too lenient

She can play the game again in just 5 years. Why not a life ban?

No10 figures believe something that was obviously, unmissably true several years ago

And yet she can run for office again in 5 years. Like, in 5 years time she will once again be a fit person to run for office. What would you have to do to get a life ban?

I feel like it's mainly they hate everything with a side order of Europe isn't a nation state which is the only political entity that their ossified minds can understand

There are no other options surely

Threaten to cancel it and see what you can get

There is a list of politicians for whom it is definitely all over, and Suella hasn't realised she is on it