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Guardians of western civilisation is so messianic it totally misunderstands the basic sales pitch Tories have historically made to middle England. Like if anything is going to turn off the sort of person who votes Thatcher-Blair-Cameron it is precisely this?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Subliming just as Iain M Banks predicted.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

😲😲😲

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Jfc not that blue labour bullshit again

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My general conviction on congestion pricing has always been that it would work out brilliantly for precisely the same reason it has been so controversial. That is, a lot of drivers do not actually need to drive, choose to, and violently loathe paying for it, and the moment they're charged they stop

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

voicemails are podcasts your mom makes

submitted 57 days ago • 34 comments

Gibberish.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

This leader is correct in one important respect: Rayner’s plans would complete the original proposal in the Redcliffe-Maude Report to have unitary authorities across England (they’ve already been imposed in Scotland and Wales).

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

While also shutting down the government agency tasked with overseeing local government. Which was established by the Tories after they realised that shutting down the government agency for overseeing local government was a bad idea. We’re in a local government doom loop.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 74 days ago • 8 comments

Labour shutting down Oflog is utterly counterproductive.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Both can be true. Local government is unsexy but incredibly important *and* this round of reorganisation is needless Westminster obsession with flattening tiers of local government.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

She pretended she did, but didn’t.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

This is the third time I’ve heard or read someone say this *today*.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Lol. Literally.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

fucked up to think about but there was two grinches on noah's ark

submitted 92 days ago • 35 comments

So is the primary political value competition or duty and sacrifice? Because, you know, some people might think they conflict.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

To the 2k of you following this account: thank you for your support. Next week’s a big one, and we’ll need you.

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

Really sick of this narrative. Yes palliative is patchy (although at its best rates towards top end globally). It’s *not* about pain management; it’s about what sort of life and death people want.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

If there’s one thing I miss about the old Guardian (besides being a broadsheet) it is when it had political cartoonist which were, you know, good.

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments