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Policy person working in debt advice. Reluctant trail runner. Occasional (and very bad) sim racer. Owner of at least one opinion (used). He/him
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My 5-year-old continues to ask for help dressing himself, even though he *knows* the answer to "Can you put my shoes on?" is "No, they won't fit."
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I have heard you talk about this game before (possibly on the podcast), but actually Seeing it is a Joy to Behold.
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A new inquiry would be different, though, since those calling for one have already decided what its conclusions should be. Much cheaper and quicker than the tedious process of gathering evidence and developing reasoned solutions.
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Is the steak thing meant to be red meat (ahem) to Sunak detractors, or is that attributing malice where there is only stupidity?
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One local to me: strange lights and sounds of a "plane/UFO crash" for which no physical evidence was ever found. After many years of questioning, turned out it was the RAF fannying about with (illegal) supersonic flights.
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"Flying Oaty Morsel" was a great album though
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Shaking my damn horse
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Labour's pre-election pitch was "managed decline but under better management" so we shouldn't be surprised that this is exactly what they're offering
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I didn't know helicopters went underground
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NI is a big issue, but more generally, the damage to the UK's standing globally, and soft power
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Because they might have actually had to do it.
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It is the sort of thing that they can say to rile up their base while knowing they'll never be in power to implement it. There's a reason they never explicitly committed to it while in government.
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You can't expect a fully vibes based government to be accountable for the things they say and do
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They haven't really made a case about intergenerational fairness though, have they? There is an obvious argument that no other generation gets universal benefits (even child benefit is means tested now) so why should pensioners - but it has been absent from government messaging so far
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Feeds are on the left hand sidebar; from there you can search for "UK Politics." It will show you all posts containing certain politics-related keywords.
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To be fair Clegg was given responsibilities that sounded quite impressive at the time - constitutional and Lords reform. Just unfortunate that he was then obstructed by his coalition partners at every turn ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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They lifted it once, but it is frozen again now. Remains to be seen what Labour will do about it
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I look forward to a suitably eviscerating speech from Truss in the House of Commons... oh wait
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It reminds me of that old joke about a US politician: "I've won the election, so now the hard work begins - running for re-election."
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A strategy that has never to my knowledge failed at any time in history! I was born yesterday, by the way
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Probably not by-elections. Unless any of the imaginary candidates were elected (which doesn't seem to have happened, although some are the stuff of nightmares) I don't think an election petition would succeed in overturning the result in an affected constituency.
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Difficult to say until we know the rules of the contest. Reportedly, some in Starmer's inner circle want MPs alone to choose the leader when the party is in government. I think you get a different answer depending on whether members get a vote or not.
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Same root causes though - corporate profiteering at the expense of the planet, and governments too weak to stop them. If it wakes people up...