Leveson 2 now.

Compromise is part of living in a democracy. You never get who you think is perfect, you get who you’ll settle for. Anyone arguing differently is undermining democracy, either through malice or through stupidity. Possibly both.

Also, anyone extrapolating from current polling data to likely GE performance in 2029 is a fool.

Labour should ban that immediately.

Look at countries that have it. They’re no better off than countries with FPTP. It sounds good in theory, but if you do some game-theoretical analysis of the system, you’ll see that, just like any other conceivable electoral system, it has edge cases that can lead to anomalous outcomes, and you can be sure that those who work the system will exploit those.

Vote tactically to keep Reform out of any seat it is running in.

Avoid the Lib Dems, they’ll form a coalition with the Tories if there’s something in it for them.

Vote Green where it won’t lead to the Tories winning.

Quit hoping that electoral reform will save you. PR systems give disproportionate power to unprincipled centrist parties like the LibDems and the current Labour Party. Instead, learn how to use tactical voting and convince all your friends and neighbours.

It’ll be better if we actually make the investments rather than starve the nationalised enterprise. That means adequate staffing, staff training, and infrastructure planning and development.

The execs should be held personally liable for this.

The EU rules on FoM include the ability of states to prevent the abuses the unions were concerned over.

You know that this is an article about UK water companies, right?

The additional particulate emissions will kill kids with asthma. But I suppose it’s all worthwhile in order for some people to have that perfect cottage with a Rayburn or Aga.

climate skeptic propaganda

Skeptics are people who don’t believe things until they see facts. Denying climate change requires the rejection of overwhelming facts. That’s not skepticism, it’s wilful stupidity.

Farage is opposed to net zero because it will make us less reliant on imported fossil fuels. Reduced global demand for fossil fuels is very bad for Russia’s balance of trade.

On a side note regarding chamberlain

That’s a revisionist view, unspported by evidence in his contemporaries’ diaries, notes and official documents. What there is evidence of, though, is a number of people, many in his own party, observing that Chamberlain was naive and out of his depth. His main political experience prior to being PM was in Birmingham local politics. He was a schmoozer who prided himself on his dealmaking. He had no idea what he was doing when it came to international politics, and his party had a large pro-Nazi faction. He was also digustingly cynical about his sell-out of Czechoslovakia: “A far-away country of which we no little.”

Churchill was not popular with the Conservatives, but he was no ditherer.

OK, so if a group is small enough, it’s OK to abuse them and deny them their rights?

What’s your threshold? 1%? 10%?

What continues to amaze me is the animosity towards trans people by the TERFs. They’re like religious zealots. It’s depressing to see such spite empowered by law.

She’s really embraced the grift since being laughed out of office.

Supporting local producers is a positive thing to do, tariffs or not.

He’s just trying to deflect attention from Saudi Arabia’s close ties to Israel and the fact that the Saudis have never done anything to help the Palestinians, instead building mosques and staffing them with Wahhabi fanatic imams.

Labour should quit pandering to racists and xenophobes. It’s a race to the bottom and Reform will always be even more brutal and repressive. Labour should be decisively opposing this imbecility, not joining the lynch mob.