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• Commented on I can't even
  Likewise, Rishi Sunak, the only one left with any economic credibility: who chooses to risk the wrath of the ERG by associating with the candidate they rejected? I understand that Dishy Rishi has already made it clear that he is...
• Commented on The gathering crisis
  People keep on saying that we are going to hit the iceberg if we don't do something. They seem to have failed to have noticed that we hit the iceberg some years ago (probably a decade or so, when 'austerity'...
• Commented on What happens now?
  I see that folk like Bill Barr are already appearing on the "main" news channels acting as though they had nothing to do with any of this - after all, Barr resigned a whole two weeks ago; how could he...
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  I think one bit you've missed is when Johnson leaves and the new guy sweeps in saying "it's nothing to do with me, 'guv; it was all the fault of that moptop idiot and his Labour enablers. It's a shame...
• Commented on Countdown to Crazy
  I tend to think that the 2018 results provide a pretty good guide to what's likely to happen; I don't think the "blue wave" has come close to subsiding yet. When Beto O'Rourke came so close to winning Texas in...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  @181: Yes, I can't see the outcome of a new election being much different to the 2017 result except that the Tories may only have 300 seats (rather than 317) and even if they were closer, they can no longer...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  There are still reasons to doubt a Tory majority right now, quite apart from the flukiness of the 2015 result which was the only one since 1987 to return a reliable Conservative majority. Even if Johnson managed to get one,...
• Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
  I'm not convinced by the "students won't vote Labour this time" argument. They really don't have anywhere else to go, and the current climate is making 'not voting' quite toxic (which I think is a good thing!) The other thing...
• Commented on Someone please sack the script-writers
  I maintain that the current farce is also clear proof that we do live in a simulation. The server is running out of space, so it defaulted to making two major NPCs using the same skin and hoped that we...
• Commented on CMAP #16: Book Title Blues
  You could do worse than consider the preface to Summer Lightning by PG Wodehouse. "A word about the title. It is related of Thackeray that, hitting upon Vanity Fair after retiring to rest one night, he leapt out of bed...
• Commented on Excuses
  Chambers' dictionary defines "middle aged" as "that period between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner." Which pretty much covers it, I think....
• Commented on A bright and shiny hell
  Teaching people the difference between transparency and privacy would be a good start too. Although in almost all cases, I'd be pretty confident that the folk saying "if you're so keen on transparency, tell us all your bank details" are...
• Commented on Catching Up
  @77, von hitchofen: Hey, I live in Jeremy Corbyn's constituency. So I've got an MP that some people think voted Leave in an area that was one of the highest Remain voting areas of the country. Personally, I don't think...
• Commented on Catching Up
  "(i.e. those who cannot remember the incredible damage a high-tax hard-core Socialist government can inflict)" As opposed to the incredible damage a hard-core austerity Neoliberal government has inflicted? That game can be played both ways, you know. I'd rather we...
• Commented on Catching Up
  It's notable that although the Tories were "cleared" of the Battle Bus spending scandal from 2015 (sending busloads of supporters around to marginal constituencies but claiming it as national expenses), they didn't dare try it again and they were comprehensively...
• Commented on Policy change: future US visits
  May has already stated that Trump's treatment of refugees is not on & tory MP's are lining up to say it stinks. Have any republicans yest said it stinks in the US? Well, it only took her a day or...
• Commented on The Day After
  Perhaps the people of Florida had the best idea after all. They voted for Trump but they also voted to legalise cannabis....
• Commented on Ever Young?
  And this, of course, is why people are perceived to become more conservative as they become older - it's because we form our model of the world when we are about 8, and as the world changes, we find it...
• Commented on The iron law of development
  Why was this so, because I think it's important? "Working hypothesis: defensible borders were absent." ...and this is also clearly why we have never been able to embrace the "European Project" which, ultimately, is going to require full-scale federalism (i.e....
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  Cameron's gamble (and it was a decent one) was, I think, that we'd get the 52/48 Remain result. That way, he'd have been perfectly positioned to force a full-scale EU renegotiation because he could point to the high level of...
• Commented on "Tomorrow belongs to me"
  The most interesting thing for me is how the result in general mirrored the result of the AV referendum - urban centres that had people on the ground having conversations were generally Remain, and places that were stuck with mass...
• Commented on The unspeakable truth
  My basic problem is that the Leave campaign has hinted that it might at least have started to understand the fundamental problem that nation states are having across the world, which is that economic policy fails if it cannot be...
• Commented on The unavoidable discussion
  I'm not quite old enough to have voted in 1975 but I feel much the same. Indeed, I maintain that I'm not getting offered my choice in the upcoming referendum - it's basically an option between slightly backing out or...