It's interesting that it's directly reported on. As opposed to all the many other things that are definitely Russian in origin, that are not. However obviously a frog faced fascist disrupter and Putin sympathiser (and probably funded by). For example.
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I understand the 'culprits' tried to use an oil based substance to set fire to a property that Starmer used to live in before he moved to Number 10 and now a relative rents from him.
A Russian Roux let.Yes I'll fuck off now.
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When there were reporting restrictions, there was lots of speculation on twitter that they were Starmer's (former?) lovers. Wonder where that came from?
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Notable that none of the Mail, Express or Sun covered this on their front pages.
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Yep, reports today that came from……Russia.
Oh and Tommy two names, recently back from erm…..Russia, is still alluding to that.
Shocked! Said no one paying any attention.
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This is a remarkable story. I had to check three times that the second picture wasn't a before picture that was mislabeled, and then I was amazed all over again when I saw that there was only 6 months between them. Medical science is ace.
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BBC lists one risk of banning social media as reducing opportunities for teenager influencers... not sure there's a downside to that one.
FFS Harry.
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I presume that the kids protected from watching Bluey on YouTube will still be able to use the lying suicide-coach radicalisation chatbots and, indeed, that the government will be actually encouraging schools to embed them into the education system?
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Well played Makerfield constituents. Apart from the 35% who voted Reform and the 7% who voted Restore. Cunts.
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A very good result for Burnham. Winning over 50% of the vote on a turnout 6% higher than the GE is quite some achievement. Normally by-elections have very low turnouts and the governing party gets hammered.
Good work by the electorate to align their votes behind Burnham with the LDs and Greens mustering less than 3% between them. I didn't follow the campaign in any detail, but it's suggestive of antqcit understanding between the local Greens, LD and Labour whereby they didn't campaign too hard. We had a similar unspoken agreement down here in the GE where Labour left the LDs a clear run in Wokingham and the LDs allows Labour a clear run in Woodley & Earley. I'd hope this represents a path for future cooperation because in my view stopping Reform is more important than anything else.
The popularity of Burnham in the area also seems to have contributed to the result.Anyway, I suspect it spells the end for Starmer. The first obstacle for Burnham has been easily negotiated despite a lot of doubts about whether he could win the seat; losing would have been politically disastrous for both Labour and Burnham (although obviously not for Starmer). The next obstacle is getting enough Labour MPs to trigger a leadership contest: I don't see this as an issue as Starmer has pissed off more than enough of his own MPs.
Statmer's inability to do politics will now be his downfall. The early missteps including u-turns, tentative government and hardline discipline will result in the threshold for a leadership election being easily reached and polls of Labour Party members show Burnham comfortably beating Starmer comfortably. Hopefully it'll be enough to stave off Reform, but the problems remain and there would be under 3 years of the parliament left.
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Has Burnham said anything about what he'd be doing differently? (I know he implied he'd compensate WASPE women but I think he backed away from that at least - not surprising as it's a totally ridiculous way for the government to spend limited funds.)
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That's not suggesting that better presentation wouldn't, in itself, be helpful.
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Burnham will be a bit hamstrung by the manifesto. But it would also probably be a bit daft to call a GE straight away.
Starmer has not been half as bad as many have made out, no coincidence it turned against him after responding swiftly to the right wing riots in 2024. But he’s just not very good at politics for the reasons Karl points out and is a bit awkward at times.
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Truss wasn't. (Ok, she didn't last two months but still.)
If he gets a decent bounce in the polls, there's probably a decent case for calling an early general election to get a mandate and more time.
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Fuck mandates and manifestos. It's no time for following the imaginary rules. Just get doing what needs to be done.
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I do slightly worry that division stoked amongst the current governing party is all part of the process to make sure that values that most of us would stand by are diluted, so that those things we really don't want for ourselves can triumph. Honest and balanced reporting would help. By all means hold the government to the standards that we expect...but hold others to the same standard. You can present away, but it wont get very far if the presentation isn't given equal footing to others 'presentation'.
Buyer beware.
In other news, I know someone in the Makerfield constituency who had expressed concerns in the run up to yesterday "where have these people come from, what on earth are they talking about" - very worried about the divisive demonising claptrap of a circus that descended on the constituency to boil peoples brains. They will be very relieved this morning.
