Mark Smith

“One pizza makes you larger,
And one pizza makes you small…” 🎵

Surprised he didn’t pronounce it as “peel”….

Big “Hang in there, sisters….” echoes…

See also Varoufakis’s comment - “hang in there, sisters…”🙄

Because poor people understand

Family voting is a real problem..

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I’m playing 3D chess here, but I reckon the Trump administration has forced the Supreme Court decision on tariffs.
It bails him out from an economic perspective, and it gives him someone to blame.

But Bowie was very much a David, not a Dave.

The “shower scene” hasn’t aged well…

No scars on his ear either….

He’d have made a fortune under Thatcher running an electric services company for right-to-buy properties. He’d have been pro-Brexit and would probably now be Reform PPC for Newcastle Central…

The Soviet Union had a very blithe attitude to their military losses and their tactics reflected that. Helps explain why 26 million Russians died in WW2. Putin has the same mentality.

Winter of ‘79 has resonance today.
(Apart from the “Spurs beat Arsenal” line…..)

In related news, FIFA have revoked the results of all previous World Cups and confirmed the USA won them all….

In a thriller, the ambitious ex-military guy with minimal parliamentary experience who becomes PM, then ends up organising a coup!

These things have a habit of escalating once MPs spend time in their constituencies talking to party officers and workers, and going on the doorstep.

Daft thing is, “no mail-in ballots” will harm Republicans rather than Democrats.

I don’t think that’ll work as a defence I’m afraid.

As soon as people can ask “what did he know and when did he know it”, you know you’re in the endgame.
Think back to previous PM resignations. They’ve doubled-down, because they have to, but then the get wider counsel and see the light.

The profits all those experts must have made when they bought gold immediately after Brown sold it….🙄

And 1997 wouldn’t have happened without him.

One theory may be that as a Lab member in the 80s it was incredibly hard and depressing. Tories seemed unbeatable, had all the momentum and ££ while Labour were split, old fashioned and weren’t very good at elections.
It was Mandelson who changed all that.

After 1997, yes. But for the decade before that he did more than anyone to make Labour electable.

That’s a very effective campaign video that will strike a chord with a lot of people.

“Proper socialism has never been tried yet”

Changes were announced in 1993 that would not come into effective until 2015 at the earliest (when those born in 1950 turned 65) That’s 22 years notice.

Funnily enough, Keith (Alun Armstrong) grew up to be Dougie Scaife who Terry, and then Bob, had a fight with!

Re-re-re-re-watching Get Carter.
I always expect to see Bob Ferris and Terry Collier in a scene.

When the UK company I worked for was taken over by a big US multi-national, we had senior execs come over to join us from the US. They all said the holiday entitlement (25 days as opposed to 12) and not having to announce your holiday plans on Jan 1 was a big attraction of making the move!