BenInChamonix

Are you completely insane? Do you honestly believe those 20% of left-wing Labour MPs get ‘disproportionate encouragement from the UK press’?!

Good episode. The bit that stood out for me on G&D is the universal fallacy that Labour is losing votes left AND right.

As Alex points out, it’s not true & hasn’t been for months. Lab is haemorrhaging to the left. If they don’t understand this & react accordingly, they’re dead in the water.

The stupidity (or cowardice) of theses MPs not to be able to make a very simple connection between ‘immigration’ & ‘things we all need’ never ceases to amaze me. Their job is to help people understand these things, not simply away with the breeze!

Banger.

Yep, so deeply lodged they must have been inserted in a 3-level Inception dream

No, & I hope it won’t come to that, but being exposed for their extreme bigotry & hypocrisy is not a bad thing

I’m definitely not gleeful, but I have absolutely zero fucks to give specifically for Isabel Oakeshott & Richard Tice

Looking forward to the next Isabel Oakeshott column telling us how dangerous London is.

Weird that voters preferred this to Starmer repeatedly saying “I get it” or Matt Goodwin talking about ethno-nationalism. Makes you think.

I honestly don’t think anyone outside this weird right-wing media / political bubble gives a fuck about “family voting”

Predictable bad faith whining from Reform (and, shamefully, Labour). It’s much easier to create a distraction than to accept the deficiencies of their policies & candidates.

All amplified by a compliant right-wing media, and HEY PRESTO we have a new talking point to distract from the real story.

This was a lush section of 4x4 track with hard packed snow

NEW. This is an elementary girls school in the city of Hormozgan in Iran.

In the last hour, it was hit by a US/Israeli missile attack.

So far, 24 young girls are confirmed dead [SOURCE: Al Jazeera].

The US has just committed a war crime.

(🎥 Ary Jeay)

You can’t really see the avalanche but you can hear it & see the cloud of powder where it happened

Here is the avalanche, not that you can see much as I was blocked by the mountains a bit

This is Lac Vert

25km / 900m vert today in 2hr 45m. Drove down to Servoz where there is much less snow & my god what a difference it makes to run on dry trails 🙌

I also heard & partially saw an avalanche as I was approaching Plaine Joux ski area. Video below not great but the sound was scary #trailrunning #runsky

Where’s the “dislike” button?

I’m travelling down the valley to Servoz today for my 3 hour run. Fed up with the stubborn snow / ice / slush up here that made most of the hilly routes impassable. At least down there it should be mud only and I can do some decent vert.

Truly puzzling. The idea that ‘only Reform-curious voters can save us, with our historically huge majority’ really is deeply embedded. Maybe Leonardo & the Inception crew planted it in 3-level dream.

He’s so clearly unsuited to the task at hand. Apart from some good foreign policy moments his tenure has been one disappointment after another. What has surprised me most is how craven / weak he is - he doesn’t seem to actually believe in anything (or if he does he’s too cowardly to say it)

It’s all so predictable & depressing. For a man who says “I get it” a lot, he really is incapable of understanding what is absolutely blindingly fucking obvious.

Oblivion in May beckons, then he can finally be put out of his misery & go out to pasture with his mother’s donkeys.

What a pathetic response to being routed in a seat where they traditionally had 60-80% vote share.

Starmer has had so many chances, but proves every time he is incapable of learning the right lessons. Labour will plough on with the same failed strategies & continue to get the same results.

Nadia very clearly articulates where Labour have gone wrong, and what they need to do next

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.

The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.

Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

Feeling good today 😊 - I wonder why?!

I really hope Gorton & Denton is a wake up call for Starmer to stop chasing Reform votes & focus on progressive policies. A good start would be sacking Mahmood & rethinking their immigration policy proposals.

There is going to be a bloodbath in May, there are no longer any safe Labour seats.

They got what they deserved in Gorton & Denton and it will only get worse until they sack Mahmood & drastically change direction on their attitude towards immigrants and immigration in general

😟 absolutely appalling 😤

This was one of Corbyn’s reasons for supporting Brexit. Didn’t work out well then, and it won’t now.