Craig Grannell

If it does come up now, though, Labour will just be accused of rigging the system. If they’d done this from day one, it might have worked. That said, I hope common sense prevails. I find it… unlikely though. (Even the mayoral change was a straight reversion when eg AV would have been better.)

Interesting also to see Reform setting fire to its integrity in this space. It’s cooling on PR now it sees a route to 30% vote > 50%+ seats > 100% power. Huge shock /s. A pity, mind, because a policy that can unite the left, centre and right seems like a good one. But if the right now don’t want it…

FPTP is the one thing that has unified every strand of Labour leader from Blair to the present day though. Even though voters, members, CLPs, unions and (probably) MPs lean in favour of PR, the leadership will never go for it, because Labour wants to rule alone – and blame others when it loses.

Ah, that. Fair enough regarding the phrasing, but at least he said something reasonable and also _quickly_, rather than Labour faffing about for over 24h before parping out something saying that deporting several million people via retroactive legislation probably isn’t the best idea.

Worries me when we hit a GE. Things were volatile anyway, but if things stay much as they are now, we’re basically into ‘roll the dice’ territory. It’s absurd that we could end up in a situation even less representative than the current parliament, which is already very, very bad.

His stance to date has been that politicians should take politics serious but not themselves, which I think is OK. The issue is that without the stunts, the media just ignores the party entirely, despite it now having over 70 MPs. I’d not heard the Davey quote though.

It’s not good. We even saw that at a council election here in leafy north Hampshire. Last time, the seat went 3:1 LD:Con (no others). This time, it was Lib ~55% / Ref ~28% / Con ~17%. Although somewhat complicated by Ref now apparently being the party of protest and the Libs seen as establishment.

I think that’s fair, but also the news has basically been full of Reform will win over that poll. Relatively little output considered any other outcome. So, yes, broad trends were correct, but the outcome was way off.

The brackets referred to the miss, although I may well have got that wrong from standard pollster writings. Not my area! :)

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Quick reminder, given all the polls floating round right now, that Survation put Plaid on 38 (-9) and Reform on 42 (+6). Actually putting a tick in a box can sharpen minds.

Reminds me of Glenn Fabry.

Also: nothing to stop a bad actor ignoring it anyway, as is happening in the US right now. The main issue I think we have here is minority rule. That we’re talking about Ref getting ~30% of the vote = ~60% of the seats = ~100% of the power *and* Lab leadership still being anti-PR speaks volumes.

The end logic of this if you’re in the UK btw is DEFEND THE BBC.

Complain about it, protest bad coverage of course, but we won’t get another institution that makes safe, publicly funded, reliable, human-created, vetted content for kids if we let the BBC get destroyed.

Interesting to recall how that seemed to shift a bit as consoles arrived. I remember a few reviews where you seemed to fondly welcome conversions of C64 games you’d loved years before. Perhaps you’d mellowed a bit in your ‘old’ age. :D

Entertainingly, that has more RAM than the standard VIC.

Amazing the system snuck into Mean Machines at all really. Did the GS ever get a look in?

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Don’t tell me I can’t write cultural references that click with today’s yoofs.

Any journos that do know are under NDA. That’s really all I can say.

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Hard to know where they’ve got to go after this. Revoking citizenship from anyone who’s dual and/or who wasn’t British-born? I’ll be amazed if “Tory leadership contenders” aren’t saying crap like that within six months, possibly sooner.

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Or a single game of Defender in the arcades.

I do hope that if they do choose to become immigrants in another country they plan to fully assimilate, abandon any home culture, become fluent in the new language, make no claim on state services or pensions, and fulfil all the other demands they make of people choosing to live here.

Thanks. My aim’s always to try and highlight some good stuff, but it’s heavily geared towards 1) what I like, and 2) what I still reckon is worth playing. (I wouldn’t recommend, say, Chase HQ on SMS, because what’s the point?)

I mean, it has added ninjas.

Honestly lads it’s not hard. This is a 97% position Ed Davey is agreeing with here. This should be easy mode politics.