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Starmer's team make sure to squash any kind of respect I had for him initially refusing the use of bases and replacing it with disgust

AND INTRODUCING

JOHN HURT

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THE WAR QUEER

Though lmao at people saying that this is a response to the Steam Machine. The Steam Deck is a very successful enthusiast product, but it’s sold, by a very generous estimate, about a sixth of the number of Xbox Series consoles sold

I don’t think there’s much of a market for this, but it does have appeal as a niche product, especially if they start expanding the backwards compatibility library again

Starmer’s team going to great lengths to assure Trump calling him a coward doesn’t draw any sympathy from the wrong types of voters

Like so much this government does, who the fuck is this for?

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

(Not quite sure why turning that into a clip has made the background noises so loud)

Fair. In my defence, my overanalysis was jumping off it to make a point that occurred to me about wider trends

I feel like every time Badenoch does a statement like this she’s playing it well completely by accident.

Anyway, Labour MPs should get rid of Starmer before he has a chance to take the bait

Sally Phillips did an interview for the i expressing concern about botox; the headline had her endorsing it.

Zak Asgard wrote for the Times about the awfulness of Gen Z men demanding obedience from women; the headline had him endorsing it.

Rage bait is now the lifeblood of the British press.

I’d say it *is* part of an existing pattern: an anti-Reform vote that’s able to consolidate. It’s just not evidence of a Labour revival

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

Ehh, maybe not in terms of direct losses to Reform, but I worry that could lead people to understating the significance of, like, a fifth SNP term and a possible Plaid government

Was gonna say I wasn’t sure if this was a Brown dig, or a Blair in 2026 dig, but I guess either result is a win/win for you

With Mandelson in prison, the electorate eagerly sent signals that Starmer should arrest another senior New Labour figure

For the US? No. For us? Yes

(Obviously Gorton and Denton is a better example for this comparison, I just hadn’t thought of it until now)

Like, yes, it’s just a council by election, but that sort of tactical voting cohesion still existing when a Labour government is *this* unpopular is not nothing

Theory - the second referendum campaign was Britain’s Barry Goldwater moment: a short term failure but a long-term turning point for the country’s politics

Difficult to remember what it was like for the UK to have an incompetent dying government spiralling into oblivion while making everything worse for themselves

YouTube video by CGMe Key & Peele: Pre-fight Trash Talking

it's a real-life version of the key and peele boxing sketch where the one boxer is talking trash for a fight promo, but the other boxer is describing what he's about to do. god's lessons are so beautiful
youtu.be/4BBcxQ4wum0

I honestly think all this into Truss might be the hardest i've laughed at anything this decade

Not enough appreciation for my use of the long s here, frankly

I mean, I did just copy out an actual bounty poster and then tweaked it but, still, I could’ve half-aſſed it

Like, I quoted them so you could laugh at them, not actually waste energy trying to sway them

Johnson would've done Starmer hands down. There's maybe a 2% delta between Labour landslide & Tory majority, and Boris would've beat Starmer by 5 or 10.

Okay, I’ve blocked them to prevent more of you getting into an argument with an account that apparently only follows me for some reason. This was the tweet

Life On Mars reboot where he realises he’s gone back in time because he walks into a newsagent and sees a headline that’s something like KORMA KARMA FOR TWO BEERS STARMER

Look everyone, a Boris cheerleader in the year of our lord, two thousand and twenty-six

I’m not sure if it’s wise to post the actual screenshot but, yes, that was very funny. Was within the same 24 hours as him trying to sack Rayner and ending up promoting her