DavidH

Tonight’s tipple!

A weak and watery 14.9% and if you believe it’s actually below the 15% cut off I have a bridge you may be interested in buying…

A couple of times previously Lucy Powell embarrassed herself by getting into a loud slanging match with him. Lisa Nandy was clearly ready for his angry pub bore routine and gave a masterclass.

Lisa Nandy shows up Richard Holden for exactly what he is with his finger pointing and shouting ‘like an angry man in a pub’

Doesn’t help that the UK population has increased by 20% in the 33 years since the last new reservoir was opened so 12 million more people using the same amount of resource.

We’ve been a de facto gerontocracy for decades with the country run for the benefit of the grey vote.

We’ve been a de facto gerontocracy for decades with the country run for the benefit of the grey vote.

Haven’t seen it yet as was attending the funeral of a 105 year old D-Day veteran.

Would appear from the guest list that you were surrounded on all sides by right wingers…

People keep telling me that Labour isn’t losing votes to Reform yet @yougov.co.uk poll today shows Reform potentially winning 231 Labour seats if there was an election now.

If you keep blocking sensible reform under your own Labour government you will end up with extreme change under Reform.

Lucy Powell winning would be another gift to Reform. Sacked for not being up to being in government and Reform will make hay with mock ups of her blowing a dog whistle.

Rumour has it Farage’s next rebrand will be to ‘Conform’…

Manchester, Liverpool, South Yorkshire and Humberside are the faux north.

Being from just north of the River Tees in County Durham I was brought up believing that the cockney began at Middlesbrough!

Now of course I realise it’s the start of the Midlands! 😉

Generous praise indeed.

Don’t forget Italian prosecco producers.

He was such a great potential candidate for the last general election the Tories chose not having a candidate in every seat rather than have him on the ballot.

Or support the current government when it tries to make relatively minor changes or else we’ll get much worse in a few years time.

If John Bolton was Russian instead of American it’s likely he would have fallen out of a hotel bedroom window…

Another year round the sun clocked up.
Special tipple for today 😋

They wanted to end the war asap and minimise loss of Allied life.

You don’t seem to like the US?

Not noble but the right call.

Russia repeatedly threatens to use them.

Iran is trying to possess them.

They’ve not been used since but not sure that will remain so going forward.

If the bombs hadn’t been used in 1945 do you think nuclear weapons would not have been used in the next 80 years?

Many more civilians would have died in a conventional war to conquer Japan.

The estimates were that the allies would have lost a million conquering Japan and the Japanese two million. If the world hadn’t seen the awfulness of such weapons they would have been used at some point since.

They can’t be disinvented.

Would you have preferred the allies to have forced Japan to surrender conventionally?

Maybe the ‘T’ in mortgage needs to be pronounced for the young to highlight the ‘mort’ and the fact that it will likely take their entire life to pay it off.

878. But for Alfred the Great in 878 English history would have ended.

6 out of 7 English Kingdoms had succumbed to the Danes and King of the 7th was down to 30 followers.

Word spread an English king lived so Englishmen should meet at Egbert’s stone on Salisbury Plain.

Battle of Edington ensued

Some excellent analysis yesterday on Politics Live by Rachel Cunliffe (second half of show) on the subject of entitled retirees.

@rmcunliffe.bsky.social I don’t know what you had for breakfast but what a bravura performance on Politics Live.

Thank you for speaking so many uncomfortable truths!

Goldfinger v Blofeld