Ryan MacMullen

Last throw of the dice messaging/rationale. These people do not have four years in them.

I dunno - a PM with a personal approval rating of -52 and 3.5 years left of a parliament, and a CX whose raison d’etre is that the bond markets wont accept any other person in the job probably tests that thesis to destruction.

Absolutely insane.

Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.

Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.

The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

A unique blend of hubris and chutzpah.

Lol - same.

Mind boggling numbers. I do wonder if this is where an AI market correction might begin.

Good to know the UK government is doing lots of business with this guy.

Why did she say it then?

Not sure who will win out in the New York mayoralty, but I'm hearing some *very* confident noises from Susan Hall's team.

I don’t know if this makes sense, but is this about sending a message to bond markets and hope rates come down while OBR is still doing forecasts?

Yeah, they are toast.

I feel like this speech could have been an email?

The bunfight for this seat will be a sight to behold.

Changing information and the way it’s is consumed so radically as we have with the internet, I don’t think outsize consequences (inexplicable behaviour) are *that* surprising.

I hope the BBC will challenge Nigel Farage today over the economic damage caused by the Brexit he championed.

He needs to be held to account for the damage he's done instead of always being given an easy ride.

There are so many obstacles but it feels very like Burnham makes the most sense, for both Labour members and a general election. Clean break, none of baggage, popular, can govern.

This is a joke, right?

What’s super smart about leaving the budget to the latest possible date is you have the maximum duration of uncertainty, with the minimal amount of time to do damage limitation ahead of locals/Scottish/Welsh elections.

They are boring. You can say it.

Why not just give it to Chris Bryant? He’d love the job, and I’m not entirely clear why he isn’t in cabinet (given the profile/ability of some who are).

The mini budget was three years ago, Brexit almost ten. You could honestly get better arguments and lines from ChatGPT.

Nailed it though.

I think it’s a gym aesthetic thing - calves look better with socks than with no socks/ankle socks.

It’s a weird type of sadism to actively seek fights with business, the PLP, and progressive activists. All while pandering to voters who hate them viscerally and irredeemably.

Raising income tax but keeping the cap (whichever way they try and triangulate) is nothing if not consistent. This way they can continue to be as unpopular with as many groups as possible.

The thing about Badenoch is she says and does weird things. The calculation some (Gove included) made was that she would come across as authentic, when what has actually happened is that she continues to say and do weird things (as she has always done apparently).

Of course the last time a PM tried to do this, it became even more apparent that he was entirely unsuited to the job. Not convinced the same wouldn’t happen in this case too.

I didn’t want to post this, but I think that’s the plan.

Just dawned on me the potential Labour leadership election could well coincide with the decennial of the Brexit referendum.