Phil Porter

We are definitely riding our luck at the moment

Now Hirst. Insanity

I took my (then) young son with me to this match. He hated it, was bored and freezing cold. He moaned all the way through the first half so we left at half time. #itfc

He’s going to go for Trumpball isn’t he?

Farage is many things … but he’s not an idiot.

I think he’s looking covetously at the conservatives institutional memory, when it comes to actually running a government.

Recent attempts have shown this to be hard.

And reform aren’t blessed with high achievers.

We really miss Burns, Chaplin and Hutchinson from that promotion side. Their replacements haven’t hit the same heights so far.

You mean ruin, by winning. Right?

I’ve been wondering if a small number of traders have figured the OBR have been doing this for a while and using this information very quietly to make money

Cheese-whiz-eating-surrender-monkeys

Really? Wow

Presumably most are arriving with two kidneys too …

Cumulative in what sense? Not deficit over time (which is debt).

Boris sending his loyal MPs to defend some policy (free school lunches) only to u-turn the next day didn’t do him much good.

You’d think an embattled PM would be smarter than this

There are a fair few members of the cabinet with an eye on the top job.

Will one of them openly oppose this? Either from inside the cabinet, our outside?

One would think this stuff would concern Labour members should she stand for leader.

That’s all fair. But I don’t think the “it is easy, just break your huge promise you idiots” narrative I’m seeing this morning captures the potential downsides.

But maybe people care less about manifestos/always expect them to be broken.

I agree it was stupid. I said so at the time too. I agree about pitch rolling/retreating.

Not breaking it is definitely worse economically than breaking it.

But I don’t see how they can break it, and not forever taint the party as one which will say anything to get into power then do the opposite

I don’t agree with the (implicit) argument that a huge majority is a mandate to break the manifesto on this.

They said “we can make things better without putting up IT”

Voters said “OK then”

Having made such a stupid promise, I can see why they are very reluctant to break it

I went to the effort of going in and spoiling my ballot “don’t politicise the police” each time. Until last time round when I couldn’t even be arsed to do that.

Also … why the quotation marks round ‘UK-born’. As if that is some minor technicality.

I saw it at a bus stop waiting to go to school. I was of the age where it stuck in the memory

They (or they Star?) did on one occasion, definitely. The photos were obviously taken when the model was under 16

You’d think MPs - with all the abuse they receive online and in person (not to mention the recent murders) - would be a bit more circumspect about punching down like this on young people with an interest in politics.

Every time I’m surprised this sort of thing ends up decided by the judiciary, rather than by the legislature.

How on earth have TSMC scaled their manufacturing lines that quickly? That is seriously impressive, even if they can effectively throw infinite money at it.

I’m overly annoyed that these nature valley boxes that are perfectly dimensioned for seven bars, only contain 5.

And don’t get me started on the fact that they call them 10-packs.

The last tax rises were really just to pay for the 4p NI cuts that Hunt brought in (but had no plan to pay for). There wasn’t a huge investment in public services.

99% terrible. But definitely 1% genius in there

I hate to say it, but he’s proving an outstanding leader of the greens. Somehow he’s regularly appearing in my social media, which is quite the achievement