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ml1dch

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  1. Something that is within their gift though is not suggesting that such a thing was just around the corner when it wasn't. It's something that this collective have been doing for years - prioritise tomorrow's headline over next week's reality.
  2. Should MPs take a 20% cut to their £80,000 salary? It truly is the £64,000 question.
  3. ml1dch

    U.S. Politics

    They did? Even when Biden wasn't really getting anywhere in the primaries, he still seemed to be polling as the most likely to beat Trump and that hasn't changed since he's got closer to the nomination. E.g. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/11/05/how-biden-warren-and-sanders-fare-vs-trump-in-2020-election-polls.html
  4. Your occasion reminder to never buy the S*n
  5. And even if he wasn't going to (and obviously you're right, he is) what is in it for Starmer / Labour? I can't imagine it'll play too well with the membership if one of the new leader's first acts is to join a Conservative government.
  6. Your posts from the first few pages of this thread give the impression of being the exact opposite of concerned.
  7. Lord Palmerston in the 1860s
  8. In a very similar vein, I meant to link this the other day which I thought was really interesting. https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-learn-pericles/amp/
  9. It certainly begs the question of how all three of (i) Johnson is still in charge (ii) Raab is in day-to-day control and (iii) they haven't spoken to each other, can be true at the same time.
  10. A bit weird, but probably more a lot more wholesome than my own first forays into seeing what videos AltaVista could rustle up.
  11. Doncaster Council's social media team are having a very good crisis:
  12. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2020/03/keir-starmer-sensible-radical This from last week is the best one I've come across.
  13. It's just that he is First Secretary Of State, as well as being Foreign Secretary. It's the first bit that puts him in charge rather the the latter. Hague also had that position when he was foreign secretary, but Damien Green held the role under May, and Osborne had the position post-2015 for Cameron. Mandelson had it for a bit at the end of the Blair years. Normally it's combined with Deputy PM. Hestletine had both roles under Major and Prescott had both under Blair.
  14. Then again, pick nearly any other name from the rest of the cabinet and the same applies.
  15. Aerial photographs of The Netherlands during tulip season:
  16. Sure. I completely, 100% agree. But that's very different to Brexit not happening. Anyway, viruses...
  17. There will likely be people who want to rejoin - and that would have been the case, virus or no virus. They may find that the virus helps that cause. They may find it hinders it. That wouldn't be "altering Brexit" which is something that has already happened, and cannot be altered.
  18. Obviously lots of things in politics deal in shades of grey, but this is a black and white issue. Brexit has happened. There is literally nothing that can happen in domestic or global politics that can change that indisputable fact.
  19. And it probably will be extended. It's still already happened though.
  20. Eh? It happened two months ago?
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