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I had Joseph Yobo this week with a few to spare.

If you replace Labour with the Lib Dems in the "how are the good guys getting on" graphic, you're still taking about a bit of a horror show.

Good to know his career recovered after letting that Matt Le Tissier shot through his legs at Old Trafford in '99.

Depends. If the leader is being made in a test tube formed from one part oestrogen, one part anti-immigrant rhetoric and one part Unison membership just to satisfy "the homogenous North" then they probably just end up with similar problem to now.

I guess the obvious answer is "it depends on what the political landscape looks like in five years". Unless you're expecting a Johnson Government to actually result in a big improvement in peoples' lives in the likes of Wrexham and Bury, Brexit might have lost it's sparkle and shine for those voters in 2024. Apart from "fewer foreign people in London" what quantifiable improvements do you expect those seats in the North will be thanking Johnson for in five years?

The aim of the two main parties' leadership has suddenly converged to hope for the same thing - make sure the Corbynite faction clings on to power in the Labour party.

He has a withdrawal agreement that specifies the terms of our departure. We now get to argue for the next decade about what happens next. And it's not going to be pretty.

That was a very nice ten hour sleep. I see my Lib Dem MP increased her majority by seven points. I assume it's similarly good news everywhere else in the country?

Yup, turns out that on the whole the the UK in 2019 is just as morally repugnant as it was in 2016.

Exit poll says she's toast.

Night.

Plenty of posts in the last few weeks saying how a hung Parliament would be best. I've said the same myself, but I've about-turned and medium-term I think it would be awful. Next few months? Brilliant. Drama continues. Johnson humiliated. Brexit racists deflated. But then what? It's a shit show. More squabbling. Probably a referendum. Probably even a remain result. But nothing else gets passed. The only thing that unites the 48-52% of the Commons is the only thing that unites them. An election in 10 months is fought on "see! We told you they'd be shit and they proved it! Vote Johnson and his policy of we'll do whatever the person he's taking to at that moment wants!" This is a long term conflict and things are going to be worse before they are better, whatever the result tonight. I'm off to bed. Good luck everyone.

I've voted at two today, five hours apart and there was nobody at either.

In this particular circumstance, I think it would be. In a working Parliament where "everyone but Johnson" is >1, a vote of no confidence goes in - which party or MP is the vote(s) that keep him in power? It's plausibly the DUP, but even they seem to hate him now.

Given their central policies are completely at odds with each other, which Tory policies would you see the Lib Dems supporting?

And more to the point, without that single allied MP, a vote of no confidence would be in before his first appearance in the Commons.

That's very unfair. I'm not a Labour voter and I'm still abusive to Conservatives.

I'm sure any comment on the picture would probably be libellous, so I'll keep schtum.

And in other dumb hypotheticals, what happens if water doesn't make things wet?

Presumably you're not counting in that the various Telegraph columnists and Conservative PPCs who have been sharing faked reports that it didn't happen?

If you're cooking for vegans, I'd suggest summer rolls instead of spring rolls. If the setting fits, let people make their own. Couple of dipping sauces and you're away.

Is expect it to be more "who the hell are you, get off my estate"

Had an email read out on the Football Ramble today. Straight on my list of achievements, just above "once holding a door open for a Chuckle Brother" and below "once doing an opening DJ set for The Cheeky Girls"

Sounds like talent to me. He's still a horrendous prick leading a party of racists though.