darrenm

Meanwhile, a Stalinist purge has commenced. The hard left must be in charge.

Twatwell

A few weeks back my local Morrisons was almost 100% mask free. Now it's roughly 80-85% of people wearing masks.

My part of the industry (cloud Ops) is very different now. It was already starting to go WFH just before the pandemic and when it started it tipped it over the edge. The company I was with at the time just said we'll probably close all the regional offices, is everyone ok with that? So they did. Everyone who wasn't already at the head office moved to WFH contract. It suits everyone all round, the business moves the costs of utilities onto the employee who doesn't have to pay to commute. I've since moved company and there was never any question that it would be anything but WFH. With the industry so desperate for skilled personnel now, companies who don't let people work when and where they like should know they're going to struggle.

Also, Morpheus in The Matrix

Mandy Patinkin as Inigo Montoya in the Princess Bride Mandy Patinkin as Saul Berenson in Homeland

I'm afraid so

BCS is definitely better. Just make sure you give it the same attention you gave Breaking Bad to appreciate the perfect storyline, the beautiful shots and the incredible acting.

Don't know why you even pay the Canary any attention whatsoever. I'd just ignore it.

I do find it very strange how both major parties are working really hard to alienate their core vote.

Financial services is a licence to print money to be fair

Mostly

Yeah interesting thoughts. I'm not sure I agree that most people would say that. Most people I know would say we need to do whatever it takes to stop the climate crisis. They would say we need to reduce homelessness. They'd say food bank use is horrific and something should be done. Perhaps if you show these people what's actually required to sort those things, they might decide it needs too many 'radical' changes. Like to address the climate emergency, we need to dramatically alter our consumerist lifestyles. Perhaps the problem is, nobody with a large enough platform is being honest enough to give it to people straight. Personally, I think the scale of the problems that have been allowed to fester are so great that only doing things what people would see as radical is enough. e.g. perfect example a few pages back; we need to plant 2 billions trees over 20 years. 'can't be done!', 'scoff', 'where are we going to find people to do it?'. People seem to have the best intentions about what we should fix but the baulk at the requirements.

I'm inclined to agree. Even more so with canvassing. But I remember @chrisp65 (sample of one I know) saying that he felt very unloved by Labour when they didn't even drop a leaflet through the door. And that if they couldn't even be bothered to drop a leaflet, why should he vote for them? And if this is correct that leafleting, canvassing and grassroots activism is dead, then it supports my assertion that politics has completely changed over the last few years to be an instant hit populist heavy game that can only be won with radical thinking, not trying to chase the ever diminishing 'middle'. I don't remember getting a lot of support for that view.

Bang on. The only way forward in everyone's but the Tories interests is to have an electoral pact for proportional representation passing through using a coalition. It's easily doable, it just needs all of the parties' leaders and members to get real about what the situation is.

Have to disagree. The members have every right to want their party to act in a certain way. The members are the ones who walk streets night after night in the cold and wet delivering leaflets, trying to elect an MP who then calls them Trots and antisemites. The strength of the Labour Party is the members. The weakness is that the MPs have too much power over the members.

When is this pillock of a leader going to resign so we can get someone in who's not a blatant liar and have some kind of opposition against the worst government in my lifetime?

The doll episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm was incredible. Built to a perfect crescendo like the best Always Sunny episodes.

I'm on season 3 now. Everything makes perfect sense and it's much more enjoyable than the first time when I spent every episode wondering who this random new person was.

Yeah it was diving but he managed to arrest the slide and now they're fairly stable at around 32%

As I said earlier, that's what conventional political wisdom says. And it's what Starmer's doing. While diving in the polls. I guess conventional political wisdom is no longer applicable. Because if it was, the increase from 26% to 46% for Labour in 2017 when offering socialism wouldn't have happened.

More? Labour left and Green are 2 cheeks of the same arse. There's almost nothing between the 2 groups policy wise because when Labour had the left in charge, they were greener than the Greens. The members and voters tend to swap between the parties. A lot of the socialists who went into Labour in 2015 came from Green. It's similar to Lib Dems and Tories with votes, values and members. I agree that a good number of the socialist campaign group MPs wouldn't keep their seats if not under a Labour banner which is why I think it's a non starter so far.

If the left side wanted some actual clout they should take over the Green Party. 50 Green MPs and ~20% vote share would force Labour to enter into an electoral reform pact for the next election.