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Based on what they’ve been fed by government. But now government are rolling back on it. So basically fuck knows.

Champione! Champione! Well on points per game I’ll take it. I want an open top bus tour around the city anyway and we’ll all come out and clap. How long can it possible take to drive every street in Cov?

I assume a Morrison’s is OK.

Oh dear, looks like the right wing fake news machine is running again:

Dont know where you’ve got that stat but it’s not true. Here’s the governments flu reports for Dec and Jan and only the last week of Jan was there any statistically significant increase in mortality across any age group: UK flu levels according to PHE statistics: 2019 to 2020 This shows all...

Ive only been here a couple of years but she’s quite active in the FB groups being seen getting things done local moan about like the Kings Hill development (which I think is a good thing but locals don’t seem to), never heard from Labour once I don’t think. So there was an element of Haven...

He’s never a grown man.

I disagree. Over the last twenty years the number of people with educational qualifications has increased, social attitudes to LGBT and race issues have improved, political attitudes have stayed relatively the same. There’s no evidence of dumbing down, I think you’re just getting old. Just...

A45 isn’t the council though, it’s Highways Agency, Broad Lane will be so maybe some of the blame to the council. The council do have an obsession with lights though, Foleshill Road proves that.

The people haven’t changed. Politics as rhetoric has been around as long as politics: “Education, education, education” “The lady’s not for turning” “If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour”, etc etc etc. I think what has changed is general trust in politics since the expenses...

Anti-immigrant sentiment at the last election was it its lowest point for decades though: As an aside, did you see that research that showed Farage actually made people less anti-immigration because they didn’t want to be associated with him?

It’s a hypothesis I’ll give you that, but it’s only really been one party used sparingly so not sure it can explain away the drop in quality. You’ve also got to look at how the economy sucks smart people into finance rather than politics and as I said the reduced power of government generally...

Sultana has improved a lot. She was still on shouty activist mode at first but she’s toned that down a lot and comments on local issues more. I’ve been more impressed with the other woman who’s name escapes me right now though. There were a lot of unhappy people, myself included, at exactly...

Except as I’ve stated Sultana wasn’t the beneficiary of positive discrimination, just good old fashioned jobs for the boys politics.

Funnily enough I believe there was an effort to get an AWS in to stop O’Boyle being the candidate as he was looking like the front runner. So positive discrimination would’ve been used to stop a sub standard candidate! Isn’t life wonderful?

Genuine question: what did she do?

most of the alternatives to be fair. Sultana was shipped in because she was a Corbynite though, not because she was an Asian woman. It wasn’t an AWS AFAIK.

I think there’s a bit of that. Overall I think politicians accepted the “end of history” with Thatcher and that’s put some of the tools necessary to give people what’s needed, especially after a massive recession, beyond the political pale. Any sensible government would be creating decent...

The GE was as close as the referendum it’s just a different voting system. Remain parties won just over 50% of the votes and Leave parties just under 50%, basically the same as the referendum but reversed. Just taking the major parties it was 43.6% Con vs 43.8% Lib/Lab. Also Johnson only...

Brexit was just a proxy for wider social differences between young metropolitan voters and older voters in towns though. It’s the same rage against modernity which the left has no simple answers for. People want a return to decent jobs and strong communities which should be the lefts bread and...