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Which ironically, kind of proves the point I was making. No, to be much more direct, cabinets need to be able to call upon people who have a diverse range of experiences. The Tory cabinets full of oxbridge-educated career politicians/city-boys wasn’t a good mix either. However, the Tories did...

Interesting comment for you to make. Surely you should understood my point rather than make out I was saying public sector workers do not have ‘real experience’. If you think a cabinet of ex-city workers who all went to oxbridge, perhaps you’d think similarly of a cabinet made up of...

It’s irrelevant to the point I was making. The Labour cabinet has very narrow experiences which makes them fundamentally ill-equipped to address certain issues the country has. Take, for example, the increase in employer’s NI. It’s had v predictable impacts i.e. employers either; freeze hiring...

Facetious responses. Teachers running education, or healthcare professions running health makes sense. Running energy, farming, business, economy or the home office, less so.

They need to allow physios to come onto the pitch and treat players and to stop the clock the clock when play is ‘dead’. As with other sports, there needs to be time limits to get the ball back in play and penalties that turn the ball over. This GK rule is stupid too. 8 seconds from when the...

True to the extent that you can often damaging relationships at the top of government. As ‘successful’ as the New Labour project was, the relationship between Blair and Brown was v fraught at times. What I’m talking about here is competent people with real life experience. To generalise, none...

Analysts reckon one of the reasons Danny Kruger defected to Reform because he couldn’t see a route for Jenrick to become leader. Not a household MP, but a serious Conservative thinker who’s been involved at the top level of Tory opposition/government. Boris is done, a lot of the anger around...

Not really. Who would you go for after Starmer? Some of the names listed below are genuinely scary. Wes Streeting, Miliband, Burnham are probably the most competent of the names being mooted. Possibly add Cooper to that list. Streeting wouldn’t get elected, Miliband has been rejected by the...

They’re doing the best they can with a bad hand. Burnham in particular faces a potentially humiliating scenario of parachuting into a seat to then lose his seat to a 19 year old Reform candidate! 😂 An issue the Labour Party has is that it has ran out of top talent, the same happened with the...

Keir Starmer’s unpopularity has just surpassed Liz Truss’. The deputy leadership is a de facto a referendum on Starmer’s government - Powell is heavily favoured over Phillipson to win. The latter heavily favoured by Starmer. There’s a budget coming up which could make or break the government...

Let’s rephrase that: @shmmeee shouted down anyone who suggested it was a possibility. At the current rate, Starmer won’t be PM by the end of the year, let alone the 2026 local elections or this time next year.

McSweeney and Starmer’s fates are intertwined. Starmer’s enemies (there’s a lot) are mobilising against him and McSweeney.

Why have our odds shortened so much? We’ve done well but the bookies surely know our squad depth isn’t amazing.

Brain: 1-1 draw Heart: 3-1 win When was the last time we beat Leicester away?

Dan Hodges is reporting that ‘Starmer Allies’ (somewhat of an oxymoron) belief his opponents have a ‘cache’ of messages ready to be leaked. Reminds me of ‘In The Thick of It’ when Malcom Tucker calls for an inquiry that eventually backfires. Here, Starmer presented himself ‘holier than thou’ in...

The problem is that Saka doesn’t offer that much of an attacking threat, it must be said. He’s obviously a better RW than BTA because that’s his position but Lampard is looking to upgrade that area of the pitch. If the reports about Rak-Sakyi (Palace) are true, they’re looking to upgrade at winger.

Cowboys v Giants was a class game! Q4 in Eagles v Chiefs and Mahomes has just been picked off…

The more reports that come out, the more it contradicts the idea he was a ‘radical leftist’ as Trump said he was. The Administration probably already knew this hence Trump’s immediate comments.

I have no idea why the likes of Sesko and Cunha went to Man U > Newcastle. Newcastle are in a far better position than Man U as a club. Way to throw your career away.

Fair play to Clive Lewis for this, a few people on this thread could take note.