[Oboogie]

If Farage only wins because Mr Fishfinger, Binface, Piers Corbyn etc. split the opposition vote, that's still an humiliation.

True, but will that be blatant enough for the public, especially Reform voters, to get it?
The Great British Public don't have a particularly great track record of demonstrating they understand nuance.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Especially the woefully unintelligent crayon-chewers.

[The Weeping Angel]

As he leaves office, never forget the damage that this evil man did to Britain.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics ... 0717267898

REMEMBER June 2024? When Britain was a paradise? When taxes were low, public services thriving, the armed forces roaring with power?

Back then, there was no deficit. Britain wasn’t in a penny of debt. NHS waiting lists were so low patients were getting hip replacements they neither needed nor requested. The ratio of police to public was roughly three to one, the same as teachers to pupils.

Our prisons were so empty their inmates’ chief problem was loneliness and the boats had been stopped, apart from fishermen bringing home record post-Brexit catches.

Then what happened? A catastrophic administrative error by the electorate ended in an accidental Labour landslide. And Starmergeddon.

Since 2024? Immigrants. Riots. Problems with Thames Water. A cost-of-living crisis such as the world has never seen. Jeremy Clarkson battling cancer.

A country hopelessly, desperately in hock to foreign powers. Prisons overflowing. Policemen as rarely seen as the Scottish capercaillie. School forced to close their doors, leaving children on the streets for the next six weeks.

[Yug]

That's the Daily Mash. A satirical 'newspaper' taking the piss out of the right-wing press.

Not to be taken seriously

[Boiler]

That's the Daily Mash. A satirical 'newspaper' taking the piss out of the right-wing press.

Not to be taken seriously

I think TWA 'gets' that. I also remember it making a very unsuccessful (and brief) transition to television. You didn't need to waste time watching it, you just read the website for that week.

[soulboy]

If you hated yourself, you could always read the website in the voices of Nish Kumar and Rachel Parris to recreate the experience.

[Abernathy]

Keir Starmer has decided to stand down as MP for Hollborn & St Pancras to work on international affairs and his work on combatting violence against women & girls. Can't say I blame him - he's probably only just recovered from having the last knife removed from his back. Plus I'm guessing he doesn't fancy seeing Burnham getting credit for stuff that could, and probably should have, been due to him.

Thank you for everything, Keir, and good luck.

By election ahoy ! Tell Binface to get his helmet polished up.

[Bones McCoy]

Keir Starmer has decided to stand down as MP for Hollborn & St Pancras to work on international affairs and his work on combatting violence against women & girls. Can't say I blame him - he's probably only just recovered from having the last knife removed from his back. Plus I'm guessing he doesn't fancy seeing Burnham getting credit for stuff that could, and probably should have, been due to him.

Thank you for everything, Keir, and good luck.

By election ahoy ! Tell Binface to get his helmet polished up.

I like a nicely polished helmet.

[Abernathy]

Chaarcteristic generosity of spirit from the Tories :

The Conservative party chair, Kevin Hollinrake, said it was “fitting that his final act as a member of parliament is yet another U-turn having pledged to stay on. The decision to stand down will mean a costly byelection for taxpayers at a time when Andy Burnham and John Healey are plotting tax rises on hard-working families across the country.”

[Tubby Isaacs]

I can't believe taxes are having to go up after Kevin and his pals left everything falling to bits.

My mistake, they're going up to pay for a by-election.

[Boiler]

Did they go up to pay for a by-election in Clacton too?

The "one last U-turn" line is being used by the Mail.

[Youngian]

Perhaps he has is eye on NATO secretary general but wouldn't blame him if he just wanted to hang out with the family and go to the pub.
Without Keir's dogged prosecution skills employed when LOTO, the wretched Boris Johnson might still be with us. The nation should be forever greatful to him for that alone.
I suspect Keir would agree with Schwarzenegger who said 'I hate politics and don’t like many politicians. But I loved policies and getting them through to make life better.'
The public were always wanging on about too many professional politicians but then compalined when they got a PM with a career and hinterlands outside Westminster. The public are full of shite.

[Andy McDandy]

Someone remind me, is Sunak still hanging on?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The public are full of shite.

Can't argue with that.

[Oboogie]

The public are full of shite.

Can't argue with that.

Tony Wilson: "Do you write for the man in the street?"
Sid Vicious: "I've met the man in the street and he's a cunt."

[Abernathy]

There has been quite a bit of comment about Burnham’s upbeat, optimistic approach to the job, particularly by contrast with Starmer, who begun his time as Prime Minister by telling us all how grim everything was and that things were only going to get worse before they got better, from which his popularity never seemed to recover.

I was wondering if there is a comparison to be made between Burnham and Johnson - another PM that liked to talk things up, though his mostly BS was generally characterisable as “boosterism”, upon which he never actually delivered, or just told lies about : building a dozen brand new hospitals, world-class this, world-beating that, and, of course, the Brexit pack of lies.

I’d like to think that Burnham is not even close to the bullshit and lies of Johnson.

[davidjay]

You will keep setting these low bars, Abers.