[The Weeping Angel]

I see they're still trying to bring up Donkeygate.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The ownership story has been about for donkeys years, if you'll pardon the pun.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Couldn’t he have avoided inheritance tax by… keeping it himself and just letting his Mum use it?

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The Times doesn't want you thinking about Farage and dodgy house dealings...

[kreuzberger]

Any mention of the Russia Report today, or is he keeping that one up his cuff?

[mattomac]

What is the Russian report?

[Tubby Isaacs]

What is the Russian report?

Was there actually one done, or did May not do it?

[Boiler]

I think the unicorns ate it, along with the Donald Trump 'kompromat'.

[Oboogie]

What is the Russian report?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellige ... sia_report

[The Weeping Angel]

Even Stephen Bush was impressed.

[Youngian]

Zack Polanski less so. Did he hear a different speech?
He's been so busy with Corbyn's former crowd massaging his ego he may not have noticed he hasn't even moved the dial in opinion polls for the Greens. Owen Jones and Grace Blakely aren't going to flip any seats for the Greens.

Starmer says Britain is at a fork. But he's spoon fed policies by Reform - it's clear the direction he's taking us all.

[Boiler]

Seems Starmer's warranted the Cassetteboy treatment:

[Tubby Isaacs]

Zack Polanski less so. Did he hear a different speech?
He's been so busy with Corbyn's former crowd massaging his ego he may not have noticed he hasn't even moved the dial in opinion polls for the Greens. Owen Jones and Grace Blakely aren't going to flip any seats for the Greens.

Starmer says Britain is at a fork. But he's spoon fed policies by Reform - it's clear the direction he's taking us all.

That stuff about replacing Labour sounded like a man high on his own supply, like Jo Swinson. Not impossible but they came through in my seat because they hit the constituency hard like Ed Davey does, with the others standing aside and the Tories caught by surprise. That’s not repeatable easily in 300 odd seats.

Might not be entirely to their benefit if Zack and his various policies are better known either. Even big cards like the EU may not come off if EU leaders speak up against the UK rejoining because are happy with Starmer’s re-engagement, Defence commitment and don’t fancy encouraging their own Zacks.

[Abernathy]

For what it’s worth, I think that the strategy of targeting Reform/Farage as the toxic racists that they are is the right way to go for Labour. Farage/Reform have been benefiting from a free pass for far too long - hence the fucking insane opinion polling figures and the counter-intuitively non-ridiculous talk of Farage as the next Prime Minister.

Keep kicking the bastards .

[kreuzberger]

Going by this week's form, the Reform tears after sending in Wes, of all people, for the double-tap are a thing of rare comedic value.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Wes (as I don't call him) does call this stuff out better than some of the others. He's got ability, just isn't trusted at Health really (though I don't object on policy) and has got himself a reputation as a young man in a hurry. Perhaps "Hammer of Farage" could be a good job for him.

[The Weeping Angel]

Considering how Starmer is, the object of considerable hatred, it's interesting that he is more popular than Farage.

https://labourlist.org/2025/09/exclusiv ... d-polling/

Keir Starmer is the more favoured option as Prime Minister in head-to-head polling with Nigel Farage, polling shared exclusively with LabourList reveals.

Polling for the Fabian Society, conducted by YouGov, reveals that if given a choice between Keir Starmer and Nigel Farage to be Prime Minister, voters opted for the Labour leader by a margin of 45 – 33% (with 22% saying ‘don’t know’).

This number is even larger among the voters who opted for Labour in 2024 but are not supporting the party now with Starmer at 71% vs Farage on 23% (with only 5 per cent saying ‘don’t know’). This rises even higher to 95% for Starmer over Farage when it comes to those who voted Labour in 2024 but are now saying they support either the Green Party or the Lib Dems.

When given a choice between Labour and Reform as the party of government, with no other parties on offer, the overall public opted for Labour by 46% to 34% for Reform UK – a lead of 11 points. This rises again to 71% for Labour and 25% for Reform for those who voted Labour at the last election but would not now and again to 95% for those who now support either Green or Lib Dem.

[Abernathy]

Considering how Starmer hated Starmer

Eh ?

[The Weeping Angel]

Considering how Starmer hated Starmer

Eh ?

I've fixed it.

[Abernathy]

More sense, now