[kreuzberger]

That 1 in 10 is her, isn't it?

[Youngian]

Or UB40.

[Crabcakes]

1 in 10 voters supports Kemi’s citizenship proposal.

Or to put it another way, it’s a policy that 90% of the electorate don’t support.

Another winner from the Tories!

[Tubby Isaacs]

It sounds like an internet meme from people who are working towards "repatriation'. If you don't let people become citizens, much easier to convince people they should be chucked out even after 10 years. She really shouldn't be going here.

[Bones McCoy]

It sounds like an internet meme from people who are working towards "repatriation'. If you don't let people become citizens, much easier to convince people they should be chucked out even after 10 years. She really shouldn't be going here.

Like "nice" Theresa May's Windrush deportations.

[Tubby Isaacs]

She's serving up leg stump half volleys, as always. Did she think this person wouldn't have worked in Finland when she was in Government?

Badenoch says Starmer has not read the judgment.

She says a Labour peer has called Lord Hermer, the attorney general, a fool.

She asks about the Mail story about the borders inspector. (See 11.57am.) “This is not serious,” she says.

Starmer replies:

The individual in question was appointed 2019 by the last government for a senior position. He did work for five years from Finland. We’ve changed that, and he’s now going to be working for the United Kingdom full time.

And she says Badenoch was in cabinet with an attorney general sacked for breaching national security.

[Tubby Isaacs]

You'll be amazed to hear that Badenoch got the judgement wrong.

[Crabcakes]

She’d probably only had time for a couple of steaks today, so wasn’t operating at her best.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Her spox didn't show up for the post PMQs briefing to journalists. Again.

[Bones McCoy]

Her spox didn't show up for the post PMQs briefing to journalists. Again.

What's spox?

[Andy McDandy]

Thrown in free with the £5 hand job your mum gives behind some bins.

In seriousness, spokesperson.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Her spox didn't show up for the post PMQs briefing to journalists. Again.

Aargh! Rigbyspeak!

[Tubby Isaacs]

What's spox?

Spokesperson.

[Oboogie]

Toe-curling stuff for any watching Tories, it's starting to look like Starmer's bullying her now.

[kreuzberger]

She brings it on herself. She parrots headlines from her press, while labouring under the absurd notion that they might contain a kernel of truth.

She gets busted every time.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Some good advice for Kemi here. At least Fargle has broken a bit (on Ukraine needing to join NATO). Has Kemi even done that?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Kemi's dropped support for the football governance reforms, initiated by Boris Johnson, who's presumably now seen as an irredeemable leftist.

Is there any market for this "libertarian" stuff? Farage is going to be much more fleet footed on stuff like this.

[Bones McCoy]

Kemi's dropped support for the football governance reforms, initiated by Boris Johnson, who's presumably now seen as an irredeemable leftist.

Is there any market for this "libertarian" stuff? Farage is going to be much more fleet footed on stuff like this.

On the one hand you have teams - let's call them "The blues".
Seemingly bottomless finances available.
Any attempt to cap or regulate its flow feels to fans like oppression.

On the other hand we have "The Reds".
A viable team, prone to looting by oligarch owners through a series of loan scams.
Fans are exasperated and think there should be laws to regulate this.


It's worth making a distinction here.
Individual fans; often balanced, smart erudite followers of the game.
Fans as a collective: a directionless herd prone to mimic the lowest common denominator.

If you disagree, spend an hour listening to a radio football phone-in.

[mattomac]

The feeling it can govern itself has long since gone.

What’s Kemi’s position on Ukraine, it has a far greater to cause issues to them than Labour

[davidjay]

If football supporters saw each other as allies rather than enemies they'd be the most powerful pressure group in the country.