GEWatcher

Don't really want to be here but as I'm obsessed by UK politics and you guys won't chat anywhere else, here I am.

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@SJAMcBride *We* should be allowed to sweep the bureaucracy from our desks into the bin. *They* should open their bureaucracy and answer our FOI requests, etc...

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@JohnRentoul The recent @PPFIdeas podcast examined the counterfactual of the Industrial Revolution happening in Japan, the French Revolution happening in China. It was very enlightening.

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@LukeTryl especially as the membership don't even get to vote in the contest until the 10th October.

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@JAHeale Suddenly reminded of this interaction with the current PM

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@Samfr standard position of today's populist right: free speech for me but not for thee

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@Helen_Whately Yes, that's the choice the last government made and they just got voted out by an electorate who absolutely had enough of them and wanted things done differently.

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@RobDotHutton yes celluloid may be more romantic but I can remember a viewing at the Scala (RIP) that was interrupted when the copy of the 1960s evil hippy bikers b-movie we were watching caught fire...

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@twlldun They both, apparently, regularly eat and drink in the pubs and cafes around my tiny town and I'm still not really sure who they are and why they're famous so being William Hague's offspring is as good as reason as any.

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@wallaceme Yes, weren't they the lead singer of Throbbing Gristle?

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@twlldun The stencil work on these recent London works is shockingly bad. At least Vettriano can do basic technique.

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@Samfr that quote really wound me up. Maybe the full article is more nuanced but "Clinton had a bigger lead than Harris and lost and Biden had a bigger lead than Harris and won" is not the type of analysis I'd expect with FT subscription rates being as expensive as they are.

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@portfan4life @SkyNews get fucked.

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@FueledbyFuente @SkyNews Sociopath.

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@SkyNews Put them in danger like Russia deciding to invade their country?

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@triffic_stuff_ @PaulBrandITV because thanks to years of Tory austerity they literally don't have the resources to do so.

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@PoliticalUklist I think MPs might well back him but think the membership view him as a candidate of the failed past. Same as Patel.

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Strangely, I currently have absolutely no idea who is going to win the Tory leadership contest but my priors suggest it'll be the looney or the person pretending to be the looney, who'll do it.

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@PoliticalUklist It's just a very hard race to call. The candidates are all pitching themselves to the membership even though it's not their choice until another 2 rounds.

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@PolitlcsUK @Telegraph What about the other 17 Tory leaders we've had since he stood down?

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@PoliticalUklist Interesting. I'm assuming either Jenrick or Badenoch will be in the final 2