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Dunno like, I reckon our business could handle it and we're cut to the bone in terms of the number of people we have. Then again we cross train staff religiously to ensure that we're prepared for stuff like that, maybe other small businesses aren't as well organised.

Can see what you're saying but it'd need to be one hell of a swing.

I've been saying that for years. Agreed but it doesn't actually help us make it a reality I suppose. Maybe if Brexit hadn't happened this would have been the moment and event that caught the country's mood.

Startingly, Labour's manifesto appears to be getting people excited... Left wing populism finally on offer, it seems. This is what I hoped Corbyn would give us. Makes defeat no less inevitable, but the fact that these policies are even being floated causes an expansion of the discourse. The Tories will cling to their narrative about bankrupting the country, and Labour will stick to supporting the people. Exactly how it should be, for both sides. No more Labour pandering to the Tory line, at least for this election. A straight fight between the best interests of the people, and the propaganda that keeps them from it

For the avoidance of doubt, not even I think that policy makes sense

Absolue cast iron vote winner from the Lib Dems - a pledge to take in an extra 50k refugees: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/may/11/tim-farron-lib-dems-pledge-uk-take-50000-more-syrian-refugees Presumably Farron thinks that doing this will expose Labour (who surely can't turn around and agree to match this given the current political climate) and drive more lefties to his side. But ffs at £4.3bn it just sounds woefully out of touch.

I think Ant unbanned him but he wouldn't return without a formal apology and accompanying reparations.

The Tories are going to eviscerate them through the media and through horrifying TV appearances where May pretends she knows how to smile. People simply won't care how well costed the policies are, or how much they'll help. Labour winning at this point would have to go down as one of the most improbable election victories of all time. I get that you're trying to make this more interesting but seriously, the landscape at the moment is the political equivalent of the SPL with the Tories as Celtic.

At least some in there have come out and just admitted to feeling jealous of our situation. Which is undoubtedly how most of them feel. I wonder how they'll fare next year.

Have to say I don't see this as a fundamental necessity at this point. Reduce it maybe, but it was perfectly affordable to go to Uni under the old Labour government. They should assist people from less well off backgrounds and maybe even increase the bar for that, but making it entirely free just doesn't seem like a fundamental here. And I suspect they could actually win all the same votes just by making it more affordable, rather than eliminating it entirely.

The respect of your peers. Briefly.

So Ashley has said that Rafa will get every penny the club generates. How much have we generated? We could be talking very little here... I mean, whatever it is, it sounds like Rafa is happy with it. Which is encouraging.

This is how I see it too but people are simply not discerning enough to apply critical thinking about what they're told.

Will have a look in the morning but realistically it won't make any difference because we're now a one party state and Corbyn is unpopular. The fact that his policies are attractive and supportable whilst at the same time helping the majority of people, simply isn't important. Will have a look though, thanks for the heads up.

I enjoyed that joke more than I should have.

What kind of sentence do you get for blasphemy these days anyway? I saw the nuns thing too Tbf, in the UK it'd not be spent at all so maybe giving it to nuns is better than nothing.

Not arguing that it's a disgrace, I completely agree on that. I just don't think this will be the thing that brings Trump down. I suspect it'll be out of the news in a week.

I don't think that's a material problem though. A narrative can easily be spun around the notion that the full details of what was afoot weren't revealed until Trump had the ability to look into it himself etc etc. Moreover the US seems quite content for its candidates to spew any manner of nonsense on the campaign trail and then effectively pretend that nothing even happened once it's all over with.

Ok, I've skim read the Watergate scandal. So Nixon eventually resigned rather than be impeached. I understand why we're thinking this could be a big deal now. ...I suspect we're all going to be disappointed from the fallout from this one though. There were grounds to sack Comey based on what he did within the election framework - in effect he was already discredited and can be, presumably, justifiably removed. It does suggest that there is something in the background that Trump wants to hide (and I'm sure it'll come out eventually), but I suspect that Congress isn't going to be able to say much about Comey's sacking given the fact that many people have been calling for it since the email fiasco.

If you say so. What was the fall out last time it happened? And how often are Presidents investigated by the head of the FBI at all?

Isn't Stephen Fry being pulled up on blasphemy charges in Ireland too Nice to see it making a comeback.

Is this really that big a deal? I understood that Comey was likely to be sacked if Clinton won power as well. Trump can likely point to that. And presumably the investigation will continue anyway.

We do?!

Incidentally, the other solution to the issue is what is in the ascendency - the far right.