Gemmill

He's not a fighter, he's a tit. His dad was a tit maker.

Defaults immediately when pushed to robotically repeating his first answer. Ignore that last post, he'd fluff the punchline.

At the next debate when Starmer mentions his dad was a tool maker, I reckon Sunak turning to him and asking "were you his biggest?" would flip the polls for a Tory win. It would bring the house down.

The way he says "yeah I probably should have checked that before I came on". No mate, you should have fucking known it anyway because it's your job. Like you say, it's just a job title, it's not *their* actual job.

I'm reading Ian Dunt's How Westminster Works, And Why It Doesn't, and it's excellent. I want to read O'Brien's, but same story, feel like it'll just be a blood pressure raiser.

Finally some vox pops I can get behind. There's a Geordie on there who's lost his medals at the event, sadly.

I barely leave the house and I don't have kids. Current fashion trends are as big a mystery to me as the clitoris is to the rest of this forum.

I don't think we'll ever see the granddad collar shirt back just cos of how strips have moved on and they're all tight as fuck these days. Which is a shame.

The BBC political team, aka CCHQ Spin Team deployed to nullify things. @Dr Gloom

BTW. Note how LEGIBLE that name and number is. As a top that will be watched predominantly by people on TV screens, it's better than what we've currently got. Read it and WEEP, @Dougle

Aye, I'm sure it is. Generally speaking, I like him and Staveley, but this is cringe.

Cabinet of all the talents. He's picked a good day to do this tbf cos all anyone is talking about is Sunak, who's now had to put out an apology: Absolutely mental all of this.

It now transpires the original plan was for him not to attend at all. They'd told the French he wouldn't be there cos he'd be too busy campaigning, and what happened yesterday was their compromise. It is genuinely like they're trying to lose.

It's the fact they booked the interview slot in in advance as well. Like aye, D-Day thing won't take long. An hour waving a wreath about should do it. Need to get back and convince socially conservative pensioners that I didn't lie about that 2 grand thing. They'll not give a fuck about D-Day. Treating the D-Day celebrations like I treat any and every family event with a "how soon can I politely fuck this off" vibe. The poppy police all over the fact he doesn't have his poppy on in the interview too.

I don't know what Toontastic's fashionistas make of the gear, but that advert is fucking class. It'll be flying off the shelves on the strength of that alone.

Shine your shoes, Ed Davey!

Left their guns on the boat.

Tories down 4, Reform up 5. There's a few polls where Labour are down 3 and 4 points, but it doesn't matter cos the Tory position gets so much worse cos of Reform. Even with Labour's lead vs the Tories shrinking, the rise of Reform means Labour ends up with a bigger majority. Ed Davey better get his official opposition leader boots polished.

Where's @Renton BTW? He hasn't been about for a good few days now.

Local Billericay tory members are sending letters of no confidence to the local association, so they can deselect Richard Holden and force an alternative candidate.

Aye that's true as well.

Tories still 70 candidates short of the requirement with 24 hours to go. Reform are 170ish short (!) but have a candidate in 84% of Conservative held seats. Wonder if they'll just aim to get someone stood in all Tory held seats, cos that's a lot of trips to Wetherspoons in the next 24 hours.

Post-covid, parents think they now just a have a direct line in to teachers to criticise everything they do. The lack of SEND facilities now means that mainstream schools are just having to pick up the slack and it's basically impossible to run a classroom like that. All sorts basically. It's a fucking dismal profession these days. I was on a call the other day at work and one of the women on the call was complaining that she has to get her kid from school by 5pm now, and "I just don't think they give any thought at all to working parents". I genuinely had to bite my tongue not to say "bitch, they're TEACHERS. It's not paid fucking childcare. Your kids are going there to be taught. FOR FREE. Once the lessons are over, you're lucky they aren't bottled out to roam the streets. These people have their own kids to go home to as well you know" The entitlement of parents is easily the worst thing about the job according to my lass.