Christ on a bike, don’t remind me!

Andrew Neil is - in my opinion - a bit of a git.

See also Paul Joseph Watson’s “conservatism is the new counter culture”, which is being repeated over and over and over and over and over and over again.

I think some of that comes from an only partial understanding of the web.

He was such a divot to his fellow USFL owners that one of them threatened - in writing - to punch him “right in the mouth”.

I left Facebook!

“The political wing of the 17th-century,” says Owen Jones!

My seat in Cardiff went from a Lab/Lib Dem marginal to an enormously safe Labour seat - +24% from last election, Lib Dems down to third place, majority of nearly 20,000: astonishing!

Green - Plaid!

The Conservative Party play in blue. They are nicknamed the Tories (an old Irish word oddly!) often pejoratively. The Blue comes up from time to time in a newspapery sort of way, when someone who was particularly to the right in the party might be described as “true blue” or something.

Yes. No-one does this sort of political coverage in the UK. I reckon there’d be a big market for it. There really isn’t a liberal (broadly) site that actually looks good and works well.

Or, maybe not so much.

Fight!

I don’t really disagree with much of that. And I don’t mind the Labour Party reforming to become electable - I don’t think political expediency is dishonourable; it just is.  

Aye, in the UK it’s perfectly possible to win the election without winning the “popular vote”. It happened to the Labour Party in 1951 for example.

No. I think that’s just right.

Definition of nothingburger in English:

nothingburger
noun
US
informal

Something that is or turns out to be insignificant or lacking in substance.
‘another nothingburger of a debate’
as modifier ‘a seemingly endless series of nothingburger speeches’

Origin

1950s: from nothing and burger.

It needs a lot of fixing though. And is also prone to gerrymandering - though not as blatantly as your seats are from what I’ve seen.

I hope so! She’s been Home Sec since 2010, in charge of all this stuff. I was arguing the other day that Labour should go all out on the police numbers. My non-scientific straw poll of overhead conversation in the greengrocers this morning was that the two ladies talking about it weren’t that impressed with May’s…

And I should have said, lovely piece, thank you, it’s nice to see some British politics here!