A Tory majority of 30 is a massive failure for May. If Labour could stop themselves from imploding she'd be gone in 6 months and then we're back to where we were in June '16, with the added pressure of the A50 clock ticking.
Problem is, I think 30 is very optimistic. Poll of polls suggests 60-80.
I don't even think it needs to be as close as that. Anything under 50 is a failure, anything under 30 a disaster.
We're not that far off with a week to go. Poll of polls suggests we're in 60-80 territory.
And if you take the £3 peeps out of the first election, he still polled 49.0% of the members which was more than Cooper and Burnham put together.
http://www.labour.org.uk/blog/entry/results-of-the-labour-leadership-and-deputy-leadership-election
If he gets a little bit quicker (as he and the coaches have been threatening) it'll be sooner rather than later.
The batting is the icing on the cake really, it's not like England currently lack for bowlers that bat.
Anyone going to the Man Forever show at the Albert tonight should catch the return of heavy-psych types Negative Pegasus, one of my favourite Brighton outfits and this is only their second show in the last two years, I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izw5HOPnOLM
FFO: Oneida, Sleep,
As opposed to the Tories who'll win the election and sell the NHS to the Saudi royal family, I expect.
Oh, sorry it's only poor brown people we're offended by. My mistake.
Also the election has finally meant the PLP has had to stop moaning and get on with the job of supporting their leader. It's incredible the difference even an illusion of togetherness can make (Page 1 in the modern Conservative party handbook.)
Will it be enough to eradicate enough of the...
My last day in the office before redundancy and a nice long summer break. I expect I'll view the frequent bumping of this thread in an entirely different way.
With the help of a no ball, yes.
Pitch is flat, pretty slow, Durham were a bowler short and there wasn't a cloud in the sky but take nothing away, he was awesome. I was skeptical about Yards as batting coach (you could never accuse him of being a technician) but the more I think about it the...
Jeremy Corbyn has had nearly two years of being slaughtered by the press daily and has got stronger. Theresa May has had two days of justified criticism and she looks like she's going to cry.
Her performance on Andrew Neill was abysmal, lies, evasion and soundbites. She seems to think its...
I spent quite a lot of my time downstairs at The Hope and some of the queues I saw for upstairs were insane. I saw everything I wanted to see with no queueing.
Having said that the alt-Escape could do with some more electronic music which is something I intend on remedying next year.
Very few...
Fully expecting Theresa May to be waffling about being 'pumped up,' at some point this week. That's what Dacre and Murdoch told Cameron to do when things started to go south.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA2wzyj_V9E