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yes - the only halfway-sensible strategy that I can discern is that he only has power and political valency as long as brexit has not been delivered. given that this move seems very likely to split the conservative vote and thus risks jeopardising the delivery of brexit, it will keep farage in the spotlight for longer. presume he hopes to leverage this to walk away with a knighthood

his offer is designed to be rejected so there's not going to be a pact

1. BJ is not going to drop the WAB;
   
2. the more he goes on like this the likelier it is he will cause fissures in the conservative party's very brittle unity
   

can anyone explain the BXP strategy to me?

labour should put his intervention in their ads

only day 1 - I'm optimistic about this

every billionaire is a policy failure, sorry emma
https://twitter.com/bbc5live/status/1189857638160293888

dying that they can’t even win in their horrendously skewed push polls

it’s OK, I’m sure carole cadwalladr will be along any minute to debunk the dizinformataya... 😶

lib dems name a second policy challenge

https://twitter.com/eff_hey/status/1189633809857351681

edit: why don't tweets embed

I’ve got some bad news for your fellow constituents about the conservative party...

there is definitely a problem – there has been for years. labour obviously harbours elements of anti-semitism and it is clear that its realignment under JC has allowed fringe anti-semitic voices to surface which had previously been suppressed by new labour’s dominance.

this is all exacerbated by the fact that we now live in the era of receipts. labour's disciplinary processes (which have been massively improved under jennie formby!) have struggled with the fact (i) the party is now a mass-membership movement and (ii) there is now mass participation in social media. they need to look at instituting the reforms that michael segalov suggested here - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/21/labour-antisemitism-overhaul-policy-discipline-public

johnson strategy is just the nick timothy strategy on steroids i.e. "maximise the white vote." they're not going to win back voters that supported cameron in 2010 and 15 so they're going to look for narrow wins in LAB-held marginals in the midlands, wales and the north - places with fewer graduates, remain voters or ethnic minorities than average.

as I said on the other thread: (1) don't think you can win a majority w/this; and, (2) the labour leadership are too canny for this - they will meet this trump-lite culture war nonsense with class politics + a better retail offer.

similarly not convinced we will have this long mooted 'parliament Vs people election'. matt hancock was already on today this morning prosecuting this line and it came across as paper thin, particularly given that parliament actually voted for the WAB at second reading.

expect the carrie symonds argument tape will drop

when we get a majority labour government for christmas... ; )

jo swinson is away with the cuckoos - she is massively overplaying her hand here. suspect the more she goes on about "becoming PM", the more people are going to start tuning her out. she is going to lose her seat ffs...

the choice is socialism or barbarism. that's it. that's the choice. a race to the bottom on workers rights, environmental rights etc as britain refashions itself as singapore-on-sea in in the image of the cabinet's britannia unchained headbangers OR a positive future with universal basic services, a green new deal, a national education service, etc etc. what side of this line are you on - it's time to make a choice

the tories are taking a BIG gamble here. they will start -10 down in scotland + will have REAL difficulties in CON/LD marginals in the home counties (where cameroonian liberals will be alienated by their increasingly authoritarian and illiberal approach) + labour will fight a much more directed/offensive campaign + 'never tory' is probably a much stronger cultural identity than 'leave' in many of the midlands labour marginals they are targeting.

^they have all of these structural issues, BEFORE we even factor in what the BXP vote could do to their coalition. their route to a majority is not straightforward

tories "tend to disfavor radical political change"? have you heard of a little thing called "brexit"?

they haven't been a small-c conservative party for years

here we... here we... here we... fsckin go

wish I still had my old winter bike

thanks... this stuff sounds bad

good thread. never waxing (philishave ftw) but admire the dedication of those that do

might go for squirt for that waxing-without-the-hassle vibe

700x35 mudguards fine (clearance-wide) for use with 700x32 tyres? internet seems to suggest going bigger

mismatched bottle cages is upsetting

another good thing about greys is there's an ancestry.com for them. here's our old dog:
http://www.greyhound-data.com/d?d=abbey+leigh&sex=&color=&birthyear=&birthland=

pmsl she had a brother called "johnny two cans"

looks class. having fun ?

yes - insurance essential. let me tell you (again from bitter experience), MRI scans are......... expensive. like, "good bike" expensive

in the interests of continued balance - greys can also sometimes suffer from separation anxiety (so do many dogs). think this is because ex-racers are used to having people (trainers etc) round most of the day. in our case, this manifested itself as quite loud howling when left during the initial period after we got her (quite a big issue when you live side-by-side with neighbours in a tenement flat).

we eventually trained this out of her over a course of a few months, using frozen kongs packed with treats and liver paste. this took her mind off our absence at least for the most difficult first 15 minutes

doubt it will survive the weekend

presume there's no real breakthrough... just varadkar canny enough to know not to feed the BJ victimhood complex. also feeds raging brexiteer paranoia