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This also happened in 2016 and cost the Tories their slim majority. The peripheral parties were squeezed out. At the 2019 election Jo Swinson's lack of willingness to consider working with Jeremy Corbyn basically made her a Tory in a yellow dress. The vileness of the current Government should make Kier Starmer's job very easy but he is going out of his way to piss off the people he needs to win whilst trying to court those who will never vote for him

This is the crux of it, yes. Can’t remember where it was I read it but if Labour could completely unite with everyone left of centre, they’d be predicted to win around 400 or so seats in the next GE, factoring in current poll trends and how much ground Labour have to make up. Corbyn wouldn’t entertain the idea and only won about 200. Everyone needs to wake up and realise that GEs are currently a straight up choice between Tory and Not Tory.

You think? Looks to me like she's heading towards the Bride of Wildenstein look.

Discharged.

It's all to do with the rent boy and the jizz as far as I could make out Mary.

90 years today

A writer of a successful book, possibly maybe.

Guy Brice Parfait Kolélas (wiki), son of Congolese politician Bernard Kolélas and leader of the MCDDI party has died at 61, one day after the presidential elections: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/22/congos-opposition-candidate-kolelas-dies-a-day-after-poll He had COVID and was evacuated to France earlier this month. He was a candidate in the 2016 and 2021 elections against president/dictator Denis Sassou Nguesso, called "The Emperor" by Alassane Ouattara and Alpha Conde. Denis Sassou Nguesso has changed the constitution a couple of years ago to allow him to rule until 2031, when he would be 87 years old.

Ironically, voting wise this is what happened in 1997. Voters in general looked at who was second in the seat at the previous election and voted for them, so there was Tory/Liberal seats where the Labour vote went down, and Tory/Labour seats where the Lib Dem vote collapsed. So coupled with the natural Tory to Labour vote swing and the vast number of Tories who just stayed at home, that result went from "a huge win for Labour" to "apocalypse now" for the Tories. It was Nick Clegg who started dismantling most of this, and then of course the coalition pretty much killed Labour/Liberal relations ever since.

I thought about that a while back, but a friend in the industry told me that it just doesn't happen any more because there are too many sharks who will demand a share of it. He also said that the late Pete Shelley told him that "Ever Fallen In Love" brought him enough income that he never needed to work again.

https://uznews.uz/ru/article/29874/ Uzbek writer of children's stories Xudoyberdi To'xtaboyev has died aged 88. He was known for stories such as Riding a Yellow Giant (1969), Death of a Yellow Giant (1973) and The Golden Head of the Avenger. He was named the National Writer of Uzbekistan when the country gained independence in 1991.

I think a Northern Independence Party is a really, really, really shit idea.

I would like to have written a novel.

Roger Whittaker is 85

Decided to put this here and save the By-election Bingo page for competition related posts but I want to consider The Northern Independence Party. Whilst I have some sympathy with the aims and where they have come from I feel their current strategy is potentially harmful. Do they have they support they claim and if so is it just transient or a real demand for change? In the Hartlepool By-election Kier Starmer has played in to their hands by imposing a candidate on them who has some issues. However I can only see them picking up disgruntled Labour votes and potentially gifting the seat to the Conservatives. On their website they claim: We are opposed to all forms of ideology based on hatred and bigotry Which suggests they may not do too well picking up the votes of the 70% of the electorate who voted for Brexit in 2016. Even if they won Hartlepool it won't affect Johnson as they could claim they didn't expect the Conservatives to win it anyway. However it might make Labour realise that the Left needs to be united to have a real chance of victory in 2024.

There's a thread in that for someone braver than me to start, perhaps on a different forum. Would you pick something financially successful but artistically humiliating like Mull of Kintyre? I've thought about it often, but still no idea which existing song I'd choose. Noddy has never had a bad word to say about Merry Christmas Everybody, unsurprisingly.

Having written one song that was so successful that I never had to write another one.

Reminds me of the late great Ian Dury .... I could be the driver an articulated lorry I could be a poet I wouldn't need to worry I could be a teacher in a classroom full of scholars I could be the sergeant in a squadron full of wallahs What a waste What a waste What a waste What a waste Because I chose to play the fool in a six-piece band First-night nerves every one-night stand I should be glad to be so inclined What a waste! What a waste! But I don't mind I could be a lawyer with strategems and ruses I could be a doctor with poultices and bruises I could be a writer with a growing reputation I could be the ticket man at Fulham Broadway Station What a waste What a waste What a waste What a waste Because I chose to play the fool in a six-piece band First-night nerves every one-night stand I should be glad to be so inclined What a waste! What a waste! But I don't mind I could be the catalyst that sparks the revolution I could be an inmate in a long-term institution I could dream to wide extremes, I could do or die I could yawn and be withdrawn and watch the world go by Yeah! I'd have loved to be a rock singer. Alas I cannot sing a single note in tune. Or a really good actress, the sort who can disappear into a role and not be recognised in the street. Or an artist. I mean, when you see some of the shit that passes for art in galleries now, that's doable.

It's the Deathlist. A site that is renowned for its poor taste, its very poor taste. Just thought I'd mention it.

Cheers. I'll see how real life is going come June!

Dying while being blown by two huge breasted, middle aged nymphos.

Morena Baccarin and Ben McKenzie have had a boy called Arthur

I struggle to remember who he is these days! Him and the other one I used to get him mixed up with. He came on stage when Rag'n'Bone Man was on and the crowd went mad. I had no idea who he was. (For the record, I was there to see Grace Jones.)

Heavy snowfall disrupts the power supply, water pumps stop working = water shortage at the taps. It happens in this country all the time so less shouting about it.