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There’s RuPaul’s drag race thing, that’s kind of all I’m aware of (without having ever watching it)...just out of interest, what else is there that crowds the media to such an unbearable extent?

That was magnificent! Glad to be wrong this time.

This is a bit stressy to watch. God it’s good!

It’ll be a Christmas of accidentally answering the door to a canvasser because you thought it was a fucking Amazon package. Either way, given the extension coming our way (and I do doubt I’ll be eating my words on this one; Macron will back down), it appears the Brexit party are going to kill the Tory party, and not enough to gain hundreds or even tens of seats for themselves either. And not to mention, of course, the amount of Labour voters migrating to Lib Dem. This next Parliament is going to be very, very hung if this election goes ahead.

New 1975. TOOTIME meets Craig David-esque UK Garage. It's a work of art. It's a 4-minute serotonin shot.

Piss it. One week out!

Go home, you’re drunk.

Equalled 6 days later.

Juicy 79 points for Vervoort.

Yep, joint 5th. Now, we're joint much-lower-down-than-5th. Cock and balls.

To be fair, and this is as someone who loves rugby and despises football, I've not a clue why that many matches takes as long as it does. I'm all for it lasting 7 weeks, but only with more teams in it.

I’m three weeks now into my going sober for October. It’s been a gradual process, but quite genuinely I’ve felt a not inconsiderable change to my general health and well-being. Not however, as they reported, a positive one. I’m sleeping a bit less, I’m wallowing in lethargy and I’m still exactly the same 10lbs overweight as I was on 30th September. I am happy as Larry though, if you assume that Larry’s dog has died and his wife’s left him for his brother. Sod this month. Sod it to high heavens. I’m gonna get absolutely @bladan’d on 1st November.

Next weekend will be a fUK up. New Zealand by 15 South Africa by 21

No. It is becoming quite an abnormality for a government to win an outright majority. Blair won two in the 00's because the Tories were as welcome as a turd in the bath, and David Camoron won a wafer thin one in 2015 because Ed Siliband's campaign was dreadful and Prick Clegg fisted his party to the gall bladder by selling out all their principles. It takes that kind of dire situation in any of the three main parties to avoid a hung parliament. Now we see at least two of them in a dire situation, it's anybody's guess.

Looks like the only (nearly) sensible way of doing things. Particularly now there's such a gulf between the Tories and the Labour that the Centre ground is gathering momentum. If three parties or more were in the mix, we'd never form a government.

Corbyn would never do a speech like Starmer because he's not capable of doing so even in a (rare) situation where he believes a word he's saying. At the end of the day, if the majority of the Labour party membership wants a 2nd referendum, that's what he needs to deliver, and if he doesn't believe in it, then he's lost his party, it's just a sad fact. Labour aren't exactly unanimous on this issue but a hell of a lot closer to it than the Tories. And yet, he doesn't present the Labour party as one of unity, because he's incapable of doing that as well. You're right, he's not a man of principle, because if he was, he'd say bollocks, I don't replicate the views of the majority of the party, I'll step aside.

I would argue that appearing electable and offering effective opposition to Johnson go hand in hand in this instance, however he's done neither of those things. If Johnson was driving a bus with all of us on it into a burning, collapsing building, all Corbyn would do is complain that buses should be nationalised. We've got bigger issues we want you to oppose, Jeremy. Look at yesterday's antics in Commons. Keir Starmer delivered the storming speech, the contumely, the comprehensive demolition of this bullshit deal Johnson's taking credit for. That speech was one that Corbyn could and would never deliver. The opposition is coming from various corners of his party, not from him, and that makes him an ineffectual leader. If he cared about the country, from the huge questions thrown up about our future to the bread and butter issues he appears he might be clued up on, he would step aside and let someone else lead his party into a more likely GE success. The Tories have lurched right, Labour left. The Tories have a gibbering wreck leading them, Labour a soggy cabbage. Neither are even on flirting terms with being fit to govern. And yet, we are still too much of a two-party state for anyone else to have a vague hope of getting the governing side of the chamber.

They do. Bunch of ‘stunts’.

What a child. Petulant fucking child.

I’m sure he is a decent bloke (if you ignore his defence of the IRA, Hamas and the like. Oh, and his ignorance of Anti-semitism within his party). But he’s not offering an effective opposition. He’s done nowhere near enough to prevent the shambles we’re in/heading for right now. He has not listened to the people. He has not listened to vast amounts of his party. He needs to step aside. We need someone who can really oppose what Johnson et al is doing to our country. Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry and the like.

D’you know, this could be genuine and it wouldn’t surprise me anymore.

Could be. It's going to be about 8 weeks between announcing an election and polling day. The extension is going to be until 31st January (if granted, of course). Let's say an election was voted for next week, that'd in theory make polling day Thursday 19th December. Any later than that, there's a window in mid-January where it could happen: 9th, 16th or 23rd, more than likely. Labour now have no excuses really for voting down an election, as you pointed out. Problem is, even they know that under Corbyn there's every possibility they could come 3rd.

Election before January is out, I reckon. Any Labour MPs bold enough to try a stand against Corbyn, speak up now. Starmer? Thornberry? Phillips? Watson? Lammy? Would be nice, wouldn't it?

Passed, 322-306.