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Actually quite impressed with Daisy Cooper so far. By all accounts she was an effective communicator on Question Time too. Tell you what, the Lib Dems are having a bloody good election campaign. Carla Denyer’s doing well to talk about policy and avoid scraps. Flynn and Rayner are good at scraps. Farage and Mordaunt are stuck in scrap mode. ap Iorwerth appears to just want a lovely chat and a coffee.

Gosh. I fear for Mordaunt’s mental health. I’m being serious, I genuinely hope that when she loses her seat she seeks therapy; she’s so brimming with fury and hatred you can see it eating her up. She might not be completely beyond help like, say, Farage.

Anyone know if the Tories missed the deadline anywhere? Given last minute withdrawals and the fact they had around 200 empty spots 48 hours ago...

Time for another GE result prediction based on a poll? Go on then. WeThink Polling (6-7 Jun) has this: Sunak's recent antics could mean we see more and more predictions like this.

On Betfair, the odds of the Tories getting less than 20% of the vote share is down to 13/8, and them getting 50 seats or fewer is at an Odds Boost of 6/1. Not an ad (please gamble responsibly), just a point of interest/amusement. Though I might have a flutter.

Well these should all be on 21, and Toast appears to have fallen asleep so congratulations to her for not being an insomniac like me.

Now we are talking! What a great selection. Fri 7 Jun 22 Ian Dury and the Blockheads- Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3 22 Gerry Rafferty- Baker Street 21 The Rolling Stones- Miss You +1 21 Earth, Wind & Fire- September +1 21 Electric Light Orchestra- Don’t Bring Me Down +1 21 The Jam- The Eton Rifles +1 20 Donna Summer- Love’s Unkind 20 Rose Royce- Wishing on a Star 20 Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams- Too Much, Too Little, Too Late 20 James Galway- Annie’s Song 20 Marshall Hain- Dancing in the City 20 A Taste of Honey- Boogie Oogie Oogie 20 David Essex- Oh What a Circus 20 Dean Friedman- Lucky Stars 20 The Cars- My Best Friend’s Girl 20 Bee Gees- Too Much Heaven 20 The Barron Knights- A Taste of Aggro 20 Racey- Lay Your Love on Me 20 The Three Degrees- Woman in Love 20 Lene Lovich- Lucky Number 20 The Sex Pistols- Something Else/Friggin’ in the Riggin’ 20 Boney M.- Hooray! Hooray! It’s a Holi-Holiday 20 The Sex Pistols- C’mon Everybody 20 The Dooleys- Wanted 20 ABBA- Angeleyes/Voulez-Vous 20 The Bellamy Brothers- If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me 20 Michael Jackson- Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough 20 Sad Café- Every Day Hurts 20 ABBA- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) 20 Donna Summer and Barbra Streisand- No More Tears (Enough is Enough) 20 The Sugarhill Gang- Rapper’s Delight 14 Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley- If I Had Words 14 Frankie Valli- Grease -6

Fri 7 Jun 50 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 41 Lorde — Royals 40 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 39 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 39 Coldplay — Paradise 38 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 37 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 34 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 33 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) +4 32 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 30 Avicii — Wake Me Up 30 Little Mix — Wings -6 29 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 27 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child  25 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 25 Rihanna — Diamonds 24 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 20 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 18 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 16 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful 14 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 06 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 

Fri 7 Jun 59 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 42 ABBA - Money, Money, Money 39 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 26 The Four Seasons — Silver Star +4 10 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth -6 Pfffft.

Both this and your main account are wastes of space, though I’m sure many, many people are about to leap to your defence below…

Sound and Vision is a serious candidate for game winner imo. HDIYL is lovely. The rest can bugger off as far as I’m concerned.

Well, I tried to pounce on that in the hope that some would follow and others would surely finally get going with the piped bullshit from Oldfield, but neither fucking happened so sod all of it

If three Reform MPs is the price for the Lib Dems being His Majesty's Official Opposition, I think I'm here for it. Maybe Davey can do a bit of juggling while going head-to-head with Keir Starmer at PMQs.

Quite. I think in my life I've had more conversations which have fleetingly mentioned Dr Michael Mosley than VS Achuthanandanananandandanandan.

Speaking of shite, what the living FUCK is Mike Oldfield still doing there?

I know him as 'that bloke off of fad diets everycunt talks about for about 15 minutes'. He was only reported missing yesterday so maybe he's gonna do a 5:2 and turn up tomorrow.

The BMJ article says excess deaths were at just over 1m in 2020 (when the virus properly hit), 1.25m in 2021 (when the virus peaked) and went down to 800k in 2022 (while the vaccine roll out was underway but by no means complete in the 47 countries the study looked at). Looking closer at 2022, excess deaths were almost down to pre-pandemic levels in March-June, then rose in July as Omicron BA4 and BA5 spread across multiple European countries, particularly those with a smaller vaccine uptake. Thanks for the actually rather good (as per PROMPT) source. At least we can reference properly when when we conclude that you are utterly incapable of interpreting information correctly.

Thu 6 Jun 49 John Newman — Love Me Again 44 Gotye ft. Kimbra — Somebody That I Used To Know 39 Lily Allen — Somewhere Only We Know 38 Carly Rae Jepsen — Call Me Maybe 38 Florence & The Machine — Spectrum 37 Duke Dumont ft. A*M*E — Need U (100 Percent) +4 37 Lorde — Royals 36 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams — Get Lucky 35 Coldplay — Paradise 35 Olly Murs ft. Flo Rida — Troublemaker 33 Little Mix — Wings 33 Miley Cyrus — Wrecking Ball 29 Avicii — Wake Me Up 28 David Guetta ft. Sia — Titanium 28 Swedish House Mafia ft. John Martin — Don’t You Worry Child 27 Maroon 5 ft. Wiz Khalifa — Payphone 27 Jessie J — Domino 24 Rihanna — Diamonds 23 Fun ft. Janelle Monae — We Are Young 22 Rudimental ft. John Newman — Feel The Love 22 Avicii Vs. Nicky Romero — I Could Be The One 21 OneRepublic — Counting Stars 21 DJ Fresh ft. Rita Ora — Hot Right Now 21 Naughty Boy ft. Sam Smith — La La La 21 Will.I.Am ft. Eva Simons — This Is Love 21 Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX — I Love It 20 Cover Drive — Twilight 20 Calvin Harris ft. Florence Welch — Sweet Nothing 20 Gabrielle Aplin — The Power Of Love 20 Macklemore ft. Ryan Lewis & Wankz — Thrift Shop 20 The Saturdays ft. Sean Paul — What About Us 20 Rudimental ft. Ella Eyre — Waiting All Night 20 Ellie Goulding — Burn 20 Storm Queen — Look Right Through 20 Calvin Harris ft. Alesso & Hurts — Under Control 19 Katy Perry — Part Of Me 19 Ne-Yo — Let Me Love You 14 Labrinth ft. Emeli Sande — Beneath Your Beautiful -6 5 Justin Timberlake — Mirrors

Thu 6 Jun 57 David Bowie - Sound and Vision 39 Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love 36 ABBA - Money, Money, Money -6 29 The Four Seasons — Silver Star 28 David Dundas - Jeans On +4 11 Mike Oldfield - Portsmouth 10 Manuel and the Music of the Mountains - Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez Go on then. Let's make it interesting.

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Fucking good job, Gillian. Everyone else sat on their arse and did nothing.

Ah yes, I assumed they'd already transferred Holden to the newly created seat (Blaydon and Consett, upon checking). Liz Twist was Labour's MP for the other half of what that constituency used to be and she's all but guaranteed to win this new one.

My neighbouring constituency. Almost certainly a Tory hold; they've got one heck of a majority over Labour and the Greens are fighting it very hard. Have they got some pondlife lined up to replace Holden in the doomed North West Durham seat?

It's so simple! A cup is 236.6ml for liquids, 110g for sifted flour, 200g for granulated sugar, 100g for icing sugar, 190g for uncooked rice, 150g for chopped nuts, 120g for ground nuts... I'm being facetious and cups are the silliest fucking measurement in existence. I skip past all recipes that measure anything in cups. Stupid cunts.