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40% in favour, yes, in 2022, but a vast majority of non-Tory voters opposed and one in three Tories opposed it. So they'd lose more voters than they gained. They could get it slightly over 50% by going emotive about child killers (because I don't think most would piss on Huntley for example) but my opinion is that Sunak bringing that up during a campaign would be seen as exploitative and backfire.

Just to point out, YouGov polled this six months ago for the government and found 64% of voters were massively opposed to it.

Literally enjoying a McDonald's as we speak. Annoyed I never picked him in the Punt Pool as he was never seeing old age.

Ftr EVEL was abolished in 2021 because Boris Johnson needed a quick fix. Of course.

Is there anything you won't doom about?

18 for a doge is like 125 for an Indian politician (legit, not Faujaing it).

Co-wrote Drops of Jupiter which is about a family member dying.

I'm quite happy for Peak Sir Creep smugness over this if it means an early demise for the government!

This might actually fucking be it!!!

These Tories losing seats will always be fun. Ask me again when we know who is running. Hoping we finally see the end of IDS.

Extremely unpopular opinion follows: that's because Motty was the better football commentator.

And his music surely counts for the crimes against humanity bonus points too.

She was a tea lady for the Beatles iirc? But genuinely I thought Susan Twist was a character name and it's actually a veteran actress whose been on stage and in soaps! Quite enjoyed that episode. Excited to discover that next week's episode apparently includes the bloody amazing Sian Philips!

He had a brother. Disappointingly not also called John as then he'd be Mewtwo.

Blair has since said he publicly wondered if he'd needed to sack Prescott over that only for every working class person nearby (his driver, security etc) to be all "you're joking!"

I've genuinely liked Prescott ever since he punched that guy.

Put a sleeping drug in the booze, strangled the wife. It's a messy episode. Columbo never actually proves the guy did it, and they cast Shera Danese (Mrs Falk) in an important role only for her to have a fight with Falk and go AWOL from filming leading to the ending being rewritten on the spot. But despite all that, Coleman is easily the best thing in it and he was one of those actors who just added class to shows and films, be they On Golden Pond or The Muppets!

Aww we went four years without losing a Columbo villain despite many of them being advanced in age now. Great actor.

Being quoted by you in this thread is very ominous! Especially with some of the legends born 1934. Muncaster better known as a TV presenter, iirc he appears as himself in an episode of Yes Minister.

1992 was insane to look back at. Major had a hung parliament or majority in more than every 3 in 4 polls taken after Major replaced Thatcher, yet this was ignored for the obvious Labour win by the media, politicians and people alike. Afterwards the narrative was "the polls were wrong" when really Crem could have analysed them better than the media did at the time. Starmers policies are very Blair 1997. Gordon Brown believes that the public don't trust Labour to spend until they've been in office for a year or two to prove all the Tory press propaganda wrong. Oh btw you are probably aren't seeing yet what he can do in a first term because we're not in that first term yet. Unless you're a time traveller all along in which case a billion pounds, a pet dinosaur and a chat with my late grandfather for your old mate msc, thanks.

I'm counting Sandy Gall even if he was born abroad! But yeah there's a few DDP worthy ancient Scots who are notable in their own fields but none are A list BBC Breaking News deaths. (For those curious and too lazy to check, celebrity photographer Harry Benson, philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, comics artist Sydney Jordan, and classical musician Thea Musgrave are all alive and waiting for your theme teams.)

But frankly who gives a toss? Rad mentioned the death of a comedian the other week I'd never heard of before, but clearly he meant something to his fans. It's a year not so much of headliners but "oh yeah, them" names.

Died aged 98, in good health well into her nineties, still living in her own home, conversing with family till recently and aware of the public admiration for her famous role. That's about as nice a celebrity death as you'll see tbh.

I once edited a book by a twelve year old. Who wasn't writing in their native language. It was better written than that Star article.

But he was on celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Are you suggesting Chris Tarrant would dreg the barrels of the term celebrity for ratings? I almost kept a straight face there.