It's not really a question of cucking Tate, it's more a case of freeing women from him and his pimp followers.

And why are they raging so much at women? Self-loathing at their own steroid-induced impotence? Inability to comprehend normal human emotional connection? Angry losers.

2: As Starmer and many others predicted, the end result was much tighter than the polls predicted. Lots of shy Tories out there, and a smaller number of people switching from Labour to Green as a protest (as we'd seen in our local council elections).

We are British. We will do things our own way; we will not copy foreigners.

Mosley. Black shirts, not brown. Our way.

The fun part is that, whatever happens in Romania, once that's over, he's going to be sent back here to face more pending charges.

And it didn't escape my notice that Farage was name-checking Tate during the campaign. It'll be nice to see both of them vanish from public view.

Luckily Reform only got 5. That's 5 too many, but better than 13. They're the 7th largest party in the new Parliament (if you count Independents as a party, which is a stretch-- I regard them as the null party).

ABCDEF: Anyone Besides Conservatives, but Don't Ever Farage.

Hopefully the Conservatives will treat Farage as the scabrous con artist that he is, and won't give him the opportunity to feast on their party's rotting corpse.

And yet many countries with PR still have crap governments and bad policies. You'll never have a perfect system since you're still expected to choose one party, but there's a large number of policies and issues to address, and the odds are that no party gets the mix correct for most voters. It's a one-dimensional system to implement multidimensional politics. So quibbling over the particular metric to use to allocate seats along that single dimension is missing the larger problem. Something closer to direct democracy might be better, but that requires an engaged, disciplined and educated electorate.

The less intuitive the system is, the less empowered the voters feel, and the more the system will be gamed. And all voting systems can be gamed.

Of course tactical voting patterns would change under a different electoral system, so don't treat this as exact.

Not for the British people, no it isn't.

They had to drag her out of the toilets to even get her on the podium.

It's even more mechanistic. The global far right gets funding from the fossil-fuel industry and petrostates. It's ther way of buying time while they burn down civilisation.

It was a stunt, not a policy.

Reform is the 4th-largest party in Parliament. If the UK had a law requiring mouthpieces of foreign powers to register, that would affect Reform, which repeats Russian talking points verbatim. Better, such mouthpieces should be banned from office.

That should apply to those who repeat verbatim the positions of the Israeli governing party as well.

The much less bad guys won. They still have some unacceptable policies, for example on trans rights and Palestine.

Sydney has 6 million people compared to Auckland 1.2., Melbourne 5 with similar land area. If you look at % then yes, look at people per sqkm we are no where close.

So you don't need as many buses to achieve the same coverage. Public transport infrastructure costs are not fixed for a certain land area, they are also proportional to potential ridership.

Yeah, you can't use austerity as evidence of economic problems when austerity is NP policy. Self-fulfilling prophesy.

And the only real reason for austerity is to make the rich richer and drive inequality even higher.

Our country is less than 200 years old

Presence of Europeans in your country is less than 200 years old.

Almost as if certain governments and malefactors of great wealth were coordinating in promoting it.