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As the saying goes, Britain wanted European style public services but on an American style low tax system, and eventually how that ends is we've ended up with American public services on a European higher tax system

Barry Ferguson as caretaker manager once ran out a strike partnership of Neal Bishop playing off Louis Almond who randomly got a call up for his first career appearance against Burnley. I think that was the worst I have ever seen.

Farage definitely knows a lot about winning general elections with the 7 times he stood and 7 times he's lost 👍

If they can't mobilise voters and get them out to the ballot box as you are admitting then I am literally correct in my assertion that 13% is too high because right now they wouldn't be able to convert that. That is my point. All you've done is bake in the expectation. By the way, Blackpool...

I think you're forgetting what the point of a poll is here and what I've been arguing. Pollsters ask people who they would vote for if an election were tomorrow. Some people are saying Reform, yet imperfect but still useful by-election results so far aren't matching that number. Polls aren't...

You mention Wellingborough with a very odd interpetation of that result again - that should have also been a seat they needed to do better than their national polling in. UKIP got 2nd place there above Labour in the 2015 GE with 20% of the vote, but got 13% overall in the UK. Sorry to beat a...

My points all along in this thread is that Reform haven't been backing up their polling and so far havent been converting that in by-elections for a myriad of reasons, so I'm highly spectical they will do so at a GE. At the start of this thread you were sort of pushing this poll and idea they...

JJ, you don't seem to understand that polls cover the entirety of Great Britain. If Reform were hoping to get 16% of the vote in an election tomorrow, they would simply have to get a much higher result in a demographically friendly place like Blackpool South, because they will be getting nowhere...

You are arguing that the Tories should step aside and let Reform have a go and you think 20% in Blackpool South is too high an expectation? That's a very low bar. It's 20% of the vote, it doesn't matter what the turnout is. It's a relative number. I don't know where this story has come from that...

Hopefully they've vetted him a bit more than some of the other candidates they've had to drop recently. At least he's got a better background, having set up a food bank. Must have had some interesting conversations with 30p Lee on the campaign, since he doesn't think food poverty exists in...

Nothing weirder than a British person writing fanfic about Donald Trump

It looks a bit like it but it's literally different colours. Objectively, they are different colours. So if you are arguing it's close enough so that means it's definitely the same, then you also agree it's the St.Georges Cross, since it looks a bit like it, and you won't have a problem with...

Their energy section is laughably bad. Just easily debunked theories copied from Twitter comments. The atmosphere is only 0.4% carbon dioxide so how can it be that bad? Well, because we live in a goldilocks planet which harbours the only known life in the solar system and likely the only...

As I said in the post you are replying to this is objectively true and I don't have a problem with people wanting it to be the proper cross and being reasonably disappointed. What I was remarking on initially was the hilariously over the top anger at the misguided belief it was something 'woke'...

No argument there, it objectively isnt and I can see why people would want the actual accurate St.George's flag, I probably think it should have it too. But as evident in this thread different variations of it have been commonplace on kits for decades now and never mustered this much...

It literally isn't the bi flag.

Speaking as a socialist myself, I have to say left wing/socialism loses a lot and it means a lot of people associated with it have become slightly obsessed with losing and therefore act like losers and get scared any time something good might be happening - especially if it means having to...

I love living in a normal country where everyone is normal about things

What did you mean by it? I took it to mean you were dismissing the polls showing how unfavourable he is and how few people actually strongly like him.

Oh? What is wrong with YouGov? They are a member of the BPC, called the last election remarkably accurately, are fully transparent with their methodology and cross tabs, and favourability ratings are far easier to gauge than voting intention (a simple do you like this person or not is less messy...