The Telegraph was my guess too. I support voting reform, but it's hilarious to see people/Tories whine about it now.

It'll be interesting to see what the Lib Dems do now, since FPTP has absolutely catapulted them forward now. Hopefully they'll still advocate for PR.

Einstein never said that though.

Who cares if people call it "woke"? The kind of people who would get themselves in a tizzy over that sort of thing aren't worth bothering about, and they certainly shouldn't be pandered to.

If you have a story to tell, and characters to present, then tell it and present them your way, no matter what others think. Be true to your own creative instincts, and be judged on them, rather than trying to fit what others will accept.

Agreed in general, but I think 'Prime Minister Starmer' is fine tbh, when used by non UK media and people generally.

I'll need to check that out, I absolutely loved the Crash Course World History he did. Thanks for the heads up!

They bring that up regularly, but it's a false equivalence. At the time of the independence vote it was absolutely true to claim that voting No was true best way to stay in the EU. There was no expectation, none, from anyone that Brexit was on the way. So, at the time, if Europe was the issue then voting to stay in the UK was the logical choice to make.

As for now - well, Swinney (and before him Sturgeon herself) was talking in terms of winning a majority of seats being a mandate for opening independence talks. That's clearly nonsense, since a majority of seats is possible with a fairly small plurality of votes. And, it's looking like it's a moot point anyway, since the SNP seems to have taken a right good kicking this time round.

So Sturgeon is probably not bringing this up tonight because she'd look ridiculous to do so given the (apparent) results in Scotland tonight. If this was a referendum on independence as she and Swinney have suggested, then the result would appear to be a solid No.

Two Tories defected to them, and neither of them were standing for election this time, it was just a gesture against Sunak (although I do wish Labour had told them to fuck off).

And as for the S*n, they just put their weight behind whoever is going to win.

Labour and Starmer are far from perfect, but I think they will be far better, even if just from a competence and basic human decency standpoint.

Not a website, but here's a (low res, sorry) bingo card:

Peter Mandelson? I think he had a point in that Starmer has changed the party from unelectable with Corbyn (which sadly, they were) to a more than realistic prospect for a sensible alternative to the Tories.

You're right of course that the Conservatives have utterly fucked the pooch (not to mention the country) but Starmer has nonetheless made a massive change in making the party palatable to many, many more people (not that I personally agree with quite a lot of his policies and policy reversals)

A party like Reform getting even a single seat is bad for the long-term prospects of this country.

Yeah, puts a real damper on seeing the Tories get the electoral shit kicked out of them to see those fucking Reform loons given access to the Commons.

130 too many, but I'll take it!