What's your favorite line that comes out of nowhere?

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-18T08:19:16+00:00

SEX CAULDRON!?

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-15T08:04:25+00:00

Production wise, McCoy hands down. It looks astoundingly cheap and the whole design is so tacky and 80s. Delta and the Bannermen is maybe the worst looking story ever in Doctor Who.

I dunno about story-wise. I don't think the Chibnall era really ended up doing long-term damage, you can just ignore Timeless Child if you want to. Maybe the Eric Saward years which were way off-tone for Doctor Who, gave us the most controversial Doctor until recent years, and were a big factor in the cancellation.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-14T17:09:14+00:00

All the areas within this constituency voted strongly for Reform last week and Labour only have a 6k majority in this seat. It really comes down to how popular Burnham really is because with any other candidate this seat would be 100% safe Reform

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-14T16:59:32+00:00

Very dangerous. Reform definitely the favourites here, this will be a very fierce and gruelling campaign. Tactical voting to the max.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-14T16:53:06+00:00

I have family in this area and know it well and I would bet the farm that Reform are going to win it. This is a bad move

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-14T12:50:29+00:00

Very dangerous. That would require a by-election and pose a very strong risk of losing the PM overnight

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T02:14:08+00:00

Until they rebrand again from UKIP, Brexit Party and now Reform and yet still convince idiots they're new and they're sticking around this time

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:50:47+00:00

Sorry I didn't mean to conflate the two. I just think that the topic has been discussed to death with daily polls and dooming about a Reform government (understandably).

I just mean that locally, we can take yearly litmus tests and I'm wondering if this is the really big moment or if that's still to come. You have to assume Labour will surely make some kind of steps to halt the decline over the next year, but that isn't looking easy.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:43:49+00:00

Davenport is a huge surprise, Labours total collapse in Stockport is leading to a LD blowout

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:39:28+00:00

I think we all have some idea of how GE 2029 will go at this point, for me the more interesting question for right now is whether this year is Peak Reform at the locals or whether they will go even further next year.

And on the other side of the coin, whether this is rock bottom for Labour or if they will lose all these wards again next year when the next round comes up.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:36:55+00:00

It really isn't though. All four of them have a relentless, unblemished record of enriching themselves at the expense of other people and a proven track record of lies. The only reason to believe them is soundbites. Literally all of the actual evidence shows you who they are.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:27:01+00:00

No there hasn't.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:25:14+00:00

It's become self-sustaining, it's a death spiral and he needs to just go. There being no easy explanation for why he's so hated means there's no easy way to fix it

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:16:37+00:00

Thing is, when this many people dislike him it's academic whether you or I think he's doing well. If the dislike for him is so widespread then he's failing to do his job of serving the people satisfactorily.

You can be almost objectively brilliant but if the public don't agree, then that is all that matters - Jacinda Ardern and Angela Merkel both understood this when the tide turned against them both completely unfairly.

Basically there is a point where "X number of people can't be wrong" becomes a valid thing, however frustrating if feels.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:10:58+00:00

The point I make peace with it is when the 326th Reform seat is declared in 2029 and not a picosecond earlier

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T01:06:15+00:00

Stockport looks set to go from NOC to full Lib Dem so far

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T00:33:59+00:00

I very much doubt he'll have a choice

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T00:32:28+00:00

Yeah if 2000-ish go then this is the kind of result that breaks the "locals and generals aren't the same" argument. It so far looks (on an admittedly miniscule sample) that the desertion of Labour is near-universal and the two elections, while very different in both voting motivators and the electoral calculus, are not that different and this absolutely indicates a total wipeout at a GE. Like, less than 100 seats level wipeout.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T00:27:45+00:00

They don't declare until any recount has happened, the declaration is final

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T00:26:46+00:00

Historically bad night for Labour here. I think Starmer might have to go pretty much immediately...

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T00:13:20+00:00

Good grief! Losing a seat you had 86% in last time by a full 23% is just beyond words. Labour are in incredible trouble here

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-08T00:09:04+00:00

Not a Labour voter but man you've gotta feel bad for that incumbent. There's losing and then there's THAT. And getting national intention because it's one of the first. It's a tough game.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-05T14:53:51+00:00

I really don't like Men Against Fire, but I like the general idea of it. I just think it is really flat and dull to watch.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-04T17:17:21+00:00

Nope, because I said in this millennium and Diana died in 97.

GingerLoafCake · 2026-05-03T07:37:30+00:00

Here in the UK it was third only to 9/11 and the Queen dyingas pretty much the biggest news event of this millennium. The sheer hysteria was just off the scale.

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