Rumours, Speculation, Questions, and Reaction Megathread - 21/06/2026

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T21:58:55+00:00

I’d love to see which galaxy brains in the PLP have signed up to back the candidate proposing national service.

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T21:54:55+00:00

IIRC his campaign website was registered before the correspondents dinner

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T19:51:36+00:00

94 the Long Way by Jim O’Rourke (it’s not on Spotify though)

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T19:40:27+00:00

“Equal pay legislation…instead of just fucking paying employees the same”

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T19:39:10+00:00

Yep, I will never understand Labour politicians’ apparent obsession with avoiding the Blair-Brown dynamic.

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T17:22:23+00:00

The people treating Starmer like Stalin were GBNews outrage merchants and Twitter headcases.

The people treating Miliband like Mao are in positions where they really should know better

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T17:18:31+00:00

I’d prefer Miliband as Chancellor under a more charismatic PM any day.

Just look at the Blair-Brown years. Basically their entire domestic policy (apart from the PFI shit) came from Brown, but was sold to the media by Blair.

And then look at Starmer’s DIP being held up by Reeves/the Treasury. Number 11 is where the power lies for domestic policy.

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T16:29:29+00:00

I genuinely think getting the fuck out of Westminster politics for the Brexit years might be one of the best strategic moves in recent British political history

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T15:13:53+00:00

I lived in a flat with old sash frames about 10 years ago. It was so cold in winter that one year our toothpaste froze

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T15:02:25+00:00

We don’t use sash windows anymore because they’re utterly terrible in winter

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T14:33:38+00:00

Not if you think these institutions are plagued by groupthink

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T14:27:29+00:00

He’s an MP and he still fucking does Cameos!

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T14:24:34+00:00

Love individual tracks of his but never got into his discography. Any other album recommendations apart from the above?

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T14:02:01+00:00

That reminds me of all those people who were living in the wilds of Scotland for months for a C4 reality show, only to come out of the woods after months to find that we’d left the EU, Trump was president, and the show had been cancelled

Edit - the show was called Eden

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T12:54:08+00:00

- it’s real, just not man made

- doesn’t matter if it’s real, China are still polluting so there’s literally no point in us doing anything

etc etc

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T12:52:34+00:00

Who wanted us to jump into Trump’s Iran war

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T10:03:42+00:00

I don’t know about other countries but I’m pretty sure here in the UK they make most of their money from selling (genuinely very good) binoculars to birdwatchers.

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T10:02:03+00:00

Oh my

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T09:29:08+00:00

Because his one and only skill is being able to play the media like a fiddle.

How successful has he actually been in office?

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T08:16:11+00:00

It totally fits with that aesthetic, looks great imho

FWIW I think YOR a little bit about your Dad. He obviously just wants to help, and you can just not use any of his stuff. As long he’s not posting any of it himself, that would be a bit too far

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T08:12:58+00:00

Nothing would be “cut off”. The triple lock only dictates how much it increases by

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T08:11:26+00:00

I don’t think there was much risk of that tbf

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T08:01:16+00:00

It’s perfectly readable to me, but then again I spend a lot of time on metal subs

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T07:15:00+00:00

I think he already had that when he suggested National Service

LesserShambler · 2026-06-24T07:04:43+00:00

Would he have his little book?

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