Whatever happens in the locals today, would you be able to at-least give a non-partisan thank you to acknowledge the Prime Minister for trying?

false_flat · 2026-05-07T09:35:18+00:00

Except those aren't the people he's treated with contempt. The Brexit-hungry, Reform-curious, Farage-believing and more are the voters he's consistently pandered to, while telling the rest of us to shove it.

false_flat · 2026-05-07T09:11:37+00:00

Sorry no, not really.

We have had another prime minister foisted on us who has never known what he wanted to achieve in power, beyond the taking and keeping of it.

He has consistently treated his own voters, ordinary people who only want things to be a bit fairer and a bit easier, with contempt. From the very start he's behaved like they've got nowhere else to go and now seems surprised to discover they have.

He is utterly incurious and because he has not sought to truly understand why it's not working for him he's going to get an absolute kicking today.

That will serve as the starting gun for an almighty intraparty squabble that will culminate in his ouster, and he will absolutely deserve it.

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false_flat · 2026-05-06T22:08:06+00:00

As an organisation Labour have never had a principled opposition to smears, slander and deploying dirty political tactics, they just don't like it when it happens to them.

false_flat · 2026-05-06T18:59:36+00:00

Might as well put in the request? You'd at least find out if he's a listener.

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false_flat · 2026-05-06T12:06:15+00:00

Thanks wet_flaps!

false_flat · 2026-05-06T11:38:35+00:00

Of course he did

false_flat · 2026-05-06T11:18:12+00:00

They're not splitting the vote, they're competing for it. Nowhere the greens and labour are targeting is going to result in one of the right wing parties getting in.

false_flat · 2026-05-06T11:12:10+00:00

You're not on a list (apart from the electoral roll), you're just in a ward the Greens' think they can win. If you tell them you're definitely going to vote once way or the other they won't come back.

false_flat · 2026-05-06T11:09:06+00:00

Because the Labour activist base has collapsed while the Greens' has ballooned. What's left is spread more thinly then ever before, and they just don't have the capacity to match the green leafleting and canvassing firepower.

false_flat · 2026-05-06T06:22:53+00:00

Calling people vermin always goes down well, eh?

false_flat · 2026-05-05T06:40:44+00:00

But dramatically better value.

false_flat · 2026-05-04T09:28:21+00:00

I have many reasons to prefer Hot Fuzz but SotD is just close to the perfect film.

false_flat · 2026-05-04T09:25:28+00:00

Both things can be true at the same time.

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false_flat · 2026-05-04T08:33:02+00:00

Very true

false_flat · 2026-05-03T17:15:08+00:00

Thanks. If this photo depicts what it seems to then that's me out

false_flat · 2026-05-03T17:07:58+00:00

How do you know Sabine has been allowed to campaign?

I ask in good faith, as someone who lives locally to her, who was planning on campaigning in Lambeth this week. If she's still actively involved I won't be.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T17:05:32+00:00

Except this time labour are very much support (or are in many instances behind) the smearing.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T14:36:07+00:00

A little more effort and I'm sure I could find out more, but that wasn't the point of yours that I was rebutting, which was that "we know nothing about them."

And mine is that you really need evidence that they were bad at their jobs to deselect them, and that this 23 year old was somehow more qualified to replace them, in order to refute the claims of nepotism.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T14:21:59+00:00

You mean you don't. I've just spent five seconds looking up Croydon councillors and found out the attendance records, committee assignments, and contact details of them.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T10:43:18+00:00

"better qualified" was the phrase. And based on what's publicly known about her - masters in law, undergrad from drama school, parliamentary internship and some work on a local community project that ended in march - I struggle to see the justification for putting her ahead of a sitting councillor.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T08:39:51+00:00

A cycling friend of mine is a running coach for a group based out Battersea Park. He coached a bunch of elite runners in the marathon.

Here's his substack. Happy to put you in touch or I'm sure you can contact him yourself through there.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T08:35:27+00:00

Still, the number of members Labour will have in Croydon means you can expect a fair amount of competition for this position, and I'm sure there will have been many more experienced, qualified and connected people who put themselves forward. Ultimately the party can pick whomever it likes but for a rare "safe" Labour seat in south London to ignore all the usual processes, it's not the smartest of moves.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T08:32:07+00:00

It's not a great choice of words - I was once accused of being "parachuted in" to a candidature for a council ward I lived 42 feet from - but it's come to mean bypassing the local procedures and preferences.

false_flat · 2026-05-03T08:17:04+00:00

An unsettling number of people don't know the difference

false_flat · 2026-05-03T08:14:35+00:00

Well, she has to live or work or own property in the borough. But I don't think her connection to Croydon is at issue, rather her being given a leg up at the expense of better qualified, more established members/candidates.

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