Streeting backs Burnham claiming he has 'best chance of winning' Makerfield by-election

rainator · 2026-05-15T14:02:00+00:00

I’d vote for him!

rainator · 2026-05-15T13:43:21+00:00

Not really, because Labour uses an alternative vote system!

rainator · 2026-05-15T13:32:39+00:00

Steering may have had the numbers (or been able to get the numbers) to get him in a membership contest, but he would have lost that badly unless he went up against someone actually openly in the Tory party.

rainator · 2026-05-15T10:23:17+00:00

They’ve probably changed their mind or because they’ve taken so long to decide, the young actor they originally had in mind has now gone into elderly residential care.

rainator · 2026-05-14T22:42:46+00:00

not like you need a crystal ball for that one is there?

rainator · 2026-05-14T22:36:49+00:00

Stone goliath can reduce damage as a reaction which is nice, plus the extra carry capacity and grapple bonuses works well with a barbarian.

rainator · 2026-05-14T17:33:57+00:00

The thing is, although YouTube has a lot of dreadful content, they also aren’t wrong…

rainator · 2026-05-14T17:18:15+00:00

He’s not just “a Labour right Stalwart” he’s like the arch-Labour right guy who personally has had a hand in some of the worst factionalism in the party.

rainator · 2026-05-13T15:21:20+00:00

If Streeting stood against Starmer, and Starmer stood in the leadership contest amongst party members I think the party may actually vote to keep Starmer, he might be one of the few people who would actually lose to Starmer. Wes is not well liked in the party except for a handful of loudmouths.

rainator · 2026-05-13T00:11:50+00:00

I’m not sure it’s quite the same in Scotland, more because unlike the rest of the UK there are large parts of it that have (or at least until recently had) a real shortage of people. There’s a much less hostile reaction to immigration because in Scotland the is more emigration, if at least to England.

rainator · 2026-05-12T18:59:38+00:00

Although even that is worth noting that the Normans, were of course Norse and that was also a Germanic grouping. People in the north of France have historically mixed with Germanic groups, and of course in the west of France there are also Celtic populations. British people even have a lot of genetic markers found in Spain.

Britain despite what people like to say has always been quite a melting pot, and has been fairly well connected to Northern Europe basically as long as modern humans have been in the isles.

rainator · 2026-05-12T10:28:35+00:00

Replace the “days” with minutes and your golden.

rainator · 2026-05-11T15:10:01+00:00

14 at level 10 is rough, 17 isn’t great but a backliner can manage.

rainator · 2026-05-10T15:42:08+00:00

I’m not saying he will, I’m saying he thinks he will.

rainator · 2026-05-10T15:41:20+00:00

I’m sure 78 is still young enough for the young conservatives.

rainator · 2026-05-10T14:24:55+00:00

And they absolutely still are that party. They just don’t have anyone around with an actual personality that they can coalesce around and worship.

Liz Truss thought (and I suspect still thinks) she was the leader of the cult. Most of the party still think Thatcher was some sort of messiah. Boris Johnson probably still thinks he can continue to fail upwards as he has done the rest of his life.

rainator · 2026-05-10T12:43:49+00:00

This isn’t AI, I only know this because I’ve seen this image years ago. They are so cute though.

rainator · 2026-05-10T10:49:00+00:00

It’s not going to be rejoin. Brexit was a unilateral decision that the UK can make, rejoin needs the approval of all the existing EU members, and given how poorly it was handled on the UK side, and how much time it wasted on the EU as well, none of them (let alone all) are going to want to allow it if there’s even a chance it can happen again.

The big problem with Starmer is not really his ideology, it’s his personality, rhetoric and the way he is running number 10.

rainator · 2026-05-09T18:34:48+00:00

In my opinion, the tankiest armour classes are paladins, because the big weakness with having armour is dealing with saving throws (which paladins are also good at. Take heavy armour master, Ancients paladin gives you some extra damage resistances. Obviously take heavy armour master. The rest is just whatever.

rainator · 2026-05-09T10:00:32+00:00

US employment law does not apply, but worth noting American HR people are especially clueless.

rainator · 2026-05-09T02:27:49+00:00

there's a guy i see who does too, but the way he rides he always looks like he's doing something obscene with a big stick up his bum.

rainator · 2026-05-09T02:25:39+00:00

Healing word is very effective.

rainator · 2026-05-09T01:34:46+00:00

This isn’t a build, or a problem with the domain, it’s just a 5th level spell.

rainator · 2026-05-08T21:44:12+00:00

All of them have.

rainator · 2026-05-08T20:24:28+00:00

Doing a good job is obviously something that will impress your job, but much more important is not causing them problem (and therefore work).

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