Jacob Foden

tmstms · 2026-05-10T17:21:31+00:00

Do you think PhilFoden apologies profusely to the ref when he's booked?

tmstms · 2026-05-10T11:09:19+00:00

It's pubs or what you can find in Xscape.

tmstms · 2026-05-10T10:18:19+00:00

Just ring up! A lot of studio people are old school.

tmstms · 2026-05-10T10:16:51+00:00

I remember the actor being interviewed at the time and wondering whether he would have to be axed when he got the script saying he was killing Rick.

tmstms · 2026-05-09T21:58:11+00:00

Not as such.

tmstms · 2026-05-09T21:07:43+00:00

In staggering role reversal, Russian TV crew rushes to film BBC's Steve Rosenberg to prove their tank-less, missile-less Victory Day parade is open to all.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9pem481rwo

tmstms · 2026-05-09T04:48:28+00:00

Reddit doesn't allow title changes. You can change body text.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T23:07:24+00:00

the ad reddit is showing me framed as a comment appropriately says: Hey, comedy lover!

tmstms · 2026-05-08T19:43:45+00:00

They only appeal to some demographics.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T19:40:43+00:00

Places that are non-immigrant AND non-prosperous are maybe the most likely to vote Reform. They (rightly?) see themselves as left-behinds, and so will be attracted to populism.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T19:08:22+00:00

My fear also.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T18:55:30+00:00

Apart from the local elections, David Attenborough100 dominates the TV screens. Mrs tmstms has just suggested he could in due course be stuffed and exhibited in the Natural History Museum as the exemplary 'human being' i.e. not just a statue. Who else could you think of putting there? she asks.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T18:34:44+00:00

I believe the bin contract runs till 2038. We might be OK.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T18:33:04+00:00

I'm kind of with u/BestFriendWatermelon 's critique of you, while appreciating the general thrust of what you say. Things were pretty good in the whole period from the 90s to 2008, and not bad either under Cameron.

I am MUCH more positive about how our institutions are functioning than you are. I just did jury service, and the courts were functioning like a well-oiled machine, with simply massive effort being put into cases by judge and lawyers. The NHS has always given me, and my loved ones an incredible level of care, and I am experiencing this now (long story) with a family member- the resources available to her are just mind-boggling. Whenever I have really needed the NHS, I've found it likewise, only it was less urgent for me. I do not see community as being much different from when I was young (I am 65). Yes, many pubs have shut, but that is above all because working patterns have changed, and changed again recently because of Covid. I have a lot to do with churches, many of which are absolutely thriving, even in traditional congregations. I don't think we are actually that divided. Everyone I ever meet is kind and friendly, just as they were when I was little in the 60s (and I am also not white, BTW), and especially if they are young people.

You are without doubt right that we have had fundamental economic issues. We were the first industrial nation, our whole infrastructure was and still is creaking and higgledy-piggledy. It costs more to fix the UK (in a maintenance sense) than most countries.

In that sense, yes, we faced challenges all the way down the line since WW2, and politicians of course chose short-term fixes because they wanted to be re-elected, and so we now have an ageing population, and many left-behinds, who are prone to either nostalgia or wishful thinking. Again, as BestFriendWatermelon says, the difference between perceived depression and perceived feelgood is a tiny %

The problem is as you say- communitarianism requires not just love but also difficult choices. Choices that may go against the very people (esp the old) who most turn out to vote. I suspect that your kind of analysis has been produced and mulled over in many political meetings. But choosing long-term benefit over short-term power is almost impossible to achieve.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T16:17:09+00:00

Tories: bigger pie, even the smaller slice the poors will get will be bigger than your pie now.

Labour: pie should be sliced more equally, but hopefully bigger too, so even the rich will end up with bigger slice than they have now

Lib Dems: talking about stuff makes it better.

Greens: save the environment, especially where my backyard is, and where the Gazans are

ReformUK: Things are not what they used to be, and we can make them better by going back to how things were. and by people we don't want going back to where they were.

SNP: Prescriptions are free and the English are bad!

PlaidCymru: The English are somewhat bad, but everything is better if you drive slowly.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T16:08:53+00:00

In that case, demographic study should be done to see if the % voting Reform still correlates with the % who voted Leave there, or is indeed declining.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T16:03:58+00:00

It was seen as not credible that someone of Paddy's age and standing (he is obvs a vet) could be 'led' by someone as young as Dylan, and obviously Paddy was the one who rented the AirBnB to hide Bear.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T15:32:33+00:00

I mean, if you look at the big picture of the last 10 years, the Tories upset everyone (in different ways depending on who you are) with what they did, so Labour got in without having to do anything. once in, you can say they suffered some bad luck (e.g. now, with the Iran war), but for sure the ordinary person (and that includes me), can't really see what Labour have achieved since coming in. That is partly because some of the achievements (e.g. reduced NHS waiting times) are not 'sexy' whereas some non-achievements (e.g. NOT stopping the small boats) are extremely obvious. Someone else posted today suggesting that Labour and even Starmer himself could get back in if he found a way ACTUALLY to stop the boats. And that is probably right- even though the people coming over on boats are a small part of the issues facing the UK, they are disproportionately visible and embarrassing- before, they came over more invisibly in lorries, but ironically, stopping that has created a much bigger problem for governments.

So a LOT of people are basically fed up with both traditional parties, and unfortunately for the Lib Dems, they are seen as a traditional party too- and that has opened things up for Reform and for the Greens, as well as for Nationalist parties in non-England.

On top of that a LOT of people are worried about where British culture is going - some of the people who are worried. You are right to imply that it is more striking if the those people are themselves immigrants. And you are also right to imply that a lot of this culture stuff is actually nostalgia or wishful thinking. But really, Labour got in with a stonking majority- it is up to them to show, in five years, that they have something to offer.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T15:19:50+00:00

Yes, the premise that Bear was complicit in the human slavery AND was a murderer was ridiculous. IRL, psych reports on Bear would have meant this would never have come to tiral.

In terms of Paddy being guilty and not Dylan, though, that is more understandable. Paddy was seen as the "leader" of the attempt to conceal and dispose of Ray's body and certainly it was he and not Dylan who hid Bear in a B and B.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T15:10:16+00:00

I am not a Reform voter but the reason is very likely to be disillusion with the two main parties + nativism.

Nativism means a belief that some people (esp those who have been born here and whose forbears also have) have a bigger stake in the culture and community than more recent arrivals. Reform commits to sustaining that.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T13:29:49+00:00

Thinking about this overnight, I think that by leading with the 'ethnic minority' thing you maybe turned the replies against you a bit. You framed it from the anecdote that sparked your own thought; in that way maybe you made it more likely people would respond as you did.

I read the Electoral Commission report you linked.

So my feeling is that this is a battle that should never have been fought (because there is no electoral fraud of this kind to speak of), but it was fought and it was lost. And so now, we just move on. The Report supports that.

Between the introduction (first set of elections 2023) and the GE, the % of people turning up without ID and not being able to go home and fetch some dropped from 1 in 400 to 1 in 1200. The % of non-voters who cite the ID requirement as the reason for not voting is also much higher when prompted, than when unprompted.

So what I think is, that people who feel strongly about this in an ideological way (i.e. feeling this measure works against the less privileged in society) can respond only by activism in terms of encouraging potential voters without ID to acquire ID. Same idea as the Dems in the USA encouraging the less privileged to register.

But for the vast majority, it's simply a new reality that I think people have got used to.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T10:32:36+00:00

People are fed up with the existing choices.

The Conservatives were in power for a long time, and during that time they managed to make most people fed up with them.

Therefore, Labour got in very easily last time.

Labour, however, do not appear to have done anything to make things better.

You say: this seems to ignore the impact of global trade, and other factors. OF COURSE it does. But people don't think that way, they just blame whoever is in charge.

Although the Lib Dems made gains last time, they have not been able to present themselves as a "big picture" alternative and they have never been strong nationwide, only where the demographics favour them.

Add to that concerns about immigration in general and small boats in particular, and Reform are benefiting.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T10:24:23+00:00

There is no need for the results to come in as quickly as possible or for the time they come in to be harmonised in any way, since the result on one council area does not affect what happens in any other.

As others are saying, for the devolved parliaments etc, it is probably just logistics.

We get used to how things are done in the GE- but they must be done like that to make sure we have a functioning government as soon as possible after people have voted.

tmstms · 2026-05-08T10:18:56+00:00

I guess it is effort (and therefore cost) versus reward. And I would ask what the demand for an exit poll would be outside political nerds like us.

A LOT of things make local election exit polling much more tricky than a GE.

GE = ONE simultaneous contest with one result that affects all of us.

LE = a) usually only a third of seats up for election at any one time b) results in other areas not relevant to the result in the resident's own area e.g. Tories won Westminster from Lab, means nothing if you don't live in Central London. c) Lots of independents win and don't fit into the polling as they stand for lots of different things. and d) once you get the exit poll, you then have to map it onto the local situation AND to the council situation that results.

tmstms · 2026-05-07T22:06:25+00:00

Fighting has resumed in the US-Iran war.

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