Former postman

A number of factors are in play: Tradition/tribalism A relatively high proportion of BAME people who tend to vote Labour. The wealthy/educated middle classes turning away from the conservatives because they find Johnson obscene. London voted 60% to remain in the EU and the Conservatives under Johnson are basically the Brexit party. Big cities tend to vote Labour. Starmer is a Tory lite and has positioned Labour as a viable alternative for small 'c' conservatives.

I think most voters were punishing the conservatives for continuing to allow themselves to be led by a lying, lawbreaking buffoon.

Brainwashed by right wing media billionaires, big data targeted social media campaigns, Russian troll factories etc and a compliant state broadcaster where client journalists unquestionly parrot Tory lies "for balance".

Over to you BoE

Lol Eustice really thinks that poor people are poor because they are splashing out on walkers crisps and Heinz beans instead of buying own brands??

Housing associations are not for profit organizations. The 'Not for profit' bit runs counter to the Tory dogma that 'profit=good'. Nonsense of course, but everything the Tories do is nonsense. If Bodger Johnson actually cared about renters he'd build MORE social housing (not sell them off), introduce rent controls, expand and strengthen tenants rights and implement right to buy for PRIVATE tenants.

Interest rates eventually went down though, the price of houses just keeps going up.

I see the usual tropes about millennials being feckless are being bandied about... So here's one of my own; Millennials have been absolutely fcuked by selfish gen Xers and boomers who expect the generations after them to work twice as hard for the same provision because "back in our day we didn't have smart phones".

Just wait another 15 years. Most of them will be dead.

Apparently Murthy is 42 years old. She looks closer to 62 than 42

At least when Labour "spent all the money" we had something to show for it. The conservatives have spent even more money than Labour did yet we're all getting poorer and public services are decimated.

Woohoo! thanks Rishi for the 5p fuel duty cut which will bring prices back down to last week's levels.

If wages go up at the same rate as inflation. No sign of that yet though

I have a machete, an airgun for small game, water purification tablets enough for 20,000 litres and a month's worth of dried food in storage. Not that any of that would do any good in case of a nuclear bomb.

The police should be pulling up at Threadneedle Street and arresting people at this point. It's criminal.

In fact, hasn't the average number of people per household decreased over the past 10 years? So in reality there's actually more homes to go around today than there was in the recent past? I'm certain I read that somewhere

Rootin' tootin' Putin is on the move, all your base are belong to us!

Has JRM found any Brexit benefits yet?

My oak tree is holding up nicely. I don't know about next door's conifers though, they're really starting rock. The worst of the winds haven't hit us yet!

There was a program on TV about dairy farming the other day. The price has barely increased in a decade which has contributed to bad farming practices and animal cruelty/increased stress for the animals. We could all do well to pay a few more pence on the price of a litre of milk.

**42% of the people who bothered to vote** In reality it's less than 30% of the electorate who voted for the conservative party and closer to 20% of the total population. We are literally in a situation where 1 in 5 people are dictating the direction of country for the other 4. Fptp is broken

Bloody hope not, I have a 150 year old oak in my garden.

Hang the lot of them I say

It's not about him having a swig of wine, it's about the web of lies he has woven around the whole affair. "Levelling up" is a meaningless slogan that amounts to nothing tangible. It's a nice label they can slap onto the regular allocation of funds from central government to pretend they're doing something.

No way. He will be forcibly removed if that's by his own party, or by a devastating election loss if for some miracle he survives all the way to a general election