THE CONCRETE ROUNDABOUT (TCR)

If you're not including Blair, and by extension Brown, then the last one would have been 1974-79... 50 years ago. Hardly relevant at all when you think about it.

Ultimately the Tories have done an excellent job of angering the population, so much so that I've vowed I'll never vote for them at all, so the answer to the original question is still a resounding no.

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Those that we love never truly leave us. There are things that death cannot touch. Paint... and memory... and love.

Make sure you get down to the polling station today.

If there's nobody that you want to vote for (which I think is the case for me, although I haven't checked out the independents yet) then make sure you go down and spoil your paper - it's the only way you can actually show that you were motivated enough to go down there, but that there was nothing suitable for you.

Bring on the revolution.

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Website now updated as often as once every few years. Very exciting.

6am, BBC Radio 4, The Today Programme

"The Conservative Party on course for their worst local election results in over 40 years".

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They say don't kick a man when he's down. Show me a better time.

This morning's Mail online website...

"Rishi takes a beating in brutal night for Tories: Starmer gloats of 'seismic' win as Labour seizes back ex Red Wall seat in Blackpool South by-election, as Sunak faces local council bloodbath in 'road test' for General Election"

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They say don't kick a man when he's down. Show me a better time.

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Redacted

Labour have just won overall control of MK Council

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Redacted

There was a Conservative junior minister on The World At One this lunchtime. His analysis of the absolute drubbing they took last night was that it was a protest vote, and come the general election Tory voters will return Sunak to No' 10 on a wave of unbridled optimism. When confronted by the fact that they've lost the last 5 by-elections with unpresented swings to Labour, that they're on average 20 points behind Labour in the polls, that in Blackpool they only came second to third placed Reform by 117 votes, that there was a 26% swing to Labour from the last time the seat was up for grabs, ect', ect', ect', he started blathering on about the mayoral results. When confronted by the fact that all three of their most prominent candidates up for re-election or hoping to retain their gig weren't mentioning that fact that they were Conservatives on their election literature, he just continued to quite literally continued to postulate that come the election, they were a shoe-in to win.

I guess you can't expect them to come on and say, yep' we're fucked, but he was outstanding.

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They say don't kick a man when he's down. Show me a better time.

Just saw that meself. Labour now have overall majority. Tories -7. Labour +4 Lib Dem +3

I can't say I'm sorry.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

You beat me to it. I heard that. Started laughing/choking on my tea.

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Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment

Don't suppose you heard Lee Anderson on The Today Programme this morning? He was a different kind of idiot. Started off by trying to pick a fight with Nick Robinson, who swiftly put him in his place by telling him that Radio 4 wasn't the kind of station where politicians interviewed one another, and there was an actual station where that happened. Strange tactic wading in with all guns blazing. He really is an odious man.

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They say don't kick a man when he's down. Show me a better time.