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Can’t help but feel YouGov are overcooking this … certainly the outlier at the moment

in my dreams

Ha ha Wait til you find out I’ve attended more than one Corbyn rally

Yep, they’re all in on Bristol. To the extent they are neglecting Brighton, which might end up much tighter than expected.

Having been a Green Party member in the past, this completely tracks

The view will be that it’s wildly disproportionate. More so than any election I can make out. The conversation will have to happen after that.

If this happens the big story on July 5 will be how unfair our voting system is. No better argument for PR.

It makes sense for her to comment on what happens on the streets of the UK over what’s happening overseas, because that’s her job

Why? She’s the shadow Home Secretary

this was quite fun to do, had to split the ticket on a couple as impossible to pick one 1980 - The Blues Brothers 1981 - Thief 1982 - The Thing 1983 - Videodrome 1984 - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind 1985 - Ran 1986 - The Fly 1987 - Prince of Darkness / Full Metal Jacket 1988 - My Neighbour...

Quite right, I forgot it got amended. One assumes he’ll have a Renaissance protege prepared.

Belgium was holding national elections, it has lead to an indecisive outcome. The Prime Minister resigned to allow coalition talks. Not related to EU elections.

It’s just the way they decide to do it. It does offer some breathing room by having an extended election process, and the opportunity for the electorate to get whatever protest out of their system in the first round. It’s the preferential voting system across South America, and Croatia...

The parliament consists of single member constituencies like us. If a member gets an absolute majority in the first round they are directly elected. If not it goes to a run off with the second placed candidate (sometimes more if the third placed gets a significant proportion), then it’s a simple...

Jordan Bardella would be PM if National Rally win. The leadership is, let’s say, eccentric, and generally considered incompetent. Macron’s bet is either, a) it acts as a call to arms against the far right and he gets his pick of PM, or b) the RN get in and become massively unpopular in...