LIBS FOR MEL. Although, I doubt that's going to help him in this particular contest....

It feels like most Tories are passionately against state handouts and taxpayer money being dished out like candy - until it comes to pensioners, when they suddenly turn into Leon Trotsky on a particularly socialist day.

By the way, the correct answer is “who cares”. The point of it all is to win seats. That’s what counts. It’s like saying “Arsenal ran 200 more feet as a team per game than Man City.” Who cares - what matters is winning games.

The Conservative Party is facing down the barrel of Jenrick v Badenoch as the final two - a veritable death sentence for the organisation. Deep existential risk to their party if either of them end up as leader.

The alt-right in 2020: western values are under threat. The left topple statues - the next one they’ll come for is Churchill, our greatest hero. The alt-right in 2024: Churchill was responsible for WWII. Perhaps Hitler wasn’t a bad guy after all. Western values are questionable.

If you want to argue for a change in the voting system, be my guest. But don't wholeheartedly support FPTP and then when it spits out a result you don't like, pretend our electoral system is something different than it is.

I've heard a fair bit along the lines of "populism truly won the 2024 general election" since July. However, I have a radical, alternative theory: the party that got over 400 seats and 170+ majority did in fact win the general election.

Barnier really was the biggest winner from Brexit. Too bad the losers of it were most people in Britain.

That there are still hereditary peers in the House of Lords is odd, anachronistic, and further, cuts against the best arguments made in favour of the House (that it is full of people with a diverse set of skills and experience). It only makes sense to get rid of them.

Labour’s plan to get rid of the hereditary peers was in their manifesto. Why is everyone acting surprised about this.

This is the direct result of Brexit - something, if I’m not mistaken, you still think was a great idea. If you want to say Brexit was, in the end, about forcing NI into a united economic Ireland, then you’re finally onto something.

Of course, we should take Vladimir Putin completely at his word, because he never says anything false, anything said just for perceived strategic gain. A total straight shooter, that Vlad.

There’s a certain type of monkey-brained thinking involved in leaving the largest single market in the world because of “German imperialism”, then turning around and believing the Rwanda scheme has been proven to be a good idea just because Germany is considering it.

Look, if the British right have suddenly decided that everything Germany does is automatically good and we should follow in their footsteps, let’s apply to rejoin the European Union today.

It’s just about possible that French politicians do things with their own country in mind, with no thought whatsoever given to us lot off their northern coast.

1. It works as a political strategy 2. The British right has absorbed so much from the American right (as has the British left from the American left, to be fair), that applying the same strategies here now makes sense 3. Most major figures of the British right are now weird

Blair is 100% correct here. We desperately need more politicians who lead and don't follow.

If Trump is the saviour of the western right, why does he love communist autocrats so much?

This photo really drives home how bad an idea Brexit was. We just never stood a chance. We held none of the cards.

The amount of "Starmer will have to resign over this" type tweets, and it's because of something hilariously minor, is getting out of hand. Guys, he's here for five years - probably ten. Maybe fifteen. If you don't like it, build something better.