Surprising from her.

She seems mad keen on kicking people out.

"Our country is divided, so I'm going to divide it further."

"I can't be racist against immigrants, my parents are immigrants."

"I'm going to tackle the biggest issue making our communities worse off... Wealth hoarders?... No, no, no, small boat crossings."

Braverman 2.0

She woke up this morning and said "I'm going to be evil today". An actual person did that.

I think the reason it doesn't happen is that the 6 Nations was set up as a company at some point, and each of the nations owns an equal share in it.
It's how they vote to allow new nations in, like France all those years ago (twice) and Italy from 2000.
I don't like it, but that's the reason I think

Yeh Japan had so many chances. We were lucky.
But then again, if they deserve to be in the top 12, they need to be taking those chances and not squandering them.

I argued exactly this point when Italy hadn't won a game in 15 years or something.
Would be a bit on the nose to kick Wales out now when Italy were so poor for so long and got away with it.
But I'd feel hypocritical not standing by my principles. Oh well.

Not really getting my point are you, but that's standard for SM these days.

I've called for relegation and promotion in the 6 nations for years. Still stand by it. But, I don't make the rules.

IoM comment, reductio ad absurdum employed clumsily.

If you hadn't won at Twickenham for 2 years, you'd celebrate beating Namibia.

How long does an idea need to be out there for its reversal to be considered a U-turn?

And they'll be denying another U-turn soon when they row back on weaponising fiscal drag, a guaranteed election loser.

In this demographic, many in 2024 lent their vote to Labour to crush Tories and stop Reform.

Now they're being punished for it.
If Labour bring this in they'll plummet in the polls, and Starmer and Reeves will have to go if they are going to avoid one of the biggest losses in history.

He's crossed the Channel more times this year than I can afford to.

Laughing at the idea that Starmer thinks he can demand anything from anyone.
Can't even demand the loyalty from his own voters.

Did he sign the letter with the same signature he used on his transcript with Epstein?
Bless.

Does Trump think he's owned the libs by gloating over a Tory resigning?
This is blue on blue.

So the left should just put up with whatever you tell them to do because...?

At the BBC, change is far more likely than implosion. Just need those in positions of authority to make the right decisions to clean it up.
If they don't, the blame for its downfall lies with the board, not the left.

Everyone will have their own agenda. I'd prefer change, but there again, I still pay my TV license anyway.

And it's not really impotent given all the articles across the media about how it is running out of funds.

If you don't like the service being provided, taking your custom elsewhere is a fundamental right.

Forcing people to pay for something that is objectively corrupt, and shaming them for not wanting to accept said corrupt service, reeks of an authoritarianism that no-one wants.