This is also true, but the other side is that threats that might have worked for Kinnock, Miliband and Corbyn didn't land because of the Ming vase strategy and even the Tory newspapers had given up with "Labour will tax your second house/car/holiday/cat" type stories.

I'm absolutely restricting myself to a maximum of five that don't feature in the lists on the website. Imo there's no point treating this as 56-100 of your own list.

Suspect if they had their phones they'd have stayed there and annoyed people. Was going to go up there but couldn't in the end. Instead I'm going to see Radiohead in Berlin and enjoy some people who only know them through one song on TikTok.

Turnout went down last year, as it does every time Labour come into power, because millions of conservative voters weren't sufficiently scared of the idea of Starmer as PM.

All the lecterns said Change, and people aren't seeing much of that. They are also on 15% and below the line for trust on nearly every issue. I'm not a SW1 person, but I feel like there's a lot of not seeing the wood for the trees here.

15 years of back dated Fuel Duty. Everyone needs to submit all their petrol receipts going back to 2011.

Just make it permanent. Silly song and dance every ten years

One from pedant's corner. Are the Sheeran keeping himself from the summit? I think they should be struck from the record, preventing yourself from reaching #1 is not as pure as a Joe Dolce MT effort.

When I think about some of the things I read about British politics during the week on Substack or some corners of the British media, then I think about what the BBC emails me each week.