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Stoke are also apparently in for Balotelli. Carlos Bacca has gone to AC Milan. Both they are Inter are really set on getting back up there.

This mayoral election is going to make me feel really bitter. I can't imagine how the non-Mancunians will feel...

Rodgers still has the problem that he doesn't seem to have all of the dressing room on side - the downside of finding a XI that works for a few months (as he's done for the last two seasons) is that it alienates anyone who isn't in it. Players like Lucas don't seem to want to be there any more.

It'll be closer. Chelsea will be better equipped but their focus has to be on not performing as poorly in Europe again. Arsenal will be stronger this time, as will United (although they're coming from further back) and City will eventually start spending and may even blood some youngsters. Top four looks pretty set in stone.

The national picture is different, but below that - and particularly where you've got an elected position wielding as much power as the Mayor - it's far easier to put your money where your mouth is. Cameron might parrot on about building more homes but he won't do a lot about it and it would be difficult even if he wanted to. Goldsmith as Mayor would have all the levers in the world but he wouldn't want to pull them.

Having never lived there, it's hardly accurate for me to say but I get the feeling that Sadiq is fairly well known in London. Prominent local MP, which counts for a lot. He's definitely better known in the city than Kendall is nationally.

So much of the resentment problem comes from the fact that so much of the country is unaffordable that new immigrants end up clustering in the same places. Obviously human nature means that this would happen to some extent regardless, but it's exaggerated massively by the housing market.

You don't think KHAAAAAAAAN could beat Goldsmith?

Which is a tiny fraction of the growth seen by most of the world. If we're full, what does that make Lagos or Mumbai?

It still irks me that being moved from Defence to International Development is seen as a demotion.

Both Milan clubs are really set on getting back into Europe. There's a distinct possibility that Italy could take our fourth CL spot next season, which makes it even more imperative.

One is directly caused by the other - right now Liz is struggling to break out of the Blairite/free schools/defence spending typecast which has led to more people feeling immediately like they know if they're with or against her. She won't win by simply being the most moderate/right wing - she needs a message akin to Yvette's on childcare or Andy's on healthcare and being Northern. Admittedly those two have a head start on her because of name recognition.

When I saw her a couple of years ago she made a point of the fact that she was going to see Thor 2 in the cinema afterwards. It was... odd.

Scotland's group has been made to look a lot harder by the fact that Poland have put up a far better fight than they did for WC qualifying in England's group. It really shows that aside from a couple of underperformers (Netherlands I'm looking at you) the range in quality in Pot 1 is ridiculous. Five or six teams will almost always qualify and then you get Greece, who look worse than most of the teams in Pot 4.

I assumed that Kendall by now would have started to really carve out her own path in the contest which would make her appear distinctive outside of the Guardian/New Statesman articles fawning over how she likes Dr. Dre. She doesn't seem to have done that yet, which makes me less convinced that she'd do it as leader. It also makes her less likely to get there, so win-win I suppose. I'm still flip-flopping between Cooper and Burnham. Dead set on Creasy for Deputy since she could work with either and has a more nuanced idea of what campaigning evolves.

Apparently we asked to have our last game away as there's going to be a documentary on the Boleyn Ground on the day of its final game and that wouldn't be possible on the last day.

Was he any good in PMQs? Him against Osborne does seem like a counterfactual written in 2004 by someone on crack.

...which we were trusted to do because Brown (and 18 years of Tory government) had earned us credibility on the economy. I don't buy the idea that we'll march back to power on a populist anti-austerity stance, at least not if it's framed in the way that it has been in the last five years. There's a very strong economic case against further cuts but the right of the party doesn't care and the left is taking far too long going through the motions.

I'm intrigued as to where Danny's desire for a populist Labour Party ends. Death penalty?

Half an hour to get nominations in. This would have all been sorted days ago had Corbyn not declared too late.

Easier sell, notoriously hard in practice. I actually like CIL and think it was a good compromise.

I'd argue a land value tax would have been far too radical for New Labour - the Barker Review suggested something of the sort and it ended up being watered down to the Community Infrastructure Levy, making Blair's the first Labour government since the war not to try and introduce some form of land value tax.

What I took from that was how much of 2015 Ed was already there in 2010.

The right of the party is far too good at making the left look like socially backward dinosaurs. No need to provide more ammo.

If Kendall wins, this sentence is the exact reason why. You have no idea how moronic it sounds.