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Hate Farage but that's counter productive in gaining him stmaothy votes and just encourages abuse of politicians on all side.

This. He was and is everywhere so might as well be open about it. He's standing in Clacton. Hope him and Conservatives fight for same votes and let Labour through. Prob has loads of dodgy money behind him too but again that's nothing new.

1 CHIHIRO 2 THE DINER 3 BLUE 4 BITTERSUITE 5 L'AMOUR DE MA VIE 6 BIRDS OF A FEATHER 7 LUNCH 8 SKINNY 9 THE GREATEST 10 WILDFLOWER

To lose 3 of the potential new leaders - Mordaunt, Badenoch and Cleverley would be delicious

Yikes hope that Chappel Roan avoids ACR somehow.

Good on Angela Rayner (who also was cleared herself of the ultra dull trumped up Tory/Fail/Dan bloody Hodges expense scandal) for speaking up for Abbot. What a sorry episode it was and shows how ruthless the right wing of Labour party are. Abbot should have been cleared months ago. Yes there are some in the UK that can't stand her but they aren't likely to be the ones who vote Labour anyhow. And its not like (for better or worse) that she has a chance of a Front bench position. Labour should stop being scared of its own shadow/ the rabid right wing press.

Agreed - the last two minutes of 'BLUE' are stunning. These three "weirder" closing tracks along with CHIHIRO are my favourites on the album. Bit Radioheady (Kid A/Amnesiac/In Rainbows). Love all the turns and surprises A few of the tracks like SKINNY, THE GREATEST and WILDFLOWER haven't clicked with me much yet. But such a strong album overall.

Buzzjack's favourites icons selflessly keeping the concept of a band alive :cheeseblock:

Great. Remember the full list (not just the top 100) iscounted down so when your bands appear they will generate interest. In fact one of the best things about these threads is to reminisce about bands one had long forgotten.

Great track but when I heard that this album wouldn't have any pre release singles I wasn't expecting something as commercial as 'Bad Guy" like this on it. My favourite atm is 'Chihiro'

John Redwood seems to have been an MP since the dawn of time and he has been utterly loathsome on every issue ever especially hard Brexit. Really can't stand him. Good effing riddance

Yes noticeably Farage has again chickened out at standing as an MP for Reform - doesn't want yet ANOTHER loss. Reform won't win any seats at all and will flop badly.

I never watch TV on any channel. I don't miss it tbh. If BBC wasn't biased so much may have considered keeping one.

I stopped paying for a licence fee for the reason they are so biased towards the right wing and could use my money on better things than supporting this agenda.

Yep it's all a referendum on the Tories record. Tbh despite being an elections lover, I find the campaigning bit a bit dull - in some cases like May's 2017 disaster we could see a trend towards Labour (I think the good weather helped them as they could do more inspiring campaigning outdoors). But most times it doesn't make a difference - I don't see there being much of a change. Maybe a mini surge to the Greens/Indies if Palestine affects but I think even that is now priced in and the Locals shown it was a noticeable but not overall result affecting factor.

So is MTV the only established broadcast media that actually acknowledges the existence of ACR? :o

What a day and a pitiful announcement. I'm not a huge fan of Starmer's Labour for all the reasons many of you are here but I hope to God that the Tories get knocked out something rotten. Even though I like his policies I personally don't go with the Owen Jones theory of "Shoe-in for Labour", vote for Green or Independent. There's been way too many disappointing evenings where the non Tory parties have knocked each other out to try and play the next move early. A lot of my leftist friends feel differently though. We do have to hope for proper tactical voting for Lib Dems in the posh South and West-country. But can't see anything but Sunak's Tories being toast. Reform under Tice won't do much either. And I wouldn't expect a pre-election stunt that Farage's Brexit party did for Johnson in 2019. That worked well because of the characters involved and the actual prize of Brexit. It'd be interesting to see how the evil right wing press play this - will Murdoch's Sun and Times go (reluctantly) for Starmer? Will Mail and Telegraph so half hearted in on him as well - it's interesting that they really want to trip up the more unpredictable, naturally left wing and popular Angela Rayner instead. I think they'll go ultra hard on Labour after the election so it will be important to enjoy the night itself for what it is! Glad that this is way before the US election so some of the tactics in play there which would be truly horrific won't be in place much for this election (although interesting to see how badly photo ID effects the outcome, I think a lowish turnout may supress that). Israel/Palestine could be significant - both in terms of Muslim voters abandoning Labour for George Galloway's party and independents but also in terms of whether there is lot of Zionist/Israeli propaganda in play a la Eurovision.

Well they can't push through any more hateful legislation then if an election is called. Weren't they going to crackdown further on protests for example?

B-b-but I thought Brexit Britain would lead the world in our exceptionalism! :banana: In all seriousness, I think that's a bit of a factor too - the country seems to have lost its confidence, a huge amount of its money, its reputation and also affects ability of British acts to build up a name in touring in Europe. Also talking about the big 2, Adele barely releases anything and Ed Sheeran's music doesn't seem to cut through in the more cynical post pandemic world, although can't write him off completely.

Thanks - I think Florence Welch slightly underperformed in the female rate due to being seen as leading a group (although no way of knowing but think someone said as much) so think they deserve group votes. On wiki they are listed as one.

And does Florence and the Machine count for this rate as well as solo female? Guess Divine Comedy do.

Wow - although hardly ever feel sorry for a Tory MP what an ordeal Craig McKinlay has had to go through. :( And standing for re-elction too. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/articl...d-due-to-sepsis

Although buying a year up front for £99 is definitely more preferable as only £8.25 a month pro rata, just realised via Martin Lewis' moneysavingexpert that with monthly subscriptions, you can dodge the £1 price rise to £11.99 if you don't listen to audiobooks (which I definitely don't intend to) and just switching to a "Basic" account (which is exactly the same as the Premium without Audiobooks) for £10.99 https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2024...lan-audiobooks/

Love 'Chihiro' and glad that's set to go top 10 this week.

Loads of Oldies and rich people who don't want to pay more tax because they don't like society.. private school fees tax I hear is an issue. My heart bleeds.