Politics Chat.

Dam experts and their expert opinion.

They don't have a clue:

but what about the good...

https://weather.com/travel/news/worlds-most-amazing-dams-20130110#/1

Those pictures are just rigged by the experts. In reality, all of these dams have already collapsed.

In other news:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tories-in-revolt-over-heathrow-a3372236.html

London (and the world at large) needs airport expansion and more air travel capacity like any human needs a bullet hole in the forehead.

The shared society, as seen by Private Eye.

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"Go to your constituencies and prepare for government"

Extrapolating those few hundred votes across the country, what happens when the Libdems become coalition partners again with one of the two parties that want out of Europe?

They'll do what they did with student tuition fees.

Tristram Hunt has resigned. Another anti-Corbyn MP gone.

Tristram Hunt has just resigned so that may give a better indication.

Has anyone heard yet that Tristram Hunt has resigned???

Wrong Hunt to resign.

In other news, poshiticians going back to posh jobs.

^ No Google hits for this one. My coinage, then. :)

Conservatives are the party of the "working class".

You mean Hunt's VnA job? You say that like it's a bad thing.

Hm.

Speculation has been rife in Westminster that a series of byelections could be triggered by police prosecutions over spending or potentially encourage Theresa May to call a general election to avoid an embarrassing focus on the constituencies involved.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/14/conservative-mp-craig-mackinlay-interviewed-under-caution-over-election-spending

So ...

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/mar/15/second-tory-reveals-police-investigated-him-over-spending-allegations

Also, Geert Wilders is basically Chucky, isn't he?

Enjoyed this from Owen Smith

https://twitter.com/OwenSmith_MP/status/842028525796360193

http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2017/06/21/the-lds-appear-to-have-chosen-their-next-two-leaders-without-a-single-vote-being-cast/

The LDs appear to have chosen their next two leaders without a single vote being cast

Initially read that link as having 'IDS' and 'leader' in the same sentence. Scary.

a person on the Times Redbox podcast (generally a good quality politics podcast if you ask me) was pushing David Davis as the next leader of the Cons....lolololololololololol...hang on, that's likely the next PM...gulp

#shittories

Has Theresa May been locked in a cupboard under the stairs? She appears to have fallen off the news cycle.

She's busy providing strong and stable leadership on who will replace her.