It's a bit odd how you can be 62% Labour, 61% Lib Dems and also 57% Conservative. If all the major parties are that close, you may as well just pick one based on how much you like the colour of their logo.

Er...

Parties you side with...
SNP
70% SNP
62% Plaid Cymru
61% Green
60% Liberal Democrat
58% Sinn Féin
51% Conservative
48% Labour
45% UKIP
42% Democratic Unionist
29% British National

Unsubmissive France?!?!?!?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39682388

Labour will win now:) !

Nothing for St Piran? There goes the Cornish vote.

One or two more bank holidays would be good, especially if it helped to spread the breaks more evenly over the year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39682388

Labour will win now:) !

I note Tim Farron's getting a lot of stick for not saying if he thinks gay sex is a sin or not. It doesn't matter what he thinks about it: what matters if he wants to stop others doing it. That's kind of what liberalism's about, but doesn't make as good headlines.

I'm not a fan of golf or the so-called golfing community, but what they do on the grass with sticks is their business so long as it doesn't hurt me or other people.

The French are definitely going to vote in the far right nutjobs aren't they.

I'm not a fan of golf or the so-called golfing community, but what they do on the grass with sticks is their business so long as it doesn't hurt me or other people.

The French are definitely going to vote in the far right nutjobs aren't they.

That UKIP candidate seems a bit... unfocused. Banning Golf Courses?

Given how my political predictions have gone over the past two years, I'm not going to comment. Perhaps if I put some money on Mme. Le Pen that might swing it?

Much depends on how inoffensive M. Macaron is to moderates on either side, but French politics is always very fractious. Really should read more French history and contemporary politics on it at some point.

I've given it a bit of thought over the weekend, and am still mulling over that although getting rid of Davies would be good, having WEP leader rocking up and standing at the potential cost of Green Party and Labour candidates is not the way to do it. I am a bit miffed as it seems to be a publicity minded move, and I don't think Shipley would benefit from this.

I disagree. Women's equality is an important issue and I think the publicity is important. Going after Davies seems a very sensible way of both highlighting your key issue and taking a mysogenistic twat out of the governing body.

It's worth voting WEP there just for the idea of how much seething Davies would do should they oust him!

I love you, Kern.

How to answer the lazy "Corbyn is unelectable" propaganda trope

Political propaganda works by programming intellectually lazy people with very simple tropes that they can rote learn and regurgitate instead of doing the hard work of actually researching and thinking about the issues for themselves.

Two of the most ubiquitous of these glib political propaganda tropes are the "Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable" one and the "Theresa May is a strong leader".

I've already written an article ripping the ludicrously counterfactual right-wing "Theresa May is a strong leader" trope to shreds (see here) and this article exists to confront the "Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable" one.

(His voting record on women's issues in parliament, for example, is far better than May's.)

This whole "Is gay sex a sin in Farron's eyes" is all a bit of a pain as he should have said "The bible talks about a circle with a diametre of 10 cubits and a circumference of thirty, so we shouldn't take everything it says as totally true, and in this case, I'd put gay sex in the box with pi having a value of three" but this is why i probably don't do PR because it'd probably offend everyone.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/june2017/2017/04/jeremy-corbyn-has-attracted-socialism-fans-not-labour-voters

Really good read, that.

Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk) (Con):

I was only going to ask whether the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West (Rob Marris) agreed with me that the semi-colon is a very fine thing and that it should be used more often.

Mr Speaker:

I agree; the hon. Gentleman is an authority on the matter and on a number of other matters relating to language and syntax.