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So the evidence that “they’re all as bad as each other” is a scandal from 2008? 15 years ago?

Given that one side has a number of proven liars and is balls-deep in corruption, and the other isn’t, I’m genuinely fascinated to understand how you think the two sides are even remotely comparable.

I think part of it is generational. In 1975 most of the electorate had first hand experience of at least one World War, and could see for themselves what acrimony and division in Europe led to. By 2016 we’d lost that, and the ideas about the war were shaped by triumphalist rose-tinted nostalgia...

True, and indeed the only old boy you could claim he did throw under a bus was Johnson, causing him to help break Britain

Exhibit A - David Cameron

For me, British / English exceptionalism. The idea that the rules don’t apply to us because we’re British / English. It’s everywhere. British people moving abroad are “ex-pats” with TV shows based around helping them do it, whereas people moving to Britain are “immigrants” and demonised...

He’ll be back in the same way those cretins who get fired on The Apprentice say in the taxi “Lord Sugar’s not heard the last of me” only to never be seen again come back

And there’s a Tory majority on that committee even if Harman votes

Why do we?

Genuinely thank goodness we don’t have a system where an outgoing PM can just let people off for crimes in this country, that’s even more f***ed up than giving someone a largely meaningless knighthood.

Man I wish we could see what’s happening on the alternative timeline where Corbyn wins in 2019 and this is all somehow worse like we were told it would be. I wish we could see the one where we ended up with “chaos with Ed Miliband” in 2015 even more…