@bluesqueakpip @missrori @jimthefish @blenkinsopthebrave @thane15

Absolutely spot on. The failure to save the young child, is the most unusual thing we’ve seen in S10 (I also thought the lack of even an attempt to save the Girl in the puddle was also problematic, although not completely outside the range of possibilities). Things have escalated…[Read more]

@jimthefish @bluesqueakpip

I agree with you Jim, Corbyn does indeed seem very open and honest (I’ll talk to anyone conversation I sawe on TV springs to mind). I’m not a Cobynite, but I like a lot of what I hear him say. I’m not so sure about those around him. Broadening appeal is going to be hard. I’m not sure what it will take to convert a…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

A major earthquake for sure – and we have an opposition now (finally) . I think Maybot is going to be around for quite a while unless Brexit causes the Tory party to split into hard/soft Brexit parties. The ideological hard brexiteers (who May seems to be captive to) aren’t going to go quietly. They will now raise some taxes,…[Read more]

@lisa

Whilst stealing regeneration any might be involvec(or not), I suspect Moff has a rather more complicated idea in play.

@bluesqueakpip

I rather buy that description of the Master/Missy and Doctor relationship. In some ways, the relationship has always been one of mutual respect and mutual loathing. You have to ask whether the Master has ever really tried to kill the Doctor. He’s (I really wish we had an appropriate neutral pronoun in English) always us complex…[Read more]

@lisa @blenkinsopthebrave

The Master plotted to steal the Doctor’s remaining regnerations as did the Valeyard in BG Who (it came up in three or four different stories).

@mudlark @missy

My guess is that Maybot will be around as PM for quite a while. The Tories can’t have a leadership contest in the middle of Brexit talks. Therefore whoever is the next leader has to be the sole candidate, who the majority can stand behind. I don’t think that’s Boris (right now anyway). It not obvious who else it might be either…[Read more]

@scaryB @thane15 @winston

re the Tardis/Nardole

If they had just wanted to get rid of Nardole from the story, he could have been left at home to guard the vault as in Smile. Don’t you have to conclude that the Tardis took Nardole and then refused to work, so that he had to bring Missy with him, to get back to Mars ?

Whilst it could be a red…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

One initial thought is that the Tardis choosing to disappear itself and Missy’s Are you alright Doctor query link back last week ? I would be more explicit, but some of us were bonkerising on the spoiler thread last week so I havent been too explicit discussing that theory here.

Apart from Missy’s “are you alright Doctor” nothing conceptual for the longer term particularly stood out other than as has been pointed out by @pedant

Bonkerism at work for the rest in a very enjoyable way. As often with the purely fun episodes, the concept needed more time and depth to properly deliver its conclusion on the premise.

@Thane15

Post Industrial is a better description for the former Industrial heartland on the UK (essentially Birmingham northwards).  Often referred to as the Labour heartlands.

There are rural areas, when Industry never touched too deeply. Northern Scotland, Central Wales, a lot of the east coast, the welsh borders in England. Central England…[Read more]

@Thane 15

Thane I was just trying to explain how it seems to me. There are about 1 million people (thats 1 in 40 ish) on zero hours contracts. If you’re a high paid professional that’s great. If you’re on minimum wage or close to it, you cant be sure how much money you’ll have to spend on rent and food each week. Many use pay day loans to fill…[Read more]

@thane15

Hi Thane. Brexit wasnt unexpected though. I was in France, but I told my wife and her (french) friends that I thought it was very likely Leave would win (leaving the EU is an incredible idea for the majority of French people – unthinkable).

I hoped I was wrong, but not surprised at all that it happened. I certainly expected the result…[Read more]

@whisht

One thing I meant to say to you. I was a 20 year old at Durham university during the strike. Two things particularly stand out. I was doing one set of exams (cant remember which year anymore) and I could hear one of the Colliery brass bands, come and go through the window. They were leading a March into the centre of Durham. I cant recall…[Read more]

@whisht @thane15 @pedant

This is quite interesting economic based view on why May lost. I wouldn’t suggest this was the only or even best reason, but the underlying economics are important back ground.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/pantheon-analyst-samuel-tombs-called-uk-general-election-exactly-right-chart-2017-6

@thane15

Brexit happened because of two main reason so far as I can  tell. One is that there is a minority view on both the left and right of UK politics (which has gradually morphed into  more of a right wing view than left) that the EU is a flawed experiment. The argument on the left was always that the EU is part of the capitalist global s…[Read more]

@lisa

Not a lot. From what I recall USA agri-industry was growing large straight banana’s in Central America (Honduras ?) while Europe was importing smaller curved bananas from the Caribbean  – ex-French colonies  ? and using product standards to exclude the larger bananas.

The biggest problem with brexit right now is that its a phoney war (ie 9…[Read more]

@pedant

I said it was what I thought would happen not what I want to happen.

Anyway, The UK bought 2.69 million new cars in 2016 and manufactured 1.7 million, of which 0.3 million were sold in the UK.  That’s a net import of 1.3 million cars in one year (SMMT figures). Whether you consider that to be a “BMW needs us” argument or not [ i don’t]…[Read more]

@pedant

If we no deal exit, we immediately go to WTO rules. We already trade on a WTO basis with the US and China (there are no EU trade deals with them). The problem would be one of  a massive increase in scale not one of unknown basis.

As for none EU countries with EU trade deals, each would ask themselves whether they would prefer to…[Read more]