Glenn Le Santo

Beauty is in the eye if the beholder. But, in this case, not in mine. I’ve always thought this was a bit of an awkward looking car - with some odd lines and devoid of grace. However, I’m happy if you and others love it because it shows that we humans are a diverse lot - and that’s to be celebrated.

Probably from Europe, the place the dRump regime said they didn’t need.

Has that one not been reissued then? I know the original is quite hard to find nowadays.

Great album, my favourite Ras Micheal LP. I have both the original LPs - dub version and vocals. The original gatefold sleeve with the vocal version is beautiful. It’s essential to have a bit of nyabinghi drumming in your reggae collection IMO.

Is this the same LP as Rastafari, the LP originally released with a very cool gatefold sleeve.

If you like Johnnie’s greatest hits then you do need more. Specifically the epic prison live albums - Live in Folsom Prison and Live at St Quentin. Possibly the best live LPs ever made if based exclusively on the febrile atmosphere generated by the audience.

I had one. It was my first Toyota, and my first Japanese car. I bought it for £35 in 1984. It was an absolute workhorse. I drove it back from Dublin to Somerset with a punctured radiator, topping it up every few miles. It made it without blowing up despite boiling all the way.

That’s all going to plan for her then 🤔😉

More tea, vicar?

So the result was a mix of some stubborn Labour votes, some votes that deserted Labour in favour of Reform, and then a larger group that went Greens.
No substantial Tory support, so no corresponding right-wing migration to Reform there.
I suspect we’ll see Tory voters flocking to Reform elsewhere.

Undeniably so.

It’s not the flaw, it’s the point. Stubborn support for Labour - despite their catastrophic performance - might lead to Reform wins when polling only a relatively small share of the overall vote.
I didn’t once advocate for a Labour vote - not express any support for Starmer. I 100% not a fan

So the Reform vote all comes from people who would have once voted Labour? That’s possibly a worse scenario than former Cons voting for Herr Farage.

Can you quote me the bit where I said ‘vote Labour’? Because I can’t find it. No, you can’t - because I didn’t say it.
What I said was: a split vote between Labour and Green will deliver an (undeserved) Reform majority in some seats - because we have a FPTP system not PR.

You’re perhaps not aware that I’ve voted Green since the early 1980s, possibly before you were born.
You’ve also not read what I wrote, but instead read whatever suits you - instead of what I wrote.
I said ‘decide on one’, I did not say ‘vote Labour’.
So, dude, fuck off with your utter bullshit.

The consequences are a Reform government and we’ll 100% be the victims of that.

Imagine - people have functioning digestive tracts. How absolutely awful.
Time we binned all this ridiculous Victorian ‘etiquette’.
“Better out than in” as my grandmother would always say, right after letting rip without a care in the world for what anyone might think of her.

Safe in some constituencies. Agreed. But my fear is that not enough will be convinced in more marginal seats and Reform will win despite a majority voting against them. There could be results that go Reform 11,000 / Labour 5,000 / Green 10,000, for instance, meaning Reform get an undeserved win.

Labour’s vote was only just lower than Reform and 2/3rds of Green’s. Hardly ‘comprehensive’.
Labour + Green = > 2x Cons + Reform.
But in more marginal seats a similar split would lead to a Reform majority.
Green Party - 14,980
Reform UK - 10,578
Labour Party - 9,364
Conservative Party - 706

A lot of focus on Labour’s failings, understandably. No mention of the total annihilation of the Tories, who barely out-scored The Monster Raving Loony party.
Reform is Conservatives 2.0 but the left is split.
If we want to keep Reform out of government, we have to pick one party and one only.

In 1989 I was a motorcycle courier working out of Guildford. On my evening run home down the A3 to Portsmouth, I’d often meet an Integrale going the same way. I was on a BMW K100RS. A ‘test’ of our relative mid and top range acceleration would ensue. And, boy, that Lancia was extremely quick.

Is it the same version?

This has been Reform’s strategy for a while. Smear Labour, run bot campaigns to encourage certain demographics to vote Green. Unfortunately I think it’s strategy that will work.

The rest was in McLaren’s Swiss bank account.

While this victory is to be celebrated, the split Left voting pattern will gift Reform seats in other constituencies. The Left and Centre need to pick a party - and only one party - if we are to keep Reform out of Government.

It’s a great LP. Boothe and Pratt both on top form.

Ken Boothe - Got To Get Away Showcase Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Got To Get Away Showcase by Ken Boothe. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

And then there’s this superb LP Phil Pratt did with Ken Boothe
www.discogs.com/master/12547...

Keith Poppin - Envious Explore songs, recommendations, and other album details for Envious by Keith Poppin. Compare different versions and buy them all on Discogs.

Keith Poppin recorded some great work with him www.discogs.com/master/73610...

Both LPs are wonderful. The atmosphere is electric on both of them. My mother had them, and I would listen to them with her when she played them on the Marconi radiogram we had at home.

It’s hideous - in my opinion. No doubt others can see beauty here but I can’t see any.