Not in Crawley

I'll have you know I'm sporting a rather dapper full growth of grey beard currently.... However, i am booked in for a holiday tint and trim tomorrow sweetie 😘

Budapest is a great city - even in the market is crap, the ruin bars will make up for it. Would love to go back for a weekend break next year.

Yup being is Aus is turning you into a right bellsniff. What a strange comment.

I'm a snob because i dont think cheap bus fares equip someone for being PM? Ok. That makes complete sense. He might prove me wrong, i just don't buy into all this Manchesterism stuff just yet, and being able to have a decent chat about which Smiths song you like best is a long way from holding your own on the global stage.

And TfL prices have been inexpensive and capped for years. I hear the bus route thing keep being trotted out as its some sort of great achievement. The baseline of any devolved system is good local transport as it fundementally helps economic growth if people can get around and pays for itself. But the idea that the towns surrounding Manchester are in boom times is a myth and its one that Burham is happy to play up to. Sorry, but you're going to have to give me more than the 526 being on time and inexpensive.

And that in a nutshell is the problem. Ego has lifted Burnham into this position, and as you say he can't massively make any huge policy decisions without calling an election. I don't buy 'Manchesterism' - I don't see the huge uplift outside of central Manchester and that is the real mark of the platform he rode in on. Come this autumn this summer is going to look like a dream to him.

Princess avenue area is great, quayside is lovely as well - i said Beverley was a bit dull. So its not a shitehole.

Until he gives policies other than soundbites, I'll reserve judgement. If the country thinks the soft left will deliever more productivity or that our PM spending more time in Manchester will some how rebalance economic issues i two years, then they wiĺl believe anything. Flim flam.

Why are you bickering?

Just looked - no tours around Lille's Decathlon stadium next week 😁

I have family in Hull - its a great place, much underrated.

Off to Lille on Saturday, didnt want a long drive this year. Booked a day in Ghent if anyone as been there rather than Bruges as it seems a bit less touristy but never been to Belgium so dont know whatnto expect really. Loads of galleries which seems right up my street, and the teenscan go shopping etc as none of them.wanted a beach holiday - i think living by the sea they're not that bothered. Got a decent appartment for not very much as well. Only concern is running oit of things to.do but comsidering we've managed to have decent family breaks in Conway and North Wales for ten years I reckon we'll manage it 😊

Went about 20 years ago, thought it wasnt too bad myself. Seem to have been forgotten about by the english even then. Loads of Irish and Germans.

Based on the fact he has two years. It'll be some turnaround if he wins a mandate of his own. Sadly, i think that since Brexit this country has been divided too long, Labour got in because of the mess of the Conservatives, with a wide but not deep majority, so MPs are twitchy. Reform might be doing their best to implode at the moment, but two years simply isnt long enough to really instigate meaningful change; so it'll most likely be a hung parliment, more short termism and further churn of leaders. Calmness and longtermism would be better all round but that sadly is in very short supply.

Burnham will not be PM for long. Starmer is a much better PM - its annoying the country has got into this state.