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🇬🇧 Two weeks into power, PM Starmer’s collapse was already being written. Journalist Dan Wootton says the breaking point came after three little girls were stabbed at a Taylor Swift dance class in Southport. Starmer visited the scene, then went back to London for a champagne reception. Then came...

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Jason Sudeikis says Ted Lasso started as just a commercial for the Premier League before both NBC and Netflix passed on it, and Apple said yes “NBC Sports got the rights for the Premier League back in 2013. An ad company came to me with five ideas. One was a football coach coaches soccer. This was like May of 2013” “I was like, okay, can I bring two friends. They came over. We had the laptop open and just wrote out beats for ideas. We knew we were going to have two days. We were going to shoot it in London. It was one of those moments where I was just in a flow state” “We go over there and make the commercial. It's a multi million dollar campaign. We did not write a script. We have no script. The ad company did, but we were only using little pieces of it. I came up with the name Ted Lasso. I was just like, what about Ted Lasso. I liked the idea of a first name and a noun” “It was a little short film. It was three and a half minutes. It was just a commercial for the Premier League on NBC Sports. Here's a couple hundred grand to make this commercial. The commercial does so well with football fans, soccer fans, comedy people” “Then we enjoyed doing it so much that we were like, hey, can we do another one. They said, yes, but we don't have the budget we had last year, so we can't fly you over there. The whole premise of the commercial is Ted Lasso gets hired by Tottenham Hotspur and then gets fired three days later because he doesn't know what he's doing” “Then we did the second one. That's where the show idea came from. Ted gets hired, gets fired, but isn't mad at anybody. He falls in love with soccer, falls in love with London, and now he's living back in New York, waking up at 7 am to watch Premier League games, driving a Mini Cooper. All these silly jokes” “We sit around for a week and wrote for three days. So many good ideas came out that in three days we had six episodes figured out. Joe had written a spit draft of the pilot, which was about 85% of what we ended up doing. That was 2015. Then it just sat there for years” “Then it wasn’t until, Bill Lawrence had an idea for a show he wanted me to do that wasn't the right fit. I said, me and my friends have this. I handed him the stack, and he read it. Yeah, there's a lot of good ideas there” “NBC passed on it. We went to all the people. NBC, Netflix. But it makes sense. Nobody knows, it's just an idea. And Apple was like, yeah, let's do it”

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Michael Foot was right. “We didn’t fight for the vote to give it away.” That was the whole point of #Brexit. Not fantasy. Not nostalgia. Not flag-waving theatre for careerists in Union Jack cufflinks. It was about sovereignty. Democracy. The basic right of the British people to hire and fire those who make their laws. That was all Brexit had to achieve. The rest was down to Parliament. Down to government. Down to the political class who spent years pretending to “respect the result” while doing everything possible to blunt it, bury it, sabotage it, or turn it into another managerial stitch-up. So when #Starmer now dresses up closer EU alignment as some grand rescue mission, let’s be honest about what is really happening. He is not fixing Brexit. He is exposing the failure of the politicians who never wanted to carry it out in the first place. His latest speech pledged to put Britain back at the “heart of Europe”, while Downing Street still claims the red lines on rejoining the single market and customs union remain in place. That is not leadership. That is triangulation with a Brussels postcode. Brexit did not fail because ordinary people voted wrong. It failing because the same political class that hollowed out our towns, sold off our industries, crushed our unions, privatised our utilities, and shipped power upwards and outwards was suddenly asked to return power downwards to the people. And they hated it. The people voted to take back democratic control. The shower of parliamentarians handed us delay, deflection, bad faith, managed decline, and then blamed the voters for the wreckage. That is the oldest Westminster trick in the book: fail the people, then accuse the people of failure. Michael Foot understood what Starmer never will. Democracy is not an ornament. It is not something to be admired in speeches and surrendered in treaties. It belongs to the people, or it belongs to nobody. We did not fight for the vote to give it away. And we certainly did not fight for it so Keir Starmer could hand it back wrapped in a focus-grouped bow that told him it will win back support. Here is the hard truth Starmer needs to face: he never had that support in the first place. He became Prime Minister by default, carried into Downing Street on the wreckage of a collapsed Tory Party, not on a great wave of public belief. There was no national love affair with Starmerism. No working-class uprising for managerial politics. No mass demand for grey men with donor-class instincts to tell the country what it really voted for. He mistook Tory collapse for Labour consent. And now he wants to mistake that thin mandate for permission to unpick Brexit by stealth. #JustResign

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