Yeah, was really good, Leon vs DeReiss was incredible.

I feel like I say this after every match, but Leon just gets better and better. TNA are so lucky to have him.

I was at North's Thunderstruck 2 show at the weekend, see the full card below, which was at the same venue as TNA's Turning Point in 2023.

Really solid show front to back, and while I'm somewhat biased, they continue to put on some of the best live shows I've seen. If you have Fite+ (or whatever it's called now) you'll be able to watch it there in a week or so.

Card was as follows:

• Team Faust (Henry Faust, Kegstacker, Lou Nixon & Trent Seven) vs. Team Kayman (Kemper, Myles Kayman, Reece & Rogan)
• Mark Haskins (w/Vicky Haskins) vs. Michael Oku (w/Amira)
• Allie Katch (GCW) vs. Debbie Keitel vs. Natalie Sykes vs. Eve Bateman
• Elijah vs. Joe Hendry (TNA) - including a live performance from Elijah
• Emersyn Jayne & Rhio (c) vs. Rampage Brown & Will Kroos vs. Landed Gentry (Benji & Zeo Knox) vs. Post Modern Sick Boys (Liam Slater & Rory Coyle) - TLC Match for the NORTH Tag Team Title
• Gene Munny & Grado (ICW) vs. Lykos Gym (Kid Lykos & Kid Lykos II)
• Miyu Yamashita (TJPW) vs. Lizzy Evo
• Clint Margera (c) vs. Ace Matthews - NORTH Ultraviolent Title
• Leon Slater (c) (TNA) vs. Man Like DeReiss - NORTH Title

No.

I guess you could say Billy, ahem, stired her up...

Get. In. My. Veins. 💪

Filming more corpses I presume?

Well this is dumb as fuck.

Every other seat in the country - bar Islington North and Corbyn - shows extensive tactical voting to unseat the Tories, so, yes I do absolutely expect that at least 40% would have held their nose.

Do I think what happened to her was fair? No, I don't. But running out of spite sure is a very individualist approach to a political philosophy defined by the needs of the many outweighing the few.

Because I'm talking about people voting for her specifically, instead of Labour as a party.

She may well have been elected it she had still been the Labour candidate, but she wasn't. Infact she got less votes than the person who was the Labour candidate.

After she was deselected, she chose to run herself. She chose to prioritise trying to prove Labour wrong instead of getting rid of IDS.

If she had won - like Corbyn - it would prove that she didn't need to wear a Labour rosette to win. But she didn't, so she does need it.

So all she has achieved in that is maintaining one of the worst Tories there is. The result matters, and she enabled that.

Coming third does not make it clear she would have won.

Corbyn winning does make it clear he would win, because, he did win.

Corbyn is - rightly - more popular than Labour in his constituency. She isn't, and wasn't.

strong grassroot support

Well, this is clearly not correct, because - unlike Corbyn where this is absolutely correct - she has never been elected, and has now lost twice.

Do I think it's fair what happened? No, I don't.

But goal #1 is to remove the Tories from Parliament. If you are not best placed to do that - and coming third proves she wasn't - you need to put your ego aside and let someone else do it.

Again, is that fair? No, it isn't.

A highly personal vote after representing the constituency for over 4 decades, it's no real surprise that Corbyn retained. It's also extremely unlikely he will vote against Labour on the vast majority of the programme.

Compare that to Chingford, where Shaheen insisted on running as an independent after being deselected (fairly or not doesn't really matter), and having never actually won an election (let alone 40 years worth), and split the vote so much that the architect of food poverty in the UK, Iain Duncan Smith, managed to cling on to his seat.

Her ego got in the way of removing a proven sabateur from Parliament, that is unforgivable.