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MPs get paid a salary, expenses, get to travel, stay in relative luxury, and all regardless of whether or not there's a recession, so it's not unreasonable to assume that this is a job to some, rather than a calling, and once you accept that, it's not really that much of a stretch to then consider it plausible that maybe some MPs don't want to be elected to higher, more demanding office, they just want to be opposition MPs for as long as they can.  As opposition MPs, they get to promise the moon without ever having to deliver, and they get to live a pretty sweet life of relative importance - and in some cases minor celebrity - on the taxpayer's penny.
Certainly there's the odd good MP who'll put in more effort than the minimum required, but if you can tell me what Jess Phillips or Chukka Umunna actually do, you've clearly been paying a lot more attention than I have.

Corporations also aren't people, and thus should - and are - taxed on different terms.

Sharky, the enforcement of taxation on Apple is actually a good thing, as the Irish government have been running the Republic's finances into the ground by skimming off the top, middle and bottom for years.  The only bad thing about this is that all of that £13bn will go into private hands and paying off Irish debts to the EU while Ireland will still end up with privatised utilities like water and healthcare.

Their only hope is when Labour party members overwhelmingly reelect Corbyn because THEY WANT A TRUE LABOUR PARTY rather than a vote-winning compromise party, all the Tory-lite members will leave and join the remains of the SDP/LDs to form a " ooooh, we're not nasty tories or commy labourites" party.

Which won't happen. Labour won't split. It's simply too dangerous.

Dangerous for the party, perhaps, but a lot of MPs have made it clear that the interests of the party - if they register at all - are a distant concern well behind the interests of the MP.  Between the boundary changes and the more-than-likely demands from members and CLPs to deselect coup particpants after the leadership contest is over, you have figure there are a few MPs staring into an abyss where their career used to be and figuring that a split is a risk worth taking, while others with higher profiles - like Benn - may simply cross the floor.

Bookend the reprint with new material so you can label the collection as "satire".  Worked for Cursed Earth and MST3K.

Downthetubes has a list of what Rebellion have scored in their haul: Click!

No Johnny Cougar?  You've spent your comic millions on SHIT, Rebellion.

[Blood For The Baron]

The Gobots franchise was eventually bought up by Hasbro and is currently part of the Transformers franchise, so Robo Machines is likely a licensing nightmare.
Hasbro don't seem to care much about sites like Blood For The Baron hosting their old 1980s licensed strips from the UK like Action Force and Zoids, though, so that's probably the only way you'll see those old comics.

Doomlord's owned by the Dan Dare Corporation.

NUUUUUUUUU!

Oh well.  I guess I'll just wait until DDC does something with it.

Any FQP contributor worth their creative onions is thinking up a Doomlord pitch right now.

I knew JK had become pretty conservative lately, but I didn't realise she'd gone that far down the rabbit hole.

They learned their lesson and now they're sticking to destroying British democracy.

Excellent news, though it's a shame about the Tiger properties, as it means no Hot Shot Hamish/Mighty Mouse, Death Wish, Jet Ace Logan, Billy's Boots, Johnny Cougar/Splash Gorton... although Roy Of The Rovers is a Tiger character, and that article seems to suggest he's Rebellion's property now.

Girls comics will likely be the best starting point for reprint, as there's a lot of stuff in Jinty that pre-empted the YA dystopian genre by decades and stands a good chance of finding an audience outside retro comics fans.

Sorry to hear about your missus, Goaty.  I hope she's doing better now.

You're talking to a forum that's 70% budding comics creators.  This probably sounds like a bargain.

This would disproportionately affect smaller publishers and/or those with no huge franchise cash cows, so I assume it's Diamond moving the goalposts so as to squeeze out the indies to favor their big earners.

And B) the reason Spoiler is called 'Spoiler' is because she always ruins the badguy's plan's ending. *facepalm*

I blame the CW.
Spoiler debuted in the early 1990s long before the term "spoiler" took on its contemporary meaning in culture as an annoying catchphrase for one of Doctor Who's worst characters.