Private Speech posted:

domhal posted:

This Tony Blair? https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Tony_Blair The one liked by 23%?

Julio Cruz posted:

"we must reduce solar power generation, and then use solar power to heat greenhouses"

TACD posted:

TBH we may have been lucky in the end because from reading online it seems there’s lots of people who get burned by HSBC randomly changing their minds on mortgages, up to and including the day of completion.

Red Oktober posted:

Incredible. Literally the only thing protecting him is the royal family so yeah, why not turn on them

What I’m saying is do it, coward.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/electpoliticsuk/status/1637862539278049283

endlessmonotony posted:

Yeah that's why it's so ironic you're doing that poo poo in this thread.

I can't even start educating you on this, you're so incredibly wrong. Pick up a book on Swedish history, especially the bad bits (so, anything fifty years or more ago). Denmark has a long, long way to go to catch up to Sweden and the rest of us wish they would stop trying.

Trin Tragula posted:

Today is an interesting day to be in police custody. 90% completely on board, "finally someone listens when we tell them how hosed everything is, we've got no faith anyone's going to fix it, I'm applying to be a train driver". The PACE inspector who's a notorious pain in the arse is in hiding. I wonder what tomorrow will bring.

ANYTHING YOU SOW posted:

There are so many personal attack lines that can be used against starmer.

In the run up to the election every day there will be a new one in the tabloids. The CPS did/didn't prosecute/convict my brother/attacker/paedo teacher.

Most of them won't stick, but some will.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

If the journos like Peston weren't so poo poo we wouldn't be able to enjoy people dunking on them on twitter.

Payndz posted:

Peak Graun on how Starmer could lose the next election if he doesn't embrace everything the Tories are already doing: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/27/labour-lose-election-three-hurdles-working-class-immigration

Maybe because the "average voter" is a horrible Sun/Mail/Express-reading ham-goblin motivated by spite?

The Guardian posted:

Matthew Goodwin is associate professor at the University of Nottingham and author of Revolt on the Right: Explaining Public Support for the Radical Right in Britain

Wikipedia posted:

His research focuses on British politics, radical-right politics, and Euroscepticism.

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On 27 May 2017, he predicted that Labour would not reach 38 per cent of the vote in the 2017 general election and he would eat his book if they did.[ Labour did and, on 10 June, Goodwin chewed one page out of his book, live on Sky News.

Some researchers criticised Goodwin and Eric Kaufmann for joining a public debate on immigration which, they argued, encouraged "normalisation of far right ideas."

Goodwin is on the advisory panel of the Free Speech Union, a group founded by Toby Young that "stands up for the speech rights of its members" and "fights Twitter 'Witch-Hunts'". He has also served as Senior Advisor to the government's Education Committee on Left Behind pupils and has given evidence to the Public Bills Committee on the importance of defending academic freedom in universities.

Jedit posted:

I would suggest that a moment's reflection might lead you to realise that one thing you are not likely to do with a Muslim is have a pint. However, I am certain that you are already aware of this and are just being a bigoted oval office.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

(I haven't actually read the full job spec etc so maybe the job isn't want the title suggests).

smellmycheese posted:

Oh god. We’re at the stage of the election cycle where focus groups start pulling these stupid loving stereotypes out of their arses

quote:

Peter Murrell, Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, has been arrested by Scottish police in an investigation into the Scottish National party’s fundraising and finances.

Police Scotland said a 58-year-old man had been “arrested as a suspect” on Wednesday and added that its officers were carrying out searches at a number of addresses linked to the investigation.

The investigation was launched after complaints about the SNP’s handling of £600,000 in donations raised by the party ostensibly to campaign for and hold a second independence referendum.

It is alleged the money instead was used to help with the party’s day-to-day running costs...

Failed Imagineer posted:

People always bang on about the literary merit of Ayn Rand

Chubby Henparty posted:

Sweet validation!

Arguably The Martian is a bit libertarian. Not for his can-do go it alone keenness, but for his 'I studied horticulture for Science, not like the others who were dirty hippies just in it for the weed' and 'I was selected for this mission for my Matt Damon-like charm and likability, negating the need for those psychology witchdoctors with their fake mental health bs'.

Other goons posted:

Martian chat

Mr Phillby posted:

I feel like thats misrepresenting Casey and Andy a bit because its not interesting enough to be weird and horny with any consistency.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Almost no one has that kind of big money in that infogram, as noted the figures are bigger than the average working income.
The only pensioners I know with anything like approaching that kind of dosh are widows whose husbands had large life insurance policies pay up when they died or divorcees who got the house and did not marry toyboys from Egypt or Ghana to spend it all on.
Apparently the average weekly pensioner total income (2017/18 figures) is about £304 per week

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Scientastic posted:

I’m sure your trip(s) to China was/were great, but to pretend that the people who live in China are not subjugated and controlled is to wilfully ignore the huge amount of easily accessible evidence to the contrary, because it somehow favours your personal worldview.

quote:

Keir Starmer’s blunders are paving the way for an unprecedented fifth Tory win

Faced with a competent opponent, he is scrambling for an alternative message – and seemingly failing

To win the next election, Rishi Sunak needs three miracles. The first is for the small boats to stop, which now looks possible after the Albania deportations. Next, he needs to turn the widely predicted recession into recovery – which he may still do. But the third factor is one that he has no control over: he needs Keir Starmer to miss the historic opportunity in front of him and squander what was once a 30-point opinion poll lead. On that front, so far so good.

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"Our lead is soft,” says one concerned shadow cabinet member. “And we still don’t have much of an agenda.” Should they have, at this stage in the election cycle? The election is getting closer, possibly May next year. So where was New Labour, 12 months out? By April 1996, it was standing tall. Members of the shadow cabinet had become national figures. Robin Cook had given his eviscerating response to the Scott Report into the arms-to-Iraq affair. Gordon Brown was famous for spending restraint. George Robertson and Donald Dewar had devolution plans ready to go.

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This would require an agenda – and it’s far from clear that Starmer has one. His attempts to explain his philosophy via long speeches and articles have all seemed to deepen the mystery rather than clear anything up. The text of his last speech was published by The Spectator and, midway through, we buried an offer of free champagne to anyone who read that far. No one claimed it. But at the time, a vision didn’t matter so much. Now, with the local elections next month and general election next year, voters are seeing Labour not as a protest vote but as an alternative. It’s a higher bar.

The hope in No 10 is that Labour has not yet been subjected to the scrutiny given to a government-in-waiting. A poll last weekend showed the Labour lead down by almost two-thirds to just 11 points. It is an outlier, but the aim in No 10 is to reduce the lead to 10 percentage points by Christmas. This present may arrive earlier than they expected.

Darth Walrus posted:

It's because a couple of the ruling deities literally decided to lend their disciples a hand, with the expected theological repercussions.

notaspy posted:

The labour left is a loving joke

Answers Me posted:

I’m not going to listen to any moralising on racism from the Labour right, but this was clearly a dumb thing to say that plainly invites all the blowback she’s going to get from it…

OwlFancier posted:

It's an omission so glaring, and simultaneously necessary for the premise to stand, that I don't remotely get how she didn't think of it.

Desiderata posted:

The older I get the more I feel that the actual details just do not matter. Why even bother knowing who said what in the political slap fight of the week. It's all just patterns, a means to an end, and yeah we will step back and realise this was always a systematic purge of the labour left. That's how the history books will record it.