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⬱🌹🧦 SocDem • 🇪🇺 Anti-Brexit • 🌱 Vegetarian • 🚃🔰 Urbanism
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Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
May 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Starmer's language was deplorable.
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy.
But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
what is happening
📊 Ref lead of 5pts
Westminster voting intention
REF: 28% (-1)
LAB: 23% (+1)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDEM: 16% (-)
GRN: 9% (-1)
via @YouGov, 11 - 12 May
Chgs. w/ 06 May
britainelects.com
Westminster voting intention
REF: 28% (-1)
LAB: 23% (+1)
CON: 18% (+1)
LDEM: 16% (-)
GRN: 9% (-1)
via @YouGov, 11 - 12 May
Chgs. w/ 06 May
britainelects.com
Britain Elects | Substack
Cutting through the noise with Ben Walker. Click to read Britain Elects, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
britainelects.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
what is happening
Can someone please invent vegetarian chorizo please and thank you
May 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Can someone please invent vegetarian chorizo please and thank you
Donald Trumping literally handing attack lines to Dems on a silver platter
February 26, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Donald Trumping literally handing attack lines to Dems on a silver platter
illiberalism
Donald Trump: “I really believe you can't be happy without religion, without that belief. I really believe it; I just don’t see how you can. So let's bring religion back…”
February 6, 2025 at 11:52 PM
illiberalism
we are so cooked man
Westminster Voting Intention:
LAB: 29% (=)
RFM: 24% (+2)
CON: 23% (=)
LDM: 10% (-1)
GRN: 9% (-1)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 8-10 Jan.
Changes w/ 18-20 Dec.
LAB: 29% (=)
RFM: 24% (+2)
CON: 23% (=)
LDM: 10% (-1)
GRN: 9% (-1)
SNP: 2% (-1)
Via @opiniumresearch.bsky.social, 8-10 Jan.
Changes w/ 18-20 Dec.
January 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
we are so cooked man
Reform is following the Le Pen playbook
MRP Poll || Labour 48 Short
LAB: 278 (-133)
CON: 157 (+36)
RFM: 120 (+115)
LDM: 47 (-25)
SNP: 24 (+15)
GRN: 3 (-1)
PLC: 2 (-2)
INDs: 0 (-5)
Via Stonehaven, Dec 2024.
Changes w/ GE2024.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
LAB: 278 (-133)
CON: 157 (+36)
RFM: 120 (+115)
LDM: 47 (-25)
SNP: 24 (+15)
GRN: 3 (-1)
PLC: 2 (-2)
INDs: 0 (-5)
Via Stonehaven, Dec 2024.
Changes w/ GE2024.
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Starmer losing voters to Farage's Reform on migration, mega-poll shows
Pollsters behind the survey say the data should act as a 'wake-up call' for Sir Keir Starmer when it comes to immigration
inews.co.uk
January 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reform is following the Le Pen playbook
Excellent article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social on what a potential restructuring of Oxford's local government would mean!
oxfordclarion.uk/rearranging-...
oxfordclarion.uk/rearranging-...
Rearranging the pieces on the Oxfordshire cheeseboard
Charles de Gaulle famously asked “How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?” Keir Starmer is asking how you can govern a country with 246 varieties of local council.
France has ...
oxfordclarion.uk
December 20, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Excellent article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social on what a potential restructuring of Oxford's local government would mean!
oxfordclarion.uk/rearranging-...
oxfordclarion.uk/rearranging-...
I don't know what they are
How often do you use Apple Intelligence features?
December 17, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I don't know what they are
how university feels
After 8,280 hours of reading, I've realised that the Comment pages of The Sunday Times are a waste of time
#booksky
#lovebooks
#booksky
#lovebooks
December 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM
how university feels
I propose that the @labouruk.bsky.social community here should be called #RedSky
November 27, 2024 at 5:04 PM
I propose that the @labouruk.bsky.social community here should be called #RedSky
Hot take: this should not be a free vote for MPs. Political parties should put some effort into this (important) debate, rather than sitting back and letting the individual consciences of MPs decide major bioethics legislation.
MPs Declared Positions on Assisted Dying:
👍 For: 152 (+28)
👎 Against: 164 (+27)
🤷 Unsure/Abstain: 79 (+44)
❓ Unknown: 244 (-99)
Forecasted Result:
👍 For: 287
👎 Against: 287
Changes w/ Yesterday.
👍 For: 152 (+28)
👎 Against: 164 (+27)
🤷 Unsure/Abstain: 79 (+44)
❓ Unknown: 244 (-99)
Forecasted Result:
👍 For: 287
👎 Against: 287
Changes w/ Yesterday.
November 25, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Hot take: this should not be a free vote for MPs. Political parties should put some effort into this (important) debate, rather than sitting back and letting the individual consciences of MPs decide major bioethics legislation.
yet more evidence that the key to winning elections in the modern day is social media, not traditional media
Our information environment is broken.
November 25, 2024 at 12:16 PM
yet more evidence that the key to winning elections in the modern day is social media, not traditional media
have the gimmick accounts made it here yet?
November 25, 2024 at 11:44 AM
have the gimmick accounts made it here yet?