Jim Williams
@lintywilliams.bsky.social
Former semi-serious person. Future board game designer. Current armchair political strategist. Running to be on the Lib Dem Federal Policy Committee.
Writes about data, politics, strategy and games at https://prototypepolitics.substack.com/
Writes about data, politics, strategy and games at https://prototypepolitics.substack.com/
Time for another half-finished prototype! Here’s Polly C, a work-in-progress AI chatbot designed to provide comparisons of UK party policies. Give her a spin and let me know what she gets wrong and how she could be improved.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/introducin...
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/introducin...
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Time for another half-finished prototype! Here’s Polly C, a work-in-progress AI chatbot designed to provide comparisons of UK party policies. Give her a spin and let me know what she gets wrong and how she could be improved.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/introducin...
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/introducin...
October 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
@leorzmigrod.bsky.social Thank you for your thoughtful answer to my question this morning around non-divisive political messages. I'd love to ask you some further questions, around rigidity and authoritarianism. Are you still around Hay at all?
May 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
@leorzmigrod.bsky.social Thank you for your thoughtful answer to my question this morning around non-divisive political messages. I'd love to ask you some further questions, around rigidity and authoritarianism. Are you still around Hay at all?
@steveakehurst.bsky.social Hello! I'm doing a masters dissertation on electoral viability of policies that increase tax. Your MRP data on this is fantastic. Could we chat? I'd love to ask you some questions.
May 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
@steveakehurst.bsky.social Hello! I'm doing a masters dissertation on electoral viability of policies that increase tax. Your MRP data on this is fantastic. Could we chat? I'd love to ask you some questions.
Cor. Very jealous. I particularly recommend Bath Soft Cheese, Gem Ale, those amazing biscuits by the Bath Cheese Company!
Now more than ever, it is imperative that we buy local.
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
April 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Cor. Very jealous. I particularly recommend Bath Soft Cheese, Gem Ale, those amazing biscuits by the Bath Cheese Company!
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Now more than ever, it is imperative that we buy local.
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
April 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Now more than ever, it is imperative that we buy local.
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
Should I set this organisation up? It's a monstrous hybrid of a lean think tank and a full fat public communications campaign.
Could it ever work? Should it see the light of day? Come poke holes in it here:
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
With more art from the wonderful www.lengrant.co.uk
Could it ever work? Should it see the light of day? Come poke holes in it here:
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
With more art from the wonderful www.lengrant.co.uk
April 18, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Should I set this organisation up? It's a monstrous hybrid of a lean think tank and a full fat public communications campaign.
Could it ever work? Should it see the light of day? Come poke holes in it here:
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
With more art from the wonderful www.lengrant.co.uk
Could it ever work? Should it see the light of day? Come poke holes in it here:
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
With more art from the wonderful www.lengrant.co.uk
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The Digital Services Tax currently brings in over £830M a year - enough to completely cover the cost of free school meals.
Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.
Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.
March 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The Digital Services Tax currently brings in over £830M a year - enough to completely cover the cost of free school meals.
Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.
Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.
Fred, my policy chat bot in training, is a show off. He already knows what happened at Conference this weekend.
But is he getting it right? Maybe? Probably? Sort of? Take a look, let me know, and give me some of that juicy negative feedback goodness.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/harro-grea...
But is he getting it right? Maybe? Probably? Sort of? Take a look, let me know, and give me some of that juicy negative feedback goodness.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/harro-grea...
Harro-Great News! Frederalist the Policy Bot Made Some Friends at Conference
And he already knows all the policies that got passed. Bit keen if you ask me.
prototypepolitics.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Fred, my policy chat bot in training, is a show off. He already knows what happened at Conference this weekend.
But is he getting it right? Maybe? Probably? Sort of? Take a look, let me know, and give me some of that juicy negative feedback goodness.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/harro-grea...
But is he getting it right? Maybe? Probably? Sort of? Take a look, let me know, and give me some of that juicy negative feedback goodness.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/harro-grea...
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THE GUARDIAN: Kemi Badenoch’s floundering leadership struggles to inspire a beleaguered Tory party as PMQs reveal her weaknesses and undermine her authority ahead of critical local elections.
- by Andrew Rawnsley
- by Andrew Rawnsley
Kemi Badenoch is failing to hit the spot at PMQs – and everywhere else | Andrew Rawnsley
The Conservative leader isn’t convincing fellow Tories that she possesses a viable route map to recovery
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
THE GUARDIAN: Kemi Badenoch’s floundering leadership struggles to inspire a beleaguered Tory party as PMQs reveal her weaknesses and undermine her authority ahead of critical local elections.
- by Andrew Rawnsley
- by Andrew Rawnsley
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The UK is unusual in the low level of support among younger voters for a party of the radical right. (Reform polls at 5% among 18-24 year olds, compared with 31% for 65+).
But there's clearly a significant pool of support that *could* be mobilised, by a successor (or rival) to Nigel Farage.
But there's clearly a significant pool of support that *could* be mobilised, by a successor (or rival) to Nigel Farage.
March 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The UK is unusual in the low level of support among younger voters for a party of the radical right. (Reform polls at 5% among 18-24 year olds, compared with 31% for 65+).
But there's clearly a significant pool of support that *could* be mobilised, by a successor (or rival) to Nigel Farage.
But there's clearly a significant pool of support that *could* be mobilised, by a successor (or rival) to Nigel Farage.
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The reason @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's focus on sewage has worked so well is that it's tapped into something bigger. People feel taken for granted and (to be honest) more than a little bit shat on. The party should lean into the metaphor.
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
Clean Up The Crap
A proposed narrative for the Liberal Democrats - take two!
open.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The reason @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's focus on sewage has worked so well is that it's tapped into something bigger. People feel taken for granted and (to be honest) more than a little bit shat on. The party should lean into the metaphor.
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
The reason @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's focus on sewage has worked so well is that it's tapped into something bigger. People feel taken for granted and (to be honest) more than a little bit shat on. The party should lean into the metaphor.
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
Clean Up The Crap
A proposed narrative for the Liberal Democrats - take two!
open.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
The reason @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's focus on sewage has worked so well is that it's tapped into something bigger. People feel taken for granted and (to be honest) more than a little bit shat on. The party should lean into the metaphor.
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
I've been playing around with messaging recently about cleaning up the crap (sewage, dirty money, crony contracts, etc), and decided that an image of Nigel Farage as a fatberg could be quite fun.
ChatGPT told me it could call Dall-E and make a cartoon for me, so I said yes. I'm so glad I did.
ChatGPT told me it could call Dall-E and make a cartoon for me, so I said yes. I'm so glad I did.
March 18, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I've been playing around with messaging recently about cleaning up the crap (sewage, dirty money, crony contracts, etc), and decided that an image of Nigel Farage as a fatberg could be quite fun.
ChatGPT told me it could call Dall-E and make a cartoon for me, so I said yes. I'm so glad I did.
ChatGPT told me it could call Dall-E and make a cartoon for me, so I said yes. I'm so glad I did.
@sarahgreenld.bsky.social - reporting from the Guardian today shows that raw sewage poured out of the Chesham sewage treatment works for 2,681 hours last year. That's 111 days' worth of sewage dumped on your patch by Thames Water.
Here's the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Here's the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
March 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@sarahgreenld.bsky.social - reporting from the Guardian today shows that raw sewage poured out of the Chesham sewage treatment works for 2,681 hours last year. That's 111 days' worth of sewage dumped on your patch by Thames Water.
Here's the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Here's the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@rory-stewart.bsky.social As a supporter of proportional representation, I wonder if this might be of interest to you? Updates and analysis regarding electoral reform and the broader fight to clean up British politics, from @libdems4er.bsky.social.
Issue 2 of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social is out now, bringing you the latest news on the fight to clean up Britain's democracy. This issue: Badenoch criticises FPTP; Farage praises it; and Diane Abbott backs Proportional Representation.
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
March 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
@rory-stewart.bsky.social As a supporter of proportional representation, I wonder if this might be of interest to you? Updates and analysis regarding electoral reform and the broader fight to clean up British politics, from @libdems4er.bsky.social.
@compassoffice.bsky.social @bestforbritain.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social
Latest issue of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social, full of updates and analysis about developments in the first to clean up British politics. All feedback welcome!
Latest issue of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social, full of updates and analysis about developments in the first to clean up British politics. All feedback welcome!
Issue 2 of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social is out now, bringing you the latest news on the fight to clean up Britain's democracy. This issue: Badenoch criticises FPTP; Farage praises it; and Diane Abbott backs Proportional Representation.
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
March 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
@compassoffice.bsky.social @bestforbritain.bsky.social @electoralreform.bsky.social @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social
Latest issue of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social, full of updates and analysis about developments in the first to clean up British politics. All feedback welcome!
Latest issue of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social, full of updates and analysis about developments in the first to clean up British politics. All feedback welcome!
@openbritain.bsky.social @mkieran.com @mattmgallagher.bsky.social @appgfairelections.bsky.social @fairvote.bsky.social
Hi all! @libdems4er.bsky.social has launched a monthly newsletter about developments in electoral reform. Might be of interest!
Hi all! @libdems4er.bsky.social has launched a monthly newsletter about developments in electoral reform. Might be of interest!
Issue 2 of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social is out now, bringing you the latest news on the fight to clean up Britain's democracy. This issue: Badenoch criticises FPTP; Farage praises it; and Diane Abbott backs Proportional Representation.
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
March 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
@openbritain.bsky.social @mkieran.com @mattmgallagher.bsky.social @appgfairelections.bsky.social @fairvote.bsky.social
Hi all! @libdems4er.bsky.social has launched a monthly newsletter about developments in electoral reform. Might be of interest!
Hi all! @libdems4er.bsky.social has launched a monthly newsletter about developments in electoral reform. Might be of interest!
Hello @makevotesmatter.bsky.social! 👋 This month's issue of Fair Votes Watch includes a link to your upcoming seminar this week on Equal Votes & Women's Representation in Politics. Best of luck with it!
actionnetwork.org/events/make-...
actionnetwork.org/events/make-...
March 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Hello @makevotesmatter.bsky.social! 👋 This month's issue of Fair Votes Watch includes a link to your upcoming seminar this week on Equal Votes & Women's Representation in Politics. Best of luck with it!
actionnetwork.org/events/make-...
actionnetwork.org/events/make-...
@markpackuk.bsky.social @lisasmartmp.bsky.social @wendychambld.bsky.social @ollyglover.bsky.social
Second issue of LDER's Fair Votes Watch out now. Might be of interest!
Second issue of LDER's Fair Votes Watch out now. Might be of interest!
Issue 2 of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social is out now, bringing you the latest news on the fight to clean up Britain's democracy. This issue: Badenoch criticises FPTP; Farage praises it; and Diane Abbott backs Proportional Representation.
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
March 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
@markpackuk.bsky.social @lisasmartmp.bsky.social @wendychambld.bsky.social @ollyglover.bsky.social
Second issue of LDER's Fair Votes Watch out now. Might be of interest!
Second issue of LDER's Fair Votes Watch out now. Might be of interest!
Issue 2 of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social is out now, bringing you the latest news on the fight to clean up Britain's democracy. This issue: Badenoch criticises FPTP; Farage praises it; and Diane Abbott backs Proportional Representation.
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
March 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Issue 2 of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social is out now, bringing you the latest news on the fight to clean up Britain's democracy. This issue: Badenoch criticises FPTP; Farage praises it; and Diane Abbott backs Proportional Representation.
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
fairvoteswatch.substack.com/p/issue-2-18...
@robfordmancs.bsky.social Hi Rob. Has the online appendix for Brexitland been moved? The footnotes say it's at www.cambridge.org/brexitland, but that gets a 404 error. I'd love to dig into the data.
March 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
@robfordmancs.bsky.social Hi Rob. Has the online appendix for Brexitland been moved? The footnotes say it's at www.cambridge.org/brexitland, but that gets a 404 error. I'd love to dig into the data.
It's heart-wrenching watching R1 reason on Perplexity. I've asked it to select strings of up to four words from larger strings, and the poor thing nearly has a breakdown. Got there in the end though!
February 24, 2025 at 8:14 PM
It's heart-wrenching watching R1 reason on Perplexity. I've asked it to select strings of up to four words from larger strings, and the poor thing nearly has a breakdown. Got there in the end though!
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Just looking at the latest YouGov poll - the Tories are on 9% with people under 50.
It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.
It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.
Honestly, this is an insane thing for a major political party to be running with. It’s mad. It’s by mad people for mad people.
February 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Just looking at the latest YouGov poll - the Tories are on 9% with people under 50.
It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.
It is not clear to me how this helps with that problem.
Looks positive certainly, but there's a challenge in the underlying data, kindly shared by Opinium (and then befouled by my horrendous formatting). Breaking the 'NET' line apart shows that our support is not as strong as it appeared.
February 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Looks positive certainly, but there's a challenge in the underlying data, kindly shared by Opinium (and then befouled by my horrendous formatting). Breaking the 'NET' line apart shows that our support is not as strong as it appeared.