Wiping your fingerprints off the gun does not count as personal growth.

I'm sorry but this is junk science.

Lot of centrist sneering about the WFA being wasteful, but imo the reason this bit so hard wasn't really about the policy, but it being the moment voters realised they'd been had and that the new politics was the same as the old.

This blending of everyday miseries with far-right diagnoses and solutions is deadly, especially in a context where the same miseries are largely written out of the mainstream narrative.

Similar to Nordstream/Ukraine - even if you take seriously that we don't know (lol) it seems like something a serious nation would find out about an ally before calibrating its support?

The deep state has been temporarily upgraded from 'leftist conspiracy' to 'real and good'.

The implication that there was a defined number of Palestinians Labour had to help Israel kill to win back Jewish voters - and that the problem is that Israel has now exceeded the number is one of the most insane things I've ever seen said out loud. t.co/SlRjbfLU9v

Less fun when they trianglulating around you isn't it?

Note they sincerely think of voters as children, and not their bosses. Their job is to make us less feckless and stupid, not to represent us.

Get in losers we're going to drive into the wall of material reality

The funny thing is our biggest vulnerability is probably a military-age population who rightly feels they have no stake in the UK as constituted. If you want to deter the Russian bear, you actually should be spending more on welfare, services, infrastructure and housing.

Even this close to the danger, the Pol Profs still can't imagine the left being a legitimate partner.

Fascinating how similar patterns of failure are across British institutions
- Fail at job
- Cover up by peers
- No accountability
- Criticism laundered into concerns about threats and abuse

Part of this is Senior Labour types are trained to speak in a tone designed for the left (fuck you, you get nothing) which does not tend to sit well with a wider electorate.