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More in Common better for Labour
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1)
🌹 LAB 22% (+4)
🌳 CON 19% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (-1)
🌍 GREEN 11% (-3)
🟡 SNP 2% (-1)

N = 2,112 | 6-9/3| Change w 2/03

Sounds like the pollsters have less in common?

It has Starmers ratings up a bit to -41 but also Badenochs up to -6 and she leads the pack for the first time.

Labour were at 21 2 weeks ago and 22 3 weeks ago so this is a reversion to long term mean with MiC plus a smidgen with a small Starmer boost

Starmer will be replaced next year so wouldn't think his ratings matter too much. It's too far from a GE for the party numbers to be a good predictor as well, especially when the polls aren't trying to capture anti Labour and anti Reform which are probably both bigger than 20% themselves.

Do the powers that be genuinely not see where this ends?


"White males will have ‘fewer board seats’ in future, says UK diversity chair"

Financial Times

https://x.com/FT/status/2031160714484674567?s=20

Let me tell them. The end result of all this is the creation of an aggressive "white" identity in the UK. If you are white, you will vote for the "White People's Party", so you are not crushed, nor your kids, by official "anti-white-racism". Thus Britain will become a new South Africa

I am genuinely confused as to why so many erstwhile intelligent people fail to see that playing identity politics drives, err, identity politics.

So moves to reduce the over-representation of white males on company boards (where they're doing an epic job judging from UK productivity) will result in a revolt of white males to maintain their current privileged position?

Ex-lads mag journos with brains rotted by coke don't half lose the plot when they're over the hill and devoid of #metoo opportunities....

It is inevitable that the proportion of white male company directors and executives will fall as more women and ethnic minorities pursue successful careers. Indeed it would be astonishing if we didn't make the best use of the talents in the workforce.

This should be an unremarkeable phenomenon and has happened already across many other sectors including medicine, politics, law, academia etc.

It isn't some sort of culture war, but simply the removal of barriers that have kept people down.

What’s important with boards is diversity of thought and perspectives - unfortunately activists always like a box checking approach because that’s easy. But boards are better when they are not packed with dull middle aged old Harrovians.

But someone posted a worry article on here about a year ago (Atlantic?) about the creative industries in the US. What’s happened is that 10 years ago the white men at the top decided to achieve balance. But none of them or their friends could go. So they massively and disproportionately hired juniors from alternative backgrounds to the exclusion of (potentially better) white straight males. That counter-distortion is now working through the system but it has led to a generation of talented people who were unable to pursue the career they wanted

This is an interesting dynamic.

The GOP media posting clips of Talarico as attacks on him. And he keeps replying, yes, I approve this message.

JAMES TALARICO: “Christ is the immigrant deported without due process. Christ is the senior deprived of their Social Security benefits. Christ is the protestor kidnapped in an unmarked vehicle by plain clothes officers.”..
https://x.com/NRSC/status/2031442594983498169

It will be fascinating to see how it plays out.

Can Texas handle a genuine Christian?

Would they recognise one?

Well.
Several megachurch pastors have denounced him as "Satanic".
His crime? Using scripture to raise difficulty questions.
And "campaigning on the Bible".
Irony gone to heaven.

Personally, I would say that Starmer has proven to be closer to my position on this than any of the leaders. If he wasn't so woolly, incoherent and inconsistent he might be doing even better.

He should take the flack from Trump and wear it with pride, it will do him more political good than anything else he or his government has done, well, ever actually.

My critique of Starmer and indeed the other European nations is that they have not gone far enough. They should have made it clear that there was no legal basis for this war, that it was and is a criminal act and that they disapprove of what both the US and Israel have done. After the Greenland fiasco Europe needs to stop aligning with the US by default. If they want a rules based system to survive they need to speak up for it. And that includes calling out your erstwhile friends when they act badly.

Huzzah.

Hereditary peers to be removed from the House of Lords after deal struck

Agreement broke a months-long impasse over

Sir Keir Starmer has cleared the way for removing hereditary peerages from the House of Lords after a deal was struck to offer extra spots to some of those who will lose their seats within months.

A compromise was reached that The Times has been told will see 15 Conservative Party members of the House of Lords, whose positions were passed down by bloodline, continue as life peers.

The agreement broke a months-long impasse over one of the biggest constitutional reforms in decades, as peers agreed to let the legislation pass its final stage without a vote on Tuesday night.

The Lords agreed with the Commons on a final draft of the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) bill.

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/keir-starmer-hereditary-peerages-deal-house-of-lords-mxnf60hl0

More in Common better for Labour
➡️ REF UK 30% (+1)
🌹 LAB 22% (+4)
🌳 CON 19% (nc)
🔶 LIB DEM 13% (-1)
🌍 GREEN 11% (-3)
🟡 SNP 2% (-1)

N = 2,112 | 6-9/3| Change w 2/03

Sounds like the pollsters have less in common?

It has Starmers ratings up a bit to -41 but also Badenochs up to -6 and she leads the pack for the first time.

Labour were at 21 2 weeks ago and 22 3 weeks ago so this is a reversion to long term mean with MiC plus a smidgen with a small Starmer boost

Big picture is that Reform are solidly ahead, but their lead is drifting down and it doesn't look like enough to win the next GE.

Labour and Con are neck and neck. On that basis, I'd rather be the red team than the blue. Libs are probably doing fine where they want to, having opted out of the national game. Greens have come out of nowhere, and I don't think anyone really knows how well they are doing.