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Is this the strategy Sunak should follow to win the election? – politicalbetting.com
Is this the strategy Sunak should follow to win the election? – politicalbetting.com
Did cognitive ability matter in the UK’s Brexit vote?Research from our academics suggests cognitive ability was strongly linked to voting to Remain in the 2016 referendum ??https://t.co/78IzvGAL8k pic.twitter.com/8DnBNtSWAa
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Edit: Second best, like me
Grapes still oozing sourness after seven and a half years ...
Look, Brexit is probably shit, but calling 52% of the people who voted thickos might make you feel better, but not much use now.
But this is different. You can't make people ignore their own senses and feelings. You can't persuade the people who have just seen their mortgage and energy bills shoot up that they are better off. You can't pretend that the places you call a shithole are not a shithole because of "levelling up" money you have promised but never delivered.
The reason why the Red Wall is going back to red is that the people who knew nothing about Europe have now realised that their original views on the Tories were actually correct...
I am not familiar with the work of Ms Rose but am always happy for people to challenge Mr Farage. I’m not sure I find it particularly newsworthy though.
BBC News - Austerity warning for public services after tax cuts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67505811
Just like there was no austerity, there is no tax cut. Its low growth, high inflation that means high taxes don't cover the cost of public services.
"If we leave wages will rise"
"We don't spunk away £350m a week - it is only £260m a week"
You have to be near the left hand side of the bell curve to think that those were messages that would have voters flocking to the Remain cause.
Pointing out that people were ignorant when they voted in the Brexit referendum is not calling them thickos. But it is accurate - and the same is true with so many of the remain voters.
There was an interview with Tony Blair where he recanted a conversation during the Brexit campaign. Bloke on the street says "you talk like you know more about this than we do" and Blair responded "well I do" and recants all of the things he has done in and with the EU. He then compared it to football fans thinking they know more about coaching and training than the manager of their team - if they had never actually watched football.
"Doctor Who: Remembrance of the Daleks - Atop the Fourth Wall", Linkara, YouTube, Nov 23, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Adbbi8kNqw
(Actually I cannot as I am a bit busy at work, but just for you, I'll do a piece on Scottish independence over the next few days.)
Has anybody told BiBi this?
This "they say" nonsense is really dangerous....western journalists have been, there are drone shots starting from the hospital descending into the tunnels, etc. But BBC still reporting as if they could be lying.
If you want to, you could criticise and say what is shown isn't evidence of a command and control centre. The Israeli claim they have found it, but its booby trapped and they are currently in process of clearing it.
Street theft is being replaced with digital methods involving AI
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/11/23/mugging-dying-industry-people-dont-carry-cash-virgin-money/ (£££)
The cashless society!
As for reason for Brexit, I am always struck by the voxpops they did in Stoke, its shit round here, its always been shit since the pottery and mines went, local council don't do shit, f##k em all.
It is certainly highly convenient for Putin that Wilders, a man who has repeatedly expressed sympathy for Russia, opposed sanctions and opposes any military aid for Ukraine, has just defied opinion polls and come first in the election.
Is he simply very lucky? What with this, and the recent Slovakian election which was also a surprise vs polling, and the convenient timing of the 7th October attacks. Or is it remotely possibly that his people might have been up to no good?
No, it's the strategy the Tories have followed for some years now.
And they are going to lose anyway.
The calculation is with the votes of clever, selfish amoral bastards who are happy to fuck the country as long as they think they’ll make (more) money from it and the morons who’ll be seduced by the bollocks the client media churn out - along with a few million, often southern but not exclusively, useful fucking idiots who aren’t especially rich or stupid and get shafted along with the rest of us but actually seem to believe the Tory shite despite the stark evidence of the last 13 years - will be just enough to win.
And sadly, they might be right. It worked for Trump once, and may well do again.
Did I see someone earlier saying they’ve sneaked through a massive increase in the cap on election spending? If so, there you go. Prepare for an avalanche of utter, utter shite to corral the mouth breathers. They’ll simply use massive funding from shady billionaires to attempt to lie their way to victory. Just like they did with Brexit.
But, their judgement stinks.
While they no doubt interfere with elections to the best of their ability, I think we have to take responsibility for our own votes.
Coincidentally, I'm just about to watch a video claiming 92 per cent of phones end up in the same street in China, which sounds unlikely but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYGYsFSruNo
https://news.sky.com/story/serious-incident-in-dublin-city-centre-as-children-injured-after-suspected-stabbing-13014383
No more Cummings. Or Case. Or Acland-Hood. Or Vennells.
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
Or in Brexit terms, just because you conned enough people in 2016 and 2019*, that doesn't mean it'll work again in 2024.
* Although other factors in play then too.
Me thinks there is a loophole being exploited here....400k non-eu foreign students per year....
I genuinely don't think i have used an ATM since before COVID.
Anyway, this is a nice Twitter thread on what G Wilders' policies actually are: https://twitter.com/bencoates1/status/1727608887916818612
Unfortunately for them, the straightforward method advocated by Tarquin the Proud isn't feasible.
Deporting to Rwanda people with higher than average cognitive ability might achieve the same aim, but I don't see much prospect of their doing that either.
Many people who voted Brexit are not necessarily stupid even though it was a dumb decision based on a naïve and forlorn hope that it would make our lives somehow better.
There are many people who plan to vote Labour who are not necessarily stupid, even though there are many who vote this way who clearly are. This decision will also be based on a a naïve forlorn hope that it will make our lives somehow better. It is an equally dumb delusion.
China though…not so sure. There’s rather a lot of evidence of influence across multiple levels. Whether that yet extends to elections I don’t know.
JewMuslim bashing.Sounds pie in the sky stuff, but quarter of the dutch just voted for it.
But yes, there are no significant primary Putin-allied actors in UK politics at the moment. Via social and legacy media though, loads of secondary ones with a lot of influence.
And Britain is not an island. Musk is absolutely in the Kremlin-aligned crew and Twitter / X is more powerful *within the UK* than any domestic news channel.
Anyway, thickos have their place. It's often a thicko who's willing to ask the Emperor's New Clothes question, without tying it into a conspiracy theory. Don't underestimate the power of a simple question.
I think Boris’s vulnerability to Russian influence was born of naïveté rather than design. His actions on Ukraine go a long way to absolving him on that front.
Most British politicians are immunised by a long history of Britain and Russia being each other’s nemesis.
In his letter to FA chair Debbie Hewitt, Haq added: "Recent events have left me bereft of energy and hope. I have felt overwhelmed at how this has transpired
Edit - incidentally what evidence do you have that Cummings isn't thick? He's been wrong on every single major thing he's ever done and never shown the slightest sign of understanding any even mildly complex issue at anything beyond a very basic level.