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Woke-ism is a minority supportSupport for footballers "taking the knee"? 37%Support for removal of statues linked to slavery? 27%BLM protests shd have gone ahead during crisis? 21%Support protestors damaging/removing statues? 13%YouGov July 16
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So 42% support.
28% oppose.
5% don't know.
What happened to the other 25% ?
That's rather a large hole.
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1287373531119067141?s=20
Also Matthew Goodwin is an embarrassment on Twitter. He posts with an agenda but pretends it is academic
The fact that 30% do not think the protests should have happened NOW, and 38% actually think they should NEVER happen, suggests a large reservoir of quiet disapproval.
The Russians have got trolling and botting down to an art-form, they hijack every argument on social media to their benefit: ie they make the debate as divisive in the West as possible.
That's not to say some of his suggestions aren't correct, he's done some good videos on where the Labour vote went.
Unfortunately his solution is for Labour to out-culture the Tories which most people know is impossible and so I get the sense it's a suggestion made in bad faith. It also completely neglects the fact that Blair won three elections being fairly "woke"/liberal for the time.
I think it's far more about messaging and picking the battles, than just culture culture culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wugu-2SmHJg
It worked, I still remember ...
He suggested Labour out-culture the Tories.
Blair was far more astute, he said don't have the battles.
I think Blair has a lot more to say about why Labour keeps losing than Goodwin does.
I just fear people on the right can't see it because he supports their views, he just "seems" to be a leftie
His theory is that the Russians and Chinese are working as a tag team. The Chinese are doing the massive industrial espionage, stealing western secrets, because they have the money and scale; the Russians are doing the social media sabotage, destroying western self confidence, and roiling our politics, because they are good at THAT, as they know the cultural faultlines to attack.
Perhaps they should both subcontract the assassinations to North Korea.
https://twitter.com/WSDAgov/status/1286793892713570304?s=20
What action will they take against obese NHS workers ?
Over the years I've seen some grossly overweight people in NHS uniforms and thought it was a terrible example to set.
The president of the Diputación and Tourism Costa del Sol, Francisco Salado, has considered "unfair" and "a hard blow" the quarantine imposed by the United Kingdom on tourists traveling from Spain. Salado has said that searches and bookings for British tourists have been improving and growing a lot in recent weeks and this new quarantine returns them to the "exit box". "The data and figures on the evolution of the disease in Malaga, Andalusia and many other territories in our country are reasonably good and better than in the United Kingdom itself," he emphasized. For the sector, it is "a tremendous injustice" that all pay for "the lousy health and pandemic prevention management of an autonomous autonomous government that has not done its homework," whose officials "spend the day talking about self-determination and self-government. but then they are not able to manage their competences or work to stop the spread of the disease. "
Despite their obvious bias, they all say interesting and observant things, from time to time.
A time when spies (for better or worse) were motivated by ideals/ideology seems strangely quaint nowadays.
And Spain has a properly nasty second wave. 2,250 new cases in a day
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8559135/Spain-records-2-255-Covid-cases-24-hours-number-infections-319-501.html
He wrapped himself in the flag "Cool Britannia" and made rather populist liberalisations. Which is why gay marriage was still illegal when he left office and it took Cameron to legalise it.
Not to mention that food is much cheaper to buy and cook yourself compared with grotty takeaways.
And what do they do on all their days off ?
Or that some of the fatties I've seen look like they're both cooking at home and going to the grotty takeaways.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2017/11/27/americans-are-receiving-unordered-parcels-from-chinese-e-criminals-and-cant-do-anything-about-it/
"A seller acquires the actually name and address of a real e-commerce user and creates a fake account for them on the platform they’re selling on. They then make what appears to be an order of their product from the victim’s fake account, ship out a package that is either empty or contains a low-value, light weight item, and then, after the delivery has been confirmed, leaves a 5-star review to boost their rankings and attract more sales. To the platform and other users, these faux reviews appear to be from legitimate and verified sales. Beyond the benefit of favorable reviews, simply having additional sales is often enough to raise a product in the rankings of some e-commerce sites, such as Amazon."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/wadeshepard/2019/10/25/americans-are-still-receiving-unordered-packages-from-asian-e-criminals/
It's important not to collaborate - even in the teeniest way - with Putin's Russia.
It doesn’t matter that food is cheaper to cook yourself. What matters is convenience. I find it difficult to be arsed to cook after coming home from a 9-5, never-mind a 8-8, or longer.
Are some places getting effectively their first wave ?
If he was authentically populist right wing the BBC would not be inviting him onto their tv or radio programmes .
Note the way that Katie Hopkins has now joined Tommy Robinson in being completely no-platformed from the mainstream media and note how few of the usual respectable 'right wing voices 'the BBC/SKY etc invite onto their shows are prepared to question why are the voices of Hopkins,Robinson etc no-platformed?
The Spiked/Unherd/Spectator etc voices probably know they would not be invited back by MSM to appear on their shows if they did or like Godwin they have spotted a niche area in the MSM to fill.
As am I, of course.
Note how the NHS clapping faded away, and when they tried to revive it, the attempt was a very damp squib.
Stokes should be promoted to Number 3 for this innings and Broad at 4 both with instructions to swing the bat.
If obesity is such a major health and social problem, and I agree that it is, then the NHS should be setting an example.
I'm not complaining about people who are overweight or drink too many units but those who are grossly obese.
Is that not sort of like saying water is wet?
There’s a culture in the NHS, and in many other jobs, of everyone bringing in cake, chocolate, sweets all the time to eat at lunch time etc. That’s on top of the difficulty of making healthy choices when you’re exhausted - something thats exacerbated by unhealthiness.
Just because you manage to make “health choices” doesn’t mean someone else is weak or lazy because they don’t.
However, that doesn’t mean people should be treated with contempt or be bullied because of it.
If that is your metric then I'd say it is job done.
Gestures are not meaningless much of the time, but they can become meaningless.
If you choose to stuff your maw with unhealthy stuff that is entirely down to you. You made a conscious choice to eat it so who else is it you think is to blame.
Now I put my hand up and say I probably drink more than I should mainly down to stress....however I could find other ways of stress relief that pouring a glass of whiskey and the reason I don't is because its the easy way out to just pour a glass of the amber fluid and savour it . In other words the other methods of stress relief are too much effort and I am lazy.
Letting people think they have excuses for personal choices robs them of agency, I eat unhealthily/drink too much/smoke too much etc.....but its not really my fault because work/commute/kids tire me out so you can't blame me. That let off allows them to continue the unhealthy behaviour with a clear conscience.
One thing that irritates me is watching Ramsay, Oliver and the other "celeb" chefs smother food with salt and pepper as though it were the only thing food ever needed.
Cheap food doesn't have to be bad food but it often is - supermarket meat is full of water and tasteless but for many that's the only option they have. The supermarkets killed the local butcher, fishmonger and greengrocer and we now pay the price in terms of health issues.
I was brought up on Farley's Rusks (anyone remember them?). That's why I had and still have a sweet tooth. Chocolate is another problem - it should be classed as a soft drug (it is addictive). We consume 7.6 kilograms (17 lbs) per person per year.
The football thing is getting absurd. I cannot see why game after game the players should be kneeling in this fashion - there are so many other causes/injustices around the world that deserve attention and not all of them involve white people.
And I don't think we should glamourise unhealthy lifestyles.
But being size 0 isn't the definition of healthy, people are naturally bigger than others.
I don't think telling people they're fat slobs is helpful at all. It won't help them lose weight or get the help they need (if they need help, perhaps they don't want it and that's their choice).
I thought Labour would do a lot better than they did in 2019, but that doesn't mean everything I say now is nonsense, just most of it.
People take heroin out of stress, they kick the dog because of stress, they guzzle too much wine out of stress (me), they eat seventeen KFC buckets a day out of stress. All of these should earn an element of social disapproval, in various forms.
We did it for drink driving, and we are now doing it for smoking.
There is a difference between saying something is a minority concern . . . and suggesting it is unpopular. A lot of people are acting like Goodwin was saying the latter, but he's not and never did.
"How do you expect them to go home and cook when they are exhausted after a 12 hour shift" are not helpful and very much handing them an excuse. It says "hey it's not your fault really....if you didn't work those hours you would eat healthily". When in truth you could reduce their hours to two a week with no loss of pay and they would still eat the same
The fact that only 42% support the anodyne question about generalised support for blm protests suggests that MG is onto something interesting.
"‘Dorna haven’t done enough’ says MotoGP’s only Black paddock member"
https://tinyurl.com/y66nwe8n
I suggest warnings on food, as with tobacco, and maybe a small tax on junk food, and sugary drinks. It goes against my libertarian instincts but it is clear obesity is now a major threat.
Incidentally I wondered, some time ago, if obesity might prove to be a clinching factor in covid death rates. I might have been on to something.
"Obesity can increase risk of coronavirus death by up to 90%, PHE report finds"
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/obesity-overweight-coronavirus-risks-increase-death-a4508281.html
I eat much healthier when I’m on holiday, because I have plenty of time to cook. When i’m busy and stressed, I eat much worse.
I would like to add that I’m fit and healthy and certainly not overweight.