Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
No. Because the right wing press construct the narrative, and the BBC largely stick to events.
Indeed, because of the way it works, the BBC end up presenting the narrative itself as part of a he says/she says attempt at unbiased reportage.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
I’m afraid there is only one direction this is going, and it’s not a good one.
I have very little doubt that if Boris were chosen Hunt would quit and all hell would break loose once again. Hunt is an extraordinary position here and the only sensible thing to do is to build the team around him, including the PM. In short who he wants, he gets.
If this is true, and Hunt is a patriot, he will make this clear this evening.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
Boris likes the idea of being PM. Of being proven right. Of his party begging him to come back. Yes he is earning dollah overseas. But think how much more dollah he could earn in future if he returns?
So yes, he wants it. As do some MPs and likely many members. But MPs won't stand for it and the party would fall apart.
Or they can select Sunak or Mordaunt. MPs won't stand for it an the party would fall apart.
Perhaps the Brandon Lewis option isn't totally mental. Elect a non-entity who doesn't upset any of the factions.
Maybe the Tories should support PR (STV in multi-member constituencies) then the factions strength would be determined by the electorate rather than Tory Constituency selection committees.
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges · 21m I’ve got no idea who the next Tory leader will be. But there’s only one person who people are talking about in parliament at the moment - positively and negatively. And that’s Boris. The other candidates need to get their skates on.
Have to agree with this, Rishi and Mourdant need to be out there NOW pressing the flesh. If Boris comes top 2 with MPs it really is game over.
I’m afraid there is only one direction this is going, and it’s not a good one.
I have very little doubt that if Boris were chosen Hunt would quit and all hell would break loose once again. Hunt is an extraordinary position here and the only sensible thing to do is to build the team around him, including the PM. In short who he wants, he gets.
If this is true, and Hunt is a patriot, he will make this clear this evening.
How to confirm it is a remainer stitch up in a couple of simple steps to the loons.
I know this won't be a popular view here. But Boris is the Tories only chance. He has a mandate.
He told the British people they had to stay at home to save the NHS and then broke his own rules. And then lied about it when he was caught. The moral force of his electoral mandate is effectively invalidated by that level of hypocrisy.
And the British really hate hypocrisy.
Thing is, it feels like an aeon ago that Boris departed with everything that has happened...
I know this won't be a popular view here. But Boris is the Tories only chance. He has a mandate.
He told the British people they had to stay at home to save the NHS and then broke his own rules. And then lied about it when he was caught. The moral force of his electoral mandate is effectively invalidated by that level of hypocrisy.
And the British really hate hypocrisy.
Thing is, it feels like an aeon ago that Boris departed with everything that has happened...
Not if you read the pinned tweet at the top of Dan Hodges Twitter
His pitch would be - I got all the big calls right and little things like that don't matter when the alternatives are chaos as we saw from Truss.
It is persuasive enough to low information voters to create a Tory floor of 200 odd MPs (odd in all senses). That is a better floor than any of the others offer.
I’m afraid there is only one direction this is going, and it’s not a good one.
I have very little doubt that if Boris were chosen Hunt would quit and all hell would break loose once again. Hunt is an extraordinary position here and the only sensible thing to do is to build the team around him, including the PM. In short who he wants, he gets.
If this is true, and Hunt is a patriot, he will make this clear this evening.
How to confirm it is a remainer stitch up in a couple of simple steps to the loons.
Why do you say that? Hunt will choose Sunak who was a definite leaver. Gove will almost certainly return to the cabinet in a senior roll too as will the Saj.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
The BBC can read the circulation figures as well as you and I. They're obviously going to pay more attention to the Mail than to the Guardian.
His pitch would be - I got all the big calls right and little things like that don't matter when the alternatives are chaos as we saw from Truss.
It is persuasive enough to low information voters to create a Tory floor of 200 odd MPs (odd in all senses). That is a better floor than any of the others offer.
Yes, when it comes down to it, he probably has both a higher floor and a higher ceiling electorally.
I’m afraid there is only one direction this is going, and it’s not a good one.
I have very little doubt that if Boris were chosen Hunt would quit and all hell would break loose once again. Hunt is an extraordinary position here and the only sensible thing to do is to build the team around him, including the PM. In short who he wants, he gets.
If this is true, and Hunt is a patriot, he will make this clear this evening.
How to confirm it is a remainer stitch up in a couple of simple steps to the loons.
Why do you say that? Hunt will choose Sunak who was a definite leaver. Gove will almost certainly return to the cabinet in a senior roll too as will the Saj.
Sunak is a remainer to the loons. Truss a leaver. It is about beliefs in fantasy more than actual Brexit votes.
His pitch would be - I got all the big calls right and little things like that don't matter when the alternatives are chaos as we saw from Truss.
It is persuasive enough to low information voters to create a Tory floor of 200 odd MPs (odd in all senses). That is a better floor than any of the others offer.
Sadly, though that is a ridiculous idea, I fear enough Tory MPs would agree. There may not even be a contest.
I’m afraid there is only one direction this is going, and it’s not a good one.
I have very little doubt that if Boris were chosen Hunt would quit and all hell would break loose once again. Hunt is an extraordinary position here and the only sensible thing to do is to build the team around him, including the PM. In short who he wants, he gets.
If this is true, and Hunt is a patriot, he will make this clear this evening.
How to confirm it is a remainer stitch up in a couple of simple steps to the loons.
Why do you say that? Hunt will choose Sunak who was a definite leaver. Gove will almost certainly return to the cabinet in a senior roll too as will the Saj.
Sunak was called a remainer traitor, here and in other places. The truth won't matter.
Mordaunt and Wallace (and Braverman and Tugendhat and Badenoch), in the words of Charles Walker MP last night, are the
"talentless people putting their tick in the right box not because it is in the national interest but because it's in their own personal interest to achieve Ministerial position".
Wallace might perhaps be excused given the war in Ukraine but I see no reason why Mordaunt should be. All those in Cabinet willing to suck up to Truss, despite knowing she was not fit for purpose, have shown the most appalling judgment and negligence. None of them should stand or be chosen.
By default, really, it should be down to Sunak and Hunt. And certainly not Boris who promoted all these weak nobodies and, in particular, Truss.
And the members should be told to get stuffed. Britain is not some sort of rotten Borough, a plaything for a few elderly men.
I am astonished at the naivety and short memories of some Conservative MP's. Johnspn for PM!!! Any Lib Dem will tell you the reason why they won the Chesham, North Shropshire and Tiverton by elections was the extreeme hostility the voters had to one man, yes Boris Johnson. It is time for Tory MP's to look beyond their membership, they need to take into account the wider electorate who despised him for what he did.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
The BBC can read the circulation figures as well as you and I. They're obviously going to pay more attention to the Mail than to the Guardian.
They actually buy more Guardians than Mails, though the former has been knocked off its top spot by the Times:
I'll say it again. Whoever it is needs to be able to unite the MPs. Unless they want an immediate general election.
Fat chance that happens if BoZo is running. He’ll poison the well.
If he runs and loses, his coterie will sulk, probably to the extent that a GE will be necessary early 2023.
If he runs and wins, he’ll divide the Party enough that he will likely have to have a GE in the same timescale. He is probably hoping he’ll manage to pull a 2019 again.
But part of me wonders if he wants to run just to lose, and when the new PM is inevitably brought down and suffers a shellacking at a GE he can claim HE would have achieved a different result and build back his brand in the Tory Party and return as LOTO at some point.
It is bad that I hope that final paragraph is the true state of things because the idea of him become PM again is causing me serious anger.
I’m afraid there is only one direction this is going, and it’s not a good one.
I have very little doubt that if Boris were chosen Hunt would quit and all hell would break loose once again. Hunt is an extraordinary position here and the only sensible thing to do is to build the team around him, including the PM. In short who he wants, he gets.
If this is true, and Hunt is a patriot, he will make this clear this evening.
I would be amazed if he is not making it clear already without going public on it. The party seems to want the fantasy of a contest but the reality is that we have degenerated to Ankh-Morpork:
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Chancellor was the Man; he had the Vote."
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
The BBC can read the circulation figures as well as you and I. They're obviously going to pay more attention to the Mail than to the Guardian.
My MP, a Sunak backer (and former Boris loyalist), has apparently backed Mordaunt and Sunak as Truss's successor, with whoever is number two getting a Great Office. But he may have said it before Boris Redux was clear.
Mordaunt and Wallace (and Braverman and Tugendhat and Badenoch), in the words of Charles Walker MP last night, are the
"talentless people putting their tick in the right box not because it is in the national interest but because it's in their own personal interest to achieve Ministerial position".
Wallace might perhaps be excused given the war in Ukraine but I see no reason why Mordaunt should be. All those in Cabinet willing to suck up to Truss, despite knowing she was not fit for purpose, have shown the most appalling judgment and negligence. None of them should stand or be chosen.
By default, really, it should be down to Sunak and Hunt. And certainly not Boris who promoted all these weak nobodies and, in particular, Truss.
And the members should be told to get stuffed. Britain is not some sort of rotten Borough, a plaything for a few elderly men.
No, Britain is the plaything for one elderly man, Alexander Boris De Pfeffel Johnson. Gorgeous!
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
You reckon?
I know people who get their news from TikTok. Which does not play in the Tories favour.
That demographic barely vote.
True. But the odds of TikTok getting that demographic to be energised and get out to vote feels far more likely to me than claims that Twitter might in the past.
What's needed is a TikTok challenge: 'vote in the booth'
Yes, yes, filming it is probably illegal (depends if you show the actual ballot cast?) and stupid, but we're talking TikTok challenges here
I think Johnson would actually benefit from being kept off the ballot by MPs. So whichever stooge is chosen will go down to a historic defeat at the next election. Johnson can claim he would have won if he hadn't been thwarted by scheming MPs and come back to dominate the Tory Party after the election on a betrayal narrative
Whereas if he has to fight the election he would probably lose to Starmer, who he presents as a mediocrity and his mantle of election invincibility would disappear
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
The Daily Mail killed Penny Moudaunts campaign last time. They might do it again.
Frostie was pushing that. Perhaps he is a little contrite at what he caused?
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
You reckon?
I know people who get their news from TikTok. Which does not play in the Tories favour.
That demographic barely vote.
True. But the odds of TikTok getting that demographic to be energised and get out to vote feels far more likely to me than claims that Twitter might in the past.
What's needed is a TikTok challenge: 'vote in the booth'
Yes, yes, filming it is probably illegal (depends if you show the actual ballot cast?) and stupid, but we're talking TikTok challenges here
And the next challenge (I don’t put this beyond them) from the Lynton Crosby mob would be “be outrageous, mock the system, watch the world burn and vote Tory”.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
The BBC can read the circulation figures as well as you and I. They're obviously going to pay more attention to the Mail than to the Guardian.
Ah, so your problem is with the people.
My problem is with the people who say that the BBC has a left-wing bias, when its agenda is set by the right-wing Press.
I don't have a problem with the public at large disagreeing with me. I'd rather they didn't, but I generally think it's my problem if my arguments haven't been persuasive enough to convince them.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
The BBC can read the circulation figures as well as you and I. They're obviously going to pay more attention to the Mail than to the Guardian.
Ah, so your problem is with the people.
My problem is with the people who say that the BBC has a left-wing bias, when its agenda is set by the right-wing Press.
I don't have a problem with the public at large disagreeing with me. I'd rather they didn't, but I generally think it's my problem if my arguments haven't been persuasive enough to convince them.
The left wing press exists and are not impotent, but they generally lack the reach, the puissance, and the money of the right wing press.
They are also, perhaps structurally so, less power-focused and more interested in insular issues.
"Left wing" and "right wing" press as terms are meaningless.
It is the press that people choose to consume. Nothing preventing them buying Socialist Worker or the BNP Daily if they so wish.
You are very naive.
The press take the line they do because they know their readerships. There is a constituency of newspaper buyers who are quite happy with the Mail's line. I'm quite sure there are left wing people. Almost all the people I know are left wing. But they don't buy newspapers. They'll read the Guardian online, but they won't pay for news. That the press (by circulation) is right wing simply reflects the polotical preferences of newspaper buyers/subscribers. But newspaper buyers aren't necessarily politically representative of the nation as a whole.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
The Daily Mail killed Penny Moudaunts campaign last time. They might do it again.
Frostie was pushing that. Perhaps he is a little contrite at what he caused?
You must be joking. They don’t know the meaning of the word.
The left wing press exists and are not impotent, but they generally lack the reach, the puissance, and the money of the right wing press.
They are also, perhaps structurally so, less power-focused and more interested in insular issues.
"Left wing" and "right wing" press as terms are meaningless.
It is the press that people choose to consume. Nothing preventing them buying Socialist Worker or the BNP Daily if they so wish.
You are very naive.
Oh god another one who is sure they are not affected by press bias but thinks that everyone else is.
Smartest guy in the room, eh?
Press bias exists. Everyone is affected by it. The best one can is try to eliminate inappropriate funding (foreign, criminal) of news, and fund avowedly independent options.
It is you who seem to think that you are unaffected by press bias, I’m afraid, since you claim in your first sentence that it doesn’t exist or is “meaningless”
What I want is Rishi as PM, Hunt Chancellor, Mordaunt HS, Gove levelling up Secy and all round coordinator, Wallace as Defence, the Saj back at health, Badenoch possibly Chief Secretary to Treasury etc. A government that makes the most use of the pool of talent available such as it is and with enough experience not to fall over its own feet on a daily basis.
Someone noted - and perhaps it’s not an original thought, but it impressed me - that while Labour has the “unions”, the Tories have the right wing press.
The Mail et al - controlled largely by non-doms and foreign money - are an absolute cancer on Britain.
The influence of the "right wing press" is massively overstated.
The single most important news medium is the BBC News app push notification.
The thing is the BBC use the Press as their external calibration. The BBC are desperate for an external calibration so that they can avoid any accusation of bias. So the right-wing press end up setting the agenda that the BBC follow.
No mention of the left wing press? Or do you just see them as unbiased?
The BBC can read the circulation figures as well as you and I. They're obviously going to pay more attention to the Mail than to the Guardian.
Ah, so your problem is with the people.
My problem is with the people who say that the BBC has a left-wing bias, when its agenda is set by the right-wing Press.
I don't have a problem with the public at large disagreeing with me. I'd rather they didn't, but I generally think it's my problem if my arguments haven't been persuasive enough to convince them.
Its agenda isn't set by the right-wing press and more than it is set by the Guardian.
The left wing press exists and are not impotent, but they generally lack the reach, the puissance, and the money of the right wing press.
They are also, perhaps structurally so, less power-focused and more interested in insular issues.
"Left wing" and "right wing" press as terms are meaningless.
It is the press that people choose to consume. Nothing preventing them buying Socialist Worker or the BNP Daily if they so wish.
You are very naive.
Oh god another one who is sure they are not affected by press bias but thinks that everyone else is.
Smartest guy in the room, eh?
Press bias exists. Everyone is affected by it. The best one can is try to eliminate inappropriate funding (foreign, criminal) of news, and fund avowedly independent options.
It is you who seem to think that you are unaffected by press bias, I’m afraid, since you claim in your first sentence that it doesn’t exist or is “meaningless”
If you fund "avowedly independent options" then you will recreate all the same biases because they ultimately stem from people themselves. Would a state funded GB News and a state funded Novara Media be better?
What I want is Rishi as PM, Hunt Chancellor, Mordaunt HS, Gove levelling up Secy and all round coordinator, Wallace as Defence, the Saj back at health, Badenoch possibly Chief Secretary to Treasury etc. A government that makes the most use of the pool of talent available such as it is and with enough experience not to fall over its own feet on a daily basis.
What I want is Rishi as PM, Hunt Chancellor, Mordaunt HS, Gove levelling up Secy and all round coordinator, Wallace as Defence, the Saj back at health, Badenoch possibly Chief Secretary to Treasury etc. A government that makes the most use of the pool of talent available such as it is and with enough experience not to fall over its own feet on a daily basis.
It is worth saying that many Tory MPs tonight are saying they do not believe Boris Johnson will run. They say that if the threshold for nominations is very high, it is unlikely the former PM will risk it. There is no chance of him wanting to risk being defeated. https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1583129150012813312
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Reminder of what the voters think of Boris Johnson, when asked to describe him in a word - from JLPartnersPolls in April.
And yes, they still think it.
https://twitter.com/jamesjohnson252/status/1583096075153391617?s=20&t=fEQlzzRe1O2DanTYbTTPSw
Personally I'd have the lettuce installed as caretaker PM, followed by an election.
LAB: 53% (+4)
CON: 22% (-3)
LDEM: 11% (-)
GRN: 5% (-1)
via @techneUK, 19 - 20 Oct
https://sotn.newstatesman.com/2022/10/britainpredicts
The guy was pulled by his ankles out of Number 10 a few weeks ago, exposed as corrupt and a liar and utterly unfit to be PM.
Now 6/1 to come back courtesy of the same people who got rid of him? C'mon! Lay of the century.
I have anyway and I'm really not worried. The country is in a bad way, yes, but we're not yet a banana republic.
They are also, perhaps structurally so, less power-focused and more interested in insular issues.
It is persuasive enough to low information voters to create a Tory floor of 200 odd MPs (odd in all senses). That is a better floor than any of the others offer.
One can only think that if they were pledging to "murder your parents and eat your children" they would still be able to save some deposits.
Ben Smoke @bencsmoke
flatmate has just asked me whether i think the lettuce voted leaf or romaine in the brexit referendum and im frankly furious at how funny i found it
Lettuce at 58p – a good buy
Liz Truss at Number 10 – a goodbye
https://twitter.com/LidlGB/status/1583098564074672128
"talentless people putting their tick in the right box not because it is in the national interest but because it's in their own personal interest to achieve Ministerial position".
See 0.44 seconds in here - https://twitter.com/danjohnsonnews/status/1582808074875973633?s=61&t=a3QilkvMtWhQmetO_zjaVQ.
Wallace might perhaps be excused given the war in Ukraine but I see no reason why Mordaunt should be. All those in Cabinet willing to suck up to Truss, despite knowing she was not fit for purpose, have shown the most appalling judgment and negligence. None of them should stand or be chosen.
By default, really, it should be down to Sunak and Hunt. And certainly not Boris who promoted all these weak nobodies and, in particular, Truss.
And the members should be told to get stuffed. Britain is not some sort of rotten Borough, a plaything for a few elderly men.
Your dream of ever voting Conservative again looks like a decade away to me.
Any Lib Dem will tell you the reason why they won the Chesham, North Shropshire and Tiverton by elections was the extreeme hostility the voters had to one man, yes Boris Johnson.
It is time for Tory MP's to look beyond their membership, they need to take into account the wider electorate who despised him for what he did.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/which-newspapers-does-the-bbc-buy/
If he runs and loses, his coterie will sulk, probably to the extent that a GE will be necessary early 2023.
If he runs and wins, he’ll divide the Party enough that he will likely have to have a GE in the same timescale. He is probably hoping he’ll manage to pull a 2019 again.
But part of me wonders if he wants to run just to lose, and when the new PM is inevitably brought down and suffers a shellacking at a GE he can claim HE would have achieved a different result and build back his brand in the Tory Party and return as LOTO at some point.
It is bad that I hope that final paragraph is the true state of things because the idea of him become PM again is causing me serious anger.
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Chancellor was the Man; he had the Vote."
Medvedev does an Truss shitpost.
@MedvedevRussiaE
Bye, bye @trussliz, congrats to lettuce
https://twitter.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1583100500030808064
Yes, yes, filming it is probably illegal (depends if you show the actual ballot cast?) and stupid, but we're talking TikTok challenges here
It is the press that people choose to consume. Nothing preventing them buying Socialist Worker or the BNP Daily if they so wish.
Whereas if he has to fight the election he would probably lose to Starmer, who he presents as a mediocrity and his mantle of election invincibility would disappear
My bet is on the heart of romaine.
@jamesjohnson252
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As the person to lead them into the election Tory MPs can choose either:
1. Another risky unknown (Penny, Ben)
2. A toxic known (Boris)
3. The least toxic known (Rishi)
With such a narrow path to any remote semblance of election victory, not sure it’s that difficult on paper.
https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/1583113618480324608
I reckon Sunak has every chance of winning with the members.
I've posted this before but remember Davey losing to Swinson then beating Moran the next year.
LD members were far closer to Moran ideologically but they knew they had to play it safe so chose Davey.
The same will apply this time but in spades - we are talking about choosing a PM after a calamitous period.
Members will know they have to play it safe and that will mean Sunak.
When people say I need a hobby I always tell them I have one ... laying Not Happening Events at single digits.
I don't have a problem with the public at large disagreeing with me. I'd rather they didn't, but I generally think it's my problem if my arguments haven't been persuasive enough to convince them.
Step forward HYFUD. Your moment has come!
(In that they appear to be able to string two sentences together).
Show their true colours.
Smartest guy in the room, eh?
*We might only have the one tank that works.
https://twitter.com/benphillips76/status/1583068995527200768
I'm quite sure there are left wing people. Almost all the people I know are left wing. But they don't buy newspapers. They'll read the Guardian online, but they won't pay for news.
That the press (by circulation) is right wing simply reflects the polotical preferences of newspaper buyers/subscribers. But newspaper buyers aren't necessarily politically representative of the nation as a whole.
Everyone is affected by it.
The best one can is try to eliminate inappropriate funding (foreign, criminal) of news, and fund avowedly independent options.
It is you who seem to think that you are unaffected by press bias, I’m afraid, since you claim in your first sentence that it doesn’t exist or is “meaningless”
Sunak is the only realistic candidate for PM and, whether they like him or not, most of them now realise that.
Good source reckons 1922 going to impose a nominations threshold of *100 MPs*
That will narrow the field very, very quickly
https://twitter.com/hzeffman/status/1583123851709333504?cxt=HHwWgICqiaywsfgrAAAA
Joint-largest lead for ANY party with ANY polling company since Oct. 1997.
Westminster VI (19 Oct.):
Labour 55% (-1)
Conservative 19% (-1)
Lib Dems 12% (+1)
Green 4% (-1)
SNP 4% (–)
Reform 4% (+2)
Other 1% (–)
Changes +/- 16 Oct.
https://redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/magnified-email/issue-53 https://twitter.com/RedfieldWilton/status/1583125895040090113/photo/1
Add a few Red Wallers, and I say yes.
https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1583129150012813312