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iandunt.bsky.social • 3 days ago

The Johnson graph is very funny

Anneliese Dodds has quit over Starmer's aid cuts meaning another uptick for the @instituteforgov.bsky.social resignations chart

She is the fifth minister to leave the government (and the fourth to resign) since the GE

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karenroberts.bsky.social•3 days ago

It looks like a cobra. 😂

bearsie17.bsky.social•3 days ago

robpountney.bsky.social•3 days ago

I'm sure the Truss one is as well, sadly I don't have a microscope handy...

paul2626.bsky.social•3 days ago

It's very funny, except for the fact that enough of his ministers resigning to make the prospect of having a functioning government questionable was the only way to prize his fingers out of No 10's door.

beauwoodworks.bsky.social•3 days ago

Seems there is a general impatience in modern politics

andystoin.bsky.social•3 days ago

Haha indeed.

Truss one also amusing in that one can't even discern it on the time axis

rhid83.bsky.social•3 days ago

I missed this with Dodds I admire her stance on this, she's a sound MP and a loss to Labour but she wasn't given her dues in this cabinet sadly. Johnson's resignations were peak Brexiteer meltdown nice to see them immortalised like this.

lillet-blanc.bsky.social•3 days ago

To be fair, so is the Truss pixel

simonvirr.bsky.social•3 days ago

They really needed to have made a separate graph with a different x axis for her.

davidneilhamilton.bsky.social•3 days ago

Where? Ohhh, THERE!

adamwoodsaus.bsky.social•2 days ago

Truss’s is even funnier. Fucking state of them.

(Although Sir Kier better wake himself up soon or he’ll join the growing list of fuckwits to run the UK.)

putajumperon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Basically, post 2010 the tory party deteriorates markedly.

katellis37.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cameron's line is not dissimilar to the Thatcher, Major and Blair lines, so I'd put it at post 2016.

putajumperon.bsky.social•3 days ago

Cameron laid the foundations for the next four to fail but was sadly never held to account.

katellis37.bsky.social•3 days ago

Oh absolutely - not defending his record at all. It's just not evident from that graph. It's clearly a shit show for every PM after him (Starmer's record still tbd), and he can't not have had some hand in that. *coughs* (Brexit)

cwashington.bsky.social•3 days ago

Look at May, all strong and stable.

wizardpug.bsky.social•3 days ago

Truss’ is amusing. Was she around long enough?

paultempleman.bsky.social•3 days ago

May too.

wombledondog.bsky.social•3 days ago

And the Truss tiny line at the start 😂

el-presidente.bsky.social•3 days ago

More fire alarm than graph.

danielbayley.dev•3 days ago

If only the rest of the country wasn't the butt of the joke…

daveosw16.bsky.social•3 days ago

Probably because some Ministers realise they can earn more once they've left office from second jobs. Just floating that as an idea.

john-self.bsky.social•3 days ago

The shallowness of the Blair and Cameron graphs presumably both functions of MPs being really really pleased to be back in government and prepared to bite the bullet for longer.

robpountney.bsky.social•3 days ago

In the case of Cameron it is a side effect of having a coalition government...

billymills.bsky.social•3 days ago

Plus no real social media effect?

rkemb.bsky.social•3 days ago

And I think, to give them both their dues, they understood the personal relational politics of keeping team members onside in a way that not many other recent PMs have done.

anthonyzach.be•3 days ago

And the message being "hold on till the money starts to flow, it will come" rather than "it won't"

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