daveoleary.bsky.social
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Liz Saville-Roberts is not averse to pompous self-righteousness, but that was a cheap and undignified shot, as Angela Rayner knows.
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social
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Anyone who’s listened to an audio book knows that the narrator plays an enormous role (the one on yours is excellent, btw).
Unfortunately the audio books people seem not to get this. More moolah for Jeff though.
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'Tepid' bath, if you don't mind using the official terminology.
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Must you always, always, bring nuance into the equation…? 🙄 😉
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Or “Transubcrastination”
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Indeed. I will report back later on hydration status. May need to take on board fluids to compensate.
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‘Pitch of Salt’ flavour just delivered to me by my sister… it’s a pun, I guess… not a great one, but a pun
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Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V from all those other statements that have made such an impact.
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100%. I thought they should have immediate set up a Convention (experts, public, party reps go away for two years to mend the constitution, voting system, funding, national/local government) while government “fixes the foundations” elsewhere. Come back, implement it. Now it will look like weakness.
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Sample size of eight and they asked that dolt of a VP.
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Her commitment to diversity is admirable in the sense that she thinks utter morons should also be allowed to run things, to balance out the capable people.
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I think the stupidity of his “solutions” provides the answer. See also Lord David “Frosty” Frost.
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The form has changed, but the media headwind against Labour has been a constant.
But you therefore need some kind of coherent narrative (around fairness, rebuilding, whatever) that goes beyond ‘be a bit better than the last lot’ and which gives examples after examples after examples, every day.
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“Trying to emulate Reform is utterly doomed as a strategy. It consolidates the Reform framing about hordes of illegal immigrants coming to steal your job and then pits Labour into a debate that it simply cannot win, because it will never be willing to say or do the things that Farage would.”
Also 💯
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Westminster, of course - a fair few were elected to the European Parliament under Farage (starting with Marta Andreassen and Nikki Sinclaire in 2009). Most fell out with him, but that’s not gender-exclusive…
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Keeping FPTP in a multi-party world is like playing Russian roulette with half the chambers full. It’s worked OK for Labour this time. Next time, who knows?
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Good luck Lincolnshire. You’ve merited this, to be fair.
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Yes. Not least given the circumstances leading to the election. Of course, all the wrong lessons will be drawn…
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I think your broader point is important too, though: she’s just a very poor presenter.
Cold, unclear, unserious, lacking in research, clumsy in her phrasing, no flow. Basically the anti-Dimbleby.
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Especially when it’s based almost exclusively on caricatures painted by the tabloid press (notably the dreaded phrase ‘voters in the Red Wall’)
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She’s a tabloid journalist in a broadsheet world. Gossip is her specialism.
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its > it’s
Let’s make English the official language, eh?
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John Oliver’s piece on Last Week Tonight is particularly good on this.
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Always easier to blame others.
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It's transparent nonsense from someone who clearly has a business that didn't or couldn't move with the times. It's quite obviously not the result of nine months of Labour government - but gets the owner a nice write-up in the Telegraph and the Mail.
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It was a clumsily-phrased answer to Wright's name being raised by the interviewer, and seems to have been blown out of proportion.
I do get Wright's hurt though - he's been a champion of women's football long before it was fashionable and probably thinks picking on him specifically is a bit off.
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The question “Why do you think that?” is too seldom raised with members of the public (James O’Brien is a notable exception).
Too much reverence for voters’ views, as if they can’t be wrong or challenged.
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I think so. But it’s a half-formed sentence expressing a half-developed thought, probably based on a half-remembered news story.
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Canadians, this is your Truss moment. Enjoy! 🍾
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We get less of it than we did from 2016-2024, but 'psychodrama' (specifically 'Tory psychodrama') being the only permissible way to describe disagreements or skullduggery among Conservatives has always irritated me.
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Yes - he pushed back, rightly. "Regretting the language" he used, rather than rowing back too far, would have been better...
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I guess having “What The Actual F***” as a headline for every article, while accurate, wouldn’t really work?
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Can we comment in “Arabrick” (© Andy Gray)?
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Pickford’s cartoonish though, a caricature. Bellingham is snide, up himself, and a moaner.
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There is a legal precedent in Arkell v Pressdram, and it should be used in these cases.
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In yet another parallel, in the UK the benefits of Brexit went to another school.