maxemmett.bsky.social
UCL Political Theory PhD. Thinking about civil servants, what they get up to, and whether they should stop.
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What's interesting for both is in both views which conservative ideas they think you should validate and which you should try and play down.
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to put it somewhat unfairly to both the imagined target voter for New Labour is middle class and has some socially conservative tendencies and the imagined Blue Labour voter is working class with some socially conservative tendencies.
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I think its right in that blue labour has to be understood as anti-blair but blairism has its own socially conservative wing too.
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For that reason I haven't come back to it. It was interesting to see how it was done but it involves a level of manipulation and emotions that I found quite off putting to watch and you don't (or at least shouldn't) get in a 45 min game
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I've only watched Series 1 but I think the sociality of it makes it a completely different thing. The fun of werewolves is that you can bamboozle/suss out your friends for 45 mins and it doesn't matter. An environment where you have to make new friends but also lie to them has different stakes
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I’ve currently settled on negative policy leaking as the term FYI
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Great example is saying that breaking the rules will lead to the pound crashing but also acknowledging that the government is actually predicted to break its (current) fiscal rules by changing the calculation of public sector debt which no one seems to think will cause a sterling crisis
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'Concrete pain now -> Unspecified future good policies -> Policy outcomes the public want' is a pretty sketch causal chain.
The reason this worries people is that using austerity language makes it unconvincing that pain now will make space for necessary positive policy later
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But now how does pain help us achieve Labour's missions for government? Is it so debt is falling by the end of the parliament? Why is this important?
I think this could be explained on policy grounds but in communication how does pain now translate to the policy outcomes promised?
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As someone who used them a lot on a recent trip but uses my own bike round London (and used to use the TFL ones) I think the fact they are electric is a big part plus the fact you don't have to plan where you are picking up and dropping off encourages casual use. I think I was being reckless on them