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Another thing about this - often ignored - is that not just are Labour already losing a higher % of voters to LD/Grn than to Ref, but a much higher % of the potential Reform defectors have defected than potential LD/Grn defectors. Future pain is not going to come from Reform.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Streeting banging on about deportations here is clearly part of a very clever Labour strategy to tackle Reform. If voters are choosing a Reform then they must have Real Concerns about the things that Reform focus on, so to head off the threat you need to show that you also care about these things.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

another example of unseriousness. everyone who has looked at this question for more than a minute realizes that the only way to stop boats in the channel is to process asylum applications in France. but everyone also knows that the "stop the boats" idiots would immediately pivot ...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low" This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵 www.ft.com/content/5cf4...

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

The NHS leadership needs to use reliable metrics for improvement programmes. Propaganda will blur the ability to tell failure from success: www.hsj.co.uk/daily-insigh...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Combine the two roles as part of an efficiency drive to slash the cost of senior management.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of differences but the similarity with Truss is that a lot of the market response is less about the specific event and more the realisation that these people really are total clowns and there's no clever plan behind the public statements of blathering ignorance.

submitted 28 days ago • 49 comments

Huge success for the UK in getting a lower tariff rate by [checks notes] not making much stuff that anyone in the US wants to buy.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent succinct 🧵 and article from Andrew.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Reminded on @peterdonaghy.bsky.social's excellent chart of the price of beer over time.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Hearing rumours that this is actually because the Trump team were down the Rose and Crown for the pub quiz on Saturday and came second to a team called Norfolk and Chance.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment