I think we're going to see and hear a lot more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Much more effective communicator than any of his predessesors.
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I think we're going to see and hear a lot more of @zackpolanski.bsky.social. Much more effective communicator than any of his predessesors.
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I think the answer is probably within the realm of #MMT.
I'm drawn to a lot of what Zack Polanski says but alarmed on his stance on defence. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
All populists in my view. Farage promises hell, Greens threatens us with heaven when, maybe, all that is realistically available is a better purgatory. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
That's all Farage ever goes on about. Boats is 💯 % what deformuk is about. Farage needs the boats like we need oxygen.
Comms are appaling. I'm guessing that's what Darren Jones' remit will be.
You've just summed up France 1789.
That's being worked on too but maybe not fast enough.
Sadly. Here's two people who'll be most dissapointed
That ain't gonna happen is it.
And then tories went from denial to weaponising the issue. Now successfully blaming Labour for the mess they left. Why is Alanis Morissette ringing in my ears?
You're probably are right about electoral impact and if it keeps Farage out of No 10 it will be worth it (no boats, deformuk use their reason for existing) And they are showing some very encouraging results in dealing with the backlog bearing in mind what they inherited.
Anecdote is not the plural of data.
Yes, but my answer to these things is always: if it was that easy, they'd be doing it. If, maybe ten years ago, a better system had been implemented maybe we would have a steady, manageable flow coming in. Now, maybe the demand would become unmanageable. I say maybe because I just don't know.
I can neither prove you wrong than you can prove yourself right. You've made those figures up.
I think they're using a sledge hammer to crack an egg. I'm not sure what the thinking from home office really is and wether they're thinking about concequences.
The rich get richer, the poor get poorer has been a topic for as long as I can remember. I make the point to people all the time and they still go back to spongers and immigrants. Anyone who wants to take on that argument will lose. However true. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Very few people want Farage as PM.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social I see the threat of a deformuk government the greatest issue in UK and the march of the far right globally. Maybe Labour are attempting to remove that threat by removing what feeds them. (like rats I guess) No boats, no deformuk.
Long way to go. Deformuk, maybe, only win when boats are still crossing. No boats no deformuk.
Maybe brave of me to say so but I see Greens also as populists. One is promissing hell the other threatening us with heaven when maybe, all we can hope for at this time is to make purgatory better.
He's in Washington again?
Nigel Farage should testify before MPs on Reform UK's local newspaper ban instead of flying to Washington to complain about "free speech" before the US Congress, the Lib Dems have said. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
I made the below point this morning but anti-Familly? Really? bsky.app/profile/pasc...
No matter the objections you may have to this which I probably also share there are, currently in UK, only two serous parties who could form a government; Labour and the LibDems. The rest are just populists engaging in fantasy politics.
A couple of hundred of them will lose their seat next election. I'm almost certain my local Labour MP, a good constituency MP, will lose his seat over immigration in a constituency not affected greatly by immigration.
This 👇
It appears @mrjamesob.bsky.social That, possibly, a majority want to see action on this issue and as a democratic PM who acts for all including those he disagrees with and didn't vote for him without dogma, he must surely be seen to act. Without trying to appeal to anyone.
I've had a think about this and the idea that someone fleeing war and/or persecution has to leave his wife and children in the situation he has escaped from, entirely questionable. Will the result of this policy be that whole famillies are going to make the trip?
You forget Modi. Modi hates him, Trump hates Modi in return. And "how can they plan the future world order without Trump?" Must be eating at him.
Or desperately trying to remain relevant.
Your predecessor jumping though hoops to not give @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social any credit. There is a very simple way radio and broadcast news could help reduce the tension and that is by telling their listeners /viewers about the progress Labour is making. They choose not to. @mrjamesob.bsky.social
Maybe he's going to announce his death. "it was a beautiful death, no one died like Trump before, I make the best death."
So am I, Just been listening to @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social.
Seems there is a majority view that we should go back to tory rule provided by Nigel Farage. Short memory or masochism?
Will he be announcing that he's dead?
7pm UK time.
Trump will do anything to coverup the Epstein files, including die or fake dementia to get out of being held accountable.
He's terrific at (not) faking dementia, not so good at dying, sadly.
Pretending to be dead is the ultimate gaslighting. (the dementia isn't pretend)
I have a clear memory of seeing you at Apollo Manchester (1978ish) and still ask myself this question: did people really buy tickets in the sole aim of shouting homophobic abuse at you? And Danny Kustow stole the show. What happened to him?
@nickferrarilbc.bsky.social refusing to give @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social any credit for the amazing progress made. Again, I listen so you don't have to.
And, 2021 was before there was an explosion in boat crossings, the situation has changed drastically since then.
And as she explained, a new development is that people smugglers exploit familly reunions to extort even more money. When situation change, we change. I want government to be flexible, don't you?
White callers queueing up to speak to @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social to say there's no racism in British countryside.
An ‘ultracrepidarian’ (19th century) is one who loves to give their opinion, at length, on matters they know nothing about.
This is a positive big development that should have dominated the UK news. What on earth has happened to Labour Comms?
Don't do rioting. It doesn't do any good.
I don't know what that is. Fish bait?
I'm not doing it, it's a fuckin chameleon.
Gosh I feel old
I thought Britain had taken back control of its border.
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No matter what Farage says, deformuk is built on boats. No boats, no deformuk.
Let's get this right, tories put refugees in hotels and Labour are working on removing them. How does she not know that?
How would the racist followers of Trump take to having a brown lady as flotus?
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Tories were very good at keeping to the message they were there to talk about.
Labour are mostly shit at comms Tories woild have ministers flooding the air waves. (the only thing they're good at)
And replace them by?....
They will hide behind that false accusation. I'm muting this, I hope you remember our chat when Farage gets on with his genuine racist plans. I'm muting this now.
I think you're being led by a false narative and idealistic thinking. When you are PM and 1/2 your country wants immigration dealt with that's what you have to do. And yes, when you defend a post making no mention of the real culprits then you are absolutely doing the racists job for them.
I guess telling half the country they're a bunch of racist cunts will get Labour re elected. What do you think?
An unpleasant truth though is they have a larger electoral voice than you do.
I expect better of them, doesn't mean I'm going to let people who bear a much larger share of the responsibility off the hook. Which is what you are doing. Those people on the video probably hate the Labour party just as much as you do. Hated by racists, hated by non racists.
I think that's why it's a spectrum? Like intelligence I guess? Some have the intelligence to understand what a spectrum is and others just see black and white.
Except, apparently, according to some people on the left, it's all Starmer's fault.
They really don't. Where have you seen the current government's policy on mass deportation?
Well done 🤷. You're going to have to do it all over again soon, well done.
Not gloating about relationships with Trump or calling Putin a great leader, not Uturning on net zero, not reducing tax to billionaires, Have increased min. wage by record amounts, engaging in a social housing building programme. Enhancing workers rights, renters rights....
I am told by people with very a similar political ideal than myself that there is no difference between Labour and deform and you have to be fucking kidding me. The current government is not planning for mass deportation, nor to close down the NHS, nor to sever our relationship with EU....
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I'd give up a lot of my principles to avoid a deform win. If that means leaving the ECHR and a British bill of rights brought to us by Labour rather than deform, so be it.
Principles and politics don't make good bedfellows. Politics is all about compromise including on principles. That's the reality some of us have to accept.
Morality mr Tice, in very much within the Archbishop's remit. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Hi @zoejardiniere.bsky.social ,just heard you on with Nick Ferrari, excellent as usual and cut off rudely . I think that one thing that may be a more powerful point to win people over may be recent cases where justice was arrived at through involving the ECHR chief of all Hillsborough.
To where we want to be and if all that's available is part of the way there, I'll take it. There is no perfect, that doesn't exist, and it is a government for all UK residents not only those who voted for them but also those who's views we deplore. Democracy has to apply universaly.
I do deplore some of the language and actions from the government re immigration. I am dissapointed and frustrated that not enough is being done re inequality and climate change. I am aware of the mistakes and failures in communication. However, there is no other party Which will get us close 1/2
Rudy Juliani was in a car crash. I hope it hurts.
So I get it, Labour is far from perfect. But they're all we've got.
We left the EU because the case wasn't made for remain. We will leave the ECHR because the case isn't being made to remain We will elect Farage because the case against deform isn't being made. Someone needs to grow some balls and start straight talking.
Labour is not responsible for racism. Now, sit yourself down and have a think. Those people are the very same as were rioting in June last year. Are you going to blame Labour for those race riots aswell? Again, Braverman, Jenrick, Farage, Robinson.... They want us divided, stop it.
You came here to defend the claim that Labour is responsible for the attack on that poor lady and that is very wide off the mark and lets those who are to blame off the hook. Jenrick, Braverman, Farage... But you chose to blame Labour. How does that work? Explain it to me.
I agree with the second part, not the first. They are engaged in fixing a country ravaged by tory incompetence. I'm not going to pretend running a country in this current climate is easy. I wish it was otherwise, we are in pretty shitty times globally and compromises have to be made. This is reality
Surely she wouldn't lie 🤥
Should move UN security meetings to a European Country where Israel can't attend because they'd be arrested.
You'll celebrate the new insurance based health service. You'll celebrate mass deportation and tax cuts to the rich? Just because we hate Labour more than we hate Farage. No difference indeed. Idiotic.
Pretend clueless "socialists" You imagined that 15 years of tory vandalism would be solved in 1 year? That's fantasy politics, I am dissapointed with Labour but believe me, they're all we've got. But I'm sure when deform wins, you lot will celebrate it wasn't Labour. You'll celebrate the fracking.
There is a video there of a racially motivated incident and none of you commenting are taking issue with what's going on there. All too busy hating to care. It is perverse. You lot are being manipulated, trained to choose to hate.
I'm only glad you lot make zero difference electorally because you really have no idea what you're talking about. No difference really? Get real.
