Alex Bullett

Quite. Most people, not unreasonably, fundamentally don’t get the size of the sums involved in public spending and that blind spot distorts every conversation - not to mention feeding the endless stories about how MPs or council bosses are paid too much.

It’s very noticeable already with the wealth tax crowding out discussion of alternative/better progressive tax reforms. A lot of left people I know have bought into his idea that any criticism is a reflexive defensive of the wealthy.

To state the obvious it’s bleak that his approach to politics seems to have been quite effective so far. Short of being a coalition partner some day, I don’t see how the Greens will ever be in a position of responsibility where they’ll have to face up the promises they made.

In the long run we’re all Lib Dems.

I used to run past that site most days, it’s mad to me that anyone could object to the change given how sad the whole place looks now.

If we can’t even talk in general terms about MPs’ workload- which MPs of all parties agree is v casework- heavy and getting heavier- without a lot of responses being to assume that MPs are not telling the truth/just whinging/ working on the wrong things etc- then I think we’re in a bad place

They really think 2015-2019 was an interregnum in which no-one in particular held any power and the only meaningful political event was the referendum.

I genuinely don’t understand why anyone would want this or why they think it’s so difficult to write meaningful replies on your own.

*gasp*

Speaking for myself, I’d take out the ‘slightly’

The soft left’s lack of organisational capacity or frankly a backbone in general has been disastrous for Labour

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

I mean the challenge here is that we have voters who want great public goods and also want to pay no taxes

I think the deeply rotten internal culture of Labour is an underrated factor that drives so many of its dynamics and anyone who’s in a position to understand *how* rotten thinks it’s normal

honestly one of my firmer beliefs is a lowkey hostility to hyperlocalism, because it almost always end up with governing institutions dominated by a fixed, renting and transgressive majority that is extremely difficult to break up

I think a lot of people - myself included - severely overestimated the old right’s instinct for self-preservation. I didn’t expect them to make smart political choices out of the goodness of their hearts, but I really thought electoralism might get them there.

Wanting high growth and low immigration without seeing any tension between those goals is the epitome of the elite centre right’s decline

The fundamental ethos of liberalism is not to act without judgement. The fundamental ethos of liberalism is that our judgements shouldn't constrain the life and freedom of others.

Ben Obese-Jecty MP @BenObeseJecty Yesterday I wrote to the Standards Commissioner asking him to investigate James McMurdock MP after he appeared to instigate this racial slur, spelling out the word “N****R”, aimed at @SkyNews lobby journalist Mhari Aurora in response to an article by @GuidoFawkes \1 x.com/92spacemovie/s… --- Post James McMurdock MP @JMc… · 43m N 💬 3 🔁 2 ❤️ 10 👁️ 708 Dirk @BarbellOperator · 40m I 💬 1 🔁 💖 7 👁️ 177 Mr C @WessexNativist · 39m G 💬 1 🔁 💖 4 👁️ 97

Actually jaw dropping from James McMurdock MP, even by his standards. We cannot become numb to this.

The far right are in Parliament, and they're trying to normalise outright, vicious racism (same goes for the likes of Rupert Lowe too)

Tim Walz: "I always get in trouble for it and I'll continue to say it, I don't think we do any favors when we don't name it -- these are fascist policies."

Reform stuff is everywhere on tiktok. I never interact with it and only occasionally look at left of centre political content, but it’s still all over my fyp and in the comments of nominally non political stuff.

Tiverton and Minehead. Straddles the Somerset-Devon border and contains two small main towns with nothing in common and awful transport links. Even the rural bits in Exmoor and the Somerset coast are different to the Devon countryside.

Every NIMBY sounds like every anti-immigrant reactionary.

Event Horizon is brilliant at misdirecting the audience about what kind of film it will be and what we should make of the characters, but I have no idea to what extent that was really intentional vs a fortunate byproduct of studio cuts

It’s a rare horror movie that’s able to pull off being genuinely scary and disturbing but still enjoyable to watch

Event Horizon’s horror is so effective because so little is revealed about its origins or intent, more exposition or a longer run time would have detracted from that imo

Thank you 🙏

Who is PRO?

Jewish comedy gigs at Fringe cancelled ‘over safety concerns’ Acts allegedly cancelled as venue bar staff express fears of ‘feeling unsafe’

This is appalling. Rachel is one of my dear friends and a good egg who just wants to do her funny show. This is just naked antisemitism. It’s not even pretending to be anything else.