Tom Wilson

Suzerain is fantastic, my first play through I saved the economy and got thanked for it by falling to a military coup. It also has the single best and most convoluted set up for a very stupid joke I've ever seen in a video game.

Iranian Ayatollah succession 🤝 Labour candidate selections

Hawks with no care at all about plans, objectives, time spans, or military capacity so they can scream betrayal. And those opposite shouting about a warmonger PM from a parallel universe that we simply do not have, as being honest doesn't give them a pedestal to scream betrayal from either.

I'd say it feels like being in an A level classroom again but that feels insulting to sixth form students.

The response to the US-Iran war has felt like British politics at its most juvenile. Absolutely zero interest in real analysis of capabilities, planning, or real world consequences, just goodies and baddies and making everything about UK political positioning.

Reform UK's Treasurer, who remained mates with Epstein after his conviction, says he would rather live in a desert and be bombed than live in Britain in one of the safest cities on earth. And rather than this being considered worthy of scrutiny, he gets to uncritically spout off in the Mail?

I'm sorry but these people have been driven completely tonto.

The weird thing is people clearly get it when considering things in isolation with no political lens (i.e graduates are getting screwed by high rents, high marginal taxes, bad living conditions and fewer entry level opportunities) but then don't understand the impact that has on economic politics.

You see when you fail to read every post in a chain or to try to engage with what is actually being argued, you end up looking a bit silly. Me suddenly being an unreformed Corbynite would be news to just about everyone I've ever met in politics.

Thanks to wage compression it's two full time workers earning 20% over minimum wage. That's pretty low!

Two people on 30k each isn't low income with cost of living what it is?

Who do you think bullet point 4 covers

Who is saying that?

I believe Labour is best choice to be this party, not least as unlike the populists we understand that the problems we face are complicated and that there's no future for a left in government that is as uninterested in learning about what works as Polanski is. But we enable him by being in denial.

Any centre left governing coalition is now:
- Young people, especially graduates
- Urban progressives
- Minority groups
- Working age people with low incomes
- Educated Professionals

If both your political and economic strategy is not geared towards these groups, they will find a party that is.

There is a pervasive attitude that the only voters that matter are people who have aged out of supporting a centre left party, but who may have at one point in their lives voted Labour. Voters who are still part of our coalition, who have heard they aren't wanted by us, are instead to be patronised.

Yes Paul, people switching on mass from Labour to Green had nothing to do with values.

Gorton and Denton is a wake up call, but will leave Labour even more divided  — WPI Strategy Tom Wilson, Associate Director | Public Affairs and Corporate Communications The Greens’ by-election win in Gorton and Denton, pushing Labour into third place, is a serious blow to Keir Starmer an...

Quick bit of analysis from me about the Gorton and Denton by-election for work. The result is a wake up call for Labour, but cold electoral logic will make us even more divided. www.wpi-strategy.com/insights/gor...

Governing response is to make full throated actual arguments, not just make assertions. End the culture of maximum pain minimum gain policy. Wear your values proudly. Treat MPs, members, voters, and target voters with respect and seriousness. Be a genuinely broad tent for your block.

First question voters ask is are you on there side, and if they think the answer is no, you get no further hearing.

And another feature of block politics is once a block doesn't trust someone, they usually can't rescue it. Even recovering to a neutral position leaves the door open to a more palatable option.

Politics with a number of third options that can win means campaigns built on squeeze messaging alone are dead. No path once in government for unworkable populism either. Need to actually make intelligent arguments for necessary policy and treat progressive voters seriously and with respect.

Clear that block politics has replaced big tent competition for centre. There are other factors in Gorton, backlash over policies targeting older people, number of u-turns, Gaza. But if you try to straddle the two camps as current seat geography incentivises Labour to do, blocks can move around you.

These are getting a bit weird

Calling a slate 'The Many' is a bit of a hostage to fortune isn't it.

Hearing that Susan Hall's team are optimistic she will pull off a shock win in Gorton.

Farage is a weak and cowardly man, losing his edge and losing control, who can't stand true accountability.

This is the real reason Farage dodges the Commons at every opportunity. Unlike his rallies or TV show, it's the one platform where he can't control who is allowed to challenge him back.

A lot of senior Muslims in the community have endorsed Labour and there has been a measured shift to Labour in the wards with a higher Muslim population over the last week.