Will Cooling

Amazing how many people on this app just refuse to let someone explain that they've misunderstood/misread something. Having to go back to blocking people just so I don't waste too much time

I bet that guy hated his fish

Yes. And because of that there's also not 80 people to nominate a non-serious candidate for leader. Be serious now!

Yeah. You just keep having people resign until he gets the message. It's that simple.

Plus that way you only seven people whereas in the, to be frank, insane plan outlined above, you need 81. And again the point of the stalking horse was not to win, but to dislodge the leader by showing how weak their position was.

Neither of these apply to Labour so you're not going to get a stalking horse. It would either be a big resignation a la how Sajid Javid quitting kickstarted the stampede that forced Johnson to quit or lots of junior ministers quitting a la the Watson-led coup that brought down Blair

Likewise the threshold for being a viable candidate was so low, and elections took place every year. That means someone could easily throw their hat in the ring to show how much discontent there was, thereby encouraging more serious candidates to run the following year

Well yes, I agee. But a stalking horse candidate refers to a particular gambit, that doesn't make sense in the context of Labour's rules

Because the Tories allowed new candidates to come in on later rounds, it was possible to use Candidate A to force the leader out, so Candidate B could then win

Extremely my kind of joke

Astonished we're actually getting our pay increase on time!

Is it just that I'm using bluesky more this week because i'm stuck on an assignment I'm not particularly enjoying writing or has bluesky been particularly crazy this week?

So tempted to make a non-denial, denial joke here....

Never heard "now able to buy actual porn" described as that before.....

Stalking horse doesn't work with the Labour rules though

Do you think there should no curbs on immigration whatsoever?

If you not, WHAT ARE YOU COMPLAINING ABOUT!?!

Yes. And obviously Eurotrash straddled (sorry not sorry) that and the other lost genres of Horny Telly and Laugh Openly At Foreigners Telly

It would be fascinating to discover whether Eurotrash viewers were more likely to vote Reform or Leave twenty years later

Not least because if you remove the wage incentive for people to do horrible jobs, you'll need to find another way to compel them.

More evidence that Matt Yglesias is right that people don't actually want politicians to do things

True story the first I did after defecting from the Tories at University, was loudly campaign for him for Deputy Leader. Clearly I heard his "A Benn not a Bennite" and decided "ah well, close enough".

Erm..... bsky.app/profile/rent...

But they're also losing millions whilst doing so!

What I continue to find maddening about these pieces is, look, if your new technological innovation does not create new jobs and just destroys old ones...you don't actually *have* to keep doing it!

Also Labour didn't have a debate on trans rights! It awkwardly answered one way until it felt the politics had shifted, then it started awkwardly answering the other way. They never worked out what it wanted to do. Now Streeting's off doing his own thing whilst Philipson hides behind the sofa

As the old line goes from Henry Ford, if he had asked the customer what they wanted, they'd have told him they wanted a faster horse.

I'm sorry this is just missing the point. If I'm a marketer for a book company, I don't get to tell them that actually the people want ice cream. The company sells books, its my job to figure out how to sell them. Yes I can give them tips about what types of books people say they want, but that's it

Okay one more time

No one mainstream in politics is advocating for open borders

So everyone in the mainstream agrees there must be some curbs on immigration

You are conflating any curbs on immigration with wanting net emmigration which is just not what Burnham said in the slightest

Yeah this is a waste of time. You're just imagining things to get mad about. Have a good day.

Okay this is the issue with this government. They pride themselves as beinga ble to reach out beyond the Labour/liberal echo chamber. But actually they think they're morons who will be fooled with cheap tricks and gimmicks.

I greatly admire you trying to one up both of our's attempts recently to scare people with the prospect of Yvette Cooper becoming Prime Minister 😂

Incidentally I think a real danger of the labour ruleset is that at some point no candidate can be successfully nominated and the process is deadlocked