Seems like "we" are only interested in manifesto pledges when the is a possibility of one being broken.

As I recall from my early modern history A Level, Cromwell said to paint it "warts and all." It's the only way to truly gauge something. (Though I am sure someone will let me know that Cromwell never actually said that!" 😁)

Shocking. And if it doesn't breach the "bringing the profession into disrepute" standard, then it's not fit for purpose.

Following in his leaders footsteps, I see. Something about these people actively seek to quash attempts to enforce accountability.

Same accusation applies to the press and political commentators, though, speculating on the next GE around four years away?

Can these lessons be rolled out to adult too, please? Seems like they are even more in need of education into fake news and AI generated images.

He also wants to get rid of the regulators of solicitors too. Something about accountability that really offends/frightens him.

Four years of this tripe before the next election? It would take Trump levels of electorate stupidity to land him as PM.

Reform "looking after our own" latest episode. 🙄

Moved on quickly from "we should look after our own" haven't they, though?

See also: the "debanked". How many of them has he helped since he set up his website after the whole Coutts debacle?

Resign!!! 😉

A salutary lesson in reading a piece rather than reacting to the headline. Glad I read it! Interesting thinking!

I suppose it depends on how it is reported..... but there's another issue!! 😵‍💫

I'd go along with this. Right now polling is in a "consequence free" state, but I suspect than once people have had a taste of Reform in their councils, and Labour's longer term plans start to bear fruit, there will be a change in direction of voting.

We are entering the FO stage of FAFO.

Unfortunately, the issue is that when this is pointed out to such journalists, they don't put out a retraction/explanatory note thereafter. They are just happy to leave the rage bait intact.

Has he? There's a pattern here of you missing off important context, while allowing misplaced outrage yo go uncorrected . Disappointing. bsky.app/profile/pete...

And, strangely, at the same time being told that the government is both wrong to be governing by looking at polling and wrong to not be focusing on what the polling says.

Only 3/4 years to go!!

Need to pin him down on answer. He's trying everything to skirt around it.

a group of men are sitting next to each other on a plane laughing . ALT: a group of men are sitting next to each other on a plane laughing .

Farage "hearing" no other evidence reminded me of something.....

It was this one.

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And this is where political commentators are especially bad in this respect. They promote speculation, criticise it to high heaven, leading to a massive rise in anti govt feeling, then fail to say "sorry" when it turns out they were wrong. Seen it today (again) about big tech liabilities for fraud.

Absolutely agree. At this moment, I still (layman that I am) believe that we are in 'protest vote' territory (in England at least). Come the next GE, I'd expect people to look at little more at manifesto pledges (and look at how Reform have dared in their respective councils) before voting.

Remember the "ming vase" that Starmer was said to be carrying up to the last GE. Do we really think Farage can keep this up until 2029?

to move into these areas of debate more easily and publicly.

My biggest hope for him is not that he will be the political saviour of "the left" but that he will open up the debate to include left leaning ideologies, up to now the media has been very much "right" focused and everything is viewed in this prism. Hopefully it will also give room for the govt to

I still remember watching "The Firm" at school in the early 1990s. To my (then insulated) childhood, it was a shocking reality call and has stuck with me ever since. Seems Jenrick may have missed seeing this in his formative years.

Didn't Farage set up a website to help the "unfairly debanked"? Or has he ditched this too, now he has bled that particular money cow dry?