Julianna 💎

500 seats was not realistic but I think they could definitely have pushed the Tories into third

Was curious about this and ~250k extra votes perfectly distributed in the right seats would've put them at the 500 seat mark, and they fell back ~560k votes from 2019

(N.B. this does not mean Corbyn would've won 500+ seats against Sunak, that's not how that works)

Another critical thing is it's not like the reduction was the cost of laying the foundations & establishing a mandate for unpopular but neccesary policy changes that would be coming in their govt.

If they'd had that % drop but had e.g. publicly commited to abolishing WFA it'd be a different story.

that's me trying to make it stick, tbh. I refuse to call them skeets

Like, it feels mad to call the second largest post-war majority an underperformance but... it objectively was

Do you mean Debbonaire?

Obviously anything through electoral calculus should be taken with a grain of salt, but I plugged the polling averages from the start of the 2024 campaign in and it came out with Labour on 589 seats, lmao

Yeah, we talk about WhatsApp groups being a vector for misinformation, but, AIUI, that remark was a good example of how things that actually happened can also blow up via WhatsApp in a way they might not have done before

After the May elections I will give the analysis of the key wards where I have little doubt that Starmer pissed everyone off with that Bangladesh remark.

If it wasn't for the fact it all fell apart so spectacularly I would have said that Holborn and St Pancras would be prime for a Your Party gain since no doubt all that 17% plus some went straight to Andrew Feinstein who was running without a Party.

An incoming Labour Prime Minister’s own vote share falling by 17% in a London seat during a landslide win is actually totally normal

Should have been the Edstone on the left (sorry)

Sorry, sorry, I know this is wet, but, after seeing the below tweet, I couldn't get this out of my head until I made it

Oh my God

Alastair Campbell criticises someone else about lying about striking a Middle Eastern country due to the threat of them developing WMDs

I am almost in awe at the level of shamelessness on show here. It's almost a work of art in its utter confidence that people are unable to remember the past.

If I ever became a political party leader, I'm not sure I'd make a point of vanity searching myself or reposting every single bit of praise on social media. I get why of course, I just wouldn't do it.

Was trying to find where I'd posted the link to the 1998 World Book Day book and I'll be honest my summary of it reads a bit different now.

Every gaming monitor in the world should be legally required to be adorned with a sign that says: “you are not the average consumer”

News about Sony pulling back on releasing their games on PC really encouraging PC gamer dipshit takes about the viability of consoles

(Granted, the melancholy is more acute for me as I just generally have a weird relationship to coming of age stories)

Was surprised to come across people describing it as a cozy game. It’s definitely got cozy aesthetics, but there’s a strong sense of melancholy underpinning it

I mean, I still look at myself spending a full day absorbed in it and think “what am I doing with my life?”, but I don’t feel like I’ve wasted that time, as such

Replaying I Was a Teenage Exocolonist and the looping structure makes it really addictive for me, and not in a way, like roguelikes, where I just feel a bit hollow after playing it for a long session

I should probably try Monster Hunter, realising I just have no accurate perception of how it actually plays

Fancy a replay and now I have another game I’ll probably pointlessly rebuy on Switch because my Steam Deck is too heavy

Yeah, you could argue the reason I kinda see DeS as a WRPG is actually because of the influence it’s had in the west *since*

Fair, haven’t really played Monster Hunter so can’t contest that point

God*

Got, Anemone’s story is so sad if you don’t romance her (at least from memory)

Yeah, this is very different to what I’m moaning at, which is people who give up at the tank controls and declare it needs a remake for them to even play it