To be fair, what Miliband’s department is doing is bold and exciting. No10’s shit at promoting it. Streeting’s handling of the Pochin issue on Kuenssberg was also very effective in shaping the debate. No10 needs to lean on the ministers with political instincts not take 48hrs to come up with a line.

The key to strategic leadership is recruiting people who aren’t like you & strong where you’re weak. Perhaps Starmer’s biggest problem’s that he likes people that think like him. I also wonder if he realises it’s obvious that he doesn’t enjoy politics. That’s fine but recruit lieutenants that do.

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT

"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this.

Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

24% of Disabled people avoid using public transport due to accessibility issues.

4.7 million Disabled people live in poverty.

The politicians who make the above stats a reality are choosing to attack the Motability Scheme, instead of the system that locks us out of society.

How is ‘dumb rich woman believes stupid thing’ making headlines across the Anglosphere?!

It’s a team game. Nobody talks about what the salary of the winning team was in the long run.

Why is Philp coming out of this unscathed? He shadows the portfolio, right? Lam is awful and deserves opprobrium. But she just went all in on Party policy as presented by the Shadow Home Secretary, no? This does stink of a hang the witch but ask no further questions m’lord scenario.

Is this where the famous telegram gag comes from?

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This is driving me insane, now. There's no way Labour is winning an election without improving public services and cost of living. If you think further cuts in public services to honour a daft election pledge is going to save either 'trust in politics politics' or Labour you need to get out more.

It’s the same everywhere. I’m in the UK, Gen-X & decided long ago that the salary I’m paid is the amount of my time bought. I don’t work for free. Fuck ‘em. And I have a life/work balance. The important part comes first, not second. I’ve had a few bumps in the road but it has always worked out fine

Why’s he still in the shadow cabinet? He’s done the work, presumably in good faith, & either incompetently misunderstood the party’s policy position or been 💩 on from a great height by a leader that never bothered to read or discuss in shadow cabinet the content of the bill. So resign or be sacked

Philp

Given how few of the target vote actively attend church, it’s a bold strategy….

All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

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You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

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Farage: epic grifter

A comic from 2022 I think, Halloween week - here's the script: The scene is a darkened woods, at night. All is depicted in dingy blues and purples. In a lonely moonlit clearing we see a CABIN. its windows are dark, clearly unoccupied. A lone figure runs towards it, from the trees. Closer in on them now - we see they are terrified. The race for the door of the cabin, desperately trying to enter. They rattle the door, frantically. It is locked. They look behind them. We see the darkened, black trees of the woods. In amongst the forest, we see the black silhouette of a figure. It walks closer. Closer still. Closer - and now we see it is holding a chainsaw. It emerges into the light, slowly the shadow lifts from its face. It is wearing a mask. The victim silently screams in a rictus of horror. This can't be happening, no, no, no. Closer, closer now it lifts the chainsaw high above its head as it speaks: MURDERER: This murder is brought to you by MeUndies. VICTIM: What? MURDERER: If you're like me you'd kill for comfortable underwear - VICTIM: Sorry - VICTIM: Are you... doing a *podcast*? MURDERER: I knoooww... It's such a cliché Everybody's got one these days! VICTIM: But I thought you were trying to murder me? MURDERER: Indeed! I'm a true crime podcaster driven mad by having to change gear between horrific human tragedy and adverts for MeUndies. MURDERER: So just tap in offer code I'M BEING MURDERED with your bloodied, trembling hand for 20% off some pants! MURDERER: Now, back to the murder- [he revs up his chainsaw again] [ends]

Posting old halloween comics, #2

Taking this back to the local lived experience usually breaks, or at least tones down the rhetoric in my experience.

Often, it’s herd mentality and not thinking before acting. Something all of us are guilty of at times. In the case of Reform, it’s being forced down people’s throats as a fait accompli that they are an inevitable force…

I have conversations with football fans about racism a fair bit, and it takes a bit of patience to make them think about what the colour of a player’s skin has to do with not liking them scoring against your team…

A party being led by racist grifters isn’t the same as all of their voters being racist. We have to have the patient conversations with our friends & family about the logical process of this. It’s hard work but just pointing and screaming at them like it’s Day of the Triffids won’t work…

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Fantastic Mr Fox & Baby Driver

No.

Then I hope that you have an entertaining season. 👍

That would require people to be given the time to digest and understand what they mean in MSM. Honestly, I don’t think any of them apart from Lewis Goodall and Wilf Frost would be capable of doing it at the speed they would need to. I know I couldn’t.

Honest question, from a fan of a lower league club in England. Would you really not rather watch competitive football than your team carpet bomb the league every year just because of finances?

In the UK, the local government planning department just tells you that you have to rebuild it exactly as it was with exactly the same materials. Otherwise they start criminal proceedings. Parliament wouldn’t even need to get involved.

They must be really worried about their next election…

Lam is fronting Philp’s policy. He’s getting nowhere near enough attention for that. Slippery and awful man. I’ll never forget Mick Lynch calling him a liar to his face on Newsnight. He just sat there smirking, safe in the knowledge that it would do him no harm.

Then they’re doomed to learn the hard way, like people where I live in Kent, that voting in incompetent racists and loons gets you nothing but racism and incompetence. The much reported meltdown of the KCC fools led to the postponement of a panel to approve SEND provision for 7 families in need.