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52/48! Of course!
(I may have discussed with my wife how she intended to vote in this referendum. But it didn’t count as family voting because we are both white.)

The problem for the govt is it is the govt. The truth will out: savings won’t arrive, costs will. And then the electorate will be angry at the betrayal, and rightly so. All of this is grimly predictable yet here we are with the most senior people in politics playing a dangerous game of make believe

Absolutely right

Again, as with Guardian article, Mahmood's reliance on false/deliberately misleading claims about her "earned settlement" proposals suggests that she knows she can't defend them on the merits, in principle or in practice.

While I've said it's a copy of 2022, the Labour 2026 reform is harder and more illiberal, and arguably less logical in its own terms. (2023 was more draconian + Labour are more pragmatic in actually processing claims as the only real world way out of the asylum ban creating the hotel chaos)

I’d probably not lecture people on political strategy if my strategy had led to the party polling circa 16-18%, regularly coming third or fourth and being at existential threat of losing its century-long role in British politics.
But that’s just me.

Good lord. What an abject failure the Blue Labour strategy has been.

"I'm not sure that anyone who voted Green (in Gorton and Denton) works" says Nigel Farage.

So not just smearing the winners of the by-election his party just lost, but all of their voters too.

He means Qatar not the US.

As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.

Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.

Leaving aside the possibility that she might be guided by morality, I don't understand how anyone can be so thick.

All you Chat GPT fans who can’t be arsed to write your own words or think it’s great fun to drain the planet so you can show what your cartoon work persona looks like, well this is what you’re funding. It’s basically Skynet.

Can’t blame this on Morgan McSweeney.

Obviously this is absurd, I also want to reiterate how US brained this is. One of these things is not like the others, sure older white working class voters don’t like the EU or asylum seekers and like cars but ideological attachment to Israel is a very very minority position in Britain

It's too left wing economically and *far* too right wing socially. It's not trying to aim for the centre of the country, it's trying to aim for what they call hero voters - who are not centrists.

The prime minister spent last summer in hiding when race riots were happening, and now we act surprised when we lose the vote of the people we abandoned because of our utter obsession with voters that did not vote for us in 2024 and will not vote for us in the future

If the Muslims were integrated, they would have…voted for a more socially conservative candidate? As ever “Want to get stupider? Try Racism (TM)” never fails.

I thought Starmer's statement this morning was a disaster. Pretending that the Greens are as bad as Reform, jUsT oN tHe LeFt, is an idiotic strategy for attracting back voters that clearly like what GPEW has to say.

Think this is right and it is a big part of the major dysfunctions of our politics the extent to which it attracts men who think shouting at things makes them heroic fixers and the job of women is to get out of the way.

Vox pops of people that are walking around, in the daytime, are willing to speak, and being honest.

It is useful as anecdotal, but it is anecdotal.

A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.

As discussed in here the problem with Labour attacking Reform and Greens as two sides of extremism is that Labour and Green voters are very similar in their views.

And the big majority of Labour voters would be willing to join a coalition with Greens, when almost none would with Reform.

This opens with an absolutely disgusting, again, sentence.

The machine wants rid of him because he is now too left wing for the machine. The Labour machine is just a load of right wingers, it seems.

Without Mahmood getting the sack I don't see how Labour make a credible change on immigration and asylum. Labour can't just say some new words.

Deport all children that cannot speak.

Abolish all places of learning.

Stop teaching English to foreigners.

Ahahaha what do they think happened to all those horses that used to pull carriages? Did they all go to live on a farm upstate? 😂

Only smart if it is pointed out by the media that are supposed to.

Why is there no opposite to the phrase "mad with power"?

Do people often become more moderate having been extreme in getting to their power?

How much is a tulip that bloomed last year worth?

And there we have it.

The Daily Mail has now jumped on the bandwagon🙄

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