"Would you still prefer me as PM over Badenoch if I was a worm?"
12.03.2026 19:15
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"Would you still prefer me as PM over Badenoch if I was a worm?"
Serious point though.
Shows all parties have can have an eye-roll populist streak.
...the bungy jumps don't count.
My vote:
The sofa I will die on is that only a fool would go all the way up a damn hill just to insist upon something
Barry Scott voice: You can you with *POPULISM*
HI I'M ZACK POLANSKI...
Being a component, means you are part of a whole.
It's not dismissing social conservatives to say Labour also needs to think about social liberals.
If I had committed a memorable instance of tax evasion, I would spend a lot of energy trying to not appear as a grifter.
Agree.
You can't understand Blair and Iraq without understanding Kosovo.
And I don't think you can understand Kosovo without post-Cold War optimism.
Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?
Hannan doesn't even understand the Political Economy of who of his *favourite* countries: Singapore.
Excluding the authoritarianism, even the economic management of Singapore is not compatible with his Libertarianism.
This wasn't the first indication that Hannan has gone mad...
Going to say this isn’t the *greatest* of attack lines.
The Greens attacks on the government vis-a-vis Iran shows that they have a caricature in their mind when they think of Labour and Foreign Policy.
I would imagine it will only harm their image on international affairs.
Yearning for the good old days where if monarchists or nationalist thought another country had foolish domestic political management, they would just think
"Well, they'll have to sort that out then, won't they?"
There is a kind of weird thing going on with conservatives and nationalists where they are trying to impose their standard of domestic politics on other countries...
It's like a complete reverse of international Communism during the Cold War.
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Who are they, who are they not & what's moving them? 🧵
Say what you will about the leadership of Labour.
At least they won't post messages about favourable national polling as if it is an actual political achievement.
It's just *one* overanalysis, what harm can it do...
*Starts posting if replicated at a national level, without "just for fun" caveats...
Each generation has its own inoculation against Populism.
Reporting on the perspectives of young men in the UK is usually terrible.
Diplomatic way of saying "He's a tempremental git"
Although worth bearing in mind we had moments of Labour at 50% plus during the middle of the last parliament.
They are an exact sign of things to come.
Not uncommon for 'third' parties to surge in the middle of a Parliament.
But this is unprecedented for the Greens.
Oh and Find out Now is dubious.
Just putting it out there.
"the Polls" is plural.
Also, I love dismissing selective timeframes for spokespeople trying demonstrating a point (see Blair was the only winner between 1990 and 2020 for Labour)...
I didn't expect to have to dismiss the selective time frame of a Millennium (1,000 years)...
You can hear the sharp metallic pop of the can of worms that GB News has opened...
