@lintywilliams
Former semi-serious person. Current board game designer and armchair political strategist. Shares half-baked ideas about politics at https://prototypepolitics.substack.com/, and writes about electoral data at https://ofseatsandsegments.substack.com/
Time for another half-finished prototype! Here’s Polly C, a work-in-progress AI chatbot designed to provide comparisons of UK party policies. Give her a spin and let me know what she gets wrong and how she could be improved.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/introducin...
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
@leorzmigrod.bsky.social Thank you for your thoughtful answer to my question this morning around non-divisive political messages. I'd love to ask you some further questions, around rigidity and authoritarianism. Are you still around Hay at all?
@steveakehurst.bsky.social Hello! I'm doing a masters dissertation on electoral viability of policies that increase tax. Your MRP data on this is fantastic. Could we chat? I'd love to ask you some questions.
Cor. Very jealous. I particularly recommend Bath Soft Cheese, Gem Ale, those amazing biscuits by the Bath Cheese Company!
Now more than ever, it is imperative that we buy local.
I am delighted to be hosting some of Bath's best businesses in Parliament to give my colleagues a 'Taste of Bath'.
Throughout the day I will be highlighting these fantastic businesses as I encourage you to buy Bath and back Britain 🇬🇧
Thanks Glenn!
Yes please! Very glad that you liked it. I had worried it might be a bit turgid. Glad it isn't! Please bore away.
Should I set this organisation up? It's a monstrous hybrid of a lean think tank and a full fat public communications campaign.
Could it ever work? Should it see the light of day? Come poke holes in it here:
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
With more art from the wonderful www.lengrant.co.uk
The Digital Services Tax currently brings in over £830M a year - enough to completely cover the cost of free school meals.
Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.
Fred, my policy chat bot in training, is a show off. He already knows what happened at Conference this weekend.
But is he getting it right? Maybe? Probably? Sort of? Take a look, let me know, and give me some of that juicy negative feedback goodness.
prototypepolitics.substack.com/p/harro-grea...
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I'd be up for that. Here's a bunch!
docs.google.com/presentation...
THE GUARDIAN: Kemi Badenoch’s floundering leadership struggles to inspire a beleaguered Tory party as PMQs reveal her weaknesses and undermine her authority ahead of critical local elections.
- by Andrew Rawnsley
The UK is unusual in the low level of support among younger voters for a party of the radical right. (Reform polls at 5% among 18-24 year olds, compared with 31% for 65+).
But there's clearly a significant pool of support that *could* be mobilised, by a successor (or rival) to Nigel Farage.
The reason @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's focus on sewage has worked so well is that it's tapped into something bigger. People feel taken for granted and (to be honest) more than a little bit shat on. The party should lean into the metaphor.
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
The reason @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's focus on sewage has worked so well is that it's tapped into something bigger. People feel taken for granted and (to be honest) more than a little bit shat on. The party should lean into the metaphor.
open.substack.com/pub/prototyp...
Congrats Jo!
@james.fieldleveltech.org - you might appreciate this.
I've been playing around with messaging recently about cleaning up the crap (sewage, dirty money, crony contracts, etc), and decided that an image of Nigel Farage as a fatberg could be quite fun.
ChatGPT told me it could call Dall-E and make a cartoon for me, so I said yes. I'm so glad I did.
@sarahgreenld.bsky.social - reporting from the Guardian today shows that raw sewage poured out of the Chesham sewage treatment works for 2,681 hours last year. That's 111 days' worth of sewage dumped on your patch by Thames Water.
Here's the article: www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@rory-stewart.bsky.social As a supporter of proportional representation, I wonder if this might be of interest to you? Updates and analysis regarding electoral reform and the broader fight to clean up British politics, from @libdems4er.bsky.social.
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Latest issue of Fair Votes Watch from @libdems4er.bsky.social, full of updates and analysis about developments in the first to clean up British politics. All feedback welcome!
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Hi all! @libdems4er.bsky.social has launched a monthly newsletter about developments in electoral reform. Might be of interest!
Hello @makevotesmatter.bsky.social! 👋 This month's issue of Fair Votes Watch includes a link to your upcoming seminar this week on Equal Votes & Women's Representation in Politics. Best of luck with it!
actionnetwork.org/events/make-...
@markpackuk.bsky.social @lisasmartmp.bsky.social @wendychambld.bsky.social @ollyglover.bsky.social
Second issue of LDER's Fair Votes Watch out now. Might be of interest!
Plus of course those big stories that Diane Abbott and Kemi Badenoch both now appear to be supportive of Proportional Representation. A month is a verrrry long time in politics it would seem.
If you like what you see, subscribe at:
fairvoteswatch.substack.com
... and from Willie Sullivan of the @electoralreform.bsky.social on the same question:
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
Plus, this month's issue has analysis from @labour4pr.bsky.social on Farage's claim that First Past The Post will benefit Reform UK ...
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
www.labourforanewdemocracy.org.uk/news/fptp-fr...
Watch Manuella's speech here, in a video posted by @appgfairelections.bsky.social:
youtube.com/shorts/qsyE5...
Also featuring the brilliant Political Donations Bill proposed by Lib Dem MP Manuela Perteghella (@mp4stratford.bsky.social), which aims to "take big money out of British politics" and "protect our democracy from foreign interference".
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...