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- On Tuesday, Starmer's political director briefed Labour MPs on how government plans to fight Reform. She said: - Reform voters are "our people" but "pissed off" with the state of the country - At Runcorn, Farage mobilised habitual non-voters, while Labour voters stayed at home - Comms must improve
- “Whoever bears this sign is an enemy of *our people*."
- I'd love to know what it is they think they're seeing in opinion research that nobody else can spot. I (along with, I suspect, most of my [similarly obsessed] polsci friends and colleagues) am genuinely flummoxed. Best guess is that it's coming from focus groups, not polling. What do others think?
- “Whoever bears this sign is an enemy of *our people*."
- The president's press conference on drug prices took a bizarre turn Monday when he began rambling about a "highly neurotic" friend trying to lose weight.
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- Yes. Absolutely.
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- The capital of Mattel is Covfefe
- Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵
- 🔴The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
- As the historian AJP Taylor wryly remarked, Reith had “managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC…by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the BBC, was secure so long as it was NOT exercised."
- This really does nail it
- Column, on the prime minister who had room to manoeuvre and chose to besiege himself instead. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Starmer has sufficient majority to introduce not only PR but legislation to prohibit funding from donors including TUs. Imagine how much Führage can receive from the likes of Musk! Otherwise…
- This is very good from @rafaelbehr.bluesky.social (and more edifying than another Enoch Powell meme). Before he was elected, I remember talking about what Starmerism would be. The closest I could get was ‘respect’. The problem with that mantra is now emerging. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- The answer to ‘what is Labour for?’ Is currently ‘keeping Reform out of power’. It’s not enough.
- “Of political parties claiming socialism to be their aim, the Labour Party has always been one of the most dogmatic - NOT about socialism, but about the parliamentary system.” —Ralph Miliband 1961
- We’re in a grotesque race to the bottom - unless we stop it.
- Starmer has sufficient majority to introduce not only PR but legislation to prohibit funding from donors including TUs. Imagine how much Führage can receive from the likes of Musk! Otherwise…
