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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1h

The party once led by a novelist (Disraeli), a published philosopher (Balfour) and a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (Churchill), as well as someone who annually devoured Austen and Trollope (Macmillan), is now against English degrees.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

I for one wasn't aware they'd even started.

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 3d

"Are they [MRPs] any use to anyone at this stage of the Parliament? No! Do something more useful. Stop producing these polls. They're not magic."

Expert pollster @psurridge.bsky.social reflects on polls and electoral reform

Catch up on the discussion in full here 👇 www.youtube.com/live/ivRLHUb...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 4d

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 4d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 5d

Still ask that! They are wrong like giraffes!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 10d

‘a peace project cannot simply be transformed into a war project – at least not without sacrificing those things that make it effective at the things it does well.’ Me on the EU www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The European Union was designed for peace – it is never going to be a war machine | Anand Menon

Reacting to the Russian military threat would require the bloc to be agile and decisive. It is many great things, but it is not that, says Anand Menon, director of UK in a Changing Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 13d

Congratulations - may not be hassle free here but healthy conversations can be had across divides and blocks are blocks!

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 13d

Migrants suggests move from place to place (eg migrant birds) - immigrants move into a single place & implies permanence

Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting - especially given turnout figure

Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 13d

Switzerland, final results:

Electronic identity (e-ID) scheme (Optional referendum)

Support: 50.39%
Oppose: 49.61%

Turnout: 49.55%

➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland

#CHvote #Abst25 #Votazioni #Votaziuns

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Gabriel Milland @gabrielmilland.bsky.social · 13d

I mean, you could have written this in a dystopian comedy script 10 years ago. But no one would have believed that this is the sort of thing that the President of the United States would actually come out with.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 14d

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Alex Kaplan @alkapdc.bsky.social · 14d

Trump tonight appears to have pushed the false "medbed" conspiracy theory, which has spread in the far-right internet over the years. www.yahoo.com/news/qanon-c...

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 13d

Another could've, would've should've story that Dan Neidle has already explained but damage is already done by LK - suprised didnt explore further 'what if they found oil in the field - then what would the value be?'

Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 15d

Something worth celebrating!

Legro @davelegro.bsky.social · 15d

Harry Hudson Great Britain Junior World road champion

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16d

Brits don't hate them! They have always had substantial majority support in polls. (Most recent YG showed 57% support vs 25% oppose).

What's odd is that bits of the right-wing press oppose them (e.g. today's Mail front page).

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16d

I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 16d

Reached Calli though

Bengal seated on red velvet stool lost in thought

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fascowell.bsky.social @fascowell.bsky.social · 16d

This is such an under explored argument. A contributing factor to the Windrush scandal was a lack of free way to establish a persons identity and legal status. Voter ID was so bad because of a lack of a universal free way to establish ID. Universal ID can be a protection.

Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 16d

“A Farage government will use it against immigrants and marginalised groups.” They might, yes, but they might also exploit the *lack* of universal id to persecute such groups (as has already happened in US). Having a universal credential to prove your rights can be a * protectjon* against this.

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 16d

Because thats not what a large proportion of the general public needs to believe - it takes away convenient blame for why life is so difficult in their communities and presents media and politicians with a ready-to-go wedge issue - immigration is bad is and has always been bubbling under the surface

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 16d

These false beliefs do not arise in a vacuum. Yet we seem collectively incurious about their origins.

Joe Twyman @joetwyman.bsky.social · 16d

Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally.
Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16d

I’ve had a number of arguments on here along these lines:

“ID cards work fine in Europe, why not here?”

They *do* work in Europe, but *not* as immigration enforcement. If Labour want to push them for other uses, then please make that case.

For immigration enforcement? It won’t work.

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 16d

Legal migration was not "uncontrolled". Why accept far right framing?

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 16d

He's essentially saying 'I didn't agree with the 1993-2016 economic model, and I didn't agree with Boris Johnson's either'. Okay, but you didn't agree with Corbynism either. What is yours, to hope that it turns out that 'the easiest route in every poll' turns out to drive growth?

Equally, the belief that uncontrolled legal migration was nothing but good news for an economy should never have been accepted on the Left. It is not compassionate Left-wing politics to rely on labour that exploits foreign workers and undercuts fair wages.

The huge increase in immigration that happened under the Conservatives was based on a hyper-liberal free-market viewpoint. Labour is clear that there must be no return to that.

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Louise Hawley @louiseah.bsky.social · 16d

Just a *small* point but "ignored immigration" and "ignored immigration fears" have significantly different meanings

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d

They’re not on course to form the next gov. Today’s polling suggests they might win if there was an election today…

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 16d

First thought, was I know I'm tired but I didn't realise I'd slept for 3 years. This is an absolutely crazy way to use and report polling. It should not be getting this kind of priority at this stage in an electoral cycle.

Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 16d

They’re not on course to form the next gov. Today’s polling suggests they might win if there was an election today…

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 16d

Reform’s rhetoric has already shifted to mass deportations - nothing the government do will on immigration will ever be enough. That’s the whole point. Conceding that they are directionally correct is to give up the argument. And the stakes of that argument today are enthonationists in the streets.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 16d

They've been very transparent about the methodology but they do start out with more than 1 in 3 don't know responses and I think that's a problem as the people saying don't know aren't random. This is last week's, 2/3rds then still say don't know after the squeeze question.

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